Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-06-13
Stock and y
" Farm News


Mrs. n. n. Graham and daughter,
of Columbia, have telephonod d. R.
Middleton, owner of Rex Mcdonald,
the champion saddle horse Of the
world. to have Rsx at the Wabash
Station Saturday afternoon so they
can sea him as they go East.
Dr.. Graham. now dead, husband Of
Mrs. R. q. Graham. formerly owned
the horse In Columbia. Mrs. Grah-
am and her daughter were greatly at
tached to Rex.
a horse, near Paris, ran q motor
car down. according to the Monroe
County Appeal We presume it
wasn't nightmare
George Trowers. q farmer residing
near Mlddletown. was found dead in
q barn this week at the homo OF
Tom vannoy where he had been max.
ing his home. 1t is not known what
caused his DEATH
Col. A. @. Deaver and Short Farrell
marketed the biggest crop OF wool in
Monroe Co. at Paris last week, SELL
ing 10,400 lbs. for $2.2Ss. The fleee-
es were removed by machinery.
Nv. Ed. Boyd, miles west of
Auxvasse, has engaged his crop OF
spring lambs to w. JEFF Woods, a
nelghbor, to be delivered the latter
part Of June or the first of July at
6 IL cents pound
Lee Brothers of Mexico bought
head of horses in Fulton stock sales
day at prices ranging from $50 to
$3.50 They were bought from the fol
lowing Two from Tom Nixon, two
from William Haney, and one each
from A. S. Bugg, A. T. Bart1ey, J. R.
Jones and Claude Dunlap.
The largest crop of cowpeas vet
grown in this section of Monroe coun
ty will be on the Dave Arnold farm,
south of Paris. Arnold and Frank ELI
oft are devoting 24O acres to corn an
will SOW cowpeas with 1t all. The
peas were drilled with go acres of
the seed corn and will be harvested
with the corn for the two big sllos to
be erected on the place. On the
other $50 acres the peas viii be sown
when the corn is cultivated the last
time.
Monroe county ships more bluegrass
seed than any other county I'm Mis-
souri,, The seed is gathered by strip
ping machines which comb" tho
tops from the grass without injuring
the stalks or their grazing qualities.
MIR. Loomis OF 1sarber shipped In
steam plow recently which he Is OPP
Grating on his farm near there. It
will plow over 10 acres a day and
works like a charm. A harrow fol
lows the plows.
Cottonwood Falls, Kan, June 10.
After holding his corn crop which
he refused to, sell for less than so
cents a bushel for four years, @. G..
Smith. one of the most widely known
farmers of Cedar Point, has kept
his word and not until last week
when he was at last offered his price
has a bushel OF corn left his place.
Now he is unloading nearly ten thous
and bushels of corn
i For storing and holding grain for
4 long periods Smith undoubtedly holds
the state record. Several years ago.
he sold eight or ten thousand bushels
of wheat the most Of which he had
] raised and stored in his granaries
i seven years before. He failed then
to obtain his price. but his granaries
and cribs were filled to overflowing
and he had another big grain crop
coming on.
Columbia, Mo-, June 10.
Since the epidemic of hog cGo
era in the State has been checked.
the veterinary department Of the Uni
versity OF Missouri has made, for the
first time, more hog cholera serum
than 1t could use. Every day now
the department. 10 making as much oi
the serum as tt did during the cpl
demic.. 1t will continue to make
the serum all summer and store it 70
use in The fall. Last winter with an
extra, force working all OF the time
II was unable to supply enough Of
the serum to the farmers.
The farmers OF the state are making
use of the serum now generally wheI
their hogs become i'll with the dis
ease. In most Of the communities the
way 10 use the remedy has been den
onstrated and the farmers now appl!
Il themselves