The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-05
Beard Brothers Paid Out last Monday Through the Bank of
Hardnsburq & Trust Co. Over $4,000 for Tobacco.
FARM AND STOCK.

G. A. Wright Is progressive farmer |
over at McQuady. His corn shoe ks
this fall showed it. HIS cattle and his
hogs show that he knows how to raise
them and produce the stuff to make
them, He had Is acres Ia corn this
year that made him $50 bushels; five
acres which he had in alfalfa last year
he plowed up and planted to corn and
this produced 10 bushels to the acre,
30 acres In the same field that was not
sowed in alfalfa produced so bushels to
the acre besides ~ tons of fodder went
into his silos. He sold 10 head of cattle
for 81 800. H. has IS acres in wheat
that is looking fine. An old orchard on
his place that hadn't produced apples
in 10 years had a good crop this year
as the result of pruning and spra, ing
They brought him 81 90 per bushel.
They were large, fine color and perfect
10 every way. He says it Is no fault Of
the soil or the climate, what is required,
he says, is hard work and attention.
"
Burt Carman and Mr.. Allen, tenants
on b c. Browns place, raised $500
pounds Of Burley that brought them
81 800 1t was raised on six acres. Car
man raised 1925 go worth and Allel
s574 10 Brown got $3.50 for rent Ct
land
n
! Chas. Taberling q Son have 10000
pounds of Burnley. They were offered
S25 round, but are asking $40.
Tice Hendrick has 1900 pounds of
Prior and 800 of Burley. He turned
down an fer of $50 round.
| There is many farmer in Brecker.
ridge county feeding his calves and
pigs on butter tat that is worth to him
80 or 90 cents pound. This is big
waste and can be saved by using a
ere am separator.
Marcus and D)ra Mattingly have
bought Win and Jim Mattingly's farm
Of 315 acres tor So, 900 cash.
| Webb & Green delivered o I'd of
one sucker tobacco to Beard B:oth-rs at
Med Lniels that brought 5000
The feed to pre- duce one dUza eggs
cost 10 cents with pullets. IL cents with
three year old hens in three year
feeding test recently reported by poul-
try men of the United States Depart.
ment Of Agriculture. These tests be-
gan in 1912 when feed was somewhat
lower than now.
Now is good time to 6isinfect for
hog cholera. Use quicklime in the lots
and sheds, and sprinkle or spray pbenol
preparations about in the cracks of the
houses.
The Agricultural Department advises
that 1t is bad practice for farmers to
buy their meat from stores, especially
pork, when it can be grown and cure
at home at much less cost.
Does the housekeeper have to start
breakfast in kitchen "as cold as all
outdoors" these frosty mornings? II SO,
there is some fixing up that needs to be
done at once.
Two hundred and sixty five hogs
heads OF new Burley were sold last
Wednesday on the Louisville market al
prices ranging frog $50 to $3S. -Four
teen hogsheads of new dark at from
SlI rs to SI3 IS.
Any scrub sires on your placer II so
arrange to kill or emasculate them a
once There never has been time
when you could afford to keep them
but there never has been time whel
i you can so Ill afford to do it as jus
/, now.
en-. Cleveland, near Paris, Ky
=, sold 3, 900 pounds of tobacco for 20 cen Mt
I, per pound all round loaded on wagon
!, at barn. This was raised on I6 acres o
land and brought 50, 900.
n Growers throughout the State are I
n the throes of the sensational sales o
n tobacco and the question now met O.
every side Is. "Well, how high will sh