Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-01-18

vase, bought 1859 bushels Of ex-
ira good quality corn Monday from
Inman Bros, west Of town, paying
81 per bushel for the cereal, and
also bought 200 bushels from Jess
Martin at the same price. This corn
was all measured by the arithmetic
rule.
Mr.. Greed also bought stock hogs
from the following farmers and feed
ers: Ben K%neubuhler, IA, $40 per
hundred; ]. C. English, 20, SO per
hundred; C. E. English and V. R.
Craghead, 10, 81 per head; N. 7.
Python, II, 81 per head. Mr.. Greed
also bought two steers from Con-
ner and Miller, east of Concord, CIV
ing a check for S145 for the two
Auxvasse Review.
HANNIBAL, Mo-, Jan. II. - Calf
clubs for the boys and girls of Marion
county will be started by the Marion
County Savings Bank and the First
National Bank of Palmyra this spring,
The initial purchase by the banks will
be $50 head Of pure bred Jersey calves
and heifers. The Jerseys will be al
loted to $50 boys and girls and wi o
agree to pay the bank a year later,
for the original cost Of the animal.
The banks will take the child's note
for the calf or heifer that is select
ed and expect no payment until after
the Jersey is matured and sold.
THE final government crop figures
show that our yield of wheat this
year actually is 100000 bushels
larger than earlier estimates. One ex-
plination is said to be that the farmers
of the West in giving statements of
yield to government officials made
them as low as possible to help along
the feeling that the shortage would
be acute. Either that, or the experts
are poor guessers.
Col. Zed Hood, editor of the Aux
vase Review, was in this city Satur-
day and purchased twelve extra fine
frogs from Phil Shire. Mr.. Hook
says the soil of Galloway county is
amenable to the raising of frogs and
expects to take his acquisitions from
the Shire herd and raise some extra
good ones to be shown at the county
fairs next summer.
Walter NJ. Harrison, two miles north
of Auxvasse, and Shelby S. Shay, five
miles northeast of Auxvasse, return
ed Friday morning from st. Joseph,
where they bought a car of so heifers
and steer calves. The stock arrived
Friday morning and was taken out to
the farms. This stock will be fed and
marketed some time next summer.
j. E. Fry, two miles northwest of
Hatton, who lives on the place gener-
ally known rs the Weaver 320-acre
farm, has arranged with Mr.. Weaver
to remain on and cultivate the farm
ne coming year.
Mrs. Sherman Lewis and daughters
living southeast of Auxvasse, sold
farm produce during the year 1916
for a total of $715.42. Their eggs
sales amounted to S172.42 and their
poultry sales to $3.50.
Feed lambs at the Kansas City
market Monday sold up to $13.75 a
hundred pounds, ewes 1886, and year
lings and wethers mixed up to $11. 80.
These are the highest prices ever
paid on that market for the various
classes and fully SIS above normal
January prices.
Charles Dunn, a North Galloway
farmer-stockman, shipped three car
loads Of cattle and one a load of
fat hogs from McCredie Monday. T.
P. Harrison near McCredie also shipp-
ed four loads Of fat steers and Berry
& Dunn, McCredie stockmen, shipped
n car load of hogs the same day.
Hoffman G. Kennon, of near Concord
sold two mules Saturday to Harry F.
Henderson, three miles southeast of
Auxvasse. They were for army pur-
poses and cost the shipper s265 for
the two.
Irwin Moddox, who farms near Nc
bought % head of mules from
Austin, of Wellsville, Satur-
day. Mr.. Maddox will put them in
his fattening barn.
J.T. johnson just put on feed one Of
the finest punches of cattle ever
brought to the county, according to re-
ports. The are Whitefaces, Blacks |
md Shorthorns, about equally divided.
They were purchased from the follow
ng: A. P. Johnson, so average 900
BIS, at Z Y cents; 80 weighing 1000
7h cents from Depew, Macon coun-
y; rs weighing 800 from Dawson.
county, z cents; 20 averaging
rs from Robertson, Macon county.
Y cents; 20 Whitefaces, averaging
90 from Gus Corkin, Macon county.
1853 per cwt., IL from Albert Tavlor,