Mexico Missouri message., 1911-12-21
FARM MATTERS.
The schleeter- Crosby Land
Trade-Luke Simpson
Goes to Farm.

Walter Gilmore and Herbert
Patterson, of North Galloway
county, are feeding a car load Of
lambs for the early spring marFct
Judge Alex Carter, north Of
Mexico, sold a bunch of coming
three year old mules a few days
ago to Henry Heitman Of Eureka
Mo, at $40 per head. This
same class of mules sold in this
county a year ago at from $15 to
$40 per head higher.
Henry Schleeter and F. l.
Crosby, south Of Mexico, traded
farms last week. The Crosby
farm is half mile south of Far
Der, 800 acres, and Mr.. Schlcetcr
gets it for the farm where he now
lives, which lies alongside the
farm where Mr. Crosby lives. NJ
Schleeter will move To his Farber
farm about the first Of the year.
He gets fine property. The
trade suits Mr.. Crosby, also, as it
will give him two fine farms in
one block of land. The Farber
public will find Mr.. Schleeter and
family a most excellent people.
Lutte Smith and son, of North
Galloway, are shoveling corn to
S5 head of porkers for the Janu-
airy market and Mr.. Smith is car
rying thru the winter Is head of
feeding steers that he will put on
corn early in 1912.
Thomas Hite, one of North
Callaway's thriving young farm
ers, is feeding a car load of yearl-
ing heifers for the early spring
market.
W. Ed. Boyd added to the
Edgewood Stock Farm in North
Galloway 25 head of extra sheep
which he bought of w. E. White
at $400 per head.
Jas. A. Williams of Perry has
l9 Indian Runner ducks that are
almost equal to a gold mine. Since
February 1st he sold $75 worth of
eggs and ducks from the 19 and
has 95 ducks in addition. In four
months-February, Ma"2h- April
and May-the ducks laid 1924
eggs-actual count. He thinks
they will lay 400 eggs before the
year is up.
The 16S acre R. A. Byrns farm,
south of Mexico, was sold at ad-
ministrator S sale last Saturday
and Frank Waters bought the
property for $6,552.
The VandaEa Mail says that s.
II. Taylor of that city has refused
an offer for his farm north Of
Mexico, on the electric railway
line, that would have made him "A
net profit of $4,000 above his pur-
chase price.
Our young friend Luke Simp-
son of Laddonia, the telegraph
operator, is getting ready to move
to his farm east of Paris, Mo,
about the first of February. Mr..
Simpson also has some fiuc land in
New Mexico which is going to
bring him a good profit on its sale
one of these days.
W. o. Smith, manager of Valley
Stock Farm, near Cant, who is
one of the best informed stockmcn
IN tins section, in discussing the
prevalent hog plague, says the
Sturgeon Leader, arrives at a
very logical conclusion. 81 don t
believe that the prevailing sick
ness among hogs is common
cholera, said Mr.. Smith. MY
conclusions are that the plague is
caused by conditions brought
about by last summer s
drought. My observations have
been that during the dry spell on
account of scarcity of feed the
hogs were on extreme short ra-
tlonS grass was scarce and an un-
natural condition prevailed. With
the September rains came sappy
grass and this with the new corn
that was fed to the hogs tended to
put their digestive organs in bad
order with a result that sickness
followed. The sucking pigs OF
September have not been ma
teralIy affected; their rations
have been regular and natural
from the sOws and bag they went
to the new grass and then to corn.
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