Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-07-25

- May IS 10 a 8 5-S
Oats Sept "a B Dec IS IA May "a
Sept Pork l7.77
Sept Lard 1865
Sept Ribs 1912
S,eoe ~inchpdng 100 South
erns. Natives strong 70 ioc higher.
Hoss-75Oo. loo higher.
Med and butch 100 Il SOS
Good heavy 100 a sos
Rough heavy TAO a 7.s5
Light T.ss a $40
Piss $50 a 7s5
Bulk 7.s5 a sos
sheep 1900. Steady.
Mr.. Plate. one OF Audrain's well
known farmers, says the oats pros
poets in his section, north of this
city. are very fine.
Columbia, Mo-, July %.
A $500 900 corn crop is being
raised in Missouri this year. 1t is
believed that the crop wIA be worth
this much If the weather from now
until September Is favorable.
The season Is from two or three
weeks later than usual. but growth
during June and July has been very
rapid Some corn is now ten feet
high and the stand is very good
Almost 100000 acres have been
planted to cory this year in Mis-.
souri,. This is one sixth Of the total
area of the State, including cities,
rivers and land not suited for agricul
ture. Probably o~ne4forrth of the till
able hand is planted to corn
The wheat crop is nearly all har-
vested and some of it has been mar
keted. 1t is estimated that the
crop amounted to about 23,000.OO0
bushels
Last year it was So. 15O. 900 bushels
and in 1910 a little less than 10000
900. The yield to the acre this
year is expected to be smaller than
last year.
Powell & Mundy shipped the John
Wakefield cattle and Is others to
the st. Louis Market Sunday might
There were 90 head in the Wakefield
bunch and they averaged $40 lbs.
and cost s26SS.25, the highest price
w. W. Mundy says. he ever paid for
cattle In the 20 years OF his experi-
enre.
A very wellfnished drove OF
bullocks that averaged 1864 lbs sold
$40, the high price of the day. Thee
cattle We're shipped by Powell q
Mundy. extensive traders Of Audrair
county. Mo. The car included q
head and the gross price was $2694.0
q figure seldom attained ON a slnglt
shfpment Of cattle. The beeves wert
finished by ]. Wakefield who operate
a farm near Mexico. Mo. Mr.. Wake
field by getting cattle to this fin
ish proves his ability as a feeder AND
puts himself in the topnotch class o.
prime beef producers.
Powell & Mundy also had a con
signment OF steers that averaged 122
lbs. and sold at 1916 per cwt. This
price is next to the top. These cat
tie We're fei by Sterl Carter WHO'S al
so uea Mexico. They were very wei
finished and for their weight were
very good killing cattle-Live STOCK
Reported.
Henry Yoder, who is a member Of
the Mennonite religious clan south
cast Of Centralia, has been requested
by a committee of the sect, SO it is
reported. to have the telephone re
moved from his home, otherwise HI
viii be communicated.
The church people contend a tele
phone is OF the world and should
be discarded. Yoder contends thu
telephone Is a necessity, but will re
wort his decision to the church com
mittee ina few days,
This organization is a community G
farmers who live in the locality thre
or four miles southeast of Centralia
They are very strict in all religious
matters.
Neighbors OF other religious be
liefs say they are as fine a type o.
citizenship as you can find anywhere.
cordial, hospitable, and in good NOR
ais and manners" are we'll up at par.
There Is another worldly matter
they do not take part in. too. and
that is politics.
Columbia, Mo-, July %.
About 1000 acres OF potatoes win
be harvested in the orrdck district,
the only commercial potato-growine
district In Missouri, according to J.
Kelly Wright of the College OF Agrd-
culture at the University Of Mis-
souri,.
The acreage this year, MI. Wright
says. rs about two-thards as large as
II was last year. The average yield
viii be from 125 to $50 bushels to
the acre.
Mr.. Wright has made an inyestiga-
ton of potato growing in Missouri
and. Will publish the results of his
work in a bulletin soon to be is
sued by the State Board of Agrtcul
National Stock Yards, ILL.,, July 20.
Hogs shipped from AudraAn County
all Western markets yesterday
when they sold at $3.50 per owt.
here. This is five cents higher than
Chicago's top and twenty-five cents
above the top at Kansas City.
They weighed an average of els lbs
each and showed what high quality
porkers Missouri can produce. 1t Is
expected Audraan County will make a
exceptionally creditable exhibit at
he Misssissapppi Valley Live stock
Show here next September
Mexico horSes carried. off some
II the premiums at The Columbia Fair
Tuesday. Tuesday was tie first
lay OF the Fair IN the Boone cosisir