Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-09-02
Stock Notes

Ralph Wayne returned home Thurs
day from the harvest fields in Wy
oming, where be has been working for
the past month.
Frank Elliott. of Monroe county,
win SOW IS acres to alfalfa this fall
A two-pound Irish potato was
shown in Sturgeon by Mrs ]. S.
Ritchie.
Dr.. R. A Woods has traded his
Cenrtalia property for a farm Of 12O
acres near Sturgeon
Lee Greed, near Hatton, has SO head
Of spring pigs on hand that win soon
be big enough to feed for the metro
politan market.
Saline county has the biggest crop
Of hay in the history Of the county and
many farmers are using bales Of hay
to stop up gullies where heavy rains
have washed out the ground.
Several Centralia farmers have
shipped IN cattle to consume their
corn crop. Ray spiva bought y head
Of feeders on the Kansas City market
last week and win finish thera for the
fall market The prairie country is
long on grass this season, and has
more corn than usual.
Last Friday while John Strickler, a
Frankford farmer was vaeeinating
hogs, one turned on him and bit off
one Of his thumbs as clean as though
it had been severed by knife.
The Appeal says Monroe county has
several large silos, but none 50 large
as the one being erected by J. A. Hud-
son on his river bottom farm near
McBaine. This big cooker is to be
"a feet in diameter, 60 feet high and
will hold 75o tons of ensilage.
Galloway county must look to her
laurels, or Green & Son, Of CentraIia,
win make Boone the banner mule
county Of the state Last week this
firm bought three car loads of war
mules from Louis Shorn, Of Fayette,
at prices ranging from $12O to sI60
per head
The police of several northeast Mis-
souri towns are looking for a horse
trader named ]. Hamer and hailing
from Chicago, III. The fellows plan
was to pay part of the purchase price
Of a horse. then hurry the shipment
out Of town, promising to pay the bal
ance as soon as the banks would open
the following day. He generally dis
appeared with the shipment.
Thousands Of bushels Of fine Elberta
peaches are rotting in the orchards
in Grundy county. Farmers are offer
ing them for Is cents bushel with
no takers.
The largest mules in the world are
said to be owned by Frank Thralls,
ranehman of Hydro, Oklahoma. He
has six which are estimated to be
worth $1,000 a piece. He will exhibit
Ia
them at the Panama Pacific Exposit-
ion in the name of Oklahoma.
Geo. C. Cole, farmer residing near
Perry, sold his apple crop in the or
ehard for 5000, the purchaser to do
the gathering. shipping, etc.
Paris Appeal.)
Ev johnson, near Santa Fe, sold
mule colt for 500.
Emmett Conley, near Tulip, sold a
pair Of big marc mules to Charley
Green Of Centralia for $500. Mr..
Green bought another good pair from
Riley Bryson for $3.50 and a pair
from James Bryson for s4OO.
Frank Elliott, near Strother, sold
pair Of S-year-old mare mules to Ed
Briggs for $500 and refused the same
price for another pair He bought
both spans at Judge Vaughn's sale the
last day Of March at s467.5O and
s477.50 per pair. He now has 12 Of
the best mare mules in the county, all
bought from Judge Vaughn. They
range from is to 16 "a hands high
and weigh 1900 10 1900 lbs.
Bob Cruzan, north Of Tulip, has a
mule colt that is said to be one Of the
very best in the county.
Roy Morgan. north Of Tulip, sold |
mare mule colt to Jim Jones for sll5.
Nobody can safely predict what
is going to happen 70 mules in the
next few months" says Judge B. F.
Vaughn, the mule king af Monroe
county. 1--we been handling this class
Of stock and watching the markets
for years and l don't know just which
way TO turn. Still, since the South
has sold most Of its supply and such
a big demand has been created by the
war in Europe, it seems reasonable to
suppose that all work stock, 10th
horses and mules, viii go higher