Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-11-15
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ID w. SAN AApD Jhob snip
ped three car loads of mules to Ten
nessee. Ben says he had to go to
Galloway and Boone to buy these
mules, and he thinks that Audrain {
people should raise more mules than
they seem to be doing at this time. !
The mule business is proving most
profitable.
Included in the receipts Monday
was a consignment Of two loads of
Western lambs fed in Audrain coun-
ty, Mo-, which consisted of 256 head
that averaged 70 lbs and they sold at
$16.75. These lambs were fed and
marketed by W. E. Cunningham a
well known farmer and feeder of that
part of the state. Mr.. Cunningham
has been a regular patron of this
market for many years and during
that time sent in many thousand head
of stock. - st. Louis Live Stock
Reporter.
Henry Meyers, of this city, had
three-fourths of an acre planted in
navy beans that harvested Is bushels.
Hog men are practically assured
of a price not to be below $3.50 for
packers hogs on the Chicago market
during the next year. Members of the
National Association of Live Stock
Exchange, in a meeting with Jo-
seph P. Cotton, head of the meat di-
vision of the national food admins
t~ration, agreed that so far as they
could effect it, that there would not
be sudden breaks in the market and
that hogs of the class mentioned
should not go below that price. The
figure that the ratio of hog price to
, corn price over a number of years is
IL to /, and that to bring the hog pro-
duction back to normal the ratio
-
= should be 10 to /, and that they will
try to stabilize prices so that for the
pigs narrowed next spring the far
mer should receive for every loo
pounds of hog ready for market IL
times the average cost of a bushel Of
corn.
If a farmer does not see fit to spe'
~cialize in any particular branch o.
-, agricultural production he may a
least specialize on some partlcula'
D., crop and thereby realize a good prof
on his efforts. Grant Morthland, o
Moline, Mo-, has made a specially o
: soybean seed production. He was
=, short course student at the Universit
a of Missouri College of Agriculture |
:, 1914 and by the result of his work be
came interested in soybeans. He OF
40 tanned some Horse seed from the co
~, lege in that year. He also obtaine
N ~
, some varieties from the United State
Department of Agriculture. He ha
improved his varieties by individui
plant selections and he has made
- reputation as a~'producer of good SO!
bean seed. He sells his produ'
each year at a price considerab
above the market price Fultt
oe Sun.
10 ]. H. Scott, of near Martinsbur
"a, saws his 100 acres of wheat is cor
viii ing along in fine shape since the pa
, few days of warm weather. Up u
til that time he was dubious it gettll
.I through the winter.
Tho W. D. Mason is feeding 100 head
cattle and 200 head of hogs. He sa
=, his corn was not all it should ha
will been and he is feeding the soft ca
MI to his stock.
out J.. H. Scott shipped two cars of n
cen corn last week, which sold at ST.
an His corn this year averaged do b
for B. R. Middleton has shipped TIN
ork cars of mules to Tennessee.
.rm bought them in Boone and Nom
low counties.
nle- The water shortage on the far
.ex- this wear has brought nothing !
, to the suffering it did in 1901. Prof
ux- ing by their experience in that We
most of the farmers now have dc
wells to meet just such an emergen
81 ]. H. Scott reports his 7 acres
/, navy beans will average about
II bushels and bring him in close to '
- 600. The beans are selling for alb
$40 a bushel.
T. j. Bates g. Son, one mile west
Hatton, shipped u steers OF tn
own feeding to the st. Louis mar
from Auxvasse Monday. The II
L
has "A cattle and 100 hogs LETT
their feed pens. The stock ship.
Inv had been given full feed about
WIN hundred days and were mostly He
the
A.. fords.
William Lee, of the firm OF
Bros, of Mexico, bought horses
'mer follows on the streets of New Blot
'usi- field, Saturday: One horse, He
Holt, S35; one, M. F. Craghead, )
sold one, M. C. Kyger, $1O1.5O; one
k at gan Trammell, $40; one from He
feed Schneider. - Fulton Gazette.
the Robert R. Buckner & Son, ship
the 1O5 head of mules from organs M
day. The animals were of the fl
lore oun f%atteninP.