Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-03-29
Stock Notes
LOCAL MARKET.

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Chicago Close May JULY
Wheat 1.94h 1.66S
Corn l,17L l.l5&
Oats elsa 5sH to ssh
ST. Louis Cash
No. 2 Red Wheat, 2.O7 to 2.1s
No. 2 Oats, 65.
No. 2 Corn, 1.20.
National Stock Yards -
Hogs, 5000, steady to 5 lower, top
$I5. 20.
Cattle, $500, steady.
Sheep, 5000, steady.
W. T. Dawson, formerly of this
city, who is living in Fulton, was in
Mexico on a short visit Thursday.
He says he is enjoying splendid
health. He has put in his potatoes
and expects to have a good crop.
A. W. Graham, of Montgomery
county, whose fathers home is on the
Central cross state highway in the
Minneola hill, has been appointed chief
engineer of the newly created State
Highway Commission at $4,000 per
year.
200 Calves for Alton Boys
Two hundred calves for members
of the Alton Calf Club have arrived
andl will be delivered in a few days.
The calves were purchased in Wis
consin for about SOS per head. The
calves will be raised by school chill
dren, who get the profits.
Life Insurance for a Cow
MONROE, Wis, March %. - Life
insurance on a COW has been taken
out here. The animal is SNOWFALL
Pink Babe, 5 years old.
The policy is for $4,000 at an an
nual premium of sl40.
Jake Buckner is having the 100
acres he purchased from the Dan
Hickman estate cleared. There is
much timber on the property and he
believes its sale will practically pay
half the purchase price of the land.
THE Carter and Coat wcrth Poland
China SOW sale shows that it pays to
grow the best breeds Of sock.
Lester Miller, n Of Audrain's most
progressive young farmers, is home
from a business trip to Walker, in
northern Iowa, where he purchased a
fine Shorthorn bull for 5000. The an
is bred in the purple and will
head Mr.. Miller's splendid dairy herd
twenty, all of which are extra
good. He also purchased a fine COW
for 5000 while in the north.
Mr.. Miller says the Farm Advisor
n Iowa is getting wonderful results
and increasing the farmers income +;
he is used in that state, s
While there he discovered they are [
alfalfa with barley, because I
he latter let's the suns rays 20 the 5
-oots Of alfalfa. He expects to put
i've acres Of alfalfa in this year with c
The same method of planting c
S used most successfully with clover. 5
Mr.. Miller also has a fine neucleus {
or a Poland China herd of swine.
Roy Maxey received S48 in cash for
load of oats at Paris Tuesday. There
we're eighty bushels in the load and v
he price paid was Coo. Moss Dawson,
the same neighborhood, brought
a load at the same time that
rought SAT. He has 800 bushels =
sft. - Paris Appeal. T.,
Michael ]. Frawley, a cattle buyer =
the National Stock Yards Thurs D
ay obtained a license to open a horse !,
eat market and killing house at
North First street, East St.
Ernest Fagg brought in a dozen
lymouth hens and sold them to T. r.
: German for s14 50 or ST.. 21 each.
alking about your SIS hogs what's
rong with the hen? - Centralia &c
Is
Hamilton Bros, neal Mexico, were
Auxvasse Saturday afternoon to =,
ceiVe three good jacks they had pur-
ased in the Kingdom at fancy pric-
. Two Of the animals were purchas-
from Carl Wise, of Hams Prairie. i''
d the other was purchased from
other man of the same section.
lxvasse Review. SUI
WE'LL, of Lancaster. Penn es'
L IL
extensive buyer of draft horses
S in Mexico Saturday. He went a.,
Paris Saturday afternoon to look at
ne horses there. ioe
E. R. Taft is home from .Jasper sei
where he reports the oats
sown and the wheat looking fine. ~
stated oil wells are being sunk
both Jasper and Barton counties ~
oil men from all over the coun-
are there prospecting. we
J.. I. Beatty had a load of cattle "u'
the st. Louis market Thursday P',
t averaged 1341 and brought Sill q
They were S~horthorns and fed !
corn and cotton cake. He has an
er load on feed. VI"
. I. Beatty sold Wheeler Cant
Of hogs Thursday for 81. so. sue
'tate Veterinarian D. F. Luckey VIM
ties the Ledger that if farmers will go
ort cases Of hog cholera in their
to him every effort will be
lie to stamp it out and keen it 'e''
n spreading. The following dep o'r'