Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-10-26
and STOCK.

C. A. Poague bot IA black calves
at the Gill sale, paying $40 per
head.
j. r. Smiley, near Santa Fey sold
s. hogs recently to w. l.. Bybee at
$36.75 per head.
j. r. Powell, Jr., Burr Crawford
and J. w. Weatherford held joint
public sale at Skinner Thursday.
w. ]. Fennewald, near Martins
burg, sold 70 head of steers and
heilers in st. Louis last week at the
| top OF the market. The cattle aver
aged G3S pounds each
J. G. Lakenan bot two Hereford
COWS in Centralia recently, paying
1910. Mr.. Lakenan will build up
herI OF 'Ierefords for his farm out
southwest of Mexico.
Mexico's big poultry show is to be
held Nov. IA to II. The largest ex-
hibit is planned ever held here. The
premium list is to be increased also.
Get your fine birds ready.
c. NJ Fox, out near Rising Sun
Church. north of Mexico, has leased
the F. l.. Crosby farm OF the same
neighborhood. Mr.. Fox has most of
his own good farm in grass.
c. p. Arnold's live stock sale on
Wednesday of last week totaled
7,4OO. Stock all sold well, it is re-
ported. A cow sold for $50 and
ewes sold as high as $9.35.
Charles Householder and Yves
Winn shipped in 300 Western
lambs from Omaha last week. D.
Miller is to get 500 head of the ship
ment. They are an extra fine lot of
sheep, it is said.
Our correspondent at Mt Carmel.
this county, reports that the follow
ing farmers have sown wheat in that
neighborhood: Tom Cassidy, 40
acres; Lank Heimes, SO acres; VIM
Fisher, A. ]. Middleton and jeff
Hamlet each 20 acres.
| c. M. Brown of this county sold a
] load of baby beeves on the Chicago
market few days ago at $1I2o per
| hundred pounds. That was the high
est price for the year in Chicago.
The cattle were fine ones, all Short
horns and Mr.. Browns own raising.
| Albert Harrison, one of Audrain
county's most successful and progress
sive farmers and stock raisers, liv-
ing in that beautiful section south of
! Benton City has been touring the
State in quest of mules. He passed
! through Mexico Saturday morning
with % head of as fine long-eared
fellows as you ever saw. They were
| bought in Howard county, and with
Abs training and feeding course
this winter they will be the farmers
delight next spring.
The Paris Appeal says that w. l..
Smiley, near Strother, was in Paris a
few days ago laying in supply of
sulphur and saltpeter. 1t will be
mixed with the salt he gives to his
bunch of calves, as precaution
against blackleg. He got the idea
from S. p. Emmons, the veteran
Shorthorn man, who attributes the
fact that he has never lost calf to
the use of this simple mixture. Mr..
Smithey has 4S early calves. lie
raised 3 OF them and bot the 9th 2r
80 at an average of SAL per head.
1t is one of the very best loads in the
county They will be run on grass
and ensilage until January II, then
put on a ration of corn, cotton-seed
meal and ensilage.
Few farmers in Audrain have Civ
en- farming and stock raising a more
scientific and practical method Of
procedure than S. p. Carter, whose
fertile farm is nine miles north of
Mexico, says Missouri Stockman.
In cattle feeding and other pursuits
Mr.. Carter has been a leader in this
county, and in talking over the fu-
ture of farming and stock growing
declared to the livestock writer of
this paper that he thought sheep
ieeding the most satisfactory branch
of the business for this vicinity. Mr..
Carter has been one of the successful
hock masters of Missouri and every
year buys big flock of Western
lambs, which he feeds thru the win
ter and spring months. He says
that where he has fed out top price
cattle and found il unprofitable he
has never failed to make big profit
on sheep, especially in feeding the
Western lambs. With Earl Carter
and several other well known stock
men he will go to Omaha, which is
fast becoming the distributing point
tor these sheep, where they will Sc
leet several thousand head for their
1917 operations. Mr.. Carter expects
wool to be better price than ever
by shearing time and believes he will