Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-11-23

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Oats 57@ s2L
Lexis Cash
Nc. . What Lss TO Iss.
Nc . Con. 81.
No. ? Oats, 5TL
-rai Stock Yards
Hogs, 17.Go0. > to 10 higher, top
1905.
Cattle. $500, slow.
Sheep, $500. steady.
Mill Householder bought - head Of
extra good il36 10. feeders from J..
b. Baker at TIE and 1890 bushels os
corn from Jim Doweil at TIC,
Frank Elliott, near Struther, re-
Gently sold the balance Of his wheat,
225 bushels to a Mexico buyer at
s1.75 a busbel
Wallace Bybee Is feeding two loads
Of cattle. Sam Hoar one load and VIM.
Norman two loads. near Santa Fe.
Pike for Better Diaries.
LOUISIANA, No, Nov. II. - II
promulgatc better ~dairying" in Pike
county, the Louisiana Commercial
Club yesterday held two big dairy
meetings,
State Dairy Commissioner f.. L.
Bennett and Prof. f. W. Merrill Of
Chicago spoke.
At a dinner and general meeting
Bennett and Merrill talked to bust
ness men and farmers. "Calf clubs"
and various other methods Of i'm
proving the dairy industry in and
around Louisiana have been made 4
part Of the permanent propaganda Of
the Commercial Club.
University Cow Some Producer.
COLUMBIA, No., Nov. IT. Cam
pus Virginia B" is the name of the
2-year-oli COW at the University Of
Missouri which has just completed
the most remarkable record for a
young COW in the State. She start
ed her record when she was only two
years old, and has maintained an av-
erage Of more than 50 pounds Of but
ter fat q month
Her record Of June ranked third for
Jerseys Of her age in the United
States. She will break the State rec-
ord for cows of her age.
Farmer Killed in Runaway.
COLUMBIA, No, Nov. II. - Les
lie Toalson, a farmer, 80 years old,
was killed at his home, 8 miles west
Of Columbia, laa night, when his
team ran away with a farm wagon
which he was unloading corn from.
He is survived by a widow and two
small children.
Clarence Berry and son, out on the
Audrain line, are feeding 43 big
steers for the December market and
are wintering 800 head of Wyoming
ewes. The ewes cost them &c a
pound delivered. They have been
crossed with Oxford bucks and a
fine crop of lambs is expected next
spring. Mr.. Berry has five calves
that averaged 564 lbs. at weanling
time, also a dozen yearling steers,
He has As acres Of nice wheat. The
crop he threshed last summer, 450
bushels, is yet on hand. He has re-
fused $3.50 a bushel for it. Last
year he sold 1000 bushels of good
wheat at 81 and kept a lot that was
damaged. The market went up until
the damaged grain brought $f.4O 2
bushel. - Paris Appeal.
Sidney McTlhaney, of South Pork,
is wintering a car load Of breeding
ewes. He bought them at Kansas
City. Their cost, delivered, was $6.4J
per head. He reports corr selling at
roc and 75c in his locality. Paris
Appeal.
Mrs. Ed Blake, near Paris, received
$3.50 for a flour sack fun of navy
beans at Paris, Saturday. 1t contain
ed about a busheL. She raised seven
or eight bushels last summer She
says they are no trouble to grow.
Others who have tried the experiment
are of the same opinion Monroe
uses thousands of lbs. of navy beans
every winter. Practically all Of them
are grown in distant states. Many
farmers are planning to grow enough
for their own use next year.
ShOrthOrn Sale at Sturgeon.
;, STURGEON, Mo, Nov. IT. - At the
annual Shorthorn cattle sale here yes
terday Z. S. Stewart, Keith Bros,
Littrell Bros and Hines & Sons, 60
head sold at an average of a little
over $3.50 a head, the top prices in the
last ten years.
Oscar Black attended the sale Of S
?, Emmons e. Son, Tuesday, and re.
ports that they had a very successful
sale, especially Of the Scotch and
Scoteh-tOpped animals, the plain
breds not bringing so high prices.
The highest priced animal Of the sale
was a COW and calf that sold for $500
the COW being one that they had
bought a year ago at the dispersion
sale Of the T. +. hurry herd in this
county for $185, The best of the cat