Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-10-26

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Sheep, $500, steady.
Reed Burke has a fine lot Of cattle
on feed.
C. NJ. Fox has leased the F. L.
Crosby farm northwest Of thos city.
C. A. Poague, neal Santa Fe, bought
three red steer calves at $50 and II
black calves at $50 apiece at the Gill
sale.
j. S. Lakenan paid 500 for two
fine Hereford rows at the sale in Cen
~tralia recently. He will establish a
herd Of these animals.
Jake Buckner, five miles northeast
of Auxvasse, who has just completed
a big mule barn, has it pretty well
filled with fattening mules. He has
nearly 100 on feed, one a load Of
which be brought in this week from
the Rush Hill vicinity.
Lee Bros. of Mexico, bought ten
head of horses at Madison Friday and
ten here Saturday. They paid from
$50 to s1s5 a head for them and they
came from the following: Marcus
Wilkes, Mrs. Mary Edwards, G. L.
Littrell, 2; Sam Hemstreet, Dave
Buerk, C T Farrell, 2, Sam Major 2.
Paris Appeal
j. R. Smiley, east of Santa Fe, sold
SO head of $50 pound hogs to w. L.
Bybee, last week, at $1,000 per hun
bred or s36.75 per head. He topped
the st. Louis market the next day
with three car loads of 1200-pound
steers at $9.25. One extra good year
ling brought $1,000.
The househtl Id goods, farm imple-
ments and live stock offered at the
joint sale Of J. T. Pollard, Jr,. Burr
Crawford and j. W. Weatherford at
Skinner Thursday brought good pric
es. ]. G. Ford was auctioneer and w
W. Pollock clerk. The total amount
of the sales came approximately to
1900.
J. B. Baker, of near Long Branch,
bought a load of 2 year old steers
from Walter Bridgford, east of Paris,
for delivery November / at 7c. They
are twenty-one head to be picked
from a bunch Of 40.
J. II. Starr will feed 5000 lambs at
his pens over in Saline county this
winter. The man who continues &c
handle and raise sheep for a profit
win not miss the mark owing TO the
great demand Of the eastern markets
-Centralia Courier,
W. o. and B. S. Smith, progressive
young farmers rear CAN'T. will hold
a big rsle Wednesday, November !, on
their farm. They have a splendid line
of stock offered, among them some
prize-winning Duroc-Jerseys of their
great herd.
Lee Green, n mule buyer from Cen
~tralia, bought from Thomas Robinett
at Stephens, east of Columbia, fifty
mules at s207.50 per head, this week.
w. ]. Fennewald, of Audrain coun-
ty, Mo, contributed mixed steers and
heifers to the receipts today. There
were 10 head in his drove that aver
aged 69S lbs. and sold to Morris &
Co, for s9.15. the top on the mixed Of
ferings.
Mr.. Fennewald conditioned these cat
tie personally and expressed his pleas
ure at the sale. He is one Of the larg-
est feeders from that section of Mis-
souri, and is a regular customer of the
st. Louis market. st. Louis Live
Stock Reporter.
Jake Buckner, a son of r. R. Buck
ner, well known in Fulton, this week
purchased the Hickman farm of 16
acres at Ortiz, just across the north
Galloway line. Dan Hickman was a
bachelor and left no heirs so the farm
was disposed of by the public admin
%istrator. 1t is regarded as one Of the
finest farms in that section of Au-
drain county. The land holdings of
Mr.. Buckner and sons in that COM
munity now reaches close to 1000
acres. The Hickman farm is nine
miles south of Mexico and adioins
some Of the other Buckner holdings
Fulton Sun.
A good crowd Of buyers attended
the auction sale of live stock held by
c. P. Arnold at his farm two miles
northeast Of Mexico Wednesday. The
total amount of the sale was s 7,Ad0.75.
j. I. johnson, ]. G.. Ford, 0lin John
son and ice Gregory were auctioneers
and W. W. Pollock clerked the sale.
Dinner was served on the grounds by
the ladies of the Methodist church Of
Mexico.
The stock offered at the sale brought
good prices, W. selling from s5.75
to 1896; boar pigs at $6.75 to 1925.
The cattle and horses and mules sold
all brought good prices. One COW sold
for $50 and a bull brought S64.
W. L. smithey, near Strother, was
in Paris Tuesday laying in a supply
OF sulphur and saltpeter. 1t will be
mixed with the salt he gives to his
bunch of calves, as a precaution
against blackleg. He got the idea
from s P. Emmons, the veteran
Shorthorn man, who attributes the
fact that he has never lost a calf to
the use of this simple mixture. Mr..
smithey has forty-one early calves.
he raised three of them and bought
the other SO 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 IL.