Three-year-old bay horse (unbroke).................. 165.00
Two-year-old filly.................................. 153.00 
Four-year-old iron-gray saddle mare................. 265.00 
Yearling colt....................................... 100.00 
Yearling filly...................................... 151.00 
Five hundred bushels of old corn at $1 per bushel. 
Three thousand bundles of oats in sheaf at thirty-eight cents 
    per dozen. 
Sixty acres of corn in field in different lots, from $24.50 
    to $50 per acre. 
Two thousand bushels of corn to be shucked out, at eighty cents 
    per bushel. 
Four hundred shocks corn fodder at thirty cents per shock. 
One hundred and fifty ponnds New Orleans sugar at thirty cents 
    per pound. 
Fifty yards negro jeans at $2 per yard. 
Forty yards fine merino wool jeans at $2.50 per yard. 

At a public sale of my surplus stock at my farm in Fayette County, Ky., Oct., 1870, a few plainly bred Shod-horns sold. One bull calf, $76, $49, $39, $63; one cow, $50; same $72, $76, $70, $69; one white two-year-old heifer, barren, $81.50, for beef; one steer calf $40; one heifer calf, $24; forty head of long two-year-old cattle, $73.90 per head; twenty-five head of long, two-year-old cattle, extra good, $98 per head; fifty hogs, weight two hundred pounds, at $10 per 100 lbs.; one brown mare, $136; one brown mare, $130; one at $107; mule colts at $74 each; eight work mules, average $190 each.

At my closing-out sale Oct. 18th, 1881, on leaving the State, hogs sold for $4.25 per 100 pounds; twenty steer calves at $26 per head; grain reaper and binder, $156; common milch cow, $39; same $34; same, $37; one pair work horses, old, $160; pair work mules, $374; bay mare, $124; Irish potatoes, eighty-two cents per bushel: fifty tons clover hay at $12 per ton; one hundred tons of timothy hay at $15 per ton; four thousand bushels of corn at fifty cents per bushel in field; forty thousand pounds of hemp, to be broken out, at $4.50 per 112 pounds.

It is not inappropriate to insert here the following from the Lee’s Summit (Missouri) Journal:

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Thanks to Catherine Bradford for transcribing this page.