Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-09-10
Stock Notes

feeding. The bunch consisted OF %
head that averaged 1871 pounds and
sold to Joe stern & Co.,of New York.
for SiO.15 per cwt. When seen by a
representative OF the Reporter, Mi,
Harrison gave out the following in
formation in regard 10 the feeding
II bought these cattle on this mar
ket about six months ago and put
them on a feed Of corn and cotton
seed cake, after the cattle got above
the 1000 pound mark ! began feed
mig some Lyons Champion Molasses
feed and the cattle did mighty well.
They gained approximately 475
mounds and sold satisfactorily on
Wednesdays market"
Mr.. Harrison reports grass coming
out in good shape after the recent
rains and also stated that he looked
for a good deal of feeding to be done
in that section this winter.-St.Louis
Live Stock Reporter.
Many Audrain county farmers are
sowing rye and will Craze it this
fall.
Homer Bridgford, of Santa Fe., is
feeding Al one hogs which will be
ready to go about November |. He
reports crop conditions in South
Fork township one hundred per cent
better than last year. | threshed
1000 bushels of wheat from so acres,
he says, and some of u corn will
make a very high yield.
A farmer living down near Rich
Hill, by the name of Chas. Couch,
met with a peculiar accident Tues
day. While he was helping to un-
load bundles of wheat from a wagon
the dust from the straw became so
thick as to make him sneeze so vlo-
lently that his right arm was dis
located at the shoulder.-Trenton
Times.
REFERRING to the Importance
of a farm advisor, a telegram from
Columbia, Missouri says;
"The College of Agriculture of the
University of Missouri, in co-opera-
ton with the bureau of Plant Indus
try of the United States Department
of Agriculture, is ready to appoint
four more farm advisers in Missouri
These men win be available after
September 1.
"One-fourth of the salary and ex'
peuses Of each is paid by the College
of Agriculture and one-fourth by the
Government. The remaining half il
paid by the County Court Of the
county in which the adviser works
The minimum salary is $4,000 a year
ut will cost each county a mini.
mum of $500 a year for incidental
expenses.
In every county in the state wher'
there is a farm adviser a Roundup
week is being planned for the pur.
pose of greater community interest
The idea is to enlist the interest O
workers in every field and to havt
six big days when higher ideals ant
closer friendships will be cementet
to the personal interest of the in
dividual.
Southeast Missouri has a weel
when all of the various business an,
professional organizations get to
gether and work for the genera
good. The idea of Prof. Doane i
along the same lines, only it goes n,
further than the county limits il
each case.
The plan is a good one for it vii
bring the town and county closer to
gether and make every citizen worI
: for a common cause, a greater Au
drain.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Ware are HON
from Altamont, Kas., where the.
: visited their son, Jimmy Ware
Jimmy had a fine crop and has $50
bushels of oats stored on his place
, Astral King, Jas. Houchin's grea
!. Jefferson City saddle stallion,won tn
: saddle horse show at Des Moincs
Iowa, Thursday. Kentucky's Best
owned by Miss Loula Long, Of Kan
sas City was second.
The other winners we're: john,
Jones, third Maurine Fisher, fourth
and Miss Cliff, fifth.
o. f. Howard, of Moline, delivcre,
80 bushels of wheat in this city Fri
day that brought $t.O2.
There was an inch and .hree
quarters of rain Friday night.
The State Board Of Agricultur,
has for several years been expert.
menting on a plot Of ground west Of
Vandalia and the operations have
been watched with interest by the
farmers of this section. Recent,
the wheat on ten acres of ground
was threshed by Gray Bros. Their
ground was divided into IA plots
each plot being therefore III of an
acre. The fertilizers used are given
below, the first column being land
That was not tiled and the second
colnmu tiled. The figures given rep
%resents the yield per acre:
UNFRAMED Tiled
Manure, rock phos-
phate ......... No, / 3O3 27
manure .......,. No. . On 10 q