Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-16
MR.. MCDONALD TRADES.
G. w. Pease Sells FAME. j
Shobe Is Not Superstitious.

Mexico.
The Wesley Duvall 23O acre
farm, southeast of Mexico, was
sold last Monday under a second
deed Of trust and was bid in by
w. f. Atkinson for 81 600.
G. w. PeaSc, SJh.hwest of Alex
leo, has sold his 81 acre farm.
south of Rush Hill which he lately
acquired from G w. Ilirkman. to
w. j. Thompson of Indiana. We
understand Mr.. Thompson will
move to the farm soon.
r. +. Smith, on the Caleb Berry
place, six miles northwest of Rush
Hill. near Worcester, will have a
big public sale of all his live stock
and farm implements on Tuesday,
Feb. 2Sth. Watch for notice in
Message next week and see large
bills.
A. Il. Webb, proprietor o. the
largest dry goods store in Van
dalia, has traded the stock, val
ued at $4,000 Cor an apartment
house in Kansas City. The Kan
Sas City property brings in an an
nual rental of $1,000.
WIN. Wallace sold his 160 acre
farm west of Martinsburg to FL
mer johnson of the same neigh
bor'hOod. The farm was put up at
auction in Mexico recently but did
not sell. MIR. johnson owns IA
large body of land adjoining the
Wallace tract.
Mrs. j. X. Bell has % young
chickens, the earliest birds we
have heard Of. They are Buff
Orpington stock. She has four or
five other hens sitting. She re
ceived half dozen thoroughbred
OrpingtOns from Monroe county
last week.
Farmers around JoneSbnrg are
going to plant a car Lad o. cow
peas this season. Farmers around
Mexico might not do much better
than to follow their example.
They will put as much nitrogen in
your ground in 30 days as clover
will in eighteen months.
The Live Stock Reporter of last
Thursday said: A load of 924
pound steers shipped from Aud
rain county, Mo-, sold here today
to "A feeder buyer to go back to
the country. They brought $3.50.
The shipper consigned them as
beef steers for slaughter but the
country men Outbid the packers
for the stock.
The Farber Forum says: +. J.
ShObe, the hustling live stock and
grain dealer at IIaddOnia, is not
superstitious. Friday, January l3,
he bought IL head of native year
lings and 30 head of southwest
two-year-olds in Rails county.
paying 1925 per cwt. for the
yearlings and $500 per cwt for
the two-year-olds. The latter had
been on feed since December !.
Mr.. ShObe says that one of the best
profits that he ever made was on
hirteen head of cattle he bought
on the 18th of the month. Mr.
ShObe has 20 head of other cattle
n addition to the number he re,
emily bought. Eighty of these
will he fed through the spring and
summer and 80 will be fed off oil
yrass this fall
The Grant City Star offers thi,
Encouragement to young wOmer
to go into the poultry business
\ handsome young lady not many
niles from Grant City, who is to,
modest to permit her name to b,
Used, kept an itemized account o
the sales from $50 hens from
March |. 1910, to January |, 1911
md finds that she had a total o
379.5l for the ten months. Sh
las increased her flock of hens t,
i've hundred and doubtless vii
cap harvest of coin double tn
Ibove amount for the coming
ear. which would amount to owe
$50. Surely this is encourage
nent for the young woman of to
lay. Some say so few kinds q
york are open to women. Tn
poultry field is open to all an
rom the above record it looks a
more money could he made tina
! good many men make. If an