Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-12
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STOCK NE WS
Chew Your Milk, Don't Gulp II Down
Dick Thomas and His Seven Sons
Ransom Newman, "Lasses" Max
er--WhO'I Buy Goat.

filled his silO last week.
j. w. Pool sold X. A. Fountain
four gear old sorrel horse mule for
$16O.
F. H. Pool, near Centralia, sold a
horse mule, three years old, for
SIPS.
Judge S. C. Groves is feeding %
nice cattle besides lot of mules and
other fine stock.
VIM Showers, who has been farm
ing near Centralia, has moved to a
farm south of Mexico.
d. r. Heimlich of Jacksonville,
ILL.,, has been secured as judge in the
big poultry show to be held in Mex
leo November Ia to IS.
John s. McCune of Laddonia has
Jersey milk COW for which he has
been offered $125. That's some
cow" as the Herald puts 1t.
Jump Cauthorn's black saddle
stallion, Marshall Chief, won the
saddle stake at the st. Louis Fair
horse show last week Marshall
Chief is a son of Rex Mcdonald, and,
like his distinguished sire, he is a
world winner.
Ransom Newman, southeast of
Mexico, called on the Message Fri
day. Ransom and his father, ]. p.
Newman, are the champion sorghum
makers in their neighborhood. Sor-
ghum is selling at from 65 cents to
| 80 cents a gallon this season.
F. w. Carlson of this county, ac-
cording to the Live Stock Reporter,
had two loads of steers on the st.
Louis market last week which brot
top price. One bunch averaged
1866 pounds and brot $10.35; the
other averaged 1919 and sold al
| $10.35.
R. A. Brown was in to see the Mes
sage the other day. He says every
body is for Hughes this year who is
not for Wilson. Mr.. Brown lives out
in that fine section of Audrain county
in south of S. C. Groves home. The
Browns own many wide acres in that
locality. It's a fine farming country
]. r. Thomas and his seven sons,
near Rush Hill, had a crop of 22
acres OF cane this year and they are
now making it up into sweet good
sorghum. They have sold all the mo-
lasses they can make at 65 cents {
gallon. Dick, you should have had
y a one hundred acres of cane; you
could have piled up your bank ac
count this year.
]. T. and w. w. Johnson received
lambs shipped in from Montana
last week. They were unloaded a
Centralia, Thompson and Mexico
and went to the following parties: j
f. Sims & Son, 700 head Johl
Henderson. 500; Squirting & Son
900; Price and George johnson
900: ]. b. Woolery, 500; e. !
Sims, 500; C. C. Bybee $50. an
VIM. Schultz, 500.
The increased cost of milk woul
J. be good thing for the county if
$ should lead people to keep goats
For some reason goats milk has neN
: er been popular in America, altho 4
S Europe, especially in France, ltal
s and Switzerland, it is much esteem
t ed, particularly for babies. A goa
B. can be kept at small expense wheT
it would be Impossible to keep Gov
! Garden waste and roadside brows
II will support 1t. A small shed AFFORD
a sufficient shelter. A goat is fa
. cleaner than a COW, and requires oil
e ly such care as a child can give
Who will get goat?
IS Milk should be eaten, not gulpe
"a down in eopious draughts. says q
eminent scientist. Just take sip
'e time OF lacteal fluid that is fires
and sweet, masticate 1t a bit, the
is let it dribble into your interior,
says, if you would get the full be
is eft of its nourishing qualities. The
h is still better way, Put the mi
away until IT evolutes to ciabbe
Sprinkle brown sugar over the su
ds face. dip it with table spoon, al
h experience the thrill that comes wi
ne the elixir of life. But, rememb'
49, you must use brown sugar. otht
fs' wise you will miss tang viii
rs. transports you to the seventh hea
w. en- Of delight. II we could get ft
he eral law to replace harmful pastr
nd and puddings with clabber coul
L for desert the span of life would
Heightened until a eentenarian wo'
ID become preferred life insurar
risk.