The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-10-05
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-Hensel Margolen sold to an At
lanta, Ca, dealer, Monday, general
purpose horse for $135.
Mr.. w. H. Kerr, of Lexington,
purchased of Jack Howard, of this
county, an extra good six-year-old
driving horse for $500.
Mr.. VIM. Rogers, of Bellevue,
KY, shipped a consignment of forty
200-pound hogs to Eastern markets
that brought him in the sum of ST.
$50.
-Caywood, Smith & McClintock
sold on the local market Monday
thirty-eight mules at $50 to 1925
each.
The Bluegrass Commission Co.,
of Lexington, purchased 116 barrels
of old corn this week from Mr.. ].
w. Jacoby, of Hutchinson, at $3.50 per
barrel.
-Caywood & McClintock sold fifty
feeders to Edward Prichard at nine
cents per hundred pounds, and $1.00
per head.
An acre and one-half of sweet
potatoes planted by Dr. William Ken
ney, of Paris, on his farm near this
city, made a yield of 225 bushels of
excellent quality.
Mr.. J. w. Calvert, of the county,
purchased of John r. McDermott,
manager of the Postal Telegraph
office in Paris, a nice Shetland pony
for which he paid sos.
Southern buyers purchased this
week of Caywood, Smith & McClin-
took, of this city, mixed carload of
general purpose horses and mules for
plantation work in the South.
Slight frosts have been reported
several days this week, but not
enough to do any material damage.
In fact the frosts now falling are
rather helpful in drying up the corn
and in ripening tobacco.
The tobacco growers Of Simpson
county have declined all offers to
sell their crops in the barn, as many
who sold last season sustained heavy
losses when compared with the prices
realized on the loose leaf floors.
Mr.. Samuel ]. Bell brought to
the Office of the Stanford Interior
Journal a kershaw that weighed
thirty-seven pounds. 1t is said to
have been the largest vegetable Of
the kind ever raised in Lincoln
county.
1t is said that the United States
Government will need from 5000 to
1000 thoroughbred stations to be
used at the Government remount
breeding stations as sires for getting
military horses during the next three
or four years.
"A splendid Shorthorn heifer
which was offered for sale at the
Illinois State Fair was purchased by
Carpenter & Ross, of Mansfield, o.,
for $500. The purchase money was
donated to the Red Cross work.
Growers are offered twenty
cents and $3.50 per acre for their
tobacco around Mt. Sterling, and
seven and eight cents for the leaves
that fall from the stalks in the field.
Some growers have refused twenty
five cents for their tobacco.
-Maysville Independent: "Mr.
Dan Mahar, of the Washington neigh
borhood, purchased a wagon load of
corn from j. c. Everett & Co., local
grain dealers, to feed bunch of
hogs he has on his farm. The wagon
load of corn cost Mr.. Mahar $206.50.
1t was some price for corn, but good
hogs are bringing some price ALSO"
AT the annual sales held in Lex !
ingten, Monday, by the Kentucky
Sales Co., fifty-seven head Of horses
we're disposed of for $3.50, or an
average of $167. N. o. Rogers, of
Paris, paid $40 for Bedford General,
b. c. 1, Bedford Forrest-Ceylona
by General Forrest, and T. o. Allen.
Of Paris, purchased Judge G, b. c. 1,
Lassell- Sausolito by General For
rest, for $3.50.
Spectators in tobacco have been
busy among the farmers and growers
in Scott county. Several good sales
have been made around Donerail.
One crop of ten acres sold for $3.50,
md another Of fourteen acres sold for
$4,000. The spectators have not
,een working very much in Bourbon
county. The growers seem to prefer
waiting for the open markets at the
Ocal houses.