Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-12-12
Stock and .s
- Farm News

Week. MILK has Deen rejected.
That butter and eggs be accepted
for delivery for the postal service
within the first two zones--that Is.
for delivery to points not more than
150 miles from a point of ship
ment-has been agreed to by Chair
man Sharp and Postmaster Gener
al Hitchcock.
The ruling as to butter and eggs
Is expected to revolutionize tbs
trade in these commodities. Little
objection was raised to butter. 1t can
be easily packed and sent by mail
with no risk either to the butter OF
to other paail matter. Eggs caused a
controversy.
Ed. McMnrphy killed a white quail
while hunting on Mrs. Nora Shrad'
er,s place Monday and says there
were two more in the covey to
which it belonged. The bird was
snow white with a single brown
feather in tie tail and is a freak &C
cording to local ornithologists, al.
though some say It Ia the Alaska
species and has found its way over
weary leagues to this section. Par.
10 Appeal.
Back in the earliest Missouri days
a pioneer thought nothing of telling
a few trees each winter, splitting
the wood into stove length and then
selling it for fifty cents a wagon
load, without sideboards. Later the
price went up to a dollar a load
and just a dozen. years or more ago
one could get adollar and a half
for a "box fun" or from two and .
half to "a for "sideboards full"
Columbia. Mo-. Dec. 80.
Blue blood" and scientific feeding
has given the agricultural college OF
the University of Missouri two rec
ord milk producing COWS, Chief Jo-
sephine and her daughten carlotta
Pontiac.
Carlotta is 7 years old. In twelve
months, in which time her milk was
officially weighed and tested, she pro-
duced 1883 pounds Of milk. That is
is equivalent to ninety-three and one
half standard barrels. The milk from
this one COW would have supplied the
needs OF thirty average city homes.
Her milk contained 70S pounds Of
fat. which Is equivalent to S27 lbs.
of butter. That wassold for mcrs
than 5000. The skim milk was worth
between $50 and $40. It required
between $50 and $50 worth Of feed
to produce that gross return Of
more than $3.50. At six cents a at,
which Is less than the usual price to
city customers, the milk from this
COW would have sold for more than
$500.
There are many dairy herds in MI
souri, In which the entire herd does
not return al much clear profit for
feed consumed in a year as has
this one COW.
Jefferson City. Mo-, Dec. s.
The Missouri Good Roads Associa
tion in a few days VIII open vi
headquarters here and begin the bat
tie for a law which win enablN tn
State to improve all Of its high ways
The secretary. Jerome B. GrMg. vii
be in charge and keep open hous
continually untIl after the Legislator
adiourns. The association win NEE
here again December Q and listen
to the progress that has been made
in extending the organization and
getting the good roads movement
started all over the State John NJ.
Atinkson. former Assistant Attor-
ney General, is going over the pres
ent good roads laws to discover thei
defects and establish how they mast
be amended to make them modern
and useful.
The Auxvasse community boasts
Of several fast corn huskers, but 1t
is probable that Perry wickersham.
who Is harvesting corr for II. C. D.
HALEY. four miles southeast of Aux.
vase, is the champion. Some time
ago Mr.. Wickersham hitched up a
team and husked three loads OF
corn and cribbed it and had his
team unhitched by 400 in the after.
noon. One Of the loads measured
over 81 bushels. and the other two
we're practically the same size. Nine
ty-three bushels Of corr in one day
is a big days work ct any time in
any corn. The corr in which this
! record was made was extra good.
! and five rows a quarter Of a mils
I long husked out one OF these 81 bush
81 loads.
Chicago. Dec. 8. .
Il was figured Saturday that II
the trades Of yesterday ii
storage eggs. local SPECTATORS los
$iO.72o. A drop Of two cents a doz
3 en- on tho local butter. and egg
board and spectators who have bee
holding eggs since the warn wealth
er sold a half million dozen at
loss and offered another half mil
: lion dozen without getting a buyer
Produce commission men recently pr
: dlcted that storage eggs would b
selling for 10 cents a dozen in thi
reity on New Years Day.