Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-07-18

worms and protecting the crop from
further attack Is Z spray the plants
thoroughly with a poison solution.
Leonard Haseman Of the University Of
Missouri College Of Agriculture Of
fers suggestions for making the soln-
ton Make q fairly strong soap suGS
and add one tablespoonful Of powder
ed arsenste Of lead or two table
spOonsfuls If the paste form is used,
10 each gallon Of suds. Mix the solu-
ton thoroughly and apply it with a
sprayer. A small whisk broom or a
wisp Of grass may be used for apply
ing the liquid If a sprayer is not at
hand. One 3 large scale production,
however, a sprayer should be used.
Water tends TO run of the cabbage
leaves, but the soap suds makes the
solution stick TO the foliage. In rainy
seasons the application should be re-
peated to maintain a thin whitish coat
Of poison on the leaves. Spray both
the top and the bottom side Of the
leaves if possible.
Arsenate Of lead may usually be
procured from local merchants; but
If they do not have it, paris green may
be used with handful Of Stacked lime
added TO each gallon Of poison solu-
ton to counterfeit possible burning.
Sid Powell and Wallace Bybee, Of
near Paris, bought SIS head Of cattle
from Sterling Carter Monday at
Sl6.60 per hundred. the highest price
ever paid in that locality. The steers
will be received on Saturday and ship
ped to Chicago for next Mondays
market. They have been finished in
fine shapa and, being very fat and ex-
ira quality, should sell around the
top,
Ewes Need Care at WEAVING Time.
Ewes should be watched closely at
the time the lambs are weaned. Good
milking ewes are the ones that pro-
duce the good lambs, and are the
most trouble to dry up. The ewes
should be put in a dry lot for several
days and according 10 Howard Hacke-
dorm Of the University Of Missouri
College Of Agriculture, those with
full, hard udders should be partially
MIXED out each day until the milk
flow stops. The lambs should be put
on a fresh, clean pasture to avoid
trouble with internal parasites.
Ed Hendricks was the first to thresh
around Santa Fe. He had so acres Of
wheat that averaged more than 20
bushels.
With a No. l grade of wheat Charles
Mildred, who lives east Of Mexico
topped the local grain market Friday.
when he got s21O a bushel for his
products.
Cortez Edmonston, manager Of the
mill, says that the grain is coming in
now in great quantities. The mills
big trucks were hauling Friday for
Frank Waters, who lives in the Ortiz
district, five miles south Of Mexico.
c. W. Pease, south of town, has com
pleted his threshing, It is said.
The mills force will start moving in
Paul and Guy Laekland's crop SatHr-
day.
The D L. Rodgers and Company's
threshing outfit has finished thresh-
ing for Charles Maxwell and Henry
Stewart Of near Rush Hill. The wheat
yield was not as good in that section
as elsewhere, and is estimated at
about Is bushels per; but the oats did
better and came up to 30 bushels. D. L.
Rodgers said Friday that he thought
his wheat would yield at least twenty
five bushels to the acre.
Blum Brothers were hauling corn to
Polloek's mill Saturday.
J. o. Black was in town Saturday
with a load Of corn which he placed on
market at Pollock's mill.
The Pollock Mill trucks made a trim
to Santa Fe Friday evening to bring in
some wheat for Homer Bridgeford.
Texas county is soon TO have a homo
demonstration agent.
A retired farmer at Platte City, Gabe
Rice, has donated a $1,000 automo.
bile to the Red Cross.
Charles Craghead, of near Aux.
vase, cut 60 acres Of oats Friday
which are expected to make a splendid
yield.
Miss Margaret McCarty Of Monroe
City, bought 1O,55s pounds Of wool al
Palmyra recently, at 81 cents per
pound.
Lincoln county women, states thu
Troy Free Press, have obtained sufi.
Gent funds to employ a home demon.
stration agent.
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Missouri will be reduced this year
probably G5 per cent because Of the
large acreage Of wheat and corn.
Hume Long, who farms in this coun.
ty near Sturgeon, had forty acres Of
wheat this year that averaged thirty
bushels. He also had 80 acres Of oat,
that made an average Of thirty.twc
bushels.
The threshing Of wheat on the CLAW
farm, near Sturgeon, promises an ex-
c%eptionally good yield. The first forty
acres threshed averaged 30 bushels 70
the acre. This is one Of the best pieces
Of wheat in the county. There were
one hundred and ten acres Of wheat in
all on the farm.
Henry Stewart, OF near Rush Hill,
had a wheat crop that threshed 20
bushels 10 the acre. II was extra GOOD
quality. His oats averaged IS bu.
J. w Kerr. Of Sturgeon, was in this