Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-10-28

National stock 1ardss
Cattle 5000. Including 800 South
ems. Market Steady.
Hogs COCO. 10 to I5c lower.
} Sheep 1000. 10c to 15c higher.
George Lee is home from Mary
vile, No., where he bought ~ head
Of war horses.
The tremendous quantity Of apples
which Southern Illinois orchards have
bestowed this fall upon their owners
is again evidenced by the letting at
Litcheld Of a contract for the con-
struetiop Of a silo at the pint Of the
Litchfeld, M, Bottling Works.
The company is not DESTROYS of lay
ing by chopped cornstalks or COW peas
for winter provisions for horses, but
is going to put the silo to a hitherto
unheard Of use, the storage Of cider.
Cisterns have been claned care
fully and filed with cider. The apple
crop is so large that not one-tenth Of
it can be sold in the ordinary way.
Much win be made into cider and sold
either to vinegar or apple butter con-
Germs. A considerable quantity will
be dried in e~vaporators.
If you want to kill the army worms,
cutworms, Hessian flies, grasshoppers
and other highly injurious insects,
plow your fields this fall Fan plow-
ing, disking, and narrowing within the
next few weeks viii break up the
nests, cells, and protecting cases of
many insects and expose them to the
rigors of winter weather. This will
completely destroy many of our most
injurious insects and greatly diminish
the numbers Of others.
Fan plowing does not affect all IN
sects alike because they pass the win
ter in the soil in different stages. The
grasshoppers and the corn root lice
pass the winter in the egg stage; the
cutworms, army worms, wire worms,
and white grubs hibernate in the soil
in the worm stage; the fall army
worms, corn-ear worms, and garden
web worms pass the winter in the
pupa or resting stage; and the click
beetles, May beetles and potato bee
ties hibernate in the soil as adult
beetles.
Many insects are crushed and des-
troyed in their wintering stage by
blowing and disking. Others are
brought up nearer the surface and not
being able to 20 deeper into the soil
or to construct new cases are exposed
to the ravages Of birds and other an
imals. They are subjected to excess
sive cold and moisture to alternate
freezing and thawing, and are killed.
Old wheat stubble fields full Of vol
unteer wheat. weeds, and grass are
now harboring Hessian flies, army
worms, cnt worms, grasshopper eggs,
and plant lice, all of which may be des-
troyed by fall blowing. If these old
stubble fields are not plowed until next
spring serious injury may occur to
corn, wheat, and other crops in the
neighborhood. The Hessian flies com
ing from the volunteer wheat next
spring may completely destroy late
sown wheat. "A.
-Four loads of good steers shipped
from Audrain county Mo, by Adolph
Fennewald, topped the market Mon
day. They were 1896 pounds and
sold to Joe Stern, an eastern butcher
for sI0.10.
Mr.. Fennewald, is one of the best
known feeders of the "Show me"
state and has a wide reputation at a
top knoteh feeder. His cattle sold
very satisfactory. The ration used
included a feed of Lyons Champion
MclassesA-Live Stock Reporter.
Upton, Mo-, Oct. 26.--John Wees
IN, Moniteau county's cattle king,
sold 3e6 head of 1.595-pound cattle to
Swift & Co, at s10.15 a hundred
weight, in return which he received
4 check for $57,429.SO, representing
the largest individual cattle sale in
the history of this section. The deal
was consumated through the Moody
Commission Company Of St. Louis,
by c. W. callison, formerly of Tip
ton.
1t required a train Of "a cars in
which to load the cattle.
jefferson City, Mo-, Oct. 26.-Sev-
eral Cole County farmers are taking
advantage of the October sunshine
to cut and cure their fifth crop Of al
falfa. One of these, Byron e. Leslie,
= dairyman and farmer just outside
the limits Of Jefferson City, has a
fine yield on the fifth moving of his
alfalfa field.
This breaks all records in the pro-
duction Of alfalfa on the uplands in
the central part of the State. Here
tofore the limit has been three cut
tings to the season on the hills.
Farmers in this section agree that
the present season has been the most
remarkable ever known for the pro-
duction of forage crops of all kinds.
As a result Of the unusual yield Of
alfalfa this year there viii be a large