Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-10-17
Stock and y
y Farm News

i
THE TANDEyENrER COMMISSION
CO. Is ALWAYS IN TIE MAR
YET FOR POULTRY. BUTTER
AND EGGS. CALL Us Be
FORE YOU SELL. VII
MUTUAL Phone s-cFTY phone sss
=. A. Highishoe a Co
For Poultry and Esq Prices.
The Agriculture Committee Of the
Club viii make arrangements
once 10 have the entries in the Boys
Cora Growing contest judged and The
$50 prize for the largest yield and
the $50 prize for the best prize com
awarded. some OF the entries are
said to have made excellent show
linss.
c. W Pease and others residing
southwest OF this city lave been
losing hogs because o. cholera After
investigation II has been aecided that
the disease Is sprricd frum n fzrul
to another h pigeons
Information Bureau st Louis Natl
Stock Yards. oct Il.
The ST. Louis live stock market
shows up strong in the comparative
report showing the receipts at an
markets for septembef. Although ST
louis is the very center Of the dis
u,ct mosf largely effected BY the
sts rage IN hogs and cattle Its Sep
TENDER cattle receipts were forty
three percent greater than during
September. 1911. compared TO q loss
OF 4 percent at Chicago. a gain q
only one percent at Omaha. 5 per
cent at St. Joseph and twenty two
percent at Kansas City. Thus ST
Louis's gain as q cattle market was
double that OF its neares competi
e tor.
e In hogs the loss WAS 81 percent a
K St. Louis compared TO Il percenf
s loss at Kansas City. thus placing ST
c Louis in second place as the great
est of hog markets. Chicago alon'
exceiling it in receipts. 10000
hogs were received at St. Louis dur
+ ing September compared 10 Ice, 0eI
at Kansas City. It Is interesting Il
note that st Louis loss in hog re
Is ceipts since the first of the yea
amount to 16 percent compared Z
s. a loss OF 20 percent at Kansas City
" and total hog receipts at st. Loui
II up 10 date this year are 1,s40, 900,
compared to 1873. 900 at Kansas City
I'll As great rivalry prevails betweeI
n hog markets. especially in TIME .
Of scarcity, this ability Of St Louis I
t. attract larger supplies than Kansa
w City is proof Of superiority OF thi
re market, The prices paid for III
O. past six months bear out that cor
m e~lusion. The margin of differenc
is in favor Of ST. Louis has been sue
z as to lead many shippers to sen
". their consignments here who formerl
is sent their stock 70 other markets
st The greatest gain. however, is !
hit sheep. The sheep gain at 5
re- Louis for September OF this yea
'or compared with last was SO percen
onI It was Z percent at Kansas Cit
go less than n percent at Chicag'
an and a loss at Omaha and ST. J
nd seph
st. Louis sustained its position
err the greatest horse and mule mark
est in the world by handling three tint
cit as many horses and mules as Chic
md 20, four times as many as 81. ]
led seph. five times as many as Kans
les City and 6 times as many as Oman
for or more horses and mules than q
len cago. St. Joseph and Kansas CITY
Hr. combined.
r W. Ray. OF Bowling Gree
ky, who has been in this city
several days buying choice Rex \
Donald mares. vas in Paris on bn
ness Monday.
John W. Moseley & Son. northw'
OF kuxvasse shipped a car of fat he
- to the st. Louis market Tuesday
7 ening. Fifteen. $500 pounds, VI
bought from W.. r. Buckner, nor
east of Auxvasse at s295.22; fiftef
ISIS pounds, from Nike Stevens,
neighbor, at $780, 20; eleven, II
pounds. from J. ]. McPheeters
Son, other n~eighbors at $i7O.S0; 9