Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-05-16
Stock and y
y Farm News

q LOCAL MARKET.
wheat-sl15.
New Com-S2 and SIC.
4 oats-5s and CSC.
q straw-s6.oo q ton.
Good Timothy and Straw
Hay-s10 to SIS.
8 3 q
Chicago Close
Wheat July ia ia a 3-S p Sept loS
"a a rs
Corn July n IS A Sept IS B
Oats July 50 S-s B Sept ls rs b
July Pork 1887 q 40
Pork 1882 A
Sept Lard li.15 B
July Ribs 1857 A
Cattle, $500. including 1900 South
erns. Natives steady to lOc higher.
Hogs-l20 900. Steady TO &c lover
Med aud butch 7.60 a 100
Good heavy 7.s5 a 7.95
Rough heavy TAO a 100
Light 7.75 a 7.S5
Pigs 5.25 a 7.25
Bulk 7.G5 a 7.S5
sheep-2sOo. Steady.
THE vANDEvENTER COMMISSION
co. is ALWAYS IN THE MAR.
|KEr FOR POULTRY. BUTTER
AND EGGS. CALL US Be
FORE YOU SELL. W.T.
MUTUAL Phone Getty Phone S25.
+. A. Eightshoe & Co.
For Poultry and Egg Prices.
Missouri counties will receive si14i
600, provided the citizens Of the
state show an interest in the move
ment. This is the assurance that H..
w. Graham, editor OF the Missouri
Ruralist, has received from Bert Ball,
secretary of the grain Improvement
committee Of the Associated Com
mercial Clubs. which has charge OF
the DISRUPTION of the fund.
A movement to put a county az
riculturfst in every county
OF every state, to make a
study Of local conditions and suggest
plans of scientific farm management
for the purpose Of obtaining a larger
crop yield, ds fathered by the crop
Improvement committee Of the
Council of Grain Exchanges. which
INCLUDES mercantile bodies in many
of the principal cities in the coun-
TRY.
mot more acres planted TO crop,
but more returns from the acres"
is the slogan of those who advocate
the employment of an expert agricul'
tural demonstration in every county.
Epitomized, the county project
calls for the cooperation Of the
commercial, agricultural and educa
tional forces of each county; the ap
pointment oil a county committee o
, crop Improvement and county deyelo
ment, aud the appointment of a
: trained agriculturlst by the local
committee to act as a general ad.
wiser on agricultural matters, organ.
ize farmers clubs, arrange for ex.
hibits of farm products and cooper
ate with the superintendent Of
schools in teaching the rudiments oil
agriculture.
The directors OF the Cooperative
Live Stock Commission Co. met In
this c~ityto.day for the purpose OF in
cooperating provided sufficient siosi
had been taken in the enterprise.
Presiding Judge Alex Carter lost a
fine Forrest King young mare Tues
day. The mare got her foot over the
hItching rope and broke her leg and
the Judge had to kill her.
Col. VIM. owen, stock buyer for
Frank sannebesk's meat market
: bought from Roy Neeley, Tuesday.
a corn-fed heller, paying for the
same $751; go, also one COW from R.
I A. Calhoun at $40 20.
ST. LOUIS Republic, referring to
d. W. May, of Porto Rec, who is
now visiting relatives and friends
In Mexico editor.ally says: D. w.
May, superintendent of a Government
experiment station. in Porto Rico
tells st. Louis that he thinks the
tariff OF sugar should be abolished
for the benefit Of Porto Rieans.
Several million yo,ers are pre-. ari1g
to elect a Democratic Administered
I tion to revise the tariff for the bene-
fit Of Americans"
Henry C. Parks, president Of
the Mule Dealers Association at the
st Louis National Stock Yards,
East 81. Louis, composed OF al the
mule dealers at the yards, says fully
1000 mules are being held by them
for an expected record high price the
result Of the present high water de.
predations-
Mule dealers already have definite
Information thai the Southern Rail
road contractors will grab up every
available mule for work IN recon,
E ruc'ing Their flooa-damaged roa
beds. Another fac,or, they say,
which will tend to increase the de-
mand for mules this summer Is that
mere mics OF good roads will tie con
strueted this year than ever before
IN the history Of the country,