Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-12-13

7. J. Bates & Son, north of Hat
ton, shipped four car loads of fat
steers that they had on feed for the
past four months. They were driven
to Thompson Monday morning, where
they were loaded for direct shipment
to the Chicago market. They were
aged steers and in splendid marketa-
Bile condition. About 80 head made
up the consignment.
Walter Lewis, a young man en-
ployed on the farm of Floyd Yates,
about five miles south west Of Hop
kins, shucked and cribbed IA bushels
Of corn last Saturday. The field in
which he performed this feat is max
ing an average of ninety-three bush
els. per acre.
Joe Considine sold B. r. Middleton
IL mules from 5000 to S275 apiece.
Carter & Vandeventer, of Mexico,
Mo, have gathered up one of the
greatest punches Of sows and gifts,
Of the Poland China breed, we have
seen in some time. This stuff is be-
ing bred to "G%erstdale Jones'" their
$4,000 boar and will be offered in their
February 2nd sale. This sale should
prove to be the record breaker of all
hog sales in the United States. The
purple" run in the blood of every
animal catalogued. - Missouri Far
mer.
W. D. Mason shipped a saddle horse
this week to C. P. Funk, of Pattons-
burg, Mo.
Jake Buckner paid Frank Van
Horne $4O0 for a spanking good
pair old mules Monday. Auxvasse
Review.
Woodson Bros. of Howard County,
who nearly a section of land.
experimental with twenty-five acres
Of sorghum this year. and have found
1t to be a paying crop. They have sold
$500 gallons of sorghum at 81 per
gallon, have put up 300 tons of cane
silage which they estimate to be worth
"a per ton, have $50 bushels of seed
worth 81 per bushel, making a grand
total Of $4,000. They estimate the
total expense Of growing and harvest
ing the crop to be over $50 per acre.
W. NJ. Afflick and j.. R. Hays have
% head Of splendid calves on feed on
the formers farm, northeast of Cen
tralia, and arc on the lookout for ~
more head to u out an even hun
dred. Both are progressive, wide
awake farmers and Mr.. Hays, who mas
of the farm, is a feeder Of
much experience and success. Here's
hoping that the calves will round TO
and fulfill all expectations.
j. II. Berry delivered ID fat hogs to
Mexico buyers Monday at lie. He
has 81 calves, bought recently in Kan ,
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1. W. Schultz, near Santa Fe. il
mixing nine cows and selling abouf
5l9 worth Of cream a week. His nro- t
iuct tests so to 81. Schultz says it is p
he best proposition for ready cash he a
struck since he came to Missouri. t
n his herd is n COW that brought 2
i'm five calves in ten months, probab- n
y the record for the United States :
.ust before hristmas last year she Il
rought triplets. About a month ago
he brought twins. Two of the trim
died when six months old
'chultz paid $50 for the COW at ,Jpdoo
sale.
F. A. and George Edwards. near
'ong Branch, are realizing unusual
rofits from their crop of hav. bav-
sold large quantities of thrasned
.mothy at $40, hay from their 1916
nd 1915 crops at $40, and mixed
over and timothy at $22 a ton. Thew
ad 40 acres this time that averaged
bove a ton to the acre. Twelve acres
ere t%hreshed, yielding 9s bushels Of
led which sold at $3.50 to s375 at
Their income from the seed
I'd the hSy from which It was thresb-
!, on this - acres, was about $500.
hey sold some of their old hay last
for so a ton, then decided to
it off the market. 1t is now
s11 a ton more.
E. M. Conner, who operated the
anderson farm, neal Concord, boupbt
100 bushels Of corn last week that
will use in ~fattening cattle. Mr..
inner, in partnership with John
is serving a fattcning feed TO a
r load Of steers that will be fat
ough to ship by the middle of this
The lowest temperature was 10
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