Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-03-06
STOCK AMI Farm NOTES,

The Gooldy farm, consisting OF 60
acres, lying two miles southeast OF
Auxvassa was sold TO Robert Turley,
OF Mexico, Thursday, for 81, 300. Full
ton Sun.
E. J.. Sims, a prominent stockman,
OF Audrain county, had In so hogs
that averaged 237 pounds and were
good enough to sell at s6.35, the top OF
the market.-Liue Stock Reporter.
Galloway county was represented by
Dyer Bros. & Bailey, with so heifers
that averaged sO8 lbs. and brought
SIS, the best price Of the day for full
loads. The st. Louis Dressed Beef
Co. took OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Lire
Stock Reporter.
Sam Gray put an average OF Y lbs.
per head on bis cattle the third
months feeding.-The poultry BUSH
ness Of Centralia continues to grow.
Last year there was marketed from
this city GIL, 800 pounds of poultry and
13, 9T6 cases Of eggs. Estimate the
poultry at an average price Of s cents
and you have the nice sun Of s72, 39l.-
2l. Then the eggs proceeds figures out
this way: 13,67s cases mean 4l9,340
dozen, at an average Of 9 cents, $751;
74O.60. Add this to the poultry
product and you have the neat sum Of
s11l,I3l.sO, or about $4,000 better
than the year before. That does pref
ty well for a dry year; in fact, beats
everything else we had in this county.
C~entralis Courier.
An extraordinary press story is cur
rent in which the bulldogs cleyerness
seems to outstrip even that Of Brer
Rabbit In his dealings with Ole Mis-
Cow. 1t is said that Bully developed
a thirst for milk at untimely hours
and seasons, which was not gratified
by his owner. That apparently, be-
ing a bit Of a philosopher, be sought
the fields and took to observing fell
low nature, and, in time, to initiating
the action OF the calves. An old.
time offense Of his, that Of stealing
chickens, faded into significance be,
sides the daily disappearance Of the
dairy supply when the COW was IN full
milk, the expected yield not being OBJ
tainable. Whereupon Bully was
watched, and was even found not tc
confine HIS operations TO one COW, but
to rob every COW In the village, until
he became in size a regular John Bull
OF a milkman, a nuisance and a bur
den to himself and to everybody else
This craving for milk being quite in
appeasable, and his vice not to b.
cured, he was put to death.-Rura
World.
Senator Z. V. Peterson, OF Norton
Kas, who usually fattens a THOUSAND
head of cattle for market each wintel
has this season been experimenting OF
carrying stock through with less corr
than is generally considered necessary
He says Of the result;
"We are feeding what we call a hal.
ration Of corn with alfalfa hay anc
sorghum hay. The daily ration is /.
pounds a corn, fifteen pounds alfalfa
hay and ten pounds sorghum. We feed
half the corn and alfalfa in the morn
ing and half in the evening and the
sorghum at noon. We put 200 steer
in our feed lots November 8, last, anC
their average weight was 1,O12 pounds
We weighed these cattle on January
and their average weight was l,l6l
pounds, an average gain Of 149 lbs, o.
a daily average Of two and a hal
pounds.
1--WE buy our corn and have pait
from fifty to sixty cents. We RAISED
our alfalfa, which is worth % a ton IL
the stack, and our sorghum, worth Q.
in the cock. The cost for a day'
ration is:
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