Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-11-18

No. 2 Oats &C.
Nafionai Stock Yards:
Hogs $500. I5c lower.
Cattle 5000. Insludhs 100 South
ems Steady.
Sheep $500. Steady.
J. II Starr sold a car load Of Ia5
bead Of immune stock hogs to Dick
Grsthen- a Illinois a big cattle feed
Ct, Tuesday Al $3.50. says the Cour-
Ter. These hogs were all pure bred
DurOc Of Mr.. Starts eun raising and
the high price they sod for shows
that il pays 70 breed good hogs and
double treat them against cholera In
the big cattle feeding &stxietS ac-
eording to Mr.. Starr, they are paying
fancy prices for immune hogs
Reuben Shryoek Of the Stephens
neighborhood last week sold&k butch
er sovs to A. o. Washington 81 the
Fulton neighbdrhOod He got 1891 for
the bunch Mr.. shryock IS also feed
ing tEenty-sevsn head Of mules and
intends to buy nots, and in addition
has twenty head of black cows and
eighteen head Of calves On seo acres
Of fine pasture
John Z Glenn Of southeast Of Ger
trzlia last week got IN q car lead Of
young mules from Shawnee, Okla
There were twenty-five head IN the
bunch and they we're exceptionally
gcod c=G. Mr.. Glenn was down IN
that part Of Oklahoma last week and
bought this let They averaged him
around $40. He suffered the misfor-
tune to lose n of the animals in
shipment He has added them to the
bunch Of young stuff he has already
been feeding.
G. H. and c. z. Morthland are pre-
pairing a load Of sheep for the spring
market.
Nate Spencer, Of near Laddonia.
is feeding some cattle and mules.
W. r. Hildebrand, Of Benton City. is
feeding a good load of sheep for the
spring market.
Walter Harrison, a live young
farmer north OF Auxvasse. was in
this city Saturday.
The temperature was 40 Sunday
and ~ Monday morning, a drop Of
% degrees.
}. 7. johnson has had 20 sheep kill
ed within the past few days by dogs.
Several dogs have already been killed
and he issues a warning that owners
Of dogs must keep them off his Ind.
A. c. Gof, Of Chester, Mont, form
eriy of Audrain County, sends a clip
ping TO the Ledger from Valerie, a
small town nea his home, which tells
Of J. H. Starbuck making an average
Of So bushels Of winter wheat on 7s
acres. Mr.. Goff has seen the field
and known the statement to be true.
Mr.. Gof is grazing $4,000 sheep this
winter and prospecting in his Western
home. His many Audrain county
friends will be glad to hear from
him. He is an uncle Of James Arm
strong, Of this city. This crop was
grown upon a piece Of land which Mr..
Starbuck took as q homestead six
years ago.
Charleston, Mo, Nov. 15-L
Carter, a farmer of East Prairie, is
smazed at the fertility and product
iyeness Of Missouri soil, compared
with that of Kentucky. Carter, on
seven-eights Of an acre, has harvest
ed 12S bushels Of corn, or at the rate
Of LAG bushels to the acre. One thou
sand nine hundred stalks produced
two ears each. The small patch was
plowed three times. The soil was a
black loam- Carter is trying to or
ganize a corn club in Mississippi
County. /
That the yield Of wheat EVER year
10 Missouri would be increased By )
several million bushels il pure bred
seeds could be supplied by the Uni I
yersity Of Missouri at Columbia to all
the farmers Of the state is the indica-
ton Of reports from ten farmers who
sowed University seed wheat in five :
Missouri counties in the season of J
1894. These ten fields gave anil I
average increase Of lib bushels an !
acre over the average yield Of the
counties. The University seed wheat }
averaged 30.ss bushels an acre. The
average yield Of the counties from
which the reports were made was {
ls.b. Reports came from Audrain,
Buchanan, Caldwell, Perry and John
counties. The increase over the !
Everage yield varied from 4 bushels =
Audrain County to "a bushels on Q
one farm in Buchanan County. The
increase yield is due, say experts in !
he College of Agriculture Of the Uni =
to the fact that pure bred J
seeds are used. The wheat sold was :
improved strains of Michigan Won :
Ter, Poole and Fulcaster varieties.
The use Of q pure strain Of any good /
would, they say. increase the
1ieid over the state perceptibly. The :
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