Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-08-12
STOCK NOTES.

SA0AN F0tESs
Quite . number Of farmers repoFi
yield Of cats close TO 80 bushels.
B. p. Mayes has a fine crop Of
oats this year, but stopped selling
when the price got down to 39c.
ii prices go any lower, the farmers
are going to hold their grain for a
better market.
Somehow wheat never sells for
$3.50 until after it leaves the
farmers hands.
White oats seem to be the fayorite.
The yield is a little larger and the
price little better.
The farmers of Audrain are ar.
ranging TO plant a larger acreage Of
wheat than was ever sown in the his
tory Of the county.
James Dowell, near Benton City.
threshed his wheat last week, that
averaged him a little more than 20
bushels to the acre. Mr.. Dowell had
in 50 acres. He received 80 cents
per bushel for all that he sold.
Wallace Bybee, near Santa Fe, is
buying January and February calves.
Jack Sterrett sold him / for s25, II.
T. Painter, 1 for $50: John Bledsoe.
at s22.50; Mace Talley, for $22.50;
Del Carter, 4; Frank Harlow, /; Roy
Purvis /, at $50 each.
Major & Cherry. south of Paris,
are grazing 500 head of 1000-lb.
steers, rs cows. 1000 Angora goats
and 1s5 hcgs. They have 600 acres of
very fine grass. Last week they ship.
ped is calves. weeks to months
old, to market and sold them for an
average Of s12.
C. w. Pease has sold to Lee Greg
ory IA acres off of the southwest por-
ton of his farm, southwest of this
city. We understand that Mfr. Greg
ory gave s162.5O per acre for the
ground. Mr.. Pease hen purchased
100 acres from Judge Crum, por-
tion of the Abe Jackson place. pay
ing s65 per acre for the land.
The following is from the Fulton
Gazette: Lee Bros, of Mexico, who
are regular Fulton stock sale visit
ors, bought few horses Monday,
getting one from Claude Dunlap, four
from B. B. Muir, one from James Al
len, and one from J. B. PAIRING, of
Boone county. Prices paid we're from
S75 to 5000.
Koontz & Kendrick. of Audrain
county, Mo-, contributed load of
hogs for the st. Louis market Sat
urday
win Pryor, residing southwest of
town, says the crops never looked
better. He threshed recently, getting
35 bu. of oats an acre. He had 40
acres in.
James NJ. Rhodes, of Frankfort,
Kan, had a fifty-five acre field Of
pats which yielded $3.50 bushels Of
excellent grain. This amount brings
The yie'' up close to sixty bushels
% the acre.
An apIe crop in the United States
slightly In excess of that a year
ago and 80 per cent larger in Can
lda is the estimate made by Secre-
ary RothwelI before the Information
Il Shippers Association at Buffalo.
Y. Y. che quality of the crop is
'ated po0r to good.
Geo. N. Johnson sold mare mule |
olt to Judge Alex Carter for 500.
J. Hord Davis, of northeast OF
dexico had an oats crop that ayerag-
d so bushels to the acre.
W. A. Pollard, of Sailing township,
as an oats crop that made 35 bush
Is to the acre.
Horace Mundy, living northwest of
iexieo, had rs acres of wheat that
reduced 27 bushels to the acre. 1t
rought 95 cents.
Henry Stuart, of near Rush Hill,
ad ITS acres Of oats that yielded
's52 bushels, and sold at 81 to 40
snts bushel.
G. NJ. Fox, north Of Mexico, sold
air of mules Tuesday to Edwards
Atterbury. of National Stock Yards.
l., for $525.
Price Bros, southwest of Mexico,
Nd several cotton mules to How
ID Muir, Of McCredie. for $3.50
Ich.
w. N. Maxwell, of Thompson, re.
'rts oats and wheat to average 90
rs bushels TO the acre In his
'lghborhood. G
Judge Baker Barnes. Of north of |