Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-03-14
Stock Notes

A4AANIf " - - A 49,
Laddoaia. for $500.
r. Hendrix. : prominent farmer
and siockman Of Audrain county. Nc,
Was on the market Thursday with
. Load Of hoEs of his own raising. 81
had that averaged 2t7 Iha and sold
at si7tA. which vas the top Of the
market These hogs were all Duroc-
Jerseys and strictly coed quality and
fai. They were fed on tankagc and
made a gain o. 5 little better than a
pound and a'half per day. Mr.. Hen
Dirk was highly pleased With the
price received for his hoEs-st. Louis
Live Stock Reporter.
Poland Chinas Sell High
RICHARDS, No. March 5. - A
world record price for hogs was
equAlled yesterday when Liberty
Belle, a Poland China spring pig, was
sold by J. R. Young for si,225 to Ezra
Warren Of onway Springs, Kan.
CATTLE FEED NO SUBSTITUTE
COLUMBIA, Mo-. March 8. - F. d.
Mumford, federal food administrator
for Missouri, has announced that
wheat flour substitutes listed in the
wheat conservation rules are intend
ed to include only substitutes edible
by human beings as food. UnbOlted
corn meal and other products which
are suitable only for cattle feed may
not be sold as wheat flour substitutes
Bran and shorts, while edible by hu-
man beings, are not authorized sub
s~titutes in sales to consumers as they
are used as stock feeds. They are
substitutes only in sales to bakers for
use in bread.
W. D. Lee, of Mexico, bought Is
head of horses and mules at stock
sales, Monday. He shipped them to
Mexico that afternoon. = Fulton Ga
zette.
Abner Wilson, Of near Long Branch,
delivered corn in this city recently at
50 per bushel.
w. Jeff Woods, formerly of this
community, now living in Mexico, is
now a big dealer in all kinds of stock,
located at Atlanta, Ca, was in Aux
vase a short while Tuesday morning
and paid this office a pleasant visit
while here. We are glad to know that
Jeff is prospecting in his business and
has to pay an income tax to the gov
eminent and he says he wishes he had
to pay five times as much. = Aux
vase Review.
Corn shueks, which were baled and
sold at s14 a ton by Centralia grain
shippers until a week ago, are now
being given away. The shucks were
from corr that was husked and shelled
after delivery. No cars can be had
for shipping them. The Govern
ment wants all cars for grain.
C. +. Clark has so acres Of oats
sown, part Of which was put in in
February. His son, Charles Clark,
states the best oats he ever raised
were sown last year on the goth Of
February.
The U. S. Government has set a
wholesale price of 90 cents on bind
ing Irvine. No retail price has yet
been announced.
j.. 7. Beatty, Of southwest Of town,
had four cars Of cattle on the ST.
Louis market last week that were good
enough to bring s12 per cwt., not
withstanding the severe decline our
market has suffered during the past
few days, 70 head in the string aver
aging 1928 lbs. brought the price; bal
ance being butcher stuff. In speaking
| of the sale the Live Stock Reporter
says: "Mr Beatty is an old timer at
the feeding game, and up to the pres
ent time has been able to conduct his
feeding enterprise on a very profita-
bic basis. When told that the cattle
marketed by him here Thursday were
not the usually we'll fattened kind he
marketed, he admitted that prices
were not high enough to warrant
shoveling this high prices corn to
them. Most of these cattle, so head,
were bought in the west last summer.
The balance were secured last fall
and the entire bunch put on a full
feed for the last five months. Molass-
es feed, corn and shelled oats made up
the ration While they thrived well
on it, the profit" rather Gloss col
umn' was rather disappointing due
either to the high price of corn, or low
price Of cattle. - C~entralia Courier.
Col. J. R. Brown reports a bushel
of seed corr selling for $i07 at the
Sturgeon Red Cross sale last week.
The highest price paid was So and the
lowest $3.50 and was given back for
resale as fast as sold. Centralia
Courier.