Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-12-30

shape 10 stand liberal receipts. Out
look not extra good for the near
future, and we recommend making
cattle fat before shipping.
Hog receipts $500. Quality only
fair. Top hogs better than yester-
days best. General market Joe high
err; top 1878; bulk ss.4O to $500.
Outlook steady on good hogs.
Sheep receipts 1900. Market
strong; top lambs $40; top year.
lIngs s7.25: top sheep $3.50. We
expect only moderate receipts this
week and a satisfactory market.
Natl Live Stock Com. Co.
J. r. gin, of near wellsville. re-
Gently marketed 1896 turkeys,
]. NJ. McQuitty sold so turkeys in
Rocheport Thursday. which Melted
him $500.
Jas. Chapman, of Skinner, has a.
number Of fine mules on hand.
H. z. Berrey bought 500 bu. of.
corn from W. t. Whitley recently.
Quail are dying In Northern Mis-
souri, because OF the snow.
Mrs. Fannie Crawford, near Mo-
Editor of the Ledger:
Mrs. Fannie Crawford, near Mo-
limo, sold IS turkeys in Mexico that
Melted se7.14 last Friday. There wer
ten COOLERS and eight hens and their
aggregate weight was 1913 pounds.
Lehnen & Gilliland, of WeTsviIle,
are said to have $4,000 worth OF
mules in their barn there.
Lime and sulphur is being used
by many farmers TO ave young or
chards from rabbis. t
1t is reported beef viii go 90
cents higher IL the drain on market
able stuff continues until Spring.
r. l.. Barnes, of this county, and
living near Sturgeon, raised 1000
pounds Of fine tobacco this year.
An Auxvasse merchant recently
paid $3.50 for poultry.
Tho Fulton Sun says more bad
eggs are being marketed in that
city now than In July.
T. T. J. Parker, 10 miles south
west Of V~andalia, was in town Mon
day, bringing in five hogs, which
he sold to Inflow & Ragland. They
weighed 1880 pounds and brought
$3.50. Mr.. Parker also sold Ia head
Of stock hogs to Jas. Llewellyn, OF
Laddonia, last week Vandalia
Leader.
Price Turpin, Of vandalia, sold
Geo. Adams, of that city, a pair of
good mules for $400.
Charlie Poage, near Santa Fe, has
a load of cattle ready for market.
G. A. Martin, Of Centralia town
ship, sold his SO-aore farm to G. H.
Early, of Centralia, a few days ago
Early, of Centralia, a few days
ago, for $50 per acre taking in on
the trade four town lots for 5000.
For the first time in the history
Of the world, the United States hat
to import wheat the past year. Sta
ticians tell US that while the croI
of wheat has doubled in the past de
cade, the number of wheat-bread eat
ers have increased four fold, anC
that the day of cheap wheat has
passed forever. In fact, there is tt
be no more cheap bread stuff, either
corn or wheat.
L. D. Bond has all of his 70 A
of corn in. 1t averaged, this year
pretty good. He states they are pay
ing 60 cents a bu. out Moline way
His son, Lester, killed a coon nea.
town last Thursday, as he was driv
ing in with his father. He knock
ed the animal from a tree.
j. H. Scott says he had the larg
est yield of corn in Linn township
He recently sold Dan Lewis, of Wells
vile, 5 bu. Of this corn for seet
purposes at $3.50. He is going Il
give w. D. Mason 2 bu. Of it Il
try. He says it is the best pro
Queer in the county,
Lee Bros. shipped a car load o
auction horses to st. Louis Monda,
night.
Charles Householder, of Audrair
county. Me-. marketed of his owl
feeding lis head Of western year
ling sheep in that averaged "a lbs
and brought SIZE. .
A fye-in-one COW, one that pro
duces as much as five average dairy
COWS, is owned at the Missouri Agri
cultural College experiment farm a
Columbia. Mo. Her Ladyship /
named Princess salatina Carlotta,
in which regard she also has th'
edge on plebean COWS.
Carlotta's official yearly test wal
completed recently and shows tina
by actual recorded weights she pro
dnced 1s.405 pounds, or nine ant
one-fifth tons of milk containing tbs
butter fat to make 727 pounds of but
ter. AT market prices at the time
Of production the princess milk ana
butter would have brought in $500
Her food cost not over 500.
Carlotta has a fine appetite ant
eats two-thirds as much more thai
any average COW. Other COWS on thu
State Farm have touched C~arlotta'
record for butter production, but sh'
Is the record COW on all round but
ter and milk production for So
rgistreeed days.
VIM. Norman, OF the Santa Fe neig
borhood, is feeding 3 a loads Q
cattle and ! car OF hogs which ar