Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-22
Stock Notes
MARKET


Chicago Stock Yards
Hogs $4,000 .......... 15c lower
Cattle 1000 STEADY
Sheep $500 Steady
Jack Lipp, on the Harlow farm,
north of this city reports several
pieces of wheat in his locality have
been seriously damaged, one or two
to such an extent that they will be
plowed up and the land devoted to
corn. Too much dry weather and too
much fertilizer, some think, was the
cause. Most wheat fields, however,
are reported in fine shape by Mr..
Lipp. Ross Ewing from near Mo
limo, reports his early wheat damaged
about half, along with that of other
farmers in that locality. He attrib-
utes it to the heavy freeze the last of
April.
MCGOWAN Bros. & Rowe shipped
another load of clipped Western
lambs to St. Louis, Monday. The
load they shipped two weeks ago sold
for $16.75. They have 700 breeding
ewes yet to shear and thus far have
43O spring lambs, probably the lar
gest bunch in Monroe county.
Ray White, near Strother, sold his
wool clip to Mexico buyers at 81 cents
a pound.
Homer Bridgford, near Santa Fee
now has 60 cattle in his Angus herd,
22 of them spring calves.
Wallace Bybee, of Santa Fe, has
contracted wool at so CEN a pound
from Abe Lands, Moss Grow, EN-
NETT Force and others.
Ross Ewing sold the wool from
his flock of 430 Western lambs at
Mexico, Tuesday, at 52&c a pound.
The fleeces averaged six pounds. Ross
sold a car load of the lambs two
weeks ago. Thtey averaged 80 lbs.
and brought $15.S5, making him good
money.
Carl Harrison, south of Fulton, sold
a saddle and harness horse to Lee
brothers of Mexico, a few days ago,
for $165.
James Henderson, who resides north
west of Mexico, has some wheat that
is turning red. 1t is thought that this
is due to the dry weather. In fields
where fertilizer was used the wheat
has turned red but where it was not
used the wheat seems alright.
BLIGHT DESTROYING WHEAT
FULTON, Mo, May 14.-Farm
Agent P. F. Schowengerdt who re-
turned recently from a tour of wheat
fields in the Missouri River bottoms,
to which he was called by farmers
who became alarmed when their crops
showed signs of blight or bug, reports
that the affection is the same as that
reported from Is other counties in the
State. S~chowengerdt says it is a
fungus growth that takes life out of
wheat, and seems to be spreading.
He says it is a new blight, for which
no remedy has been devised. Farms
which promised thirty bushels to the
acre may not produce one-third that
amount and some may be totally
ruined.
Col. J. T. johnson, the largest owner
of land in Audrain county, Mo, and
also one of the most widely known
farmers and stock feeders in that
county had in of his own feeding on
the St. Louis Market Monday several
decks of western lambs which sold
quite satisfactory. One lot of these
1l3 head, all of which were
ewes purchased to &c to the country to
be used for breeding this fall, weighed
sc lbs, and sold at $15.25, while the
rest of the lot 466 head that weighed
II lbs went at $500. The colonel
has been going west each fall for q
good number of years and laying IN
hundred lambs to be fed for
the late spring market after being
and he claims that this is one
Of The most profitable pieces of bus
that the farmer can follow. He
has become widely known for the
good lambs he puts on the market.
The colonel is one of the many popular
auctioneers in central Misouri.-Live
Stock Reporter.
City Buys Team.
The City has purchased a team from
Ed Machin for $3.50 and a dump wagon
Ken Hulen.
Crops in the cyclone visited section,
near Thompson, are not as badly dam
aged as at first reported.
week.
Rain Was General. i,
The rain Monday was not needed in
some parts of Audrain while in others
t was quite welcome. There are some
# the opinion that it will assure the .
wheat crop as it will interfere with S
my inroads which might have been s
made by pests. The rain was general 1
the county. I
B. A. Tincher, near Hatton shipped I
car load of fat hogs from McCredie 7
donday that he bought from Paul !
Brown northwest of Hatton, for IS :
2 cents a pound. :
Big Real Estate Deal. (
The following real estate deal was Z
made here last Saturday through The Z
!. w. Daniel Land Agency office over J
he Emmons building towit: Porter !