Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-01-30
STOCK AND a NOTES.

dOuu mix CONS are IN uemanu on
the city market.
Hisey s. Lee had two cars of horses
on the st. Louis market Wednesday.
j. NJ. Sharp and L. d. Hare, Of
Webb City, bought horses in this city
10 the last few days.
William Lee, of Mexico, was in Full
ton Monday buying horses and mules
for the firm Of Hisey s. Lee.-Fulton
Sun.
Earl Atkins, living southwest Of
town, sold a Star Rose mare to E. d.
ookes, Of Patterson, H., a few days
ago for $3.50.
@. L. Allison, a prominent farmer OF
Rush Hill, will have a sale on Feb. 5
and win move to Tulsa, |. T., where
he will live.
J. NJ. Boyle, between Mexico and
Ce~ntralia, drilled $50 feet for water
and got it. Capacity from l25 to IT'S.
barrels of water a day.
Hogs for February delivery are be-
ing contracted for in the west end at
7 cents. w. r. Shields has contract
ed 30 to Ross Brooks and r. NJ. Foun-
tain 50 to Ed Spelman.
Lee Mundy is going TO move on
the Frank Pierce farm, near Benton
City. Lee is a splendid farmer and
the people are very glad to welcome
him to the nelghborhood.
The census for 1900 shows the fol-
lowing live stock totals: Cattle, o.
9O6,525; hogs, 6S,297, $40; sheep, 8l,4l4,-
024; horses, iS,42s, 269, the total value
of which would approximate three and
one half billion dollars.
w. d. Mason, Of Washington Cen
ter, Mo-, is in town and is thinking of
taking the w. w. johnson jacks, Abe
Larimore and Abe Larimore, Jr., back
with him. The people OF this county
would regret to see these two excel
lent animals leave the county.
The Central Shorthorn Breeders
Association will meet in Kansas City
on February 4 and 5. Among the
prominent speakers who will address
the body are Hon. James Wilson, Sec
rotary of Agriculture, and ex-Gov. d.
R. Francis, who will speak in the in
terest of the Worlds Fair.
The sale OF surplus stock by the
Donaldson boys neal Rowena on the
10th was well attended and every
thing sold fairly well, the sale foot
ing up S4s5. 10. Shoats brought from
$3.50 to s4.25, sheep ST. so each, brood
sows $3.50 and sl025, COWS s26 so, s25,
800, s22.25, 500 and SIG, black mares
sl3s and SIPS. so.
The LEDGER regrets very much to
announce that Frank Pierce, of near
Benton City, one OF Audrain's most
substantial citizens and a splendid
farmer, has moved TO Eaton, Col, to
reside. We regret to have Mr., Pierce
leave Audrain, but take great pleasure
in recommending him to the good peo-
pie OF Eaton as a genial gentleman
and a fine neighbor.
The value of cotton seed meal as a
flesh produceri In feeding cattle is being
well demonstrated. The Centralia
Courier tells that Sam Gray has been
feeding 30 cattle cotton seed meal 90
days. The first 30 days they put on
100 pounds. The second 30 days Al
pounds, and the third 30 days 81
pounds, the average being II pounds
plus per month.
A. S. Link marketed from Galloway
county some s2O-pound heifers that
sold at So, also 1,O5O-pound COWS sold
at $3.50. The heifers topped the trade
to-day and also for the week.-Calla-
way county was represented on the
market by Bailey s. Gilmore, who
marketed 964-pound feeders at $40,
| ,O76-pound COWS at s4.1O and heifers
that eqGaled the top for the week at
s5.-Friday's Lire Stock Reporter.
One Of the notable features of the
live stock trade this season has been
the unusually large percentage of pigs
and shoats marketed. This percentage
has been so large that at Kansas City
it reduced the average weight Of all
hogs received during the month Of
November to IFS pounds-the lowest
average ever known In this market or
perhaps any other country, and is 81
pounds below the average for the
same market during November last
year and 81 pounds below that Of
November two years ago.
Col. j.. T. johnson, one Of the best
and widely known criers of a horse pa
Wilton, was in from Mexico, filed that
capacity at yesterdays sale to the
satisfaction of both buyer and seller.
Col. johnson puts his whole being
into his work, and the way he puts
life into the trading and caused bid
ders to step around at a lively gait
clearly stowen that be was master of
his yocatlon.-Robt. Potts, well known
st. Joseph horseman, arrived from
o..~. utcec,,r, ut,h . lo.5 80 no ero