Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-10-24
Stock and =
= Farm News

n AEritulture and adviser C.
he farmers IN Caps Cirardcn roca
". has saved more than $e~
worth OF hogs in two zDEths Socc7
Ing 10 d Il Do4ns. prceezsO
farm management n the c2Nse .
Agriculture.
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1.H7aaa BUSHES. Al Increase
over East years crop * more than
- PEI oent. according to the re
port
Il L W MccOy Of LaddOnia- sold
@Thee Hsgan two Jersey better
calves for SO. Mr.. McCoy has T
fused sion for the mother Of one Of
these calves.
: steve Payne, a weIIknoz1 negro
: here, and formerly Of this city, died
in st. Louis sunday.
sedaIia. No. Oct 81
Seed corn gathering w~eekwhieAssbs'
ran Monday is t. h~s~gsu~rShy observ
i. ed by aM@ct the rural schools Of Pet
~%zs-roanty-
e The idea Vas suggested Septem
Der IL, last, b. S. u. Jordan, mana
ger Of the Pettis County Bureau o.
Agriculture. and Thomas r. Lurkett
,Counfy Superintendent Of Schools. u
Evsnk lis cooperation.
M Lzekeet says THAT after th'
te4SAsrs and pupils decide what dal
Ne they sill observe. every pupil, wh'
10 old enough and Is willing, will re
main at home and devote that day
gathering seed corn
On returning TO school the mex
,day these pupils win hand the teach
er a written report,teIling the yarI
ETY. OF corn selected. the number o
eafs. and how 1t wal prepared an
stored.
All pupils making such report ar
to be marked on the register as bein
present at school. Manager Jordal
says that If every county in Missouri
. would pattern after Pettis, in the ma
ity ter OF gathering seed corn, it woul
lid mean several hundred thousands 0
zen dollars to the farmers Of Missoul
Or over what they will realize for til
o 1912 crop. .
R. r. Buckner & Son, north G
of Auxyasse, sold 20 head Of cotto
rhe feeding mules last week to B, R. Mi
md dIeton, at s120 around. The senior
he member Of the firm bought the mule
at public sales last spring, and ii
stead Of keeping them, loaned thei
out to neighboring farmers for tn
res summer. The deal was p~rofitabll
I'D. The sale of the mules made tn
third load the firm has sold thI
season.
nto A-Boone County farmer offers Al
"a pies at twenty cents a bushel I
had those who win come to the orchaI
and pick them off the trees. tn
Is wholesale quotation on apples
I've Kansas City yesterday was frol
Al forty cents to 81 a busheL The lie
son we learn here, children, is th;
when you go to the grocery stol
ing, and buy a peck Of apples. You pa
no little or nothing for the apples. WIFI
! OF You pay for is the barrel, the labt
his Of filling II. the haul over the coui
the try roads, the freight rate 10 TOW
and the necessary profits OF two dea
ers. Moral: Go to the country an
raise your own apples.
you James Harrison, Of the live stoc
50 commission finn. Fry-Hanna & Harr
slay son. Of r, Il. Louis, returned I
sts his home III s.. Louis Sunday aft'
ms visit with relatives in this city.
nd P. W. Ray, Of the horse firm
the P. w. Ray andson OF Bowling Gree
Ky. who has been here buying tho
oughbred Rex Mcdonald mares. d
iate parted for st. Louis Friday afternoo
lch He has Major Dare, his famous ga
tur die horse, entered in the st. Lou
me Horse Show.
Mr.. Ray purchased four Rex MARI
and says he has an option on -four
more and also two stations. TT
. fnur -aha ware ha,tohf "a "a