The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-11-14
FARM AND STOCK.

State of Louisiana, The syrup will be
sold for about 10 cents a gallon.
Vic Robertson sold G. l.. Pemberton
10 head of mules last Friday at SIPS to
$3.50 per head.
Thomas Bland Is building new dwell
ling on his farm near McQuady. II is
a two story four room house with porch
in front ard Kitchen In back. Crit
Seaton g. Sons are doing the work, The
Fordsville Planning Mill Co. furnished
the fiuishings. The Seaton's painted
Eli Deans residence on his farm near
Glen Dean. 1t is now one of the hand
soonest homes in that Section.
Jake Lymer is now one of the pros
porous and substantial farmers around
Glen Dean. He moved to Glen Dean
twenty years ago without dollar. He
got Job on the railroad as section man
at 81 10 per day. BY economy and hard
work he saved enough to buy farm in
the woods on the installment plan. Now
he has good home, stock barn and
other outbuildings. This year he has a
good crop; 1900 pounds bright one
sucker tobacco, 1000 bushels corn to
sell, is feeding 90 head Of hogs and has
a good black mare mule for sale. Mr..
Lymer says this years crop will prac-
tically put him out of debt.
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John B. Bates sold his house and 90
acres of ground at McQuady to Rev. J.
F. Knue for $500.
Owen Seaton sold his crop OF 1900
pounds of one sucker to J. M. Howard
at S13 round.
Payne Il Sons, of Tar Fork, turned
down an offer of SIS round for their
crop of 30, 900 pounds of one sucker to-
bacco Barney DeJarnette refused the
same price for mis- crop of $4,000 pounds.
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w. Norman e. Son recently pur-
chased 81 Short Horn cattle from par
ties near Danville, Ky. They sold to w.
+. Montgomery. of San Antonio, Tex.
two Polled Durham heifers; 10 J. w.
Ford, of Alabama, one Polled Durham
bull; to Tiff Farms. Triton, Ca, two
Short Horn bulls, and to II. L. Drake
two Snort Horns.
Begin to prepare your home garden
now BY supplying the soil with humus
and fertilizer. Stable manure may be
spread upon the surface and either
plowcd or spaded under. Rye is good
to SOW to be plowed or spaded under in
the spring. Use about half pound to
one pound of seed to the square rod.
| The advantages of sowing rye are:
ID it protects the soil from washing;
| (2) it retains heterogeneous plant food ma
terial which might otherwise escape
into the air during the fall and winter;
(3) when turned under in the spring it
furnishes humus to the soil.
Save the leaves as they are valuable
as sources of humus and plant food. If
burned, even though the ashes are
saved, all of the humus is lost and much
of the fertilizing value. Coal ashes are
useful for the same purpose, though
they have very little fertilizing value.
r. G. Robertson & Sons have baled
about 100 tons of hay and stored in
their barns for feeding during the win
ter. This is a wise plan. 1t saves time
and preserves the hay, and it is ready
for shipping If not needed for feeding.
Jim Dean has one hundred acres OF
shocked fodder which he is now shred
ding and storing in his barn for winter
feeding. He also has a hundred acre
field which he will turn stock on. Mr.
| lean ID OiS lcSucI VI Cdttic du0 uoSS'
Ample provision for the sheltering
and feeding of live stock for the winter
should be made. All surplus male stock
and other undesirable animals should
be sold 1t is very desirable. however,
that female live stock at all suitable for
breeding purposes should be kept for
increasing the herds.
Fisher Norman and Charlie Dean
have fine bunch of sheep, the best we
have seen In the county. They will be
worth their weight in gold next spring.
More farmers ought to iurn their at
tention to raising sheep. They will add
to their income as well as increase the
food and wool supply of the country.