Mexico weekly ledger., 1912-10-10


~ s5e5o; cows $50 to $50; sheep
size to S.; corn by ths acre
x 10 $3.50 and 60 apple trees tah y
winter apples for SIS In all tos
sale totaled up 70 about $4,000
twenty thousand horses have died
recently iu Western Kansas ineI
loss n Is estimated. viii reach SIX
million dollars. -
DIeps & Roberts, south Anarain
stoekmen. vera operating on the cM
laway side Of the line last week.
and shipped a fine load OF porkers
! from Anxvasse to the st. Louis mar
tet The shippers got 81 head Of
puroc- Jerseys from L. G. Reed, u
miles northwest of Auxvasse. that
were contracted several weeks ago at.
$50 a hundred. The Reed consign-
ment weighed a total Of 1886 lbs
and the check In payment for. them
called for s1,O5s.ss. The remaining
l25 hogs in the shipment were from
lthe feed pens Of James Patterson
:; northeast of Hatton. They weighed
a total Of $3.50 pounds and were bar
gained for some time ago at $3.50 q
hundred. the deal amounting to
s4S5.97.
The Kansas City Droyers Tele'
gram says: 'In addition to having
an abundance Of rough feed. z, W
-ICrawford Of Mexico. Mo-, states thai
a farmers are now about through SOW
e ing wheat, and that with so much
moisture in The ground, it viii BIZ
2 up and green in a very short time
e Then we will be provided with I
choice winter pasture. Mr.. Craw
u ford said: There is nothing bet
ter for stock through the winter than
II a wheat pasture"
B. Il. Middleton has purchased 2
e. mule colts in the last week and vii
Is feed them on his farm east of town
q. He bought some Of Henry Stuart Q
Rush Hill and Lee Stuart Of Laddt
D. MIA; also 80 yearlings from Ran
nd County stockman.
Mr.. Middleton also bought a sorr'
s, mule colt OF Porter Waters and som
ed or the best judges say II is the bel
sn mule they have seen this year.
TO-. Not every county can have
great institution like the Nilsson
lie College Of Agriculture located With
It's borders. But under a new pla
OF devised BY the College 1t is now 20
&C. slble for each county 70 have
agent or Farm Advisor located at Il
lie. county seat devoting his whole tin
d; to the agricultural interests OF u
county. The object Of this plan
las to brlns directly TO the individu
by, farmer on his own farm the benefi
cd. OF the Investigations and d~iscoyeri
die made by the College Of Agriculture
or Not only will the departments
lis the college be able to give instru
M ton on soils, farm crops. orchardin
ELS live stock farming, poultry keeping
he and saving hogs from cholera but
The demonstration farm viii be condu'
ed in cooperation with the coun
zen court for the purpose OF actually de
md onstrating the most profitable met
the DDS OF farm practice.
,ngl This plan has been approved
sen the Mo. Federation of Commerce
ak Clubs, the Missouri Bankers Asso
ore alton and farmers organizations.
be- present, only a limited number
Farm Advisors can be appointed, b
Irstl il is expected that another We
md many counties can be organized u
md der this new plan.
The College Is now aiding Missot
fol- farmers by holding Branch Cours
in Agriculture, distributing hog CHI
ing era serum, conducting a soil survt
and making soil Investigations in seyt
are teen different localities Of the stat
Judging live stock at county fab
Ter. making educational exhibits
and state and county fairs and in MAJ
ar other ways, carrying directly to I
adj farmer the practical work bel
18th done at Columbia.