The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-06-30
Farm and Stock News

II W. n. NdIIlcS, VI SIdu OICudIu,
sold four heifers to Paul Finch there
last week for $145.
G. W. Logan bought this week so
head of sheep from Brown & Lawson
of Lancaster, paying $3.50 for them.
Mayne & Brazie held a sale of
Herefords at Harlan, Iowa, and sold
so head that averaged 5000.
Lambs in Kentucky are unusually
heavy this season because of the
abundance of white clover.
]. Tudor & Son, of Iowa City, Ia,
made an average of 1926 on 81 head
of Aberdeen-Angus cattle.
]. F. Cover bought of ]. H. Jones
of Knox county, 35 750-pound steers
at IA cents They were shipped
in this morning.
At the Shorthorn sale of NJ w.
Myers, of Beaman, Iowa, As head
sold at an average of $28S. The
top price was $500.
l N. F. Brent, of Paris, recently
sold SO head of 230 pound hogs to
Caywood & McClintock, of Paris, at
50 per hundred pounds.
Lloyd Beeghley. of Weston, w.
Va, recently sold to ]. o. Southland,
of Comiskey, Kas., thirty-day-old
Hereford bull calf for $1,000.
A 17,712-acre ranch in Bailey
county, Texas, has been purchase
by Joe H. Jennings, of Martindale,
Texas, and he will stock it with Here
| fords.
Ed o. Gooch, of Crab Orchard.
sold eight head of medium steers to
Paul Finch, of the East End at six
and half cents a pound. They av-
eraged 500 pounds.
Clyde Rice, of Bourbon, bought
IL head of Southdown eve lambs
from Jonas We'll, at $3.50 per head.
Mr.. Rice bought the lambs for breed
ing purposes.
NJ Sabel & Sons, Louisville, pur-
chased the Dallusburg wool pool of
something like 10000 to $4,000
pounds, at the following prices, 26
cents, 35 cents and 40 cents. i
DR.. W. w. Wash, of Lawrence
burg, recently sold to Walter Watts,
of Waddy, KY, the chestnut yearling
colt, LIZARDS Choice, by Highland
Lee and out of Betsey P, for $3.50.
Paul Finch, proprietor of Brakes
| Creek Stock Farm in the eastern end
of the county, sold SO head of hogs
to V. A. Lear, of Garrard short
time ago at 1925 a hundred. They
averaged IT'S pounds.
E. R. Bradley has purchased
Black Coffee from Frank E. Brown, |
for $4,000. Last fall Mr.. Bradley |
sold Began Troopers and Black Cof-
fee to Brown, and is now buying him |
back again.
Paul Finch, who specializes on the
big Duroc hogs, shipped four-year-
old sow to a party at Mangum, Okla,
last week, which he sold for 500.
He sold boar pig to the same party
for $50. Mr.. Finch has the right kind
of stuff and always gets top prices
for his fancy swine.
At the sale of Bellas Bros, at
Maryville, Mo-, June %, AZ register
ed Shorthorns sold for a total of
S45,5O6, an average of 81 1888 to the
head. The highest price of the sale
was paid by Mcmillan, of Wisconsin,
who gave $2,250 for a cow and calf
at her side.
A total of 1920 head of cattle,
requiring 440 cars or II trains of %
cars, constituted one of the very
largest recent cattle movements and
transactions in this country. $3.50
head were shipped from Glenrio, N.
M; 1000 from Vega, Texas, and
5000 from Romero, Texas The
buyers were represented by John
Kister, of Lamar, Kansas, R. C. CAT
ford, of Minneapolis, Kansas, Ace
Grams, of Manchester, Kansas, and
Jesse Stilwell, of Lamar, Kansas.
Charles Roberts, of the Antioch
neighborhood, near Burnside, has
just purchased the 112-acre farm of
A. j. Crawford, about l 1-2 miles
north of Somerset on the Stanford
pike. The consideration is said to
be in the neighborhood of $4,000. This
is a good farm splendidly located,
and Mr.. Roberts being one of the
most up-to-date farmers in the coun-
ty intends to improve it in the near