The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-12
FARM AND STOCK.

| Last week was the Danper tooaCCo
week 10 this county. The weed was In
ne order for handling and the growers
took advantage of it. All receiving
points in the county we're busy and the
farmers carried home more money than
they have for many years.
| The crop for next year will be the
largest ever. Dealers are already con
tracing for Burley at $40 from the
ground up.
Jess Burgers sale. near Custom last
week. sheep sold from sl' to $40 so per
head; ~ shoats brought $500; stripper
cows s67 to sS5; mules $50 TO $3.50;
horses $50 to sI25; straw $l2. 50. and
hay S28 per ton; cultivators $40 to S35.
The sale was around $4,000. d. w.
Henry was the auctioneer.
Owen and Gilbert Kasey, of Irving
ton, route 1, sold 1000 pounds of Burley
at S25 round. H. w. Gross 1900 at $27.
A. F. Sipes sold 900 hills for 1881.
R. c. Brown 100 pounds at $50, half
acre of this crop yielded 1901 pounds
and brought him over 5000.
Clarence Dooley, of Big Spring, de
livered one load of tobacco that brought
him $596.
John Cook, who started buying to-
bacco In the patch and at prices that
everybody thought extravagant and
hazardous. is still hungryfor the weed.
Saturday he capped the climax by pay
ing $35 from the ground up for Park
Wright's crop of 5000 pounds of
Burley. John is a good buyer but a
bad seller according to his way of fig.
uring. Says he lost just $4,000 by
selling his purchase too early. He is
still about that much to the good and
is not kicking.
| J. S. Stith, brother of the Hon w.
A. Stith, sold his farm of 222 acres in
Meade county to E. E. Hardaway for
50 800. Mr.. Stith has bought farm of
| $50 acres in Built county for s.. $50
where he will move.
K L. Carmau sold 1000 pounds of
Burley at sec. so. S. c. Dowell sold / u
acres or $500 hills for $522, the price
being $as so round.
Compton Brothers at Bewleyville,
| are remoddling their store house by
putting in an up -to-date glass front,
enlarging. painting and papering the
inside. This is made necessary by their
large and increasing business.
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The hog shortage on Farms Septem-
Der 1, according to reports by United
States Department of Agriculture was
S AT, 600 and the corn increase was
GOT, S4a, 900 as compared with the 1915
crop. 1t Is now up to the hog raisers to
fill up this gap by raising more hogs.
The Department urges that sows be
bred in increased numbers to insure the
needed number of pigs next spring to
eat the surplus of the 1917 crop.
The Food Admi nistration has fixed a
minimum price of $3.50 hundred
pounds for the average, SO that tine far
mer can count on getting for each IC0
pounds of hogs ready for market thir-
teen times the average cost per bushel
of corn fed into the hogs.
An International Champion steer,
Merry Monarch, owned by Purdue
University, grand champion steer of
the National Livestock Show this year,
was sold for 20S pound to the Amer
lean Short Horn Breeders Association
Thursday. The association donated
the animal. which weighed l.6I0 pounds
to the American Red Cross, which re-
sold 1t to Armour g. Company tor
1881, or 50. 10 pound, record price.
Last year the champion steer, Califor-
mia Favorite, sold for ST. pound.
The grand champion carload of An
gus cattle owned by E. T. Hall, of Me-
chanicsburg, ILL.,, went to Armour g.
Company for $is.50 hundred pounds.
a record price. Last year the price for
the prize carload was $28 a hundred
pounds.