Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-08-11
LATE STOCK AND CROP ITEMS.
From the Paris taio., Appeal.

From the Paris eMo) Appeal.
Hay is selling at So q ton In Paris.
Milf Craig sold 20 sheep at $3.50 on
Monday.
Hog cholera is raging in many COM
munities in Monroe county.
John Maddox, out on Long Branch,
Is feeding two loads of cattle.
E. ]. Sanders reports calves selling
at $40 to S25 around Woodlawn.
Slant Stone & Son, west OF Paris, are
buying aged mules. They paid Tom
Woods, near Woodlawn, $40 for Q
span this week.
R. L. Yowell g. Son, of Goss, sold 20
head of 14o0-lb cattle to J. D.. Tully
this week at &c, to go by August ID. It
Ia o nice bunch.
VIM. Priest, nea Clapper, has con-
tracted a load of fat steers to J. D.
FULLY, to 60 by Aug. is, at sc. They
will average 1900.
Calf traffic is on deck again. Out on
Long Branch John Skinner sold I to
Ed Crooks for $25 and Geo. Elsea sold
him 8 at s17.50 to 800.
Around Leesburg calves T selling
at $40 to $25. VIM. A. Alexander has
5 toppy Herefords and Shorthorns for
which he has refused SGT so.
j. A. Yeager, Long Branch: "Tne
acreage in corn out III way is not as
! large as last year, but the quality is
better. I have rs acres that is the best
l have raised in Is years."
!, Three years ago the shelbina Corn
Company paid zoe a bnshei for 100000
. bushels of corn as a speculation. They
still have 10000 bushels of it and will
ship it to st. Louis as soon as 1t ear be
shelled.
Judge Wooden, near Tulip: "Corn
, looks fine in my neighborhood. We
are having plenty of roasting earl
from the fields. The later planting ID
clean and thrifty and the crop is really
better than last year."
F. M. Veal, near Hawkins; "The
hay crop is away ahead of last years
and these rains will make fall pasture
fine. Our corn is hardly as high "a
=, year ago, but it is making such rapit
growth the prospect for a fine crop i
very fiattering."
r. P. Buckham, near Clapper, put 81
4 year old mules, all broke, on fees
u this week. He also has 80 toppy calveI
and is feeding a load of cattle. "Th'
y corn is about waist high in my vicini
ty," he says, shut is &c clean AM
thrifty that the prospect is very good
Indeed"
j. F. Glover, near Ash: "Corn j
fine in my vicinity and is far ahead Q
~ that between Madison and Paris.
lhave 40 acres that will make lots Q
10 corn without more rain. Ten acres
now past the roasting a stage.
" also have 2 acres of hurley Tobacco
LudL 10 tCEy IhCs 70 ootO5 hGo 4
10 acres and John Bullock 4 acres"
j.. Sam Cunningham: ST never knew {
SO much miIlet being own as thi
. year. I've raised it every year for ]
' years. 1t makes capital COW feed an
is just as good for horses If harveste
y before the seed natures. My hors
has been fed on millet for three yeal
~ and it furnishes living proof of II
good qualities as horse feed"
10 G. A. Thompson, of near Tulip SHY
ped 214 cattle from Paris to Chicae
Sunday morning. All but 80 of thel
were Iowa stock. Fourteen cars wei
~ required to take them to market. II
steers averaged 1873 pounds, b.
would nave stood several weeks mo-
feeding. They were of good qualit
nice and smooth, and showed goo
handling. The 80 natives were splel
es did. Mr.. Thompson bought the L
Iowa cattle in January, 1897, whit
he they averaged about $50 pounds.
have no unusual scheme of feeding
Mr.. Thompson said to an appeal ma
81 roughed them up to the first
January, 'ss, when they were put {
full feed. On April 20 they we
turned on grass and given plenty
corn right along. I have four loa
-. still ON feed. First and last, the
cattle have consumed $4,000 bushels
corn tina cost me all the way from 2
to 40c. have had 346 hogs feedil
with the cattle. I sold ia of them
tlv June at 1915 and have the balan
contracted to go in August at 4 cents
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