Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-12-13
STOCK AND A R NOTES.

Lee Bros. bought IA head OF good
horses at Paris Saturday.
Lee Bros. sold a fine horse wednes
day 10 c. H.. Cameron, Of Baton
Rouge, La.
Mutton sheep gives the best returns
II fed for that purpose while they ar,
young.
Sheep should never have more grair
given them at a time than they will
eat up clean in a few minutes.
The sheep business will be on the
safest basis when the fleece and car
cass are both we'll developed and
valuable.
w. L. Green, Of CentralIa, purchas.
ed a pair Of mules in Mexico Of Ber
Middleton last OF the past week at q
fancy price.
Starr Brothers, Of Centralia, have
bought 1901 head OF Western sheer
for parties in Missouri and shipped
them TO this State.
Capt W. d. Green sold two nice
racing-bred colts Wednesday to the
Schopp Bros. for a fancy price One
was an Electioneer weanling and the
other an Allerton yearnng.
Thos. ]. Powell, OF Peytouia neigh
borhood, Montgomery County, losta
mule, worth about SIS, recently. Its
head was caught in a sheep rack In
the barn and it was choked to death.
S. r. Craighead recently bought a
load OF fancy e50-pound, t~wo-year-old,
white-face steers of W. +. Robinson,
of Hallsville, Boone County, all thor
oughbreds, at $3.50 per hundred
weight.
Charles Anderson and Colonel Clay,
Of this county, sent a couple of cars OF
select fed steers Tn the Chicago inter-
national this week and will compete
for the car lot prize in the fat cattle
classes.
Big Ike, ]. L. Sappington's fine jack,
broke his leg at the paddocks near
Centralia last week and had to be kill
ed. Big Ike was IA years old and the
sire OF more fine mules than any other
jack Ia the county.
John W. Winter, near P~eytonia,
Montgomery County, recently sold
500 bushels OF corn to Emmett Sailor
for 50 cents per busbel, delivered, and
200 bushels to Thomas J. Powell for
IS cents per bushel.
Less than . year ago Ralph Baldwin,
OF near Ro5heport, Boone County,
bought three sows which cost him go.
he sold their first filters Of pigs for
$50, and has three more lusty filters
large enough to crack corn.
About $1,000 Western sheep have
been shipped TO Centralia and Tbomp-
son by Starr Brothers and CANT &
Considine this fall and most OF the
stock is eating corn In those two sec
lions Of this and Boone counties.
]. N. Brown, Of CentraIia, through
his agent, D. N. Jennings, bought the
old JEFF Roberts farm, east Of there OF
". L. Beckley for q. 500. Mr.. Jen-
nings also sold the W. @. Hayes farm
to an Iowa party for els, 500 last week.
Nineteen black snakes we're killed
% the farm Of J. J. c~rosswhIte, near
Hinton, n day last week. The dogs
had tracked a mink TO an old log and
when the log was raised the snakes
found They measured from 4
10 8 feet in length.
Joseph Maddox. east Of McCredie,
delivered 20 head Of ll29-pound steers
It that point Monday that be had sold
previously 10 Samuel Craghead, Of this
for $500 per hundred pounds.
they hao been fulfilled corn 100 days
md were shipped to Chicago.
Allie Kimbell, on the Tucker farm,
Galway County, brought the hide
Il . fox 10 Fulton "Wednesday that
measured 4 feet, 2 inches, from nose
the tip Of tail. A bird dog set the
iy reynard In q stack bottom and Mr..
zimbell gave him 4 dose Of bird shot
hat settled the varmint's fate.