Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12

slaves army Officers, par
~t'euiariy of the Quartermaster de-
partment are becoming alarmed over
the future Of the remount Of cav
airy Of our army, in view Of the
shipment to Europe Of the thousands
o. horses for use in the a They
nave become so concerned as to lay
before President Wilson a sugges-
ton that he lay an embargo on fur
Their shipment of mares out Of the
country.
The farmers Of Monroe county are
through sowing wheat and an unus-
ually large acreage has been sown,
and we hope they will reap a bounti-
tui harvest and get a big price for
it.-Paris Appeal.
Charles Green shipped a carload of
mules from Mexico to st. Louis Fri
day. They were bought last week at
B. R. Middleton's barn.
R. R. Buckner and son are feeding
100 head Of mules at their farm Just
south of town.
B. R. Middleton has bought the
corn Theodore Selb had on display
and Jewell Bybee's prize corn to use
for seed. That's the way to get re-
suits.
A rooster with four legs was exhib
tied on the streets of West Plains last
week by W. M. Street, who resides
near Cabool.
The Hayzlett farm of 803 acres
near Graham sold for 100000. A
big farm and a big price for such a
large farm.
Eighteen Ben Davis apples to the
peck is the way a Holt county grower
can measure his 1914 crop of more
than six hundred bushels harvested
from a 10-acre orchard.
M. B. hurry, of Hereford, owner
of n of the best herds of Hereford
cattle in Central Missouri, last week,
sold 38 head of yearling Hereford
bulls to H. c. Taylor, of Roanoke, Mo.
for $500. The cattle were shipped
Saturday, and a load of the animals
will be prepared by Mr.. Taylor for
the Dener stock show in January.
Mr.. hurry got $3.50 apiece for 20
Of the bulls and $125 apiece for the
other eigth. The sale clears Mr.
Murry's pastures Of young bulls, and
probably is the largest sale ever made
by one Galloway breeder to one man
After looking over Mr.. Murry's cat.
tie, Mr.. Haylor said he had handled
more than seven hundred Hereford
bulls in the last year and that thos'
he got the last year and that those h
got from Mr.. hurry were the best 10
he had seen. He expects tc sell then
for ranch use.-Fulton Gazette.
Wheat shipments from Galveston
to Europe in October was 4,660,00t
bushels. During the same month 284,
900 bales of cotton were shipped (
Europe from the same port, value'
at $10,0OO,0OO.
Thirty acres of cattle pens, one
third Of the Kansas City stock yard
were destroyed by fire Friday night
with a loss of about u million dol
Tors. The fire is thought to have ar
ed from a lighted cigar or cigarette
The burned area extended two block
west and four blocks north.
The Twenty-Eighth annual sale o
the S. P. Emmons & Son, Of the Lon
Branch Farm Shorthorn herd, n 0
the greatest sales of the year in tn
West, was held Friday at the En-
omns home in Southwest Mexico. A
usual, a large crowd of out-of-tow
buyers were attracted and bought lii
orally.
The auctioneers were R. L. Harri
man of Bunceton, ]. N. Stephens, Q
Martinsburg, and ]. 7. johnson an
]. G. Ford, of this city. W. W. Pc.
lock was clerk.
The heifers which were sold frs
did not bring the price they shout
have according to judges of fine cal
tie. Among the first sold and I
whom are as follows: Augusta Ros
roam heifer, to D. c. Owen, Mexic'
500; Knights Gypsy Maid, roa
heifer, Douglass Burns, Clarksvill
$3.50; Knights Superior, roam heii
er, to ]. W. McDearmont, Kahok'
$3.50; violet's Pearl 9Th, J.. W. NJ
Dearmont, $165.
Among those from out-of-town a
tending the sale are Prof. TROY
bridge, Columbia; R. NJ. Brown, P;