Mexico weekly ledger., 1907-04-25
news OF
GENERAL INTEREST

Prof. M. +. Miller, Of the State Az
r%icultural College at Columbia, ha.
arranged with Messrs. E. e. Cline and
William Underwood, who own the Ii.
vim Maddox farm, east Of McCredie
Galloway county, to conduct a series
Of experiments there, testing the
soil as regards the growing OF alfalfa,
thirteen varieties OF seed corn and
eight varieties of wheat. 1t is pro.
posed to select eight plots OF ground,
each 60 by l45 feet in size. The first
season each plot will be given proper
preparation. For instance, plot one
will be sowE with legume, mainly
cowpeas, and the green crop turned
under; plot two will be legume crop,
with bone meal added and crop turn.
ed under; plot three will be legume
with bone meal and lime added and
crop turned under; plot four, legume
with bone meal, lime and potash and
crop turned under; plot five, no treat
ment; plot six, manure; plot seven,
manure and rock phosphate; plot
eight, manure, rock phosphate and
legumo TURNED under. The eight
plots will be gwen a fouryear rotation
after the treatment period, beginning
With wheat sown next fall.
n. H. Gentry, Of Sedalia, well.
known to Audrain Lstockmen, sold a
Berkshire boar to Ian Oregon breeder
for $500 spotIcash, last week.
f. O. Holland, an Auxvasse horse
who consigned stock to the
McFarlane Commission Company's
st. Louis sale, recently sold a FIVE
year-old Star Moke filley at the offer
ing for $500, a st. Louisian named
Brown being the purchaser. Mr.. Hol-
land bought the mare OF DIR. J. b.
Of Hatton, who owned is dam,
Brocky Forest mare, noted for her
fine breeding qualities. Galloway
bred horses sold for higher prices than
anything else catalogued at the Nc
Farlane sale, and the King dom is GER
showing the world that her
tame as stock center is not entirely
y confined to the Galloway mule. =
Fulton Gazette
Wesley Muir, A miles northwest Of
Fulton, who sold forty mules to the
Crouch Mule Company, Of
St. Louis, for 1926, about two months
sgo, disposed of twenty head Of big
mules to John M. and W. S. Vivion,
asst week, for s240 apiece Saturday,
ind they are in the Vivion feed lots
IN Grand Prairie, along with another
DAD of top-notchers.
Dunn brothers, west Of McCredie, a
,race of the most successful mule
ieeders OF the Kingdom, shipped
iwenty big mules to st. Louis, last
Saturday, they had sold to the Gillen-
lehman Mule Company, Of that city,
II $3.50 for all but one Of the lot, and
t went at 5000. Harry Gillen,of the
purchasing firm, was in. Galloway and
them after a personal inspec-
ion of the stock in the feed lots at
Dunn brothers farm.
About q month ago Dunn brothers
old a load Of big mules at 1926
round, and earlier In the winter
they sold other lots Of mules Of their
'wn feeding at prices that were
mong the best realized in thescounty
the feeding season.-Fulton
saZette.
In a fight at q saloon In Ardmore
Macon county, last night, Finis Pet
rson, rs years old, fired a pistol five
lines at W. II. Yearky,a young black
mith, of Kaseyville, and a although
he weapon was almost. touchinglYe aI
", four Of the bullets went through
ide of his overcoat and the other
through his hand.
Yearly then pulled his pistol and
hot Peterson dead.
Yearly was taken to Macon Sunday
Ifternoon bySheriff Graves. He said
lie was not molesting Peterson, and
lid not know why his assailant shot
It him.
One of the bullets from Peterson'G
evolver struck and probably fatally
a man named Noble.
The Coroner's jury tonight exoner-
ted Yearly.
The Missouri river is the hungriest
liver ever created. 1t is eating all
he time-eating yellow clay banks
md cornfields; eighty acres at ia
winding up its banquet
With a truck garden and picking its
,eeth with the timbers of a big red
,arn. Its yearly menu is 10000 acres
# good, rich farming land, several
niles of railroad, a few hundred houses
forest or two and uncounted miles