Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-12-16

ernA Market steady to slow.
Hogs 1900 Toe to I5c lower.
Sheep 1000. Steady.
Pail Hndson's sale Tuesday a, i,
farm north last Of Mexico vas NJ
attended and most Of the oEsri,.
brought good prices. Nj. Hvss.
seemed very well pleased with i.
outcome- The total sales anouu.a
. something over $500.
j. R. Shook bought a Jersey en-
for $3.50; VIVA H. Sims boosh. =
ewes at $50 per head: J. H. p,v;.
bought a red COW for s45; Cso \
johnson paid $50 for a Jersey cr-.
=. H. Davis bOaght u hors Al %
each D. L Rodgers bought ten ~,
old brown mare for s1525a. " "
johnson paid sol for a COW and Mn
calf.
Smith Bros Of near Can't, shipped
one Of their fine DurOc Jersey boar,
to Conrad, No. this week. JosepbA
George was the purchaser.
Fred Roberts bought eight head q,
hogs averaging 100 lbs, from snits
Bros. Of Can't. this week. The pr;,.
was six cents.
A shipper who expressed his eutr
satisfaction at the sales Of two dpov.,
Of cattle out Of his own feed lots wa.
r. J. Shobe, Of Audrain county. Ma
There n a5 steers in one string
that averaged e15 pounds and sod "a
the Independent Packing Co. "a,
sSsa The other bunch was purchas-
ed BY Armour & Co, for the san.
price. The string had in i. Ga mixed
steers and heifers that crossed The
scales for an average Of 500 lba.
Mr.. shobe, Is probably one Of The
largest feeders Of his county and Is
regular patron Of this market Hb
csttle Monday were fed under nj,
personal supervision and disphud
good handling-Tuesday's Live Sta4
Reporter.
Smith Bros. Of near CAN'T brmshs
home . load Of lambs from s. Lois
this week. They viii feed then o.
their farm this winter.
Albert Harrison, a big feeder and
cattle raiser Of Audrain county, No,
topped the market Monday with
load Of yearIing steers. There wen
IS head in the string, that aversgd
1895 lbs. and sold to Armour & ca,
for si0.l0 per cwt-
bought these beeyes 8 little over
. year ago for $3.50 per cwt, | start
ed them on ensiIage, corn and fed
them about / ID. Of cotton seed meal
to the head each day. | used the shell
corn which / allowed to soak fer q
hours before feeding. / kept them @
this feed until early spring, when
turned them on grass, feeding then
some corn. About the first Of June |
Tut them on full feed Of corn and cot
ton seed. increasing the latter grad
ually until they were consuming about
8 lbs. to the steer each day. Origin
ally there ere 5 loads Of the steers
One load / marketed a short time ago
At 5000 per cwt-, another at st02
and a third at s9.s5-Live Stock Re
porter.
Bascom HuddIeston, who owns 8
thousand acres Of fine land neal Web
ster City. Iowa, was in Mexico this
week, and bought fifty mules and one
saddle horse. Mr.. Huddleston says
Iowa farmers are enjoying great pros
perity.
Best Corn Crop Since 1885,
Charleston, No, Dec. 1.-THE larg-
est corn crop in Mississippi County in
IS years has been harvested. The
average yield Of about so bushels an
acre.
The increased acreage of wneat
last season made It necessary to open
up new land for cultivation Of corn
and the new soil proved most product
i've.
The Charleston Milling Company
having filled every available storage
with wheat and corn, is stocking
sacks in the open, $4,000 bushels hay-
ing been placed this week. They eH'
peet to have 100000 bushels Of corn
stored outside tie warehouse within
the next two weeks.
At East Prairie, IL miles south, 2OO
cars Of corn, or 100000 bushels, have
heen shipped. East Prairie expects to
100000 bushels Of this years
crop.
The East was visited by a severe
storm Tuesday. Sow fell on the
Atlantic seaboard from five to fifteen
inches in depth. Traffic in many
was blocked and the suffering
among the poor is reported as most