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IL grzn5-othsr O ths geese family
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TIE goose hzs 3 rse0rd Of having
yro11c@3 eggs for is owner for sew
enteea ysrz. having retired from r.
.ive izty I've years ago.
4 5zIetin recently issued By the
S.zts Beard e Agriculture On the
raining Of farms has splendid Illus
trzt5o1 of The concrete entrance TO J.
7. Jokasgn's Colonial Hill farm north
q this city.
Wz.h a total yiel3 of SCI so bushels
gf cats n 1915, Audrzin county lead
al u the IA counties in this State,
acc0r5ing TO the Missouri Crop Re
yiew for 1916, issued by the State
Beard Ct Agriculture. This yield was
Of an acreage Of 1880 with an av-
eraRs Of p bushels 70 the acre.
In the production Of corn, Audrzin
led all Of Northeast Missouri with
3.3l5, $50 bushels with an average
yield Of "a bushels from 1876 acres.
In the state yield, Audrain was 4th
with the following counties ahead Of
her: Atehison, 4,Ts4,l41; Nodaway,
4,le9S5i; Saline, 3,770,5s4.
Audrain's wheat totalled 56.o2s
bushels which was an average Of
bushels 70 the acre from 1898 acres.
The total yield Of tame hay in this
county was 30,5ss tons from 27,762
acres.
Early Thursday morning the tenn
perature reached the zero mark and at
Z O'clock in the morning was still
there. Wednesday morning at 7
O'Clock the mercury stood at 90 de-
grees making drop Of 20 degrees in
twenty-f0ur hours.
BY noon Wednesday the tempera-
t1re had reached seven degrees above /
the zero mark.
J. C. Mundy has sold his fine lsO- 1
acre farm, ~ miles north Of this city, I
on the Paris road, TO A. L. Maddy, a
prominent business man Of Columbia. /
To-, for 1000. This is one Of the best |
farms Of its size in the county and /
was sold worth the money. /
Mr Aaddy's son viii occupy the /
place and expects to move to the farm I
the middle Of this month. The Led
ger joins the people Of Audrain eoun-
ty IN extending him a hearty welcome.
Wade Bros. sold q jack to Hamil- 4
ton Bros. Of Mexico the past week. /.
They also bought yearling steers of /.
c. c. Boyd at $3.50 and a fine reg 4
istered shorthorn bull Of Charley !
Brooks for SEQ. - Centralia Courier 1
L. c. Reed, q widely known farmer
and stoekman northwest Of Auxvasss. /
last week sold q head of steers for
March delivery to John Kemper. Of
HallsTille, at Sl0.50 per hundred. Tire
beeves will weigh about 1900 lbs. now
and will be weighed up to the pur-
chaser at the farm Of D. B. Guthrie
during the first half Of March. Mr..
Reed also has sixty hogspn feed that
now weigh about 100 pounds. He al
50 sold Mr.. Kemper four fat sowg TO
go this week, three Of them being fig
1red at SO and one at sl0.5O per
hundred. Auxvasse Review.
Kidwell & Dow, northeast Of Aux.
vase farmers and feeders had a
,ar load Of fat hogs on the St. louis
market last Thursday that brought
hem slL75 per hundred pounds. The
sntire load averaged about 2O5 lbs.
Lewis Kidwell and Cyril Dow. who
accompanied the porkers to the city e.
returned home Friday morning.
Auxvasze Review. n
Louis Rudasill, near Long Branch
.old a bunch Of l75-lb. hogs to Nun
ly & Son, Tuesday, at lie. !.
Horace Mundy & Son, leading stock. "
men Of this county, topped the St
1ouis market with load of hogs on Il
thursday. They received si2.25 for
ne shipment. This firm is well known )
the st. Louis market, where thew p
re among the leading feeders and
hippers Of hogs. "
Mr.. Mundy stated to a Ledger rep y !,
esentatiye Friday that this was the
lghest price he had ever received Z,
Or hogs. =,
raul Foreman, near Rensselaer,, de-
vered a wagon load Of clover seed to lie
icFarland Bros. Tuesday which OIL
iought him the nice sum Of s4s6s0 a.
lover seed at present is retailing at y 4
II per bushel, which is a little un- I. =
er the price Of the last few vo.r. u, ,
ie believe Mr. Foreman holds the
cord for the most money received st
y one wagonload Of produce, Of any
nd, at this place. - Monroe re, Il