Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-09-16
.AUDRAIN CORN CROP
PROMISES WELL EVEN
AFTER BAD DROUTH
OUTPUT WILL BE FROM 40 TO
70 sU. AN ACRE JUDGING FROM
REPORTS COMING TO THIS
CITY - EARLY CORN IS
GOOD.
What Makes a Big increase and
General Summary is inter
estlne In Its Evidence Of Farm
Weaith-Audraln Holding Own

doubtedly damaged 10 certain uo
gree by the protracted drouth yet
what might have been a phenomi-
nal season promises to harvest
well in Audrain County. Reports
from various sections of the coun-
ty are to the effect the output will
be from 40 to so bu. an acre, and
in some places even 20 bu. are
promised. The early corn suf-
fered little from the lack of rain
and the late corn was benefited
slightly by the recent drouth-
breaking shower, though it was not
general throughout the county, be-
ing principally west Of Mexico.
e. F. Barnes, of near Clark, has
cut little corn this year and says
his crop will average so bu. to the
acre. A general opinion is the crop
will even be larger regardless of
the drouth, because the acreage was
greater than 1t has been for sew
eral years. The farmers had plant
ed more corn than usual and had
conditions been favorable the har-
vest would have been beyond the
greatest records OF this section.
John Burgess, on the Robinson
farm, north Of this city, says this
rain helped his late corn and he has
200 acres in that should average 20
bu. He hasn't cut any corn and ther
hasn't been any cut in his neighbor-
hood.
A. ]. Bartee, one of the well
known Audraln countlans near Clark
says the crop in his section were
badly demorallzed by the drouth.
The corn especially suffered, but nev
ertheless the harvest promises to be
good
r. l.. and James Barnes, two OF
the best farmers in Sailing town
ship are cutting corn. The corn
crop promises to average between 40
and so bu. an acre in their section.
The drouth has been general in
Missouri. In the Central section corn
cutting has begun and most of the
farmers have quit plowing for wheat
because Of the drouth. They cannot
work the ground that is plowed.
Stock water has been very scarce
and the pastures are short while
many have commenced to feed
the new crop.
The present condition of corn for
the entire State, so the State crop
report Just issued states, is 66
per cent, as compared with SS per
cent last month, with " per
cent in September of last
year, or 1876 per cent for
the ten year average for September
but there will be no corn famine
in Missouri this year In 1901 the
drouth year, the September report
showed the condition Of corn to be
only 81 per cent, which makes the
present report look good by COM
parison, especially when it is re-
membered that this years corn crop
figures around 100000 acres.
The average estimated yield OF
wheat for the entire State, the re-
port continues, Is 15.2 bu. per acre,
as compared with 1917 bu. last
year. Last year. with the total
yield of 2O,684, ,S19 bu., it will be
seen that the Missouri wheat crop,
LIS considerably above the average.
The probable acreage of land seeded
to wheat this fall bids fair to be con
Isiderably less than last year, ow-
ing to the fact that plowing has been
stopped In many places and
when the ground has been
plowed 1t is difficult to put it In
condition owing to extreme dry weath
er prevailing.
The estimated average yield OF
oats for the entire State is 26.6 bu.
per acre, as compared with 16 bu.
last year, when the yield for the en-
tire State was 11,901,44O bu. Mis-
souri, has seldom made a better oat
crop than the one of the past sea
son.
Corn will be very good in my
locality" said o. d. Lease, Of Au-
drain county, Mo-. in the Live
Stock Reporter, while on the mar
ket with shipment of cattle.
"The Land in my section Is rolling
and farmers got their crops in early
in most cases so 1t was about all
past the point where drouth would
materially hurt it. Over on the Van
dalia prairie, about II miles from
where live, corn is badly dam
Iaged. The country around Wanda
liza, is fairly level and the wei
Iweather last spring prevented the
Farmers getting their crops in az
early as we did in my section.
was over in Illinois for week ant
when l returned the fields of corr
on the prairie were burnt so thai
one would not have thought 1t wal
the same corn. When left, thu
stalks and leaves were green AM
healthy but never saw corn fir
any quicker than II did.
There seems to be very good SUI
Iply of unfinished hogs in the coun
TRY which will begin to com
to the market as soon as the neV
' lcrop is gathered, but think fewe
r cattle will be fed this year tina
e there was last. Many Of the feed
: ers claimed they lost money o
r their long-fed stuff last winter an
3 will be more conservative in fatter
ing cattle this coming season, ei
4 Ipecially If corn is anywhere nea
: the price 1t was last winter.
sheep are handled correctly, there
an opportunity for a farmer to max
money on them. Sheep do not n
!. lquire so much grain as other stoc
J. and can be fattened cheaper in prt
+ portion 10 the price they bring o
d the market than either cattle {
d hogs. The only objection to raj
r ing sheep is that they require
g great deal of pasture when they al
|. raised very extensively and if NJ