— : — : LiTTfim ‘S -H )1 A RECORD OF AGRICULTURE, LIVE STOCK, HORTICULTURE, BOTANY, AND THE KINDRED ARTS AND SCIENCES, — D $2 per year, in Advance. Agriculture is the most Healthful, most UsefUl, and most Hohle £mployment of Man. 'Wasblncton. Established 1865. Volume XXVII LOUISVILLE, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1879 Number 13 price received for the (ieorgetown. Cattle in demand and KENTUCKY TIMBER LANDS. and they all abound, in the Black $8. Then the one, and if that is selling at 4c to 4^c for good, and 2^c mountain especially. Owing to the crop was a very low Geological Extract from the Survey— Re- it is evident KENTUCKY FARM NOTES. to 3c for common common mules, abundance of water power, the access- the best his locality can do ; port on the Timbers in Bell and grow something more in to per head. Harlan Counties. ibility, in large quantities, of these tim- that he must BOONE COUNTY. $45 $75 WOODFORD. bers, and their great demand in car- demand. By feeding to live stock the A buzzard roost on the farm of Mr. perhaps have been turned A hand on the farm of John Stoutj The walnut timber is as ruthlessly de- riage making, I see no reason why the crop could Bryant, at Bryant’s Ford, is getting to be the expense of near Midway, lately broke 546 ll)s~bf stroyed in Eastern as in Western near future should not see many spoke to better account, and a public nuisance. .A. writer in the for hauling trimmed off, besides a hemp in one day. Who can beat it ? Kentucky. I saw a magnificent walnut factories, ax-handle and hammer-handle J13 Boone County Recorder claims for the I manure. he asks. Well, George Harris puts in tree, forty inches in diameter, with a factories, and carriage factories, in this something gained lor value of Bellevue section the champion female the following record in Major Emack’s trunk of more than fifty feet in length, part of Kentucky. Already the eyes —Ed. F. H. j.] farmer of the day in the person of Miss ' crop : In five days he broke 2,018 lbs, cut for rails — a tree worth hundreds of of some large carriage factories are T. S. Dinsinore. who owns and cultivates an average of over 400 lbs. The last dollars sacrificed for a. few panels of turning toward these timbers, and they LEXINGTON APRIL COURT, un3erher own supervision 400 acres I day of the five he broke 603 lbs. Who fence. No care whatever is taken only need to be better known in order land. Her fields, fences, orchards, etc., can beat this? The says many either to preserve the old forest walnut to become a good source of revenue Shorthorn Show— Kidd's Two-day Horse are models of perfection. The small Sale. farmers who own hemp land will plant now standing or to encourage the young to the people. The red maple, which grain crops in the Winter bottoms are potatoes instead of hemp this year. R. growth. Besides this, except in certain is growing more and more into favor in very thrifty and promise a large yield. Editor Farmers' HomeJournal Starks will plant 60 acres, Elij^ localities, there is a practice of yearly cabinet work, also abounds in Bell and 21. I i Lexington, Ky., March — drop •MONTOOMERY. D^is acres, and others will put in “ burning off the woods,” which is do- Harlan counties. The linden {Silia 30 you a line to invite you to try and be at The barn of N. B. Thomas, near ’almost irreparable injury to the Americana) is al.so found in large quan- Targe crops of the esculent. ing our Lexington county court day, April mills, j Howard’s with 100 bbls of corn, HENRY. forests in those parts of Black and tities through these mountains, and is 14, as we expect to have a Shorthorn hay, etc., was burned last week. The wool sellers around Eminence Brush mountains where the timbers are very valuable in cabinet work, paneling, i bull and heifer show on that day; also /Wm. Gay’s 17 ewes have given him this held a meeting, of which W. Craw- finest. Especially in the Black moun- etc. The pines, especially the pitch J. a horse show and Captain Kidd's ho^ ; ,^ear lambs. B. F. I 42 Cassity has ford was chairman, and it was resolved tains there is a very heavy growth of pine {Pinus rigida) and the yellow pine I wish '1'. sale the two days following. you rented W. Dowdall’s farm of 126 that they would hold their wool and weeds that yearly die down, and, with {Pinus mitis), are very