Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-10-26
FARM AND LIVE STOCK.
Corn Selling at 5oc-Lewis Smith,
Good Partnerships Horse
to Porto Rico.

feeding cattle to Chris Erisman,
south of Benton CITY, last week.
Albert Burgess, near Molino,
sold 800 bushels OF corn the other
day to VIM. Schultz at % cents
OuShel.
Don I feed your live stock Oh
the hlllsides; save the manure for
the higher grounds that need it
that was the advice the Message
heard a farmer giving a few days
ago.
Henry kudasill OF iioIIeusyille
bought 100 acre farm near
Strother at $6l per acre.
5. b. Reighley sold a line lilley
a few days ago, a sister Of Joe Me
Donald, TO an Illinois buyer at a
Iancy price.
}. 5. Wilson of Grinncll, Iowa,
was here last week looking after
MS 400 acre farm just ,outhwest
of Rush Hill. The place has been
iarmed eight or nine years by
Lewis Smith, and Mr.. Wilson says
Mr.. Smith is a good one he looks
after things and keeps them up
Just like the whole were his he is
scientific and careful farmer.
Mr.. Wilson recently had a new
modern eight room house put up
On the place, to take the place of
the dwelling burned this summer.
DR.. }. +. Flynt of Molino
bought so bushels of corn of Al
bert Burgess, delivered, few
days ago at 60 cents bushel.
j. r. Bell, south of Mexico, ship
ped a car load of apples to Okla
homa last week.
w. ii. Dempsey, southwest of
Thompson, shipped two kegs Of
his fine make of sorghum molasses
to Broken Bow, Neb., this week.
j. A. Givens, southwest of
Thompson, sold span of black
mare mules to a st. Louis bGyer
recently for $49O.
Lindell Rudasill, near MolinO, is
erecting a fine new barn. The
electric car carried out 10000
pounds of cement for him last
Friday.
Lutte Diggs has traded for the
Norwood farm of 300 acres, south
east of Laddonia.
w. G. Bailey, west of Laddonia,
lately built new silo. He shipped
in 80 head of cattle recently from
South Missouri which he has put
on feed.
w. +. Cunningham, near Lad
donia, recently put l26 head OF
cattle on feed.
Said travelling salesman to tht
editor of the Monroe City News {
few days ago: Il live at Hamil
ton, Mo. a few years ago two
young men located near thai
place. They had lived several years
in the dry belt in the West anc
were familiar with dry farming
Every dry spell they followed th'
dry system of cultivating anC
their crops were so much BETTE
than their neighbOrs that other
took it up until that manner o
cultivating corn is genera
around Hamilton. The past sea
son 112 1-horse cultivatOrs wer
sold at the place. In many in
stances fields were plowed over a
high as fifteen times-even afte
they were in roasting ear. The re
suit is those farmers have corr
that will yield from 60 to 70 bush
els per acre.
Charles H. Dean, southwest o
2 Mexico, bought three mules las
p week of Charles Hoffman of nea
Auxvasse, paying 1920 for tn
twain. Two of the animals wer
r horse mules.
The Wellsville Star says: j. 4
Braden passed thru Wellsyill
last Thursday evening on WabaS
J freight train No. 92 enroute I
! Porto Rico, by way Of New YorI
D with "A pair Of three year old mUl'
. and one saddle mare colt pu
I chased from j. 7. Johnson of Me,
t leo. Mr.. Braden expected to sa
Wednesday. The saddle colt is
granddaughter Of Rex McDOnaI
J. and goes to New York.
n DR.. Frank Goodson near BE