Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-10-04
STOCK AND FARM NOTES.

Frank Buckner showed a 53.pound
pumkin at the AuxvasSe street fair,
last week.
Johnson & Noel had a three car
shipment Of hogs in the st. Louis
market Wednesday.
W. E. Hale Of this county marketed
beeyes averaging 1879 lbs that sold at
SIS in st. Louis Wednesday.
Eleven car loads Of fat stock left
points along the Chicago & Alton
branch late Saturday night and early
Sunday morning for the Chicago mar
ket.
+ A Edwards, near Long Branch,
sold a pair Of a year old mules to Bird
Bros, OF Paris, Tuesday for 1926. He
has bought % mule colts at an aver.
age Of SOS.
Starr & Afiick have contracted for
5000 bushels Of new corn from Nc.
Cormick Il Wilson, on the Bob Brown
farm near Tulip, at 30 cents. They
will feed 5000 sheep paris Appeal.
The season of the year is at hand
when farmers are beginning to feed
the new corn. In is plentiful and
cheap and the tendency is to overfeed
and by so doing upset the pigs stom-
ach.
L. @. Anthony, a well.known feeder
and shipper Of Boone county, Mo-, top
ped the st. Louis cattle market We'd
nesday with IS steers Of 1878 lbs. aver
age, that sold to Nelson Morris & Co.,
at $3.50.
viii Patterson, a Hatton stockman
who deals In none but the best, sold
At. Lafon, Of Mexico, a sorrel Charles
Reade mare for $3.50, the other day.
She is 5 years old, pretty as a picture
and can travel.-Fulton Gazette.
Jack Muir is one OF the lucky traders
who had a load Of fat swine contract.
ed to Sam Craghead, of Audrain coun-
ty for last half Of September at 1920.
The deal was made at August stock
sales in Fulton. Fulton Gazette.
R. W. VIM, on the Freeman farm,
In AuxvasSe neighborhood, owns a
tw~o-year-old draft FLY that weighs
$40 pounds and has several blue
to her credit at recent fairs.
She won first in her class at Mexico,
and Auxvasse.-Fulton
Gazette.
G. l.. Dean, who moved from Gala
way TO Audrain some years ago, lives
lot far from Mexico, and sold % lambs
20 Charlie Powell, a shipper Of that
for 6 cents a pound, last week.
They were extra quality youngsters
md averaged 81 pounds. - Fulton
On the road leading from McBaine
o Huntsdale and on the Hunt estate
re three OF the largest trees in Boone
The trunk Of the largest is %
eet around the trunk, eighteen inch.
S from the ground. The others are
) feet in circumference.
D.. G. Atchison, Of Cross Ways farm
vest Of McCredie, started to market
nth a load of steers OF his own fatten-
ng, Monday, and before he got to
iexlco sold the bovines to Bailey &
-tkinson, Of Auxvasse, for O.. 90. They
veraged LAPS pounds and were some
e had kept out Of the big bunch OF
steers he had been feeding since ,
arly In the year, having shipped the
ulk OF the lot a couple OF months /
90. t.,
Exactly four hundred head OF two (
steers were brought on Grand ,
'rairie and Nine Mile Prairie, Gala Z
ay county by Harris brothers, OF
hampalgn, ILL.,, last week, and ship. /
from this city by the Wabash rail- !
ay to their feed lot In the Sucker !
ate. The cattle were all high.grade /,
wines averaging from 1000 pounds
l, 100 pounds in weight. The cattle
unded up and sent from here Satur-
y numbered 400 head.
John M Vivlon, who saw the stock {
Id on Tuesdays Chicago market re- a,
rts that A rnn NJ n O00 that dar =.