Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-01-19

Ear are most gratifying. He hopes %
I not only improve the size but aiso
ltbe cooking qualities and yield as
Wen. The new potatoes vine mas
tough foliage and large stem zen
which promises TO make u Ous
proof vs
Gradually the stlo is finding us
wav 10 me Missouri faEms. Ben n
patton a farmer near Richmona'
built one last year. "He stored tons
Of feed in the silo," SAYS che CON
seryator. (which he is now feeding
10 a big bunch Of cattle, and says
they are fattening fast ath reiisn
the feed Mr.. Patton has become
suo enthusiast and thinks every up
Ito.date farmer should have one.
e "a Casper, the well known
istockman OF Rush Hill, has shipped
his Tom Crawford cattle to the u.
slLouis market. When he bougne
them at s5.75 they weighed 1881
lbs.
Earl Carter bousht 70 hekers in
Kansas City this week.
Robt. Smiley, Of Santa Fe, pur-
chased III steers in Kansas City thS
week.
The mule sale Of w. e. COT
nett, at Rush Hill, was well attend,
ed. The 50 mules sold aNerased
sl60.
j Geo. Kellerhals, one Of our most
4 prominent farmers, sold R. H. Ed
munds 40 god ewes this week for
$500. They will be placed ON lde
Bros. farm.
Lutte Diggs has moved to his new
farm near Martinsburg which he re-
Gently bought from Mr.. Wilburn.
! Wheat looks pretty good in the
East End.
Joseephine's missed the worlds rec
ord for milk production for twelve
months by COZ pounds. Josephine's
years record for milk production
was 26,S25 pounds, an average OF
73 IL pounds a day or thirty-five
quarts for each day she was on test.
Josephine also produced S6S pounds
Of butter, an average Of sixteen and
Q half pounds a week. josephine is
still healthy cow.
Josephine produced her own weight
in milk every nineteen days during
the years and gave as much milk
as six ordinary COWS would in an
equal time.
Stock oNtes
In speaking OF tillng his land, f.
L. Crosby, one of Audradnis most
pp-to-date farmers, says the tile in
his cats fields netted him fully six
dollars more an acre this year than
Il he had not had 1t in. He also
stated that he had as fine stand of
clover on his prairie land as any
man could wish for and that with tie
clover can be grown on the flattest
land. Mr.. Coontz, Of near Wanda
la, who has tiled land also, says his
land produces more per acre because
of psLg that style of drainage.
E. C. McCarroll, Of Vandalia, has
been selling some Of his Rhode Is.
| land Reds n Monroe county.
Don't fmget the Farmers Institute
in Mexico Monday, Jan. 30. at the
High School. Many Of the State ex.
perts win be here and lecture on
every subleer concerning farming,
w. e. Sharp, a we'll known farm.
er CT this col nty, who recently grad.
uated from ar Jones' School II
Aactioneer.ng IN Chicago, is none
and ready for o"yipg sales. NJ.
Sharp has many f'lends who Jon
the Ledger in Wishing him success.
J, T. Bennett, of Vandaliay pur.
chased a Jersey at Clarence, Mo-,
last week at $1S0.She has record of
l'2 gallons of milk day.
Charles Sulgrove, of near Wanda
la, lost a fine horse last week val
ued at $3.50.
M. r. X. Biggs reports quite a
fire on his farm south OF Laddonia
last Thursday about noon. It burned
about II tons of hay and about so
acres Of pasture land. Mr.. Biggs
says that 26 men were on hand to
fight the fire. He thinks lit was set
by hunters, as it was traced to a
brush pile, where probably some boy
was trying to smoke rabbit out.
W. E. Sharp, who recently re-
turned from Chicago, received or
ders from various persons while there
for IL head of saddle horses and
two fine Black Mammoth jacks.
J. H. Ware has brought home with
him from Columbia where he ATTENDED
Farmers Week some grains of corn
that came from an ear with an odd
number of rows upon it. Mr.. Ware
says he doesn't expect anyone to
believe that there is any such freak
but he saw dt, with many hundreds
OF others He will plant the seed
and see If 1T grows ears with an
add number of rows.
r. c. Peck, a prominent farmer of
Rowena, is attending court. He SAYS
they had lots Of sleet In his sec
tion and that the wheat looks only
fairly god.
VIM Mason sold Carter & Consl.
dine Z head Of good mules this week
for $24Oa head.
Earl Carter was In Kansas CITY
this week.
w. T. West, a prominent young
farmer in Western Audradn, says
corn Is bringing as high as "a to so
cents bu. delivered.
]. G. Crawford, a well known
farmer near Molino, says the sleet
mas been very heavy In that sec
ton and on Tuesday out Of II
telephone lines out Of Molino .->re
out Of commission and all out oS
Long Rrannh