Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-03-07
FARM AND LIVE STOCK.

ing 1895.
j. f. Lanham. of near Cant,
sold a fat cow to Louis Anthony
of Centralia for 500.
Frank Shelly bought span OF
big gray draft mares from Shrout
J. c. Miller, near Moline, sold
good work horse recently to
Mr.. Cantlin for $l65.
& Son for near $500.
Robert Johnson sold 300 acre
farm near Benton City to j. ).
Brown at $9S per acre.
Ernest Schneider has 53 fine
young shoats he is training to fol
low his fattening steers.
Mason Pulls sold to VIM. Mason
last Thursday a span of five year
old horse mules for $3.50.
Bob Smiley of Santa Fe went
to Kansas City this week and
bought 90 head of cattle.
C. E. Sellers of High Hill Dis
trict sold Tom Hodge of Centralia
80 head of fat hogs at 6 cents.
Edwin Weber bought fine
year old draft mare from DIR. j..
d. Barton of Laddonia for 5000.
J. X. Bell, south of Mexico,
bought blooded Poland China
hogs. shipped from Jamesport,
Mo-, recently.
John w. Blum of Skinner ship
ped IA load of 245 pound porKers
to East st. Louis last week. Were
on Thursday market and brot
$685. per cwt.
VIM. Eisele of Skinner pur-
chased a span of four year old
mare mules of John VIM last
week for $500, and they are
good ones, too.
The steer trade Tuesday of this
week on the st. Louis market was
about Zoe higher than last Friday.
Hog market, steady; habitat pigs,
lower Sheep, higher.
The Paris Appeal says that
Prof. Geo. Lipp inoculated 100
hogs for John Rudasil, 40 for Jim
Dowell and so for E. NJ. Lipp last
Friday, using the state serum.
j. j. Gethin of San Francisco,
Cali. was in Mexico recently and
bought a car of fine horses, except
nine head. from Lee Bros, which
he shipped to the Golden State b.
express.
Clyde and Seth McClintick will
have charge of the big farm this
summer which was recently traded
by their father, NJ. 5. McClintick,
to the Rucker Bros. 1t is seven
miles southwest of Mexico. Clyde
and Seth are hustling young men
and they'll make the farm pay.
Homer Bridgford, near Perry.
recently sold and delivered %
head of $50 10. hogs to John
Beagles at Worcester at &c. He
sold to j. r. Smiley a span of 3
year-old sorrel mares, one of them
as good as the best for 1925, the
other with blemish for $135.
At the McPike sale in Vandalia
recently a number of registered
draft horses were sold for gooG
prices. One four year old marc
brought 1867. so, another $2lO, a
10 year old mare 1925. another
1927 so, a two year old FLY $3.50,
a two year old stallion 1925, two
year old Missouri Oscar colt $l35
Ernest Schneider, near Lad
donia, on the Dick HickorsoT
place, which he bought from al
Illinois man, is feeding 40 head O
nice cattle, Lately they average
1,030 pounds per head. Thru The
months of January and February
Gordon Nelson tells us the cattl,
gained one pound and half on al
average per day. The cattle ar'
fed shredded corn fodder, IA little
clover hay, some wheat straw anC
corn, besides get plenty of fresh
pure water--one of the best thing
going. They are housed in "A warn
shed, and every steer every nigh
gets a nice fresh bed OF straw t,
sleep on. Mr.. Schneider know,
how to fatten steer.
Lutte Diggs of Farber was il
Kansas City a few days ago buy
inc Some fapdin0 nattIa RaUord