The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1917-04-04
Stock Crop.


The recent heavy rains have work.
ed quite a hardship on farmers and
truck growers. In many sections
very few tobacco beds have been
prepared and very few gardens plant
ed.
Farmers are rushed with work and
take advantage of every minute of
good weather. Very little spring
blowing has been done and farmers
will be late in getting their crops
planted.
A general average of 1925 was Sc
cured on 62 head of Herefords at the
Iowa Hereford Cattle Breeders As
ISOLATION sale at Sioux City, Iowa.
At the fifth annual sale of William
Herkleman, Elwood, Iowa, Sc Short
horns averaged SAL. The top was
S1,925 for the great show COW, Lady
Devergall with bull calf by side.
Simon Ennis, who operates a sugar
camp near Petersburg, Ind, is slOp-
ping his hogs with sugar water, which
contains much sugar and starch, and
adds flesh rapidly. He regards the
water as a good substitute for corn.
1t is said that draft horses in good
condition weighing 1900 pounds and
up were never so scarce as at present.
Prices have advanced steadily and
during the past six weeks an average
advance of $50 per head is reported.
The New York horseman, Harry P.
Whitney, has purchased 600 acres of
the late J. B. Haggin's Elmendorf
Farm, near Lexington, which it is re
ported, he will use as thoroughbred
nursery transferring his stud from
'Redlav.p- ".
The Secretaries of the Central Ken
lucky Fair Associations will meet in
Lexington, Wednesday. 1t is their
custom TO meet each year and coop
crate with each other in improving
the coming years fair by the exper-
fences of the preceding year. Formal
announcements of dates and thor
ough discussion of the many prob
lens that each association must con-
tend with take place at this meeting.
The indications are that Easter NUT
ton will come mighty high. Good
sheep were going last week at $1,000
and good lambs at $14. Gcats $ Id
at Sc. Very few sheep are placed on
the Louisville market at tbs season
of the year. The few thai do come in
are odds and ends from droves where
the sheep have died and the bucks
won't keep another year. In cases
of this kind it is advisable to fatten
sheep for market Mutton which is
always high at Easter will probably
he higher than ever this time. Good
stuff will probably bring $40.
Carlotta Campus Gir', a purebred
Iolstein four-year-old COW, bred and
owned by the Univers't.- Of Missouri,
has recently established a new mark
for four-eyar-old cows in Missouri
She produced 99.9 pounds of milk
February I, 1917, and thereby obtain
ed the state record fer cows of her
age and the second highest Missouri
record for cows of all ages.
Start the vegetable seeds in the
kitchen window now. 1t is time. We
notice where a Boston woman with
two ten cent packets of seed and four
pounds of potatoes, grew in her back
yard, not only all the vegetable she
had need of in her own household, but
sold $50 worth of vegetables.
The spring equinox marks the pass
ing of the earth over the equator in
its apparent path around the sun,
which is commonly called the north
ern trip, through which are furnish
ed spring and summer to the northern
hemisphere. The spring season will
continue until June 81, when the earth
Will pass the summer sOlStaCe.
America is the home of that most
wonderful of food plants, Indian corn.
The hand which gave this plant to
America never meant that there
should be a food crisis here. Corn
will produce four times as much as
wheat per acre, and requires only one
tenth of the seed to SOW it, and only
one-third of the time from planting
until it can be used as food. A wo
man may take a spade and a hoe in
May and with a quart of seed can
plant a back yard full of corn which
in two months will bring her and her
roasting ears. Our fathers |
fought their wars with the Indians |
on a handful of parched corn, but we
should have more provisions than |
theV had