Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-08-24

ll.Eu.
Sheep. 1000. steady.
Cattle. 1000. steady.
CHESTER STARR COMES BACK.
Chester C. Starr. who vas gradu-
ated from the Collere of Agriculture
in 1906, was in Columbia Tuesday.
Mr.. Starr is now doing extension work
in animal husbandry and veterinary
science at Purue University, Lafay-
cite, Ind.
Mr.. Starr formerly lived in Audrain
county and while there operated his
fathers sheep farm, managing the
feeding of $4,000 to 10000 sheep each
year. He has also had considerable
experience in raising Duroc-Jersey
hogs. Mr.. Starr is now doing expert
mental work in hog cholera prevent
ion, and hog raisers are watching his
work with a great deal of interest
University Missourian.
Audrain County Feeder on Market.
Judge Baker Barnes, well known
Audrain County, Mo-, jurist and cat
tleman, was represented on the mar
ket in St. Louis Wednesday with 20
head of 1254-pound steers of his own
feeding that sold to Morris & Co., at
1910. Another successful Audrain
county mar here with cattle was Ed
gar Lockridge who sold 16 head o.
1166-pound beeves to Swift & Co. q;
500. - Live Stock Reporter.
BARNES YEARLINGS AT $3.50.
Baker Barnes, Jr., of Audraln
County, Mo-, supplied the st. Louis
market with one of his first strings
of steers Thursday. They were mixed
breeds of long yearlings, mostly twos.
He marketed q head that averaged
1921 lbs. and sold to Swift & Co. for
$500 per cwt. This is one of the first
strings of cattle young Barnes has
ever fed, but judging from his success
this time he will be but a short time
getting the name of his father who
has been one of the substantial feed
ers of that section for many years.
Live Stock Reporter.
The mercury stood at 90 at noon
Friday and reached 90 during the az.
ternoon.
T, A. Threlkeld and family have re-
turned from n three weeks camping
trip on their farm, two miles west Of
Mexico.
The mercury got back TO its usual
h~abitation in the region between 95
and 100 Thursday when it climbed up
to 98 in the afternoon. II started
its climb in the forenoon and reached
"a at noon and kept or climbing, but
9S was the best it was able TO make
during the day.
HIS MULES STARVED.
The Monroe City News of this weel,
tells the following story; Buchanan
Bros, among the largest raisers of
fine horses and mules in Monroe
county, suffered the loss of five head
of mules and one horse in a very pc
culiar manner M day last week. A
large number of horses and mules
had been turned into a pasture in
which was an old barn. A number Ct
the animals went into the barn, pre-
sumably to escape the intense heat,
and in some manner the door to the
building was closed, being shut, it is
supposed, by the wind. Messrs. Buck
man did not have occasion to visit the
barn for several days until last Thurs
day, and upon entering discovered the
animals dead. Five mules and a hor;e
were dead from starvation and lack
Of water and four others were barely
alive and it was thought they also
would die. Several of the mules were
2-year-olds and the others we're year
lings.
Milt Householder says the thresh.
ing in his section is yielding between
20 and 30 bushels of oats and 10 and
Is bushels of wheat. He reports the
corn about his farm badly in need Of
rain as it received little of the last
heavy rains.
SMITH CENTER, Kan, August
81. - During the last fifty DAYS Of
hot dry weather incubators have no.
been needed in this section to hatcf
out chickens.
Annoyed last night by a GROWING
volume of "yeeps" in her home, Mrs
Carl Braden got up and found a doz
en- eggs she had brought in two day,
before in the midst of the Matching
out process. Five chicks were out o.
the shells and three other eggs pipp
ed. The eggs were from a nest tina.
hen had hidden in the weeds.
Rube Brown had 30 acres of oat
that made so bushels. This is one o.
the best yields reported since the har
vest started.
Joe Wilson reports wheat being
threshed in his section is giving on.y
a light yield and is of poor quality.
The thermometer reached only z;
at noon Tuesday and made so for it.
high mark during the day.
Race Watts threshed oats this wees
and they made 35 bushels.
Nelson Carter has gone to New
London, where he will attend the biz
Pritehett Poland China Hog sale or
Thursday.
Haden Duncan, near Millersburg
sold Charles H. Dunn, near Here.
ford, % stock hogs, one day last wee!
for s Sd cents a popnd NJ n.