Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-15
STOCK AND FARM NEWS.

brot in "a lambs last week that aver
aged SO pounds and sold them to j.
w. Bailey and e. E. Kennon. About
year ago Mr.. Python sold two dozen
lambs that weighed so pounds from
the identical ewes, making two years
straight he has had the same ewes,
the same number of lambs and the
lambs weighing the same.
Lighting struck the barn of An
drew Belts, who lives between Far
Der and Wellsville, last week. Part
of the roof was torn off and many of
the boards of the siding cracked and
splintered.
The oat crop around Wellsville this
year, according to the Record, is very
heavy. Near four pounds of Irvine
were required to tie the oats in some
fields.
Fat cattle brought 10 cents on the
st. Louis market last week. ]. M.
Elkins of Vandalia got that figure
for SIS head of 1852 pound steers.
"A story out of the ordinary" says
the Shelbina Torchlight, twas told
us last Saturday when our informant
stated that Frank Buchanan, who
lives southeast of Shelbina, had Is
cows and out of the herd 16 calves
had been born this year and of the
calves IA of the male sex. The last
of the herd increased the calf output
last Friday when twins were born,
both of which are living and doing
nicely as well as all others belonging
to the herd. The COWS are all high.
bred Short-horns, and this usual and
remarkable incident is said to be
something decidedly out of the ordf
nary, because IA of the 16 are male
calves.
Rust" is damaging some of the
oats fields, we are told.
Johnson, Romans & Hildebrand o.
Benton City shipped cattle and hogs
to st. Louis last week. A number o.
715 pound heifers sold at 9 cents.
Sam Diamond of Craig, Colo, wal
here last week and bought a pure
bred Hereford bull from ]. G. Ford
near Mexico; three Herefords iron
R. B. Kerr, nearMolino; one iron
c. P. Arnold, and Short-horn bull
from j. T. Johnson, of Mexico. Mr.
Diamond bot other stuff over in tn
Kingdom of Galloway, and sent GU
a car load from Mexico. He told tn
Message he was after pure-bre,
stock, and he bought of the RICH
men to get it.
R. o. Vowel reports the whea
yield shorter this year than last yea
in his locality-near santa Fe.
S. A. Pulls, out toward Cant, wa
, in Mexico Saturday, encouraged an
happy, he told his friends. Oats an
pastures the best he had ever seen.
]. T. Johnson of Mexico owns tn
largest tract of land in the locality {
Laddonia and Rush Hill, tbs acre
The railroad is the north bounda1
line and the east line is one mile wei
of Laddonia and the west line or
=. mile east of Rush Hill. 1t is lev
land but we'll ditched, and when yo
put manure or fertilizer on it, M
Johnson says, it remains there ii
=. you grow it out, does not wash ava
It's tract of land to be proud of, OF
of the best in the county.
:, George and Graham Robertson o.
. six miles northeast of Mexico a
o. making farming pay all right. TIL
have just finished harvesting 20 acr
of wheat and are next getting in
IS acres of oats. Had big acreage
co wheat last year and the yield was
". bushels to the acre. Their whe
will not do quite so well this seas
about IS bushels to the acl
X Their oats will make so bushels
n more to the acre. They have 20 acI
of corn that looks we'll and 40 &C
field of timothy is quite promisi1
n TheV rotate their prOnS and uea q,