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Dairy Meesing At Mozroe City.
MONROE CITY, No, Soy. Is -
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tsa5e5 81 several hundred farmers
was bald At this place yesterday aa
State Dairy ConulSSi91e- z G. Ben
nett and 2. ". Merrill, Of the De-
laval Company. we're the speakers
A calf club Of forty members was
organized Last night a banquet was
held. plates for 100 being laid
lg.
TIE turkey as the piece de resis-
tance Of the Thanksgiving dinner IS
losing its prestige, according to local
poultry dealers, and the capon is be
coming more and more the favorite
for festal occasions in this city. In
fact, the number OF turkeys raised II
this section grows smaller each sea-
son. The price on turkeys, it is es-
timated, will advance from wv TO
four cents more than their price last
year.
Texas is now supplying the mar
ket with most Of the turkeys while
those held in cold storage from sea-
son to season have aided in the
changed condition. Capon is being
raised extensively here and people
find the flesh as tender and as deli
cious as turkey.
Local merchants who supply their
customers with turkeys now engage
the birds ahead Of time from the few
farmers who raise them. In this way
they are assured Of securing suffi-
cient to supply the local demand.
Two weeks ago K. NJ. Brown AMI
Judge Barnes shipped 500 head of
western ewes from Omaha, dividing
them equally. Within the week many
of the sheep have taken sick and each
man has lost some fifteen head. L0-
eating the trouble is difficult. DR..
Conway, State Veterinarian, attrib-
uted it to poisonous weeds. If the
sheep continue to die both men stand
to lose their flocks and sustain heavy
loss. - Paris Mercury.
MADE s2,400 OFF TWO ACRES.
GREENSBURG, Pa, Nov. 10. -
From Westmorland county, young
women, daughters of Mrs. c. H. Smith
of Ruffsdale, have established a new
agricultural record in the yield and
profits to be derived from a 2-acre
plot of cabbage.
The Misses Smith, the eldest of
whom is f8, now have a bank account
of $500, with accounts due from Pitts
burg commission men amounting to
5000, and a fourth of their cabbages
yet remain to be cut and marketed.
Buyers estimate the value Of the en-
tire field at about s2,400.
Early this Spring Smith turned the
2-acre plot over to his daughters, tell
ing them to make any use of it they
desired. The girls, after closely scar
ming the market reports for weeks,
decided to grow cabbages. They set
about $4,000 plants.
When the time arrived to cut cab
bage the scarcity Of the vegetable
and sky high gauerkraut quotations
made the realization of $2,400 for the
two acres merely a matter of patience
and good craftsmanship.
j. G. Ware this week sold seven
turkeys to a commission mar in Mex
leo for $25.04. One of the turkeys
brought $6.1G. The hens were 23c a
|. pound and the COOLERS 22c. What
! about that Thanksgiving dinner?
; Greed & Patterson, of near Hatton,
! bought fourteen lambs last week from
= a Mr.. OfFutt. two miles northwest of
l.
Concord. The lambs weighed an av-
erage of Go pounds and cost 81 cents
: a pound.
John w, Greed, one-half mile north
west of Auxvasse, bought thirty
) eight head Of grass cattle last week
from William Patterson, two miles
! Isouthesat Of Hatton. The steers
= weighed an average of 1000 pounds
and sold at 614 cents a pound. Mr..
j.. Greed also bought four 1000 pound
steers from William s. Vivion, five
! miles west of McCredie. They
e weighed about 1000 pounds and cost
! the buyer 7 cents.
4 7. ], Bates & Son, one mile west Of
' Hatton, received two cars of feeding
cattle IN Auxvasse Saturday. They
were purchased for the firm on the st.
Louis market and shipped to Aux
vase Saturday.
Robert r. Buckner e. Son one mile
northeast Of organs, shipped two car
loads of fat mules Saturday. One
car was Of their own feeding and was
shipped from organs. The other load
contained twenty-six cotton mules fed
by Hoffman G. Kennon, five miles
northeast Of Auxvasse. They were
dipped from Auxyasse and cost the
Buckrer firm SITS around.
Harry +. Henderson, three miles
southeast of Auxvasse, shipped AGAR
Of army mules from Auxvasse to the
st. Louis market Saturday afternoon.
There were twenty-four mules in the
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