Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-25

sions weaken hogs and invite cholera
DEsinfset hog yards occasionally
witk unzIasked line; It Is good ehol-
IRA insurance.
Serum and sanitation make fhe
best preparation for the warfare .
Keep cholera hogs and carcaSses
AWAY from the stream ard insist that
your neighbor do the ZANE.
The straw shed for hogs Is almosi
sure to Be either damp Or dusty,
Either condition invites disease.
Keep gunny sacks saturated with
lerude oil where hogs can rub against
them. Raise more hogs and fewer
lice.
Kill lice with crude or fuel oil
sprinkied on the hogs at feeding time,
applied to rubbing posts or used IS .
twc-inch layer on top Of the water in
a dipping tank.
Coughs and pneumonia from dusty
beds may incidentally be prevented Il
louse-infested beds are oiled Breath
ing dust may cause death from pneu-
monia and certainly renders hogs less
resistant to cholera
The Missouri Agricultural Expert
ment Station has carefully tested
each Of these remedies and 50 have
thousands Of good farmers They
have stood the test but are not sub
stitutes for serum treatment for they
resist but do not entirely prevent
cholera. These thrift-pgodueing
measures would pay il cholera did
not exist.
Sprinkle freshly slaked lime about
one-sixteenth Of an inch deep over
the lots. sprinkling quarters once
every month or two. At this rate, a
barrel win Kill the germs on about
I.2s0 square feet Of lot sqaes. Cam
bat worms by feeding a mixture Of
4 parts Of charcoal, 8 parts Of cop
peras, 3 parts Of common salt 9 parts
of Glauber's salt, 3 parts sal soda, ]
part sulphur. Mix in UNDERGROUND
lots and keep IN a dry place where the
hogs can help themselves. II is a
good Conditioner and has been thor
oughly tested at the Missouri Agri-
cultural Experiment Station and on
many farms.
Rolla Hendrix, eight miles north
east Of Auxvasse, has 30 head of ma
tive heifers which he will take
through the winter and put on feed
in the early spring.
Elmer ShryOck, east Of Stephens,
IS getting rid Of a part Of his new
corn by feeding it to about 80 head Of
hogs, 20 head Of which are fat enough
to be shipped.
Nolan HuddIeston, two miles north
Of Auxyasse, bought three small
calves Wednesday from Ralph Eller,
one-haf mile west Of Auxvasse.
A Bushel Of Corn.
What difference in weight is allow
ed between shelled corn and ear corn
The term bushel is not used in this
country. Not one in a hundred. in
GLIDING myself, knows what a bushel
Of o weighs, and we can raise more
bushels Of corn here to the acre
than they do in the cornbeIt,-w. p.
H., ~PortervilIe, Cal.
The legal weight of a bushel Of
shelled corn IN most states is So
pounds. 1t ranges from 81 pounds IN
Arizona to So in Pennsylvania. The
legal weight Of husked ear corn is 10
pounds, but range from 6s in Ohio 10
" in Mississippi The weight Of a
bushel Of a corr Is Influenced by the
percent Of moisture which the corn
contains. Early in the season before
the corn has dried out well " 10 rs
pounds frequently are counted to the
bnshel, while for well dried old corn
6s pounds are sometimes allowed.-c.
B. Hutchison, University Of Missouri.
breeders Gazette.
Charles II. Dunn shipped a car load
Of rs head Of mules from Auxyasse 10
st Louis Saturday. Mr.. Dunn has
been shipping his mules to Lathrope
for several weeks. but E this load
to Guyton & Harrington at st. Louis.
Other shipments made by Mr.. Dunp
last week were q load from SiIex and
a load from wellsvilIee-Auxvasse Re-
view.
Z. T. Biggs, three miles east Of
Auxyasse. is busy buying his third
bunch Of good mule colts this season.
Biggs bought nine colts Saturday.
eight from Curtis Whaley, well known
y the western part Of the county.
mr. Biggs had bought twelve head Of
bis third bunch up to Saturday even
ing and this dozen made his p,,r.
ehases for this class Of stock total 54
mead this season Twenty-nine Of
these went to Eugene BlakemOre. 81
sheibyviile. Tenn, thirteen to pav;os
e Moore, Of Fayetteville, Tenn. and
ne buyer has twelve Ieft.-Auxyasso
Review.
= marriage license was issnod
Tuesday to Louis Carl sehulze ~
hiss Pearl Dell Schwartz, both ~
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