Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-06-15
HENRY THOMAS OPINION.
Mr.. McGee's Potatoes-John Tur-
pins Fine Corn.

Audrain county never had better
prospects for a monster corn crop.
Lightning last Saturday killed
a pair of mules and a pair of fine
draft mares for Eugene Linn, who
lives south of Vandalia. Mr.. Linn
had refused $3.50 for the stock.
Everything is looking much
better after the recent rains in my
section" said Henry Thomas, of
Audrain county, Mo-, to the Stock
Reporter while on the market the
other day with hogs which he dis
posed of satisfactorily. "The grass
IS looking green and fresh, and /
don t think that oats or wheat are
hurt very much. There are certain
ly lots of hogs in the country,
mostly pigs, and I think that these
runs will continue all summer full
ly as large as at present. 1t doesn I
seem to me that hogs ought to get
any lower than about where they
are now, even with unusually
heavy runs, for there is an ever
growing demand for pork and
pork products which, l believe,
will take all the hogs the farmers
of the Mississippi valley can
raise"
j. d. Sutton of Farber, accord
ing to the Forum, has 45 acres Of
extra good wheat, which he thinks
will beat 20 bushels per acre. He
says it will probably do to cut in
about ten days. Mr.. Sutton says
that the wheat generally looks
well in this section.
The Troy Free Press comments
that the state bee inspector was at
Laddonia last week and condemn
ed nineteen of Rev. J. L. Robert s
twenty stands as being infected
with disease which will soon des-
troy all of them and if not stamp
ed out will destroy every bee in
the community.
The Winston Sentinel notes
that a man in a neighboring town
has issued the following proclama.
ton: "NeighborS, l am a man OF
peace. ] want to make no trouble
for others. | have a wife and chill
dren and they need me. ] also have
a house, lawn and a garden.
am about to put some seed in my
garden. I have bought a gun ant
some shells, and while ! am not {
crack shot | think I can hit chick
ems. 1t is now my purpose to tr.
: if any come around where m,
: blue grass is struggling and m,
: onions are showing their balC
heads"
: A butcher Tin neighborinl
: town. was driving a COW to hi
slaughter house when a strange
l. stopped him and said: "What ar
u you going to do with that GOVT
$ 81 am going to kill her" said tn
i butcher. The stranger looked tn
Is COW over carefully. "Oh, | don
believe I'd do that" he said. 81
L you feed her up carefully she ma
II live"
e j. II. Turpin, on the old Jimm
II Atkinson farm, ] 1-2 miles nortl
west of Worcester, has As acres {
corn which is all waist higl
Thirty-fve acres of which corn
'e layed by. John Turpin knows no
'e TO grow corn, all right.
III F. L. McGee, out Molino wa,
D. has already dug four good mess'
le of potatoes from one hill, tn
le year. Feb. l4th he noticed thi
lie the northwest corner of the ga
% den was dry enough to wol
ie pretty well, so he got a fork al
81 began to prepare a lettuce bed.
"a so doing he found hill of volu
III teer potatoes from which he too
ID nice potatoes, not one small
=, than hens egg. One; or MOI
potatoes were left, and quite ear
potato vines appeared. June p
I'd Mrs. McGee got eight potato
er from the one hill, and June
of Frank pulled the plant and d,
out another good mess from t
same hill. And the lettuce bed W
n, a success, furnishing plenty
leo lettuce for the family, from go
on Friday until it became strong.
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