Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-04-25

James Graves, VINO lives west Of this
city. is exchanging some Of his good
seed corn from his crop two years
ago. for last years corn. Mr..
Graves neighbors are praising him
highly for his kindness in this matter,
and have asked the Ledger to express
their appreciation.
Henry L. Berry, Of north Of Mexi-
CO. delivered sf27s0 worth Of eggs
to j. c. King Tuesday afternoon.
Last week he delivered S54 worth
A very large crowd attended the
sale Of the Nolan MCGOWAN estate on
Monday and everything sold brought
exceptionally good prices.
Lon Blades, Of Holiday, one Of the
best known horscmen in the State.
viii close his training stable at He'll
day this season and win operate his
farm near that town. The high cost
Of feed makes il impossible to han
die horses for his patrons is his rea-
son for closing his stable-Paris
Mercury.
Fulton Gazette
Many farmers from adjoining
counties have come to Galloway
county this spring to get seed corn
with which to plant their 1918 crop.
and as a result of the campaign made
recently urging Kingdom farmers to
carefully test their corn, they arc
finding grain that suits them.
Audrain county farmers, especi.
ally, are short of corn, according Il
Samuel Bried, a former Kingdom far
mer who IS operating M Of the Bel
Middleton farms, who came TO Fultol
Saturday TO buy tested corn. Mr.
Bried says that a large majority o
Audrain county farmers are having I
seek outside Of their county for see
and that most Of those in the marke
are getting grain in Galloway county
Mr.. BRED was wanting seed corn an
after reading in The Gazette Frida
morning that Galloway farmers ha
it for sale. he got on a train and can
> TO Fulton the same day.
Though several farmers are adve
Using seed corn, Galloway county
not overloaded with it by any mean
Because corr seemed to take its Sc
ond growth last fall and while in tn.
state was caught by IN early frol
resulting in much Of the grain +
manning in a soft state, tests made I
seed corn this year do not compare
: all with tests made in previous yea
Many bins will not test much abo
65 per cent and 80 per cent is cons
cred pretty good. Seed corn in Call
way sells from $500 a bushel un.
lt lected, to $500 and $3.50 a bushel,
oi lected and shelled. Practically eve
"a bit Of the good selected grain raj
in the Kingdom will be used Def,
le the corn crop is in, many farm.
say.
Mrs. X. M. Deane and daughter NJ
&C. Dorothy Deane, formerly of this Ct
now reside in st. Louis. Miss Del
re is a nurse at st. Luke's Hospital.
Even so early as last week u
thirds of the 600 acres to be plan
We in Irish potatoes in the Orrick q
county, district, already were pla
s ed. 1t takes 1900 bushels to pl
the district.
An unusual stock sale took pl
in Cover recently, when John
ISL Smith sold at auction % teams
Of one mule for the fabulous price
ter $7O5 per team or $352.5O per h
err one team bringing a thousand doll
ons w. d. Mason and Jim john
ent who have the Tom Mckinney sect
Of land on the Louisiana road n
the Paris under lease, brought in sew
be car loadspf lambs this week to fat
Ter on the grass. They will later
sheared and sent to market.
y. r. J. Bates g. Son, near Hatfon,
the most extensive hog feeders
season in north Galway. They b
100 hogs on full feed and have q
contracted at $3.50 a hundred pou
TO Kemper e. Akemon, Of Hallsvi
ity, Some will be weighed up in July
,uM some in August. The firm is