Mexico Missouri message., 1911-08-17
FARM MATTERS.
MIR. Rockwell's Black Cattle w
o. Smiths Durocs-About
Baled Oats.

for advertisement in this paper.
Fifty head of blooded fellows will
be bid off. Mr.. Smith s auction
GERS will be Fred Reppert of De-
catur, Ind, and II. l.. Iglehart Of
Elizabethtown, KY, two of the
best men on the block at a hog
sale.
Horace Mundy bought a COW
last week of w. Ii. Dempsey, near
Thompson, paying $50.
Bob Cauthorn of Mexico won
second place at the Sturgeon Fair
last week with Cauthorn's In
named in the ring for the best
saddle stallion.
f. II. Roberts sold two yearling
steers to Fletcher Sims last week
for $45.
4. W. Rockwell, east of Benton
City shipped % black cattle to
the st. Louis market one day last
week and came back in new
automobile. This week Mr.. Rock
well and family will leave in their
new auto for visit at their
former home in Iowa. Mr.. Rock
well is counted as one of Au-
drain S most hustling and progress
sive stockmen and farmers.
c. A. James of this city sold his
fine little so acre farm near
Prairie Lea school houes to o. NJ.
Dunn of Galloway county. 1t
sold for a fancy price all right.
c. F. Clark and C. w. Lewis
disposed Of three cars of fat cattle
last week at $500. They
averaged 1855 pounds
Charles Schopp says that he has
sold $75 worth of roasting
ears" this season. He says he is
going to have one of the best corn
yields this year he ever had.
Joe Mongler says the heavy
rain they had in his locality last
Sunday week has wonderfully re-
vived the young corn. He thinks
now he will have more than an
average half crop yield.
Rush Harmon, who calls his sec
tion of Audrain "God s country. "
tells the Vandalia Leader that
corn is simply fine in his vicinity,
the prospect being for bigger
crop than last year. 81 never, y
said Mr.. Harmon, "saw corn with.
stand the hot weather as it did
this season, and | think it was be-
cause people simply kept plough
ing, over and over again. II kept
the ground moist underneath and
when the rain came. the corn grew
as never knew it to do" Mr.
Harmon has 40 acres of corn on
his farm. His 30 acres of oats
averaged II bushels which is good
for this year.
why will farmer pick his best
corn for seed, and save his best
pigs for brood sows, and yet plant
MS runty potatoes and expect {
good crop.
Baled oats is a new kind Of
feed in Monroe county. SAYS tn,
Paris Appeal, Creigh Bros. baIeC
Ioo acres and Clarence Ragsdal,
10 acres, enough to fill all hi
"hedS and barns. Other farmer
Sold oats harvested this way fo
Tzz'oo ton. Properly cured, oat
saved this way make an idea
stock feed In some eases the,
We're moved, and in others the,
were cut with the harvester an,
the whole bundles put in tn
baler.
The Paris Appeal says that j
w. Proctor stripped 600 bushel
OF seed from his blue grass pas
lures and sold it to Kansas Cit
hrm at $l.65.
Cad Crockett and Richard Hor
klns are managing a 500 acr
Iarm near Seed Tick church. The
nave go acres of corn, 80 acres @
COW peas and 20 acres of can
Ihey had 25 acres of wheat whic
averaged little over - bushe
TO the acre. Their corn crop tn
season, they think. will max
about a half average yield. Thes
men are hustlers.
Inc SUNDAY school of tha 10