Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-09-16

ST LOUIS LIVE STOCK MARKET.
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and al early sales 70 butcher
ard sANs-s we're OF thar basis
Toas nsaehtag tNse - which ma.
pzie for one snail bunsh q chos
has Lsts II The DAY after SHY
p@u lad filed up packers boagh
t5eE hogs 10 TO L5e lover. and a
TIE cloS a good many hogs remain
e zasola ASIDE from . few ehose
hogs he quality wss very oudiazry
bulk SkIs % SS45. We sold son.
choice 1@s II. pigs az $500; out
look Eb0ut stssdy3ad We reeomnan.
SHIPPING an hogs that viii do u
cozA
Sheep rscsipts 45e0. Marke
sA6F. Top lambs E5s. The
are not as good ss the best yester
cay Top sheep Sass. It looks liz,
hgm suVphas and a strong market d,
hgh supplies and q strong marks
during tie remainder Of this week.
Natl Live Stock Com. Co.
Il Cnilcsx who lives twn mile
s91Ao q Benton City, says that they
are gl1ng 70 have Il least 4 three
t1Eth oou GRIP NJ. Childex i,
E1i1E 70 SOW thirty acres Of wheat and
VII Use s1Ds fertilizer.
When the Missouri River food
SWEPT 0Esr goha Sc5ulsnbars so-zcrs
WHEAT Fed 81 West Alton be did 10,
Ef down am cas- as some
cid he waited for the waters to,sub.
SIDE then hirsd = farce Of men tc
Pull the WDszs from the drifts At the
ieTsA
The wheat was thoroughly dried.
and then threSbed. Scbulenburg got
700 b1sbelA one-third Of which be
sold at Alton 81 = bushel, another
third ct s5 cents, and the balance to
81 Louis hreweries for malt at 90
cents. He lost about 5000 bushels In
sas food, but saved enough to net
him a fair return foF his work.
His neighbors told him 1t was fool
isb to try to save any Of the grain, as
the water had ruined II for all pur-
poses. Many farmers who let theirs
lie in the fence and leyee corners and
rot are now sorry they did not follow
Schulenbergs example.
The largest land sale v e consum.
mated in Marshal, NO.. was made Sat
urday, when Abiel Leonard, real
estate agent, sold to W. II. Lawless.
CT Saline, Mo-. the $40 acre Flemming
Marshall farm in Cooper County for
$4,000. The farm was owned by the
@. K. Smith-Jobe Investment Co. Of
this city.
About three months ago this invest
ment company bought the farm for
$4,000. The Smith-Jobe ment
Company bought a 40O-acre tract south
Of Marshal Saturday paying 500 per
acre.
Lutte Digg, Of Audrain county, Mo-,
sold 25 heifers in st. Louis OF 1914 lbs.
average at $40.
FenneTald Bros. prominent farmers
and stock raisers Of Audrain county,
NO. marketed Of their own raising e5
bead Of hogs in st. Louis that averag-
ed 2ea lbs. and brought $3.50 which
was but Sc less than the top Of the
market and equal to the best price
paid previously any day this year.
Another record in prices for full
load lots OF yearlings was smashed
here to-day when a string Of 20 white
face steers fed by T. N. Potts, of
Boone county, Mo, sold at 1925. The
cattle weighed 933 pounds-Live
Stock Reporter.
An Illinois farmer in Mexico this
week states bis corn crop, neal Pitts
field, will average rs bu. to the acre.
Everybody is sowing wheat.
The Centralia Fair opened Tuesday
for Its annual four days meet. The
attendance is good and every indica-
ton points to its former success being
repeated. Tuesday, Minnie King. the
great show animal Of B. &. Middle
ton, wOn the model horse class with a
Hook & Woods entry second. @. d.
Maekey, Of this county won the ring
for the best mare with colt at side
and W r. Wisdom, Of this county,
won third.
Tom Chopper bought 10 yeArling
heifers from Henry Cant recently.
Clarence Brown, OF this city who
prides himself on bis fine Plymoth
rock chickens, found an egg In bis
hen house recently with a shell inside
Of the outside shell.
Charles @. Bellows was peddling
school books In Virginia twenty years
ago. Now he has a farm Of 200 acres
two miles from Maryville and a s1O,-
900 house lighted with electricity
from the town, The feed mills on
his farm are operated with electric
power from the same source. He made
his money farming and stock raising
He is one Of the largest breeders Of
short horn cattle In the United States
John 5. Dryden, commissioner OF ag-
riculture for Canada, comes here
every once in a while to buy cattle
from Bellows. He has sold cattle to
Europe and South America. In his
farm home he has a large room, one
side Of which is completely covered
with prize ribbons which we're award.
ed bis cattle in every part Of this
country. Last year be and bis family
spent four months In Europe. This
summer they are on the Pacific coast
He is one Of the principal stock
holders in the Maryvllle National
Bank and the Gillian, Bellows g.
Pierce Loan Company.
Farmers from Colorado, Missouri,
and Kansas, In Oklahoma
Jity last week witnessed the demon
tration OF a new process In making
meal. The machine was taken