Mexico weekly ledger., 1910-11-17

Alfalfa hay is selling for Sl4 a toG
delivered IN Columbia. The five tons
cut on one acre during the season
amount TO $7e at the market price
This is as much as some bottom land
adapted to alfalfa growing can bt
purchased for to-day.
Washington, Nov. 10.
The Agricultural Departments pre-
ltminary estimate OF the crop of the
United States this year is S,121 $751;.
600 bushels. an ateTage per acre 81
ga bushels. These figures are $40
millions greater than the final estim-
ate Of last years crop. and 1874 mil
lion bushels greater than the largest
previous crop, that of 1895. Old corn
remaining in farmers hands Nov. /,
1910. amounted to 4.3 per cent Of the
crop, or 11s, O56, 900 bushels. com
pared with 3 per cent, or 79,779,0O0
bu. a year ago.
3. r. MIDDLETON
SHIPS MULES
B. R. Middleton, of Mexico,
shipped two carloads of mules this
week. Ben says that he finds a
home for all of them, and is particu-
larry proud Of a shipment OF horse
mules that he made to Guidon &
Company, Of ST. Louis. MIR. Middle.
ton also shipped a carload of mules {
Guidon & wise, OF Lathrop, Mo.
The prices Of these mules ranged
from $3.50 TO $175.
REX MCDONALD TRIBE WIN.
NERs IN KENTUCKY.
Lewis s. Ellis, OF Lexington. Ky.
Inventor of the Ellis crupper, and n
of the most prominent and widely
known horse men OF Kentucky. writes
TO parties IN this city that the Rex
Mcdonald tribe are ahead tn Kan
lucky with the blue ribbons.
Thirty years ago Mike" Bright,
well known in Mexico, then a 10
years-old Boone county, Missouri,
boy. owned a three.legged mule and
had an ambition TO own a horse fit to
follow the hounds in his native neigh
borhood, says Sundays Globe-Demo-
crat.
By the time he had traded the
t~hree-legged mule and had made sew.
eral successive trades, resulting in
the qualification of his ambition to
own a fine saddle horse, he concluded
that the live stock business was his
natural avoeation.
His felIow-members Of the st.
Louis Live Stock Exchange National
Live Stock Yards seem to appreciate
his ability in that direction, for yes.
terday they elected him president of
the exchange without opposition.
He is president of the Bright Liz
Stock Commission Company, which
does business in East st. Louis, Fit.
Worth, Tex, and Kansas City, and
for eight years has been on the d.
r~ectorate of the local exchange. Last
year he served as viee7president.
naia horses AGAIN carried OH
their share of the prizes at the
shows the last two weeks. Twillmona,
o"heu ny a T. "eoD, CooA second
piAe An lhe r1lapoue class and with
Gayoso, took third prize in the dou-
Bile driving class at the Dallas. Tex |
a. iaF last week,
At une ohiahoma Cty ialr fwllEmo-
NO LOOK second pnze IN the runaoout
' uhLu l tne r~oaoSer' ana third
the Asht @ctine ciass'
orandh McDonAio' owned oy j. NJ.
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