Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-01-04

we're shipped this week. Fulton
Sun.
FULTON, No., Dec. 80. T. P.
Harrison and John Yates, of Aux
vase, yesterday sold 100 mules to
the Gillen-H eiman-H Harper Mule Co.
Of st. Louis for $4,000. The sales in
Galloway County to date total 1900
head for which approximately s276'-
OcO has been paid by St. Louis mule
dealers. A canvass yesterday show
ed that there are about $50 still on
feed.
Reuben Shyrock, who owns a big
farm south of Stephens, sold 20 head
of mules on the st. Louis market sew
eral days ago, for s1s5 around.
T. W. Shultz, east of Santa Fe, has
a cow that gave birth to three calves
two weeks ago. Two heifers, one bull,
all living. The smallest weighed 40
pounds.
Miller. Bros, who occupied and
farmed the John W. Boles 240-acre,
four miles northeast Of Auxvasse, last
year, have rented the DR.. Taylor
farm containing about $50 acres, s
miles northeast of Auxvasse. The
farm is a part of the Col. JEFF Jones
tract. They will get possession about
March first.
Two hundred and ten dollars a head
is the price that William McCray, of
Hereford, received for 63 head of fat
mules that he sold ]. Ed Moore, the
Guthrie buyer, Wednesday. MI. Moore
shipped the hybrids from McCredie,
Thursday, to the MAXWELL Crouch
Mule Company, East st. Louis. This
was one of the largest mule deals
.
made in the county this season.
10000 Rabbits Killed in Roundup
AMARILLO, Texas, Dec. 80. - Be-
lated reports from the jack rabbit
drive, held in the Texas panhandle
country, in a united effort to reduce
the cost of meat, indicate that not
less than 10000 rabbits have been
killed.
UNCLE SAM MAKE HENS LAY?
MILWAUKEE,, Jan. /. - Govern
ment ownership of hens was declared
to be more timely than federal owner
ship of railroads, telephone and tele-
graph systems and other utilities by
B. E. Sunny, President Of the Chicago
Telephone Company, is an address
Saturday night in the University
Club.
"The average person is more in
terested in the price Of eggs than he
is in the regulation of freight rates
or the telephone or other utilities"
declared Mr.. Sunny.
Inman Brothers, two miles south
east Of Hatton, who raised one Of the
best corn crops this year in north
Galloway, are making preparations for
a big crop again next year. They
will plant more than 200 acres in
corn, and have something more than
100 acres already broken. On the T.
X. Patterson tract of so acres, where
they raised their best corn this year,
they will raise corn the next two
years, their lease being for three
years.
Col. j.. 7. johnson, the well known
feeder Of Audrain county, Mo-, sold
steers at Stops per cwt here today,
which was among the best price paid
for cattle. His consignment at this
price, consisted of 10 head, averaging
1349 lbs. He also had a drove aver
aging 1858 lbs. at $10.10 per cwt.
Mr. Johnson is one of the heaviest
operators in his section of the coun-
try. He is an excellent feeder and
his cattle always make a good market.
st. Louis Live Stock Reporter.
j. E. Muir neal Hatton, is fattening
a car load of cattle that now weigh
more than 1000 pounds apiece. He
intends buying up another load to
feed for the late spring market.
T. P. Harrison, who lives east of
McCredi, always has a large drove of
prime beeves on a f~attening rations,
received SO a hundredweight for three
car loads Of heavy steers that he had
on the metropolitan market Thurs
day.
Wheat in Galloway county is not
looking particularly good, according
to farmers who attended stock sales.
Judge W. H. Harvey, of Stedman,
told that the cold weather of tho Iast
two weeks had caused some Of IL to
pop out of the ground almost, while
farmers from other sections made
similar reports. The crop has never
looked first-class, but wheat pros
poets cannot be reckoned accurately
until a week or two before harvest
Fulton Gazette.
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County Court Notes.
Tuesday afternoon the court order.
ed that the assessment of S. B. HAYES
on forty acres of land be reduced from