Mexico Missouri message., 1916-11-23
FARM and STOCK.


car loads OF mules on the st. Louis
market last week.
Charley Adams, east of town, sold
a mule last week to Ed Lawder for
$50. He also sold head of hogs to
Fred Roberts at 8 cents.
Sturgeon, Mo, Nov 17.-At the
annual Shorthorn cattle sale here
f.. S. Stewart, Keith Bros,
Littrell Bros. and Hines & Sons so
head sold at an average of a little
over $3.50 per head, the top prices
in the last ten years.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Tom Miller, eight
miles east of Mexico, on the State
Highway, will have a public sale on
Wednesday, November 30. See full
notice in The Message. They will
quit their good farm and move to
Mexico. They are becoming old and
wish to rest a while. The Message is
glad to have them come to our city.
The Paris Mercury says: Two
weeks ago p. NJ. Brown and Judge
Barnes shipped 500 head of Western
ewes from Omaha, dividing them
equally. Within the week many of
the sheep have taken sick and each
man has lost some Is head. Locat-
ing the trouble is difficult DR.. Con-
way, State Veterinarian, attributed it
to poisonous weeds. If the sheep
continue to die both men stand to
lose their fiocks and sustain heavy
loss.
Columbia, Mo-, Nov. 17.-"Cam-
pus Virginia B" is the name of the
three year old cow at the University
of Missouri which has just completed
the most remarkable record for
young COW in the State. She started
her record when she was only two
years old, and has maintained an av-
erage Of more than so pounds of
butter fat a month. Her record of
June ranked third for Jerseys of her
age in the United States. She will
break the State record for COWS of
her age.
Mrs. Ed Blake of near Paris is re-
ported to have received $3.50 for a
flour sack full of navy beans at Par
is few days ago. She raised seven
or eight bushels last summer. She
says they are no trouble to grow.
Others who have tried the expert
ment are of the same opinion. Mon
roe county uses thousands of pounds
of navy beans every winter. Practi-
cally all of them are grown in dis
tant States. Many farmers are plan
ming to grow enough for their own
use next year.
Paris Appeal: Clarence Berrey
& Son, out on the Audrain line, are
feeding AZ big steers for the Deem
Der market and are wintering 800
head of Wyoming ewes. The ewes
cost them seven cents q pound deliv-
cred. They have been crossed with
Oxford bucks and a fine crop OF
lambs is expected next spring. Mr..
Berrey has five calves that averaged
564 pounds at weanling time. also a
dozen ycarling steers. He has 45
acres of nice wheat. The crop he
threshed last summer. $50 bushels.
is yet on hand. He has refused $3.50
a bushel for it. Last year he sold
1000 bushels of good wheat at S1.O0
and kept a lot that was damaged.
The market went up until the dam
aged grain brot S1.4O a bushel
In one of the experiments at the
Missouri Agricultural Experiment
Station corn has been grown for 20
years on the same plot of ground
with an application Of manure aver
aging about seven tons annually.
In comparison with this, corn has
been grown in various rotations
without manure. A summary of the
yields for the last six years on these
plots shows that the average yield of
corn on the rotated plots is greater
than the average yield of corn which
has grown continually with manure.
Flowing garden in the fall will
give bettdrresulFs for spring planting.
The exposed soil will crumble through
the winter caused by alternate freez-
ing and thawing, and will catch and
hold more of the winter rains and
SHOWS. Fall blowing is insurance
against dry weather in the summer.
S. P.Emmons 6 Sons Shorthorn
sale last week totalled $S,602.5O.
Outside parties got most of the Of