The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1917-03-21
LAND, STOCK, CROP.

the state was MADE last week. Inc
property is the farm of Henry Cur
It's, one of the best known Hereford
cattle breeders in Shelby county, and
contains 1,005 acres. The reported
price is $125,000, and was purchased
by a group of Louisville tobacco men
headed by Leban Phelps. P. H. Jack
son, of Newcastle, is also interested.
Mr.. Phelps is the son-in-law of the
late Judge William Pryor, of New
castle.
Kentucky farmers are making pre-
parations to plant large acreage of
tobacco this season. In some sections
as high as $50 an acre is being offer
ed and refused for virgin soil.
| Tobacco growers are burning plant
beds and getting ready for the 1917
! crop. The acreage this season will
be the largest in recent years. Many
beds have already been sown in some
sections.
Missouri breeders sold more than
one million dollars worth of regis
tered live stock at public auction in
1916. Incomplete figures compiled
by w. L. Nelson of the Board of Ag-
riculture show that 1888 cattle of the
beef breeds sold for sS65,626, an av-
erage of S471 per head. Included in
these sales were LOIS Herefords av-
feraging $496.36; GIG Shorthorns av-
eraging S479.36, and lat Angus av-
eraging $253.06.
An experiment was made recently
by the Pennsylvania Station on two
plats to demonstrate the value of
suckering tobacco. A difference of
$50 pounds of cured leaf per acre in
favor of the suckered plants was Sc
cured with a difference in quality in
favor of suckering even greater than
the difference in yield.
/ The soy bean is one of the best for
] age plants among the legumes and it
exceeds any of the legumes in pro-
duction of seed, although it is now
grown largely for its abundant yield
Of rich forage. The high value of its
seeds offers the most promising pos
Sibilities for the future use of the
soy bean as a seed crop according to
w. S. Etheridge, of the Missouri
College of Agriculture.
| T. l.. Holiday recently made one
of the best price land deals ever made
in Clark county. This farm is locat-
ed on the Two Mile pike about and
one-half miles from Winchester and
contains II acres of we'll improved
land. There is a nice house, and Mr.
| w. W. Stevenson, the purchaser, paid
ls14,2O0. Many suburban farms are
selling at high prices and land all
over Clark county is bringing its
worth.
| The development of agriculture in
the south of the United States is one
of the astonishing things of the per-
iod. That section produced, last
year, crops exceeding by 100000
900 the entire crop value in the Unit
! ed States in 1902, or only 2 per cent
less than the whole country's output
in 1915. To put it in another way,
the total value of the South's agri-
cultural products last year was $4,-
S50,000,000, as against $5,276, 285, 900
for the whole country. If the Manu-
facturer's Record, which has prepared
these statistics, is as acurate as usual
then it may be said that the argu-
ment in favor of Investigation in
Dixie needs no further clinching.
According to reports the indica-
tons point to a splendid crop of
Strawberries, in Warren county.
Plans for the handling of the crop are
being seen to, well in advance. The
acreage has been largely increased
and a banner crop is expected.
An Alexandria, Ind, farmer has a
potato which is worth Is cents, ac-
cording to the present prices. The
potato weighs 81 pounds.
The prosperity of the farmer is
first of all the prosperity of the ma
lion, and that is why American bust
ness today is looking toward the dis
tribution first of all in the farm field
of its products.
The higher type of business man
the farmer becomes, the better will
be our whole national establishment
Every organization in the country
has any ambitions towards develop
ing successful business should aid in
the revival of the unsuccessful farm
er, and the assisting of the prosper
Gus farmer to still better economic
activities on his land.
Two hundred carloads of farm ma
chinery recently received at Savannah,
Ga, will be sent by steamer to Nor
way and thence overland to Russia.
The value is placed close to $1,000
900. The shipment includes reapers,
binders, tractors, and motor plows.
This is the second shipment of this
kind via Savannah, the last going to
Liverpool on the steamer Rosalie
several months ago.
, Mules are high this spring. 1t
! is reliably stated that $500 is fire.
quently obtained for a good animal.
The long drawn out winter has de-
layed farm work and it will all come
in bunch. Very little blowing has
been done in Madison county and
only few persons have sown their
tobacco beds. Gardens will be plant
ed unusually late, but under favora-
BILE conditions, it is probable that gar
den truck will be about as early as in
, former years. At least, it is to be
hoped so. Anything now to reduce
old high cost of living will be very
acceptable to us poor mortals.