Mexico Missouri message., 1911-08-03
ABOUT THE FARM.
Give The Pig a Bath-Mr. Beam
er's Fine Cattle-Building
Silos.

for the market-fne, fat fellows,
they are.
Joe Wilson, out Molino way,
has two loads of two year old eat
| tie, fed all summer, about ready
for the market.
Rev. II. |. Cobb sold four hogs
to Mexico buyers last week for
S52.5 Mr.. Cobb bought the pork.
ers in April for $40
Frank Hofreighter of near
Molino sold to Wallace Bybee of
Santa Fe six yearling steers for
$3.50 and two heifers for $40
j. w. Brewer of Mexico while
at the c llmbia Fair last week
bought cray saddle mare of
Turner Gillispie for 5000. She is
a fine animal.
VIM. Doeblin sold 81 head of
200 pound hogs to Powell 4
Mundy at $3.50. Mr.. Doeblin is al
so feeding two ears of two year
old cattle for the market.
S. p. Emnons is building a silo
on his Long Branch farm. 1t is to
be "A feet high and 16 feet across.
f. 7. Harris, out toward Molino.
is also planning to build a silo.
I. w. Tanner tells the Farber
Forum that he paid more for a
load of grain Tuesday than he
ever paid in Farber. He gave c.
|. Farnsworth $375.35 for a load
of timothy seed. 1t was an ordi
nary load, there being no side
boards on the wagon.
Gray Wilson, u miles north of
Mexico, has two cars of 75O
pound yearling steers he is want
ing to sell if he can find the right
buyer. He told us Monday that
none of the good rains that fell
around Mexico Friday and Satur-
day extended over into his terri.
tory They are needing rain very
badly.
Says II. l.. Ram "The day has
gone by when the pig which never
takes bath is considered an asset
on the farm. Frequent bathing is
luSt as much Of a disease as the
delinquent subscriber and fully as
hard to cure. The pig which keeps
his face and hands clean and his
nails manicured adds a touch of
romance to the sordid precincts of
the hog yard, and there are few
sights on the farm more winSome
than that of a well-groomed.
bmght-faced Poland China coming
mp bhthely TO insert a shining beak
in the trough as jocund day tip
toes over the hencry. Never be-
grudge a faStldious pig the time
it takes to make his toilet.
T, b. FelIy and j. j. Stamper
IhonOred TIE Message with a pleas
ant call last Saturday. We talk
ed farm conditions. Mr.. Kelly
said he liked corn bread but he
was afraid he would be little
short next winter. He has 100
acres of early corn that he says
lis burnt up" will make a little
fodder, but that s all. He has 80
acres of later corn, however, that
he thinks will make a fair yield.
Mr.. Stamper and his sons have
40 acres of early corn "that is
not much to brag Of" but they
have so acres of later corn that is
looking pretty good. Well, boys,
it is a little discouraging, but we III
all keep on hoping and working.
hoping, at least, that all will turn
out better than we are now ex-
pecting.
1T looks to me, " said a level
headed business man, the other
day "that the failure of the hay
crop throughout the country is go
ing to make timothy seed hard to
find next season, and that the
price is likely to be somewhere
around $40 a bushel. My idea is
that it would be a mighty good
idea for a farmer or two in each
neighborhood to get two or three
acres of ground in extra good
order this season and sow it in
timothy. If the ground is in as
line shape as an onion bed it will
be all the better, and commercial
fertilizer should be used, to avoid
weed seed. A farmer who will do
this is assured of seed for his own
nSe and will have some tO sell his