abundant in to call attention to the bull show in the for acres $300. County court day at sell together, in order to make a more the fallen leaves, make a perfect mass parts of the mountains, particularly Farmers’ Home Journal, and invite Mt. Sterling last week. Best common satisfactory sale. Sixteen hundred of highly combustible material. Late Pine mountain. They are too well and urge the presence of lovers and cattle sold for 3^©3^c; mules in fair fleeces were represented, others in the fall, when these are driest, they known to need especial mention, except and breeders of Shorthorns from every demand at $60 to $70, tancy broke stock were invited to co-operate. are set on fire, and the heat is great to say that not a pine is to be found in quarter. We wish to make an annua) bringing as high as $120, SHELBY. enough to kill every bush that has ap- those counties of Western Kentucky recurrence of vital interest to all breed- CLARK. The Sentinel says: “Mr. Thomas peared during the year. .As this is on which my former report was made, Shall pleased to bring you out of ers. be Wm.M ade has bought B. P. Ca.ssity/ Plansbrough, of this county, has a ewe done year alter year, there is no chance so far as I could discover. I know of to visit Cloverland while you are up, 39 good mountain ewes with lambs that has produced five living lambs and whatever for a young forest growch to no especial reason for their total ab- make it pleasant for you. in for per head; and thrown $3.25 Wm. is only two years old.” How the last start. The consequence is that in sence 'from that [lart of Kentucky. Our small grain erally l«xiks we ll sold to gen Wade Mrs. Joice recently 60 acres six words do kill an otherwise good item. those parts of Black* where Ortninly the want of moaiitains in an'd promises an aDundaiu yield. 1 . l Donaldson creek for $3,125. NELSON. the present forests are most dense and Western Kentucky is not a sufficient never had my stock, especially cattle, The old Doyle farm, on Four Mile Record: P’riday last R. Nichols valuable, there is not a single young explanation for pine woods are often J. ; look better in life, and have used creek, was sold to my George W. Doyle, sold to C. H. Warren 8 steers averag- tree or bush to be found. In many low and flat, though I do not know of less feed, because 1 put up cheap plank 200 acres, at $18 per acre. The ing 1,131 lbs at $4.50. John and places this practice has been going on any in Kentucky that are so. Other ' shelter for them last fall, and during all Democrat says sales ciT early lambs are Lilly of so long that the old forest is rapidly timbers found in Eastern Kentucky, bought Elder ' Thomas John 9 the winter gave each one a separate at nearly being made $7 per cwt. The cattle averaging 1,100 lbs at 50. dying out with age, and there is noth- that do not grow in such parts of West- $3. stall halter, with plenty of good usually and lambs weigh 60 to 70 lbs. MARION. ing coming on to take its place. If the ern Kentucky, as I have studied, are straw bedding (which makes me a large O. W. Price has sold his farm of 195 The Loretto correspondent of the practice of burning off the mountains the magnolias, hemlock. Rhododendron I amount of manure) and good mows and acres at $53.85 and $55.50 per acre. Standard says: T. Ballard had is not stopped immediately, at any rate and .American laurel. “J. troughs, so that no feed is wasted. I H- G. Tyle r, of Fort Df>dge, Iowa, planted 20 acres of corn March 18. long enough for a new forest to get^a have used bright, nice clover hay, cut says the Democrat, is in Clark buying W. T. Cook bought near Raywick permanent hold, so that fire can not 35 A CROP THAT DIDN’T PAY. in cutting box, and mixed with wheat high grade heifers and bulls. Shorthorn bus of Irish potatoes which he at once destroy it, before many years a moun- in lieu oats, like it correspondent in a late issue of bran, of and much Sales were made last week of the sold to Loretto .Academy for $i per tain as rich in valuable timbers as any A better for stock; besides, it is cheaper. .Martin lands: acres at the the Journal oj Agriculture and Farmer 515 mouth bus profit of per cent. and some I know of in this country will he al- —a 90 — With wishes for your success with the of river gives an account of a"crop of oats on Red brought $17.