Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-29
LOCAL MARKET
Grain and Live Stock Market

Chicago Stock Yards
Hogs 1850 ............ lOc lower
TOP 5000
Cattle $500 lower
Sheep 5000 ,............ Steady
Pettis county's hard roads boo stcrs
have petitioned the county court to
order, a special election TO vote on 4
proposition to issue one-half million
dollars of county bonds for the inn
provement of the public roads in the
county. Hon. John H. Boutwell,, Hon.
John T. Heard, B. F. Mcclure and
other citizens are strongly in favor of
the issue of the bonds.
Claud Henderson Of the great poul-
try firm of Henderson & Son, paid
SITS an acre for a place on which to
handle geese, says the Paris Appeal.
The farm consists of "a acres and is
known as the Mrs. Mary Maddox
place, adjoining Monroe City on the
south. Then Hendersons handled 3d.
900 geese last year and expect to get
even more this time.
Taking mules as they come, a pretty
fair average price is from $500 to
500 a pair, but W. A. Rinehart has
sold eleven pair during the past
month and they run from $500 to
$1,000, says the Palmyra Spectator.
It is doubtful if any other man in The
state can boast of a similar record.
The Rails County Record tells that
Hugh Flowrence of near New London
has nine pure bred Duroc lows which
narrowed Ill pigs, of which he saved
76. One sow narrowed 10, another Is
and another Ia.
The county agent of New Madrid
county reports that as a result of the
crusade on hog cholera the farmers
of the county wei saved 100000 last
year 1nLouSA FaSSiLldtiOH. LIZ iutli-
Der of farmers reporting hog scholera
decreased from 157 in 1917 to 7S in
1918.
Willard Pierce and W. r. Buckner,
partners in the wool business, shipped
two cars of that commodity to market
on Thursday of last week. There
were about $4,000 pounds in the ship
ment and the buyers paid from 35~to
so cents a pound for it, thus scatter
ing about $4,000 of the filthy lucre
among the farmers of this community.
The Lincoln County Farm bureau
has secured the services of Victor B..
Sheldon as county farm agent and he
is expected to arrive there soon to
enter upon his duties.
Grover C. Sims, of Audrain county,
Mo- obtained the top of the clipped
lamb market in st. Louis Thursday
with 284 head of nicely conditioned
animals averaging n lbs, which MOI
ris & Co., thought enough of to pas
SLABS. This band of lambs represent
ed the personal feeding and handling
Of Mr.. Sims and the condition they
exhibited was a credit to anyone and
shows Thoroughly that Mr.. Sims is
adept at the feed game, not only know
ing how to thoroughly condition lambs
for market purposes, but as we'll is
a cattle feeder of merit, ranking with
the best despite the fact that ne is
still a young man. Grover is a son
of the late Judge j. E. Sims, who, IN
his day, was one of the biggest sheep
operators coming to this market. A
man universally liked and who had
the reputation of being an Al stock
man and farmer. The young Mr.. Sims
went home very well satisfied with
the price and the weights of the lambs. |
Stock Reporter.
Under a new State law no license /
IS required to fish in a county where
lives. Licenses are required, how
ever, where the sportsmen journey
The penalty for fishing
without a license is a fine of from s25
o 500. The license fee, if you fish
of your county, is $1.O0.
The heavy hail storm Saturday at
ernoon, southwest of Mexico, did
Iuite a little damage to the crops in
hat section. Two of the heaviest
osers because of the storm were
William Hardin Sims and John T.
Other farmers also suffered
evere loses in that section. |
w. r. Bradley, who farms on the
place 5 miles southwest of
dexico, brought 16 hogs 8 months old
nd six hogs seven months old into I
own Monday and sold them for slips. {
heir average weight was 256A :,
'oands and their average price was
SLIT. These % hogs were from the
liter of eight sows. He now has SO :
April pigs oil feed from four sows.
Harry Householder, always progress :
re recently put an attractive fence :
bout his country home and painted
! with white lead. Two fine calves =
Eere grazing nearby. Now Mr.. 9
is not sure whether the
aives ate some grass with drops cf
ne paint o n it or licked the fence but
e knows they died suddenly, a short :.
after the painting was finished :,
that the white lead caused their :
nd. L
The Poplar Bluff Chamber of Com "
nerce is planting fifteen acres of to- ="
aatoes, in aid of the canning inter :
SITS of that section. u
LOUISIANA, Mo-, May 26.-The
iggest Shorthorn sale ever held in CO
northeast Missouri was that of w. G.. b
'rewett & Sons in Calumet Township. b
which totaled $4,000. The average o.
n everything sold was $500, and an .
ffer Of $1,000 was refused by the n
'rewetts for their worid-famed herd