Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-08-01
Stock Notes

.St0ck NOleS
IL czreasa. resianE pertA e
in eity. haa - sres q wheAt IA
thrsshNa isN bashelA ard his eats
u.ae an average e s. bsshelA
Nh Hoasslsiaur % aerG q
uhsas averaged "a baskets and bis lie.
scres q cats thrsshed 50 bsshsls tbs
seasoa.
Frank weinaad. residing nerth q
Msxioo. had iss seres Of wheat that
averaged % tushei, ard 100 zeres q
osts that threshed thirty bushels
Auarsln eeanty. No. furnished AIS
.seers en- the ST. Louis market We'd
nesasy. the top Of the market They
were fed and shipped BY J. ?. Beatty
who accompanied he bseves TO market
and stated they were the highest prie-
Cd cattle he ever sold. Shipment con
sisted Of q head averaging 1870 hs.
They we're bought By Armour. Mr..
Beatty says be fed these cattle about
seven months. First half Of that per-
lod he used straight corn and finished
on corn and molasses feed-Live
Stock Reporter.
Earl Carter, one Of the substantial
feeders Of AudrHin county. No, wa
on the St. Louis market Wednesday
with a drove Of iis7-lb steers that
sold to the killers at si6.65 per cwt. :
Live Stock Reporter.
One hundred and nine truck loads O
Audrain wheat were hauled to the Pol
lock Milling Comrany's elevator
Thursday, according to Cortez Ed
monston, manager Of the mill. Thirty
four loads were delivered after
O'Clock last night making a total o
5000 bushels which the company pur
chased during the day.
All of the grain was brought fror
the Frank Weinand farm north Q
town, and graded No. /. He is sal
to have raised 24O0 bushels of whea
alone.
James Crawford had so acres {
wheat this year, that threshed lao
bushels.
Reed Burke sold two loads of cattI
in Chicago this week, that brought a
extra good price.
Milt Householder is home fro
4 Chicago, where he marketed two LOAF
Of cattle that sold well.
Judge Beagles of Audrain count
bought a pair of two-year-old mul
from Georfe Hayden near Victor T
Gently for $3.50.
Communities situated five miles
d more from the railroad, in regio
re where the soil needs lime, and whe
4 a local source Of limestone is availab
IS should consider home grinding. Tho
q. communities lying near a shippi
G point can usually ship ground lin
le stone as cheaply al they IAN grind
V There are large areas in Nilsson
e. which will never be lined until I
sh home grinder comes into use.
to The cost Of grinding win depe
g upon the ease of quarrying the sto
at the size of the grinder, and the e
cheney of the crew. In most cases, he
ever, 50 per ton is about as cheaI
'ut as it can be delivered to the farme
nd Home grinding may be done Coz
$50 eratively, or one man in the commit
ar ity may buy the outfit and do Gust
It'll grinding. Communities which cons
err home grinding should take up
zen mater with the University Of N
ars souri, College of Agriculture and h
md samples of the soil examined for p
md ness. NJ. F. Miller Of the Departm
Of Soils says that the composition
Ieir the available limestone and the
hat mand for 1t in the community she
on be looked into before t grinder is
cal stalled. He says the installation
ere a grinder is highly desirable un
NV proper conditions.
ent For a number of years soil exp
ent ments have been conducted in "
var on sections Of Missouri. Results
ad- these experiments, pointed out by
ent University Of Missouri College of
i've ri~culture, show that tile drain car
installed profitably on the north'
Missouri level prairie. Furtherm
uch these experiments have demonstr;
edi- that phosphate is the one fertilii
an element which can be applied Y
ern- profitably to Missouri soils. On a
dis soils the application Of readily az
ting able phosphates has not broughf
Of profit. The readily available p
Of pilates have given somewhat retl
The during the course of experiments
no the insoluble phosphates.
the Lime has usually paid ver niue
I'M the soil area that has been tel
and This is particularly true where cl
the has been grown. AS an averag'
tely all experiments, including a total
ston more than 200 trials, approxima
uni one ton of ground limestone has g
the an increased crop return of So
rotation Of corn, oats, wheat and
lived err.
first 1t has been shown concIusively
the most Missouri soils need organic i
in ter, In this connection, barnyard
hieh nure applied before corn at the
de- Of 8 tons per acre in a rotation of
orge oats, wheat and clover, has bro
tiers an increase valued at s13.02 per
p in or s1.63 per ton Of manure.