Mexico weekly ledger., 1910-04-14

49,
hogs $t0.15 to 5000; good pigs
$1,000 to 5000. Outlook weak for
balance of this week.
Sheep receipts 24OO. Market strong
TO 1Oc higher. Top clipped lambs
sg.55; top-clipped wethers $50; year
ling wethers $3.50 to 1915; ewes
$3.50 to $500. Outlook fair.
Natl Live Stock Com. Co.
Audrain county, Mo-, was represent
ed on the St.Louis market this
week by e. L. Shobe, a well known
feeder. He said that the wheat out
look was poor and that farmers were
only counting on getting a third of
a crop. He reports that everything
else is fine and that the farmers are
way ahead with their work for this
time of year. There will be a large
acreage of oats and they are looking
mighty fine, too. He says there is
lots of corn in the farmers hands,
but no stock to feed 1t to Of almost
everything is cleaned out. Corn
sells for so cents. Mr.. Shobe says
he does not believe hogs wall reach
$12.
Mrs. Jas. Goodly OF Fulton, sold
a coming 5-year-old saddle horse
to James Ford Monday for $155.
Charles Hoffman, northwest OF
Auxvasse, sold Is head of yearlng
heifers to Crockett Harrison, south
of Mexico, Monday at $50 a head.
C. T. Board, near Bachelor, bought
a five years old horse from James
Ford Monday, paying $155 for the
animal.
j. w. Trimble shipped a load Of
hogs out of Perry to st. Louis Mon
day noon bought from the following
parties. ]. w. Holman 10, Pittmar
Bros, 2; John Cowherd 3; N. H
Fry, 2; Sam Hoar g.; G. c. Rags
dale "a; Creigh Bros, 81; Waltei
Kerr 2; Lambert Little 4.
]. b. Wilson, Of the Moline neigh
borhood was on the Kansas Cit!
market last week and bought s
head Of good S5O-1b. feeding stee
cattle.
Ong G. Harding, northeast of Flu
tou, on Monday, says the Fulto
Gazette, bought a splendid younI
4year-old jack from B. R. Middleto
of Mexico for $1,000. The animal wa
raised by Mr.. Middleton. He was el
hibited at stock sales Monday an
had many admirers. He will b
kept at the farm of Mr.. Harding thi
:. season.
Charles Beaver, son Of Judge S. I
, Beaver, of Fulton, sold a five-yeal
old horse Monday to Lewis & For
! for $145.
w. R. Read, of near Thompson
has is acres in oats that loo.
fine.
r. Hildebrand had q mixed load @
cattle and hogs on the st. Louis ma
ket last week.
H. I. Squirting, of near ThomT
son, sold 155 hogs, this week, a
$10.15 per hundred.
Mrs. r. P. Moore lost a fine mar
colt recently valued at 1925.
: Chas. Bledsoe recently had one Q
: his finest brood mares to die.
The following sales were col
sumated by Mexico buyers at Je
ferson City at the Houchin Sal
this week; Willie p, consigned b
Lee Carpenter, of Sedalia, to Geo
Lee, of Mexico, for 1926; Queen Q
the Denmarks, consigned by ]. S
Harrison and Sons to D. Moore, G
Mexico for $500.
VIM. Lee, buyer for Lee Bros, c
+, Mexico, made his regular visit t
, Fulton stock sales, Monday, an
while here purchased ten head G
horses and mules, getting a hors
from s.. E. Ashlock, at 800; hors
from Dam Johnson, SIPS; horse fror
| Peter ~Blankenship, $50; horse fror
III. L. Blackburn, $112.5O; horse fror
: Carl Harrison, $40; horse from Df
l vid Price, $175; horse from Claud
orear, $S5; mule from c. H. Hell
ring. Sis, and a pair of mules fror
A. S. Pauley, at 1915.
]. q. Simcoe, four miles north {
Fulton, sold a horse to G. II. Dear
south Of Mexico, says the Fulton CT
zette, at stock sales, Monday, 70
$3.50, and before the day was ovel
MIR. Dean sold the animal to job
Boyd, south of Auxvasse, for $3.50.
r. B. Kerr and G.. A. Wilson rt
r Gently purchased 112 head of stoc
cattle. Mr.. Kerr has 80 hea
which he will feed and Craze and MI
r Wilson has the remaining so heat
2 They paid from SIS to 5 IA cents.
S, G. and ]. A. Groves, Of thi
city, have bought from w. J. Finle
I of Higginsville, the great jack, d
Wood, 1881 for $500. This is prol
ably the highest price ever pal
for a jack in this section. DR.. Woo
is registe ed in shs bn erlcan ~
Register and sired by DR.. McCor
1866 he by Gov. Wood SO, he b
Woods Tip Top, he by Peters Hlac
Hawk, he by Mason's Black Hawl
The dam Of DR.. Wood was Miss Mud
by Smiths Black Grow, he by Glat
stone. This great jack was bred b
Gibbs & Son, of Kentucky, and is
half brother to DR.. Grit, the III
broke three-year-old Jack that sol
at the recent Finley sale for s1,6O'
DR.. Wood is a six years old and ha
been considered one Of the best jacl
in Kentucky. He was recently pu'
chased in that state by Mr.. Finle!
Groves Bros. have 8 other goo
jacks.
Major Lawrence o'Toole bought
spanking good mare Of Charlie Dea
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