Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-09-14
FARM MATTERS.
MIR. McKinney's Blue" Spell
MIR. Smith s Duroc Hogs
The Chinch Bug.


bud" Baker and Leroy Kettle
recently shipped in 20 feeding
steers each from Kansas City.
Riley Hodge is feeding a fine
drove of mules at the livery barn
in Rush Hin.
Does it pay to milk a COW three
times a day. Dairy men and own
ers of large herds say so. They
can, and do, produce the proofs,
too, that milking their cows this
often is a very profitable practice.
Mrs. Fannie A. Smith & Sons
Duroc Jersey hog sale last Thurs
day. near Cant, was a great sue
cess. Buyers were present from
many distant parts of the state
and from Illinois and Kansas.
Forty-threc fine Durocs were sold
at an average of $32 per head. An
Illinois buyer paid $S5 for a pur-
chase. We are glad to know that
the sale proved such a success.
j. T. Johnson. the auctioneer.
was talking to the Message the
other day and he happened to re-
vert to the times of 80 years ago
or more in this county. His good
friend Henry Mckinney bought
so acres of land northwest of
Rush Hill for $500. Mckinney
bought it on "tick" and tho he
and his good wife worked hard,
after ten or twelve years they had
not yet paid for it. They got
awfully blue and one day Nc
Kinney came to johnson with the
song, go Jim, Wen have to give
it up, we can t make it" But
Johnson laughed Mckinney out of
it, and told him to cheer up and
go on. And so Mckinney did go
on. He still has the land and is
living upon it, and it is worth to-
day 5000 easy. Mr.. johnson has
a right to think he saved the day
for Mckinney when he advised
him to shake off that blue spell.
Judge Baker Barnes, north of
Thompson, shipped two loads of
400 pound cattle to Che St. Louis
market this week. He had a load
Of hogs on the same market which
brought him $40.
w. W. Braden, a successful
farmer of the Lick Creek country
west of Farber. tells the Forum
that he has forty acres of land
rented to VIM. Millstead which
he thinks will make sixty bushels
per acre, and this a dry year. Not
every one, he says, has good corn
land and not everyone has good
seed corn. This corn was pro.
duced by selecting full-bloo2
Boone County White. Braden
says show me " If you have any
corn that will out-yield the Boone
County White.
Some of the county's best live
stock feeders think corn will sell
this fall and winter at about Al
and As cents a bushel.
j. II, Baker, northeast of Mo
hno, says he has seen a goot
many chinch bugs this season. Hi.
neighbor, Tom Crawford, raised {
crop of rye this year and he tell,
Mr.. Baker that the field was ful
OF these pests. He broke tn;
ground, turned it over, and h
hopes that he killed them all
}. p. Harper of Rush Hill ship
ped a load of butcher stuff to ST
Louis this week.
" Uncle" John f. Green, soutl
OF Mexico, has been breaking il
young milk cows lately. But on
or two of them came near break
ing him-so he tells. One liokc,
nm and nearly broke his leg anC
another nearly broke the nail OF
hlS right hand. But he continue,
Endly with these nervous "Bos
sizes and now they are gooc
cows and all right.
Bee Lewellen tells the Messag
mat in a trip across the Stat
from Kansas City a few days ag
he Is convinced that Audrain is i
better shape as to crop condition
man any of the counties. w
nave pretty good general cor
crop IN Audrain, but from Ka1
>as City this way they are burn
up.