Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-12-07

market He bought IT'S bushels of
corn from Allen Holyham last week at
Soc. - Pasis Appeal.
Clarence Gray, near Moline, sold a
700-lb. hog to Wallace Bybee at
S8.75. It brought him S61.25, about
the price of a good 2-year-old steer.
Milt Householder, out neal Moline,
is just starting So head of 1170-Ib.
steers on feed for the May market.
D. NJ. Slonaker, zeal Moline, has
40 acres Of nice wheat and reports 4
very fair acreage out that way.
Roy Bryarly and Sam Evans had
their prize winning chickens in the
Marshall Poultry Show the past week
and brought home a number Of good
prizes. Mr.. Evans r. /. Red Cock
erel, Woodrow Wilson, won first in
his class. Among the other winnings
Of Mr.. Evans was first pen.
Mr.. Bryarly took eight out of a
possible ten prizes with his Buff Or
p%ingtons. The winnings were 1st,
2, 3, 4 hen; 1st and End cockerel; LIST
and 4th pullet; LIST and End pen.
MARSHALL, NO., Dec. f. At Sa-
line County's second annual corn show
and seed corn auction held here Sat
urday, one bushel of Boone County
White Corn, grown by Henry AXE
man, of Miami, brought 500. Three
hundred and seventy-five bushels sold
averaged SIS a bushel.
Smut on Corn Kills Stock.
SEDALIA, Mo, Dec. A. - Smut on
corn stalks in many fields in Pettis
county is causing the death of cattle.
During the last week R. N. Lower of
near Longwood lost five steers; Gil
bert Tevebaugh of H~oustonia two
thoroughbred Hereford bulls and two
cows; Robert Rhodes of Dunksburg
five steers and a COW; Jacob Yokeley.
northeast of H~oustonia, two steers.
Geese Damage Wheat.
CHARLESTON, Mo-, Dec. A. The
wild geese, which have come into the
country with the cold weather, are
doing great damage to wheat, and the
farmers are encouraging the hunt
err. to come into their fields in search
Of game. The geese pull up the
young grain out of the ground.
B. W. Hill has a Rhode Island hen
that he challenges the world to beat.
From January 20 to October 20 of this
year she did not miss a day laying an
egg. Then, after a fifteen day rest.
she has resumed her labors and is
making a regular delivery of an q a
day. Mr.. Hill wants to know if any,
one in this county possesses a hen who
can equal this record.
Howard Muir, of McCredie neigh.
borhood, sold 62 head of cotton mules
to j. Ed Moore, of Guthrie, repre-
sentlng the Maxwell Crouch Mule
company Of East st. Louis, Friday.
for 500. They made about three a
loads and will be shipped Saturday.
W. Ed (Jack) Muir on Saturday
morning sold SO head of fat cotton
mules to Harry Gillen Of the GilIen-
Heiman-Harper Mule Company of
st. Louis at a price that was said TO
have been better than the one received
by Howard Muir. The animals were
loaded the same afternoon and shipped
to st. Louis. The disposal leaves Mr..
Muir with only a few mules on his
Richland farm, although he has rs
head on feed on his other farm.
100 Bushels of Corn to the Acre
| KIRKSVILLE, Mo-, Dec. 5. Os-
car Eriscon, who lives six miles north
west of Kirksville, and made the re-
mark one day last winter that he had
some corn in the Charlton bottoms
that looked like 100 bushels to the
acre to him, has made good his pre-
diction. He gathered corn two weeks
ago that was planted June 10, and he
got 500 bushels off just a little more
than five acres. The corn did not
reach full maturity on account Of the
season or it would have u more.
Horace Mundy wal in st. Louis this
week with two loads Of extra good
porkers.
Bailey Il Tincher, OF near Concord,
shipped a a OF big steers from Aux
vase Saturday. The stock went to
the Chicago market. The steers were
fed by John w. Creed, one-half mile
northwest Of Auxvasse, weighed an
average of 1920 pounds and cost