Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-10-15
25.5 bushels, compared with 25.s, the
five-year average.
Oats-Indicated acre yield, 29.6
bushels, compared with 300,
the five-year average.

bushels, compared with 300,
the five-year average.
Horace Mundy has decided to stock
his farm in the future with nothing
but thoroughbreds. He has found it
pays big. Last summer he bought in
Slick Mo-, a thoroughbred sow for
S63. She had IS pigs, 9 of which liS-
ed. He sold three of the pigs for $50
and refused SIS for the sow after the
pigs were born. The other pigs all
have been sought by purchasers.
To those who may be interested in
the results of 10 years Investigations
in determining whether corn yields
can be increased by selection and
care Of the seed, the Investigations
conducted upon Seioto River bottom
soil near Piketon. o., are significant.
An ear-to-row breeding plat has been
maintained each season: also a 10
acre multiplying plat. Half of the
seed for the multiplying plat has been
selected each year from the multiply
ing plat and half from the highest
yielding rows of the breeding plat
The same is true regarding the ear
to-row plat, Mixing or cross-breeding
with other varieties has been prevent
ed. No fertilizer or manure has been
used, and the methods of rotation
and of cultivation have remained the
same. From the cooperator who has
weighed the corn yields of his farm
for 30 years, the Department of Agri-
culture has the following written in
1912:
by the use of seed from your ex-
perimental plats the acre yield of the
farm has been raised from a 65-bush-
ell average, at the beginning, to rs Of
late years. The land is as good as 1t
was II years ago but not better. The
cultivation was as good but no bet
ter than it was ~ years ago"
Seed corn should be selected from
stalks standing where they grew, be-
cause only then with certainty can
seed be obtained from stalks that
have an inherent tendency to yield
we'll.
A dozen cotton mules that K. K.
Ruckner, of Mexico, bought a few
days ago from Baxter Guthrie, north
west of Hatton, were part of a bunch
of 80 head Mr.. Guthrie was offered
$3.50 around for last spring. Mr..
Buckner said at stock sales Monday
that the animals were fat enough to
be marketed, having been fed all
through the summer. The depreci-
alton in price is due to the fact that
there is no sale for cotton in the
South, owing to the European war.
Gilmor brothers, of near Concord,
shipped a car of sheep and lambs
from Auxyasse to st. Louis Tuesday.
Mr.. Gilmor bought a part of the
shipment some time ago from a
stockman in eastern Boone county
The remainder of the shipment, "a
lambs and eight sheep, was bought OF
j. F. Buckner & Son, of Auxyasse.
They averaged in weight ~ pounds
and cost Z cents.
What R. +. Biggs, east Of Aux
vase, called the best mule colt at
stock sales Monday, was brought to
town by Frank Mirts, southwest Of
Fulton, and taken home by Mr.. Biggs
1t took an even 800 to get the brute.
Fulton Gazette.
Stock sold well at Bowen and Log
ans public sale Thursday, and the
terms were cash. A large crowd was
present at the farm about 3 miles
southwest of Mexico. Col. j. T. John.
son was auctioneer and Dan Cauth-
orn, clerk. Some of the sales fol.
low: II hogs, s204.85, Jas. Rutteri
10 hogs, $50, and 10 hogs, $51, Homer
Mundy; sow and 8 pigs, $2l, sow and
8 pigs, s21.50, sow and 8 pigs, 1913
Walter Strange; 81 Western sheep
1888, 3 bucks, 1913, Ben Middleton;
red COW, $50, COW and calf, $3.50, Joe
Considine; COW, S57, COW and calf,s5
Earl Carter; red COW, SIS, COW and
calf, $54, cow and calf, $53, Willis
Ackman; 80 3-year-old steers, S2496
Lutte Diggs; 20 yearling steers, $500
Joe Considine.
j.. c. Pierce of Auxvasse sold a
COW and calf one day last week that
brought him an even $500. The COW
was sold to Jacob NJ. Buckner, Of
south Audrain county, at $40, and
the calf, a three-months-old bull,
sold to w. X. Buckner and Nolan Hud
dleston, both north of Auxvasse, at
$50. The calf was shipped to st,
Louis, and after reaching the market
weighed $50 pounds and sold at &c
a pound.
The lndio Cattle Co. marketed here
Thursday a string of cows that were
shipped from their ranch, situated in
Maverick county, Tex. These cows
we're the initial consignment, or rath-
er the first step in a venture which
was recently launched by the Indio
Cattle Co.
Under the supervision of Col. Barnes
the hustling president Of the Indio
Co, some IS or 20 silos have recently
been erected on the Indio ranch, which
is located on the Mexican border. They
plan 10 feed a great many cattle and
the silos are the foreruner Of a new
iep in the cattle industry in the Lone
Star State. Col. Barnes was wide
awake enough to see that if South
Texas cowmen get to the point where