Mexico weekly ledger., 1889-11-14
STOCK AND FARM ITEMS.

loads OF hogs to Chicago Friday.
| A party of shippers from Bow
ling Green are collecting jacks
here to ship to California. They
have bought 10 already.
R. L. Caldwell sold to Morrison
Lakeland, fine one-halt Shrop-
shiredown buck, Is months old,
weight 24O pounds, for $40. He Is
a dandy, and no mistake.
| Joe Able shipped to Chicago
yesterday four car loads of the
finest cattle that ever came to this
town. He expects them to aver
age 1850 in Chicago, and thinks he
will get 5 cts.-Laddonia Herald.
There are twelve factories in
Franklin county, Mo-, for the can
ming of corn. The largest of these
are situated in Strong and Farm
ington. This year 1,O40 acres of
corn were raised in the county for
canning purposes, and 1,61O, 900
cans put up.
Farmers can find a ready market
in Mexico for their wheat or oats
straw at from $500 to So so per
load. This beats hauling wood to
town at $3.50 per cord. Half the
straw lays on the farm and rots
when the surplus should be sold on
the market.
c. F. Clark has purchased a colt
by Robert Rysdyk, out of Olivet by
Onward. Mr.. Clark has gone to
work right to build up the reputa-
tion Of the horse, and the best
thing in the world he can do is to
put this fellow in the 2:3O list.-
Rural World.
Chris Marburg and Joe Able
lately returned from Southeast
Missouri, where they bought over
500 head of cattle to feed. Chris
has 33S head and Joe over 23O.
These large herds Of cattle will
make quite local market for the
farmers immense corn crops
Laddonia Herald.
The practical beginning for the
farmers in politics is at home.
There is much spread-eagle talk as
to the farmers power and what he
can and should accomplish, but we
are too apt to be blinded by these
glittering generalities to the neg
lect of our duty at home as earnest,
public-spirited citizens. - Rural
World.
The wise farmer can always find
time to read the papers devoted to
his business and one reason why
SO many are unwise Is because they
will not take time to read. If bread
is the staff of life physically SO is
seasonable experience and sugges-
ton mentally. The farmer does
not live who can afford to do with.
out reading.-Rural World.
| Last spring friend A. K. Dick
had 100 ewes. Since that time he
has sold $400 worth of sheep from
the increase and has 12O ewes left.
Besid, S, the wool clip last June is
not counted in the profits. Ifthere
is any kind of stock the farmer
can raise that will increase faster
than this, we would like to know
of it. The sheep more than
double the money invested in them
in less than six months.-Lad-
donia Herald.
| Mr.. John Weber, of Barry, Ill,
has bought and shipped 500 bar
rels of apples from the Laddonia
! market. Heretofore there has not
fbeen much of a market here for ap-
pies, but Mr.. Weber says it will
be different hereafter. His coun-
try will remember US. He says that
scarcely. anything will pay the
farmer better than to have a good
apple orchard. If the farmer will
figure it, if he raises a crop only
every other year, the orchard will
bring him from $50 to s75 per
acre. We tell you it is coming to
this-the farmer must learn not to
depend SO much ON the two crops,
oats and corn. He must have a
variety of crops, a variety of stock
and raise variety of fruits.-Lad-
donia Herald.