Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-02-11
STOCK NOTES.

D. r. Middleton bought two mules
Of Carl Wise. for $3.50, at February
stock sales, in Fulton. and one of II.
C. Paisley FOR $3.50.
3. r. Middleton. Of Mexico, has r E.
Gently SOLD to Charles Pruden. of
Pine Bluff, A TX two high class
saddle geldlngs.
Cant & Considlne sold a pair Of
age mules last week to a Tennessee
buyer at $3.50, and Joe Considine sold
the same party four mules at $500
each.
James H.. Starr & Son. well known
sheepmen OF Audrain county, Mo-.
marketed of their own feeding sls
head Of Western yearllngs that av.
eraged rs lbs. and sold at $3.50 in St.
Louis last week.
n. r. Buckner, of near Auxvasss.
was here between trains Monday and
bought four mules of sisera ThreL
keld for $40 apiece. He left on the
noon train for Audrain county where
he was to look at a bunch of mules
with a view to purchasing them.-Ful
ton Gazette.
Tom Haskell, Of this city, is home
from Oklahoma VIII ere he bought a
100 acre farm, two and one half miles
from culbertson. He will move
there with his wife this week to
reside. Mr.. and Mrs. Haskelrs many
friends will regret to see them leave.
Mexico.
Price Bros, living seven miles s.
w, Of Mexico, bought a fine regis
tered jack in Adair county last week,
paying $1,275 for it. They also bough
four of his colts to show with him,
paying ss75 for the q~uartette. The
Price boys, who are well known farm
ers and stockmen, believe in raising
good stock.
Lee brothers, Mexico horse dealers,
who are regular business visitors TO
Fulton, on stock sales day, bought
twelve horses and a mule here Mon
day. They got a horse of B. B. Muir,
one of Gland Dunlap, two of Frank
Dodd, one of w. C. Christopher, mule
of G. E. Wilson, horse of ]. NJ. Nc
Call, n of W. f. Loehr, one of
R. L. Brown, n of Walter Hoover,
one of Ode Jordan, one of L. H. Cling
rich.-Fulton Gazette.
Haden Duncan, south of Millers-
burg, sold a span Of black draft
mares to B. R. Middleton, of Mexico,
Monday at stock sales for 1925, and
T. J. ong, on the Hamilton farm, Just
northeast of Fulton, bought them late
in the day for $4OO. They are Perch.
erons, bred by a Boone county man
named Estes and make a good com
bined work and brood team.-Fulton
Gazette.
A story comes from Moberly of al
whole a load of cattle freezing
On the railroad tracks Friday night.
The a was sidetraeked and re-
NAMED on the track all night, ex.
the animals to the terrible
blizzard that ragged at that time. Prac.
all Of the cattle were dead by
Saturday morning. Those that were
lot had to be killed.
John w. Rutter tells us that he
made a test of three kinds Of corn
the Hit farm last year. The
est was made on new ground broke
nut Of n ew sod, all planted within
wo days, 10 replant. and all had
'qual cultivation, He had In 25 Al
4 Yellow Dent, 25 A. of Yellow Early
lose, and 10 acres of Red Cob White.
sold the corn over the scales and
ellis us that the two yellow ears |
'eighed out a fraction over 35 bush I
Is to the acre. while the white va /
lefty beat so bushels to the acre. MIR. t
utter figures that he lost $500 by l
OF planting the entire so acres in
ed Cob White. He further says
nat the test was a fair one In every a
Iay and that the yellow corn had an l
lual chance with the white. The /
ourier would like to hear from the t
nllnxV anrn man - na.Xv-aEu n-.Iz