The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-04-23
FARM AND STOCK


Buy Victory bonds and vote for the
road tax.
Beard Brothers sold the following
parties mules J. ID. Davidson, pair
$525; Arthur and Jess Allen, 1 pair,
$535: Serret 1 pair. $500; Jackson
Brothers, 1 pair, $500; G. w. Miller,
/ for $500; Chris Sable, pair, $3.50;
Ed Finley, pair, $375; J. L. Burch,
] pair, 500; H. ]. Gorsuch, 1 pair,
1925; Con Mattingly, 1 mule, $3.50;
Percy Ryan, 1 mule, $3.50; Asher
Norton, mule, S135; B. NJ. DeJernet
i pair, 5000; C. V. Robertson, 1 mule,
$3.50; Ed Eskridge, mule, Sos; Phin-
is Smiley, 1 mule, $50; Dan Askins,
j mule, $225.
Horses and Mares.
Jackson Brothers, 1 pair, $500; Jas.
w. Mattingly, pair, $275; Finley
Brown, for $3.50; Robert Henninger
i mare, for $11O Jess Beavin, 1
horse for $16O; Jess Jolly, 1 mare,
$165; Ezra Kiper, 1 horse, $3.50; E.
J. Whitfield, / mare, $14O Cows: H.
Vance, COW, SIS; Mack Walls, 1
COW, $40; Geo. Board, 2 cows, $3.50;
shipped car cattle and car of hogs.
J. w. Webb, Garfield was in Hard
insburg, Monday. He and Mrs. Webb
returned last week from Texas. Said
they had fine trip and are delighted
with Texas and may return soon.
Commissioner of Agriculture, Mat
S. Cohen reports Kentucky tobacco
sales for March were more than
Sic, 74,O61.
Director General of Railroads, Hin
es in a letter to Senator Fletcher and
a group of Representatives interest
ed in water ways suggests closer
cooperation with railroads to aid wat
er-ways. This is a wise suggestion
and would please the shippers along
the Ohio especially.
Let every voter in Breckenridge
County line up for the 20 cent road
tax. 1t would set us back another
so years to defeat this tax. We need
20 he, af he
The man who does not subscribe
for all the Victory bonds he can
swing will do himself and his depend
ents gross injustice.
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The record price for Polled Here
ford bull, $4,000 was paid recently for
Bouillion 4th, at the sale of the Rem
ner Herd at Hartford City, Ind, last
month. The seventy head averaged
$931 The sixty-fve females $7s6
and the eight bulls, $3,1O9 The Rem
ner sale was followed by J. E. Green
of Munice, Ind, who sold forty-sev-
en- head at an average of $3.50.
The total number Of our horses
overseas was 22O,2s4, we lost from
all causes 44,35O head.
Mark Field of Granger, Mo, writ ]
ing in the Farmers Home Journal /
says
THE mule is surely beating every
thing going "over the top, judging
by the recent sales where we find
they are selling from $3.50 to $3.50 per
and $500 to $500 per pair The in
nocent docile mule is not kicking at
tractors or anything else. He is just
staying on the job and holding down
his reputation"
The average price of live stock on
the Chicago market last week were:
Cattle $1,000, hogs $1,000, sheep SLABS
lambs $1S.75. On the corresponding
week of 1918 the averages we're: Cat
tie $13.75, hogs $1740, sheep $3.50
and lambs $500
Big fine mules bring fancy prices,
while horses of equal weight are not
worth more than two-thirds as much.
A pair of 1900 pound mares bred to
4 good Jack would produce mules
which would certainly sell at fancy
prices. What we need in Breckin-
'idge County are more good mules.
The First National Bank of Love-
and, Colo, is doing a fine piece of
work in helping stimulate interest in
'oys' and gilrs' pig clubs among the
.hildren of the Loveland district. In
ecent editions of the Loveland pap
RS, the bank carried 9-inch, four-col-
INN ads announcing that it would