Mexico Missouri message., 1918-10-10
THE FARM AND
LIVE STOCK MATTERS.
Mr.. Hafner, AgriculturaIist And
Preacher-Wonder Buster Sow
Farrows IL Pigs.

The price of old stoves has gone |
up, too. Charlie Vaughn Iof near
Perry held public sale lately and |
a stove which he paid $40 for II |
years ago brought $36.
Elmer Dixon of Monroe county
had to put in his crop of wheat at
night, it is said, on account of be-
ing unable to get drill of his own.
All those owned by his neighbors
were in use during the day, so FL
mer waited until neighbor quit
work and then hooked up to a drill
that had been used all day and
drove 1t all night for two consecu-
tive nights by the light of the moon.
The Paris Appeal says: Sid Pow
ell and Wallace Bybee bought So
head of 970-pound steers from a
farmer near Thompson at SIG, re-
ceiveing only $16.5O for them at
Chicago.
VIM. Sterrett, near Santa Fe, ac-
cording to the Paris Appeal, sold
two five-gallon cans of cream on
Monday at 58 cents a pound, his
check calling for $21.99. He has 1S
Jersey cows and plans to milk IL or
Is thru the winter, feeding them
. from two silos that he recently fill
ed.
Albert Erdle and little son, Clay
ton, called on the Message Saturday.
Mr.. Erdel put in 65 acres of wheat
this fall. He put grass seed with 40
arces of it, Used fertilizer for the
whole sowing The ground was in
fine shape, and here's hoping Mr.. E
makes some good money out of thai
wheat next season.
At Robert Lockridge's sale of live
stock last week shoats sold for $3.50
to s25.25, Fletcher Sims buying sew
eral at the top price. Ewes sold a.
$500 to $1,000; one buck sold foI
551. Charlie Maxwell bought mar
mule for 1910 Dick Dallerd bough
pair of bay mules for $527.6O
The top price for COWS was Sill, of
fered by Joe Considine.
o. F. Hafner of near Worceste
is one of Audrain county's very bes
farmers. Gov. F. D. Gardner honor
ed him lately by appointing him a
a delegate to the Internationa
Farmers Congress which meets Il
Convention Hall in Kansas City tn
, 18th, 18th and 10Th of this month
Mr.. Hafner is also a preacher. Hi
time is taken up every Sunday. II
y breaches two Sundays at the Bea
Creek church and the other tW
Sundays at Rush Hill.
= Mark Givens, east of Mexico, III
ished putting in 70 acres OF whei
:, last week. We hope he may have
big yield next year.
The Centralia Guard says: Fran
- Hulen this spring purchased Wol
der Buster SOW at Mexico, by Cert
dale Jones, the $500 boar. II
dam was a $500 animal and Il
- pigs give promise of being great Il
. diViduals. Besides these Mr. Hul'
has other fall litters and is recei
:. ing many inquiries regarding thel
Visitors who have looked the lite
IL over say they are the best they ha
g. seen,
Roy Foster, north of Centrali
has sown 100 acres of wheat u
fall.
Raw Spiva, one of our you
: farmers who has been running
= high for several seasons, is NJ
~ feeding II head of Whiteface c.
&c tie and 1875 head of hogs at
= farm southeast of Centralia, says t
~ Guard. 1t is no mystery how Ray
al able to buy bonds and get on
- volunteer days; he is not plung
~ hut a good judge of stock ana
time to buy and feed
J. S. Kanatzar bought 4O ae
of land from Mrs. Alice Parks NJ
Centralia, paying $10o per acre
According to the Guard Char
.so Rodibaugh, north of Centralia' s
Inc his 100 acre farm to Charles Mey
,aS I of Aberdeen, N. D., at $12b per az
~ Harry Hawkins of near Santa
L. is feeding fine bunch Of hogs
nv bought a car of barley lately ?
~, 49, ing s1.1O a bushel for it, which
win put out to the hogs,
- A p. Doebelin is new Mess