Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-06-01
FARM NOTES.
Mrs. MCGEE S Proud Mother Hen
Leslie Freyer' Wheat.


to Powell Il Mundy last week at
$3.50.
| Col Green Clay bought a
thoroughbred Short-horn bull re
Gently Of John Burgess paying
! $3.50 therefor.
The Farm journal comments
that pigs that are apt to have
differences of opinion" should be
separated, Fighting takes off
flesh.
Geo. II. Fennewaid Of near
Martinsburg marketed 2l steers in
st. Louis last week. They aver
aged 1925 pounds each and
brought $5.55.
Victor Wayne sold IS fat hogs
to Charles Powell this week. They
averaged 200 pounds each and
brought $5.65. Part of the num-
bcr were Victor's own feeding.
y few trees in the pasture add
greatly to the comfort of the
sheep, these days. If you can t
have them, set up a few posts and
cover a bit of ground over for a
shed.
Peter Veins, who recently
came to this county from North
western Iowa, has 60 acres of oats
and 80 acres of corn, and his pros
poets for good crop yields seem
bright.
! Mr. Bowman of Laddonia has
traded the old w. II. Beal 240 acre
farm on Middle Lick Creek, this
county, for residence property in
Columbia. The farm was valued
t at $50 per acre.
Hogs do not dig in the earth al
together for the fun of it. They
get lot TO eat that way-graS,
roots, worms, bites of stuff of diff
fgrent kinds that help to make
2 bone and muscle.
5 Fennewald Bros. of this county
t sold rs beef steers on the Fast st
2 Louis market last week at IS. 20
, they averaged 1901 pounds. They
sold ycaring steer which weigh
, ed 1000 pounds for $500.
Watch the condition of the
young chickens. IF they are mop
ing, look for lice especially the
} large gray louise found on the
, head of the chick. a drop OF
a sweet-oil will soon end his career
, Leslie Frcyer, down east OF
Rush Hill, has field Of 80 acre,
. of wheat and his prospects ar,
inc for "A great yield Leslie i,
4 young man; the young men ar,
taking to the farms in these latter
e days.
T.. NJ. Crooks. northwest o
G Rush H,ll has % acres Of Whca
that promises a fine harvest. Mr.
Crooks is feeding II head 0
/ stock for the market. Ed Crook
L is one of the cOuntry's most hust
2 ling farmers.
Charlie Baker and Charli
: Clark, both of near Thompson
= were in Mexico last Saturday
J. Both said they were not in seriou
- need Of rain up that way and tina
= the young crops Of corn, whea
> and oats are just booming.
c. b. Wilkcrson, who lives |
. miles north of Mexico, just owe
" in Monroe county, was here las
" Saturday and handed us a plum
for the Message. He said the
had had plenty Of rain and tina
, vegetation in every line is comm
- TO the front beautifully.
=, \ hog entered the chicken var
:, of Mrs. Richard Creed near No
:, ino one day recently and it ate
. chicken hen and her brood Of ,
- chicks, also 80 young turkeys an
! two goslings. That old SOW wa
! after game, and she found
y greatly TO Mrs Crccd's sorrow.
~ Mrs. f. l.. McGee Of HolIcn.
vile has a pet pullet that hatche
Nov. !, 1910. About six week
ago Cynthia, this pet, found
Of nice nest under the Smoke-hous
of where she laid several eggs q
IS. which she sat On May "a, 81
er came out with six little chicks,
n proud and happy mother.
at 81 don't understand this he
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