Mexico Missouri message., 1916-10-19
FARM and STOCK.

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SHORTHORNs NOV. IL, 1919, AT
MEXICO, MO.
+. ]. Hamilton has traded his liv-
cry stable in Laddonia for a farm |
near Salem, in Dent county, Mo.
Bowen q Logan, on the w. II. Lo- |
gan farm southwest of Mexico, will
have a public sale next Wednesday.
Jake Buckner has bot the good
farm, known as the Dan Richman
place, near Ortiz, south of Mexico.
James Quinlan is advertising a
big live stock sale for Wednesday,
Oct 25. See full notice in The Mes
sage. He will have some offerings
worth while.
Judge Alex Carter has bot 29OI
acres of the Irwin ]. Sims farm, Just
northeast of Thompson-one of the
finest pieces of dirt in the county.
It's nice investment
w. l.. Kent is selling from 5000
to 5000 bushels Of apples from his
large orchard south of Mexico. The
apples go to a Kansas City firm. Mr..
Kent has 5000 trees. 1t is the larg-
est orchard in North Missouri.
Live in the sunshine and breathe
plenty of pure air If you don't it
may be worse than COLLINS
that'll get you. The "tizzie-wizzies"
live in bad air-tubercle bacillus
they're the fellows who'll get you if
you don't watch out. Sleep with
that window open.
w. w. Johnson arrived here this
week with $500 more sheep from
Montana. He has shipped in $4,000
head this fall, in three consignments.
J. T. Johnson gets 5000 of this last
consignment and Johnson & Jackson
the remainder. j. T. Johnson will
feed part of his bunch on his farm
near Thompson.
Our friends, The Mexico Ledger
and The Intelligencer, are running
booze advertisements again thisyear.
Yes, that's what it amounts to. The
advertisements oppose the proposed
Constitutional Prohibition Amend
ment to be voted on at the general
election the 7th of next month. We
thought our neighbor, The Ledger,
was dry" or is it just in spots?
How does it come, boys?
Les Williamson, an Auxvasse mule
buyer, sold six cotton mules to Edgar
| Lochridge of Audrain county a few
days ago for $3.50 around, says the
Fulton Gazette. Mr. Williamson al
so bot four of the long-eared hy-
birds from Albert Price, at Mexico,
for $165 apiece, and one from
Hughes Maupin, at Auxvasse, for
$16O. He has bot and sold 20 war
mules during the last two weeks in
Galloway and adjoining counties.
Protect the quail. He's a valuable
bird. Eighty-fve different weed
seeds make up in part Bob Whites
bill of fare. Crops have been found
packed with ragweed seeds and as
many as 1000 seeds of the crab
grass have been taken from one
bird. A single specimen contained
about 10000 pigweed seeds. Crops
and gizzards examined in government
laboratories have yielded 81 kinds of
beetles, 81 varieties of bugs, nine
grasshoppers and locusts, and 13 diff
ferent sorts of caerpillars, besides
ants, flies, wasps and spiders. A tea
spoonful of chinch bugs have been
taken from one quail, and an adult
bird has been known to eat 5000
plant lice in two hours. Bob White
feeds upon the boll-weevil, cabbage
worms, cucumber beetles, squash
bugs, grasshoppers, chinch bugs, the
army worm, Hessian fly and many
other insect pests.
hlll lHe bugs Ill IHelr WluIeT guar
tiers. The plum curculio is now win
tering as a full grown beetle in the
trash and will be found in the worn
stage within silken cocoon tucked
away under the shelly bark of deaC
trees and dead limbs; and the fruit
tree bark beetles or shot hole borer'
will also be found wintering mostly
as adult beetles in dead or dying
trees. Under the old stalks and rub
bish in the garden and about thu
! borders will be found the adult as
: paragus beetle, bean leaf beetle, har
{ lequin cabbage bug, flea beetles, thu
striped cucumber beetle, and tn,
chrysalis of the cabbage worm. l
: you want to kill these pests, pile anC
3 burn dead tomato and pea vines ant
other remains of vegetation in thu
garden and along the border. DeeI