Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-12-02

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ST. LOUIS LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Special Rpor-
Nauoaal stock Yards. IL, Nov.
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Market steady 70 stroas- Best
stees here sss0. onethEng strct
y CHOKE Wouh hare sold higher.
Prcas for COWS and steers now look
q Htue higher than q week ago
Ha8sns rs 70 &c oEer. sun FsL
usi for al kids are nuny IN Ens
giih Chacago We are nN get
: ting enough good cattle 70 satisfy
demands. Oz-1ook strozg.
Hog receipts I5Sss. Qu&Asy only
fair. Demands good. Best on
sale HE: bzK <Sss to 1875
STRICTLY choke heavy hogs v0zh
have sold vey close I $S5e. Pro
vision zFpEes Ksht. and EhEe the
optnioa ptevaSs that ne VII zee q
hover hog market n the zext tral
% three week. We DO not think
receipts viii be heavy enoagh under
p-esent dsnAzds 20 ez1se any ssri
Gus break. yet this looks HkA 81
good tine to ship fat hogk
Sheep receipts 5se. Market steady
steady To s-rOzE- Top lamhs f7.ss;
bop yearhaes ssse; top vethsrs.
t5z5; top sEs ss.es. wouA not
be surprised TO see hzvEer s1pHes
pNs anda lower market next week
Natl Live Stock Goa Co
Lots Of wheat "a planted In the
Bean Creek Deighborhood tAis
year. Morris Babazks says Lou
Is Hubert and William H~es;erb1rg
have extra large crozx IN and II is
in excsilent shape
Joseph ConsiGue, a vel known
sheepnan Of Audrssn county, No,
had in ST DOuss Of his OWL feed
ing a load q western yeAgAng sheep.
Zs3 bead that averaged IS rs. and
and br01ght $3.50 this week
Neal Sheshan has bought from
Prank Mcclure: 40 acres Of timber
land, 7 miles southea1 OF Mex
ico. paying $1,000 for g.
James Quinlan sold Tom Stewart
% head q extra good heller calves
last week The cattle are said
TO be handles.
Only about seventy+ave Eggs o
the great aux are nos IN existence.
One Of them was sold fn London the
other day for N.575 the highest
price ever known 70 have been paid
for an egg Of any kind. II Mis-
SOAR hen eggs advance in value
proporsonakesy with Audrain farm
land, the great auk may not be the
only producer Of golden eggs"
G. p. Mayor marketed 60 St
Louis d bis own feeding from this
county. lz4 head Of western
yearisngs al ssJe9. They aET-
aged 81 us. this weak.
Two Galway county farms sold
Tor 800 an acre laEt week.
Six hundred and etghtyeighi fat
coiAon mules have been sold within
the last week by Galway feeders TO
outside buyers a. a total price q
Sl31 $50. The price per head has
ranged from $1e5 20 s215, and the
sales have amounted TO about one
third Of the entire number on feed
in The county.
Sixty head Of Percheron horses
Sold al the Whitewater Falls stock
farm, in Eldorado, Kan, for $4,000.
the top mare for $3.50. The aver
age was s1647.
Horace Mundy bought 600 bu. Of
corn for soc a blu. from Henry nei-
derschutte last week. He also
bought 200 blu. al the same price
from Ed. O'Brien.
kansas has had some bad chol-
era versa" said a PROMINENT farmer
there, but none of them has been
30 deadly as the last two. Last
year | lost 1877 hogs from my herd
while over the entire state the loss
must have totaled 2 million dollars
at Ghe least estimate" /,
Eph Beebe has sold George Fer
ris his so acre tract of land south
east Of town. He will leave about
December LIST, for Boswell, Okla, to
make his home there.-Laddonia Her
aid.
G. e. Casper, Of Rush HEl, No,
a representative cattle feed
CT Of Audrain county, who rs an old
trader in these yards. was here this
week looking the cattle situation
over Kansas City Drovers' Jour
nal.
b. X. Middleton rs feeding 3s
head Of 3-year-o Old cotton mules
On his farm.
A Wisconsin dairy authority says
that a dairy farm Of $50 acres in
that state win yield a clear profit Of
as high as $4,000 yearly. Such land
in Wisconsin costs SIS to $50 an
acre. Just as good land in Mis-
souri, can be bought for S25 to $50
an acre and Missouri has a milder
climate with its accompanying ad-
vantages for dairy farming.
The fine jack Alb Howell, of near
PARIS, sold to Pike county stockmen
last spring for s11OO was sold last
week for $500 after making a
profitable season.
Tom Bass sod his saddle tai
lion, Mack Donald, to E. C. Lasa-
ter, Of Falfurreas, Tex. He will
place this great stallion on his
Texas ranch. Mr.. Lasater alo pur-
chased the fine fiEley, Mabel Lee.