Mexico Missouri message., 1911-09-28
FARM MATTERS.
Kills Live Stock
Worms Damaging Late
Corn.

a fine two year old colt Monday.
killed by lightning.
j. F. Vigel, near Mexico. is
buying corn at 80 cents a bushel.
B. K. Middleton shipped 81
head of yearling horse mules to
Alabama this week.
G. w Rider of near Rush Hill
brought 30 bushels of hickory
nuts to Mexico one day last week
and sold them to Sam Morris for
S45. Hickory nuts, persimmons.
etc, are ripening early this fall.
John Stumpf of Benton City re
Gently bought two young calves
from S. D. Watson for $45.
The Farber Forum says that j
d. Sutton shipped in % head of
vearling steers from Kansas City
Friday and A. A. Sutton 40 head
They weighed ESQ and were pur-
chased at 1926 per hundred.
Sterling Carter and W. D. Ma.
son shipped in 255 head of year
Iings and two year old cattle from
Harrison county last week. They
will dispose of them TO local feed
ers.
Monroe Beagles, of the Wor-
oeSter neighborhood, had a con
Signment of 81 steers on the st.
Louis market last week. averaging
1887 pounds, which brought him
800 per cwt.
George Campbell, Just west of
the old Young's Creek postofIice.
sold his u acre farm this week to
Mrs. Bagley for 81 100.
j. p Albright sold a span of
mules few days ago to Milt
Householder for 1925.
J. P Albright of the Hollcns-
vile neighborhood bought a mare
from VIM Criglcr for $165. lie
bought another mare from w. O.
Dowell for 800.
w H. Morgan. southeast of
Mexico, brought to the Message
office a few days ago a specimen
Of the fine corn he is going to
gather this year; COW peas have
grown TO the top of the stalks.
The corn and cow peas is as fine
a growth as yOu will see any year.
He also brought us a squash,
large size that IS curiosity; it is
two squashes in one, or the two
grown together
j. w. Coakley, south of Rush
Hill. was discouraged with his
corn crop prospects two months
ago; he thought the stalks would
be so light he might cut it for fod-
der with "A moving machine, but
10 and behold, since the recent
rains, he thinks it will yield at |
least 30 bushels of corn to the
acre.
Wheat straw, baled, during the
drouth two months ago sold as
high as $40 per ton in this county
Could you sell it now, since the
farmers have raised other forage? |
NJ. B. Paige, who has some Of the
best valley farms in the county,
l55 acres, just west of Mexico, has
sown 50 acres of wheat and wants
to make it so. He and his son,
Frank Paige, of near Worcester,
are planning a trip soon to Car
stair 5 Canada, where Dick Shell
and Dave Gregory, late of Au-
drain county, are located. Fount
Davis of this county moved back
from there but has returned again
and has bought land. Messrs.
Paige think of investing up there
too.
j. 7. johnson is preparing to
SOW 100 acres of wheat. He is us
ing bone fertilizer.
The ears on the late planting Of
corn are greatly afflicted with
worms this Season-eating down
from the small end Of the ear to-
ward the butt end. Farmers say
this worm atfliction is worse this
year than for long time. When
you go to gather your corn better
muzzle your horses. The worms
if eaten by the horses are poison
Gus.
Barton Hubbard, northwest of
Mexico, sold his 100 acre farm to
Albert Hendrix for $4,000.
II l. PhilliDs southwest of