Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-01-13
Mr.. WEIDLER'S HAY.
|. R. LARKIN'S LOSS
E. WILBURN, BUS" BUCK
NER AND J. @. DIGGs,
SHIPPERS.
Alb Harrison's Cattle-Jimmie Ec.
tons Dicision-Mexico Dealer
Feeding Three Cars of
Young Chickens.


E. j. Shobe of Laddonia ha,
four loads of cattle on the mdrke
last week which he sold at $685. +,
$6.1O.
Chris Marburg and E. Wilbur
had six loads Of butcher cattle Oh
the market last week which SOLD
at an average of near $4.75.
Allen Sydensticker sold S. p
Carter "a hogs of 200 pound
weight at 1925.
j. McMurtry had 81 butcher
heifers on the st. Louis market
last week, TAO pound weight, at
$3.50.
The Perry Enterprise says: H.
L. Painter, near Santa Fe, sold
a pair Of mules to John DowelI
last week for $40. Dowell sold
them the same day to a party near
Mexico for $40 and this party
sold them the next day to a Mex
leo buyer for $500.
Live hogs at the stock yards in
Columbus, Ohio, last Friday sold
at $9.1O. That's soaring some.
A. B. Weidler sold 800 worth
OF hay in Mexico last week. He sold
about 60 tons Of hay raised last
season on 30 acres of ground. He
has been getting $40 and $12 per
ton.
Hugh and Lindell Rudasill west
of MolinO, are feeding a car of
cattle and car of hogs for the
Fulton, Mo-, Jan. 9.-Sales of
mules made within the last few
days run the total number sold bv
Galloway County feeders to out
side buyers this season up to IT,
238 and the total price to $231,-
883.5O. In addition to the sales at
home, several carload lots have
been shipped to st. Louis and sold
on the market there. The total
sales of fat mules for the season
amount to 1,400 head, at between
and $275,000. Fully 6O0I
head, worth at least $3.50 each, are
still being fed in the county and
will be disposed of before spring
Two punches of mules were sold
in Galloway County, Saturday, one
lot, of twenty-eight head, belong
ing to Charles Dunn, of Hereford.
going to Howard Bailey, of the
Maxwell Crouch Mule Company.
st. Louis, at $3.50 each, and the
other lot of twenty-one head, be-
longing to Mat Dunn, of McCredie.
going to Guyton & Harrington, of
st, Louis, at the same figure.
l., R. Larkin lost a valuable cow
last Thursday; fell on the ice and
crippled herself, dying where she
fell. She was Short-horn stock,
weighed about 1900 pounds, and
three days before Mr.. Larkin had
been offered $75 for her.
II, Wilburn, of Audrain county,
Mo, who was in yesterday with
butcher cattle, says the Daily
National Live Stock Reporter, last
Wednesday, reports that corn is
now selling there at 60 cents per
bushel. The crop started to move
at 80 cents but the price has
advanced. Mr.. Wilburn
fed his steers 55 days and secur 4tl
an average g,ip O' S1.i pounds
to the head each day. He uses cot
tQAseed meal.
The Live Stock Reporter says: 4
Bus" Buckner, one of the young.
est and most prominent shippers
and stoekmeA of Audrain county,
Me-, was here yesterday with a
mixed consignment of horses and
mules which he contributed to the
days supplies, While here Mr..
Buekner had the following to say
with regard to conditions existing
in his section of the country:
"Horses and mules are very hard
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