Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-10-22
Stock Notes

W. J. offutt brought a sprig of
Wsnderberry to this office this week.
This is a plant of which there are
few in this section. Mr.. offutt says
the berry makes delicious jelly.
Fred Roberts, an Audrain shipper,
consigned a car load of hogs from
Auxnsse to st. Louis Tuesday. There
were los head in the shipment.-Aux-
vase Review.
o. L. Woods sale, Wednesday, at
his farm, was most satisfactory to
everyone connected with it. Quite
large rumber of buyers were present.
Among the live stock sold and prices
paid were the following;
c. c. Bybee, ? six-year-old bay
mules, $S57.50; ]. A. Alexander, the
same for two black mules; Ed. Craw
ford, black . year-old mare. 500 and
500 for a bay mare the same age:
Robt. Hook, eight y-s;s:=...::;.:: hc:ttcc--s $,
SS6s; T. c. Berrey, yearling heif-
ers, Sl5a; j. t. johnson, 5 two year
old steers, $3.50; W. c. Schultz. 7
yearling steers, s292.25, and 8 two.
year-old steers, $ll9.25; Alex Car
ter, Is steer calves, S524; J. II. Hebel
red heifer, S54; Joe Duncan. Swear
old mare, SIS; Chas. Brown, bay mare
10 years old, $40.
John S. Henderson jr., five miles
south of Auxvasse, sold a span of
high-grade mare mules last week to
R. R, Buckher & Son, four miles
northeast of Auxvasse. The animals
are six years old and the selling price
was $3.50.
twenty-five years ago at a shooting
match, Charles Asher of Rails Coun-
ty won two geese as prizes. He took
the birds home, made pets of them
and reports that they are still in ex-
cellent health
Despite the fact that they were
planted on St. Patrick's day, the Ir-
lsh potatoes in 1-acre field of a
Bates County farmer sulked all thro'
the regular season and have just be-
gun to come up within the last week
or two.
One tree in a st. Joseph mans or
chard yielded ten bushels
of apples this year. The workmen
picked ) bushels standing on the
ground, then brought ladders and
gathered 5 bushels more. That tree
stood near the driveway and got more
spraying than the others.
The horse that won in the ring at
the Fulton street fair for the best
walking horse is a two-year-old filly
owned by Ross McClannahan. north
east of Fulton. The youngster has a
combination Of Rex Meonald and
Wilkes blood, and is as good pros
pect for a fine saddle horse as the
Kingdom has.-Gazette.
Baxter Guthrie g. Son, ten miles
northwest Of Auxyasse, were at
Auxvasse Tuesday with IS fat hogs
which they delivered to Fred Rob
erts of south Audrain county. The
hogs weighed a total of 9,S45 lbs.
and had been contracted for a week
or ten days at $3.50 a hundred.-Ful-
ton Gazette.
Thomas and John S. Henderson, jr.,
four miles south of Auxvasse, went to
Thompson last week to ship in a car
of western breeding ewes, which
they bought one day last week from
Wheeler Cant.
A summary of the auctions of
Shorthorn bulls held Aug. 24-27 at
Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
has just been received by way of
London. An average of s1,75O was
made on 223 bulls, ranging in age
from II to 20 months old. Forty-nine
bulls sold for more than $4,000
each. Last year at the same place
the champion bull of the Palermo
show made $4,000, whereas this
years champion (Quilmes ColIynie
5th) was third in the list, on the ba-
SIS of selling price; he fetched S1O,-
955. The reserve champion Mice
Senator) was the top-priee lot; he
sold for S11,375.-Breeders Gazette.
Col. j. 7. johnson is home from
Ialulu, ILL.,, where he cried a big sale
FOR Col. c. C. Judy. Col. johnson
sold one hundred bull calves; 50 of
hem sold for s57 and 50 for s44. He
llso sold 1400 steer and heifer calves
n lunches of so. The steer calves
'anged from s21 to $50 and the beif-
r calves $50 to $36. The sale was a
most successful one and was very
satisfactory to Col. Judy.
According to local weather rec
rds this is already the wettest Oc-
ober in the history of Mexico. From |
october l to IL there has been 4.47 |
nehes of precipitation. Of the II |
ays there have been 10 rainy ones. |
he heaviest downpour was on the
tn when there was 2.25 inches.
The rainfall seems to have been
eneral throughout the East and all
yer this state. Flods in the low
lnds near De Soto, following the
eavy rains of the past ten days, will
suit in a loss of thousands of dol
RS to the farmers. Many have lost
elr entire corn crop. One farmer
ports loss of 5000 bushels. The
rn is left on the stalk to avoid
rinkage.
The damage to corn here was not
eat, as much of it has been stored
used for silage.
Bell Beach, the great high school :
rse shown by Tom Bass, which will :
special feature every evening at :
Kanuau Ttt,, Ia-n /.