Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-03-09
WOOD HoYT's CHANGE
Screen, Poison and Prevent The
Fly-Feeding Sheep.

y.
few days ago sold a fine saddle
and harness horse to Lee Bros, of
Mexico.
w. p. Flynn. of Edwards school
district, bought so acres Of land
at 800 per acre near Rush Hill
and will move to the same.
IL. c. Reed, one of the big farm
ers in the south part of Audrain,
has 707 yearling wethers which
he is feeding for the market.
Eggs have gone down in price
until some say they don't taste
good. But let them be about 30c,
dozen and then everybody likes
eggs.
A. M. Wilcox of Bardolph. ILL.,,
has returned home after visit to
w. II. Ritter near Mexico. Mr..
Wilcox recently bought the
Weimer farm near Benton City.
Lane & Buckner last week
traded their $50 acre farm east of
Mexico to G.. w. Pease for a house
and ten acres of ground near the
Fair Grounds. Mr.. Pease pays
5000 difference.
The Missouri Special Sale S
Company's big annual sale of
business and pleasure horses, as
per ad in this paper. will be held
April 13, IA and 10. It's going
to be a great event. If you have
a horse of class, put him in the
entries.
j. b. Hendrix, the live real es-
tate man of Curryville, traded
last week 80 acres of land known
as the Webb David farm to JAS.
Stetson for town prOperty lii
Rush Hill, says the Vandalia Mail.
He then sold the property to T..
4. Maxwell.
Let each boy or girl on the farm
raise a brood of chicks this year
and have the money he or she
makes on them. The successful
farmer of the future will pay more
attention to the poultry depart
ment of his business than does
the farmer of the present.
r. A. Boyd, as administrator,
sold the Y. G. Thomas 40 acre
farm last Saturday to Roy Nc.
Cord at $115 an acre. The land
is at Bethel church, Champ com
munity, right at where the electric
railway passes thru, and is well
worth the money it sold for. We
congratulate Mr.. McCord on his
purchase.
Wood Hoyt has sold his $50
acre farm north of Mexico. near
Judge Carter's place, to G. X. Glib
son at $50 an acre. Mr.. Hoyt has
bought Ed. Brecht s 160 acre farm
north of Laddonia, paying $40 an
acre, and has moved to the latter
farm. Wood is getting back into
the old neighborhood of his boy
hood days.
1t has been frequently sug.
gested. and the suggestion is a
good one, that every farmer
should place his name and the
name of his farm on his road gate
Not only would persons driving
to place more easily find it, but
1T would add more pleasure anC
interest to people driving from
place to place. This last result
would have special effect with re
gard to well kept and pretty
houses. An observing person will
seldom pass beautiful farm with
out desiring to know who is its en-
terprising owner.
Every living fly is Grim,
against society. Consider fo
yourself the number of times yol
have seen flies feeding on sputum
ON garbage, on filthy exereta from
the privy vaults. 1t is disgust
ing-yes-but they like it. From
their breeding place in hors
manure, they dance and pranc
over our meat markets. our frui
stands and bakeries. They scrap
their feet, rub their wings. an,
drop their specks on our swee
cake-yet we eat it. Do you lik
itf They creep and crawl lei.
nrely in and out of the babies
sticky mouths. The fly breed
typhoid fever and all manner q
other diseases. Let's fight IN
ttV thiQ oun,r.n,. oo.o