Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-01-16
and Live Stock Market

The live stock shipments from Aux
vase, Monday, were the heaviest in
several weeks and among the sales
recorded there was a load of mules
that Buckner & Britt, AuXvasSe feed
ers, sold to a Chicago firm for $500.
The Chicago men were at Auxvasse,
Monday, to look over the animals and
! close the deal for them. Buckner &
Britt also shipped another load of
mules to the st. Louis market, which
they were to dispose of there. Over
felt & Neff shipped a a load of con-
tracted hogs and Sam Harrison ship
ped two a loads of fine cattle that
he had been having on feed at his
| place for sometime. Jake Bucknec
shipped a car load of mules from
Bryan that were ursold and were TO
be disposed of on the st. Louis mar
ket.
Sam S. Harrison, the big feeder and
all around stockman from Galloway
county, Mo, contributed to the St.
Louis market receipts Wednesday
with a four car shipment of short-fed
steers that sold to Swift & Co., at
$14.45. There were 81 head in the
consignment, averaging 1923 lbs.
These cattle had been for just a brief
period in Mr.. Harrison's feed lots On
a ration of silage, c~ottonseed cake and
corn. They were mostly cattle which
were bought on this market. This
makes all told about II loads of cat
tie Mr.. Harrison has shipped here in
the last so days. Mr.. Harrison usu-
ally makes his stock fat, but he re-
ports corn too high to give too mucn
attention to finish at this time.-Live
Stock Reporter.
Joe Considine lost one of his most
valuable mules Wednesday, when the
animal slipped and fell as he was
driving it down the road. The
mule did not seem injured at the time
but about half a mile further down
the road it fell between the traces
dead.
Walter H. Albright, son of ]. P.
Albright, of Molino, has entered the
Ruralist Pig Contest, given by the
Missouri Ruralist in various counties
of the state. The conditions of the
contest are that a boy buys a SOW, the
Ruralist backing him, and to produce
as many pounds of pork as possible oy
the end of the year. To the boy sell
ing the most pork, the cost of pro-
duction considered, will be awarded a
prize of $40. In the Audrain contest
last year, John Francis Albright, a
brother of Wallet, won the prize.
Ben Tincher this week purchased
the SO-acre farm of Mrs. Annie Kuhn,
two and a half miles southwest of Hat
ton, for $3.50 an acre. He is to get
immediate possession and will make
it his home. Mr.. Tincher recently sold
his farm of 120 acres in the Hatton
community to W. NJ. Patterson.
The 10th semi-annual public sale Of
| Joe Considine will be held at the Hope
well Stock Farm, at Thompson, on
February 10 instead of February 81.
the date of his wedding anniversary,
which he has used for years. The
nineteenth sale will be held on the
nineteenth day of the nineteenth year
of the twentiety century.
The Ray Hutchinson 102 acre farm,
ore mile north of Centralia. was sold
to Mr.. McCash of Kansas last week
for $12,240, possession March LIST.
A farm bureau has been organized
in Shelby county with the following
officers: President, T. R. Douglass,
Shelbyville; Vice President, H. H.
Jewett, Shelbina; Secretary, Otis Nc
Gully, Leonard; Treasurer, T. W. Noel,
Lentner.
w. A. Johnston sold his 100 acre
farm, eight miles north of CentraIia,
last week to F. NJ. carson and Ash
ton Turner for 500 per acre, possess
sion March list.
The township in which the city of
Maiden is located has voted a good
roads bond issue of $4,000.
Shelbina business men have held a
meeting and decided that the PROPOSE
ton to issue fifty million dollars worth
of good roads bonds by this State
should be put to a vote of the people.
c. NJ. Robinson, northwest of Cen
~tralia, purchased the $50 acre John
Harding farm, near Clark, last week
at $50 per acre.
R. A. and ]. R. Fountain, of near
Centralia, recently sold AZ head of
mules for $1O,860.
Afflick & Hayes purchased 60 head
of 700 pound cattle from o. C. Lee
at $40 first of the week. They also
sold W. T. Hodge 80 head of 21O-pound
hogs at SIT.
C. NJ. Robinson, in western Aud
rain, sold twenty-seven head of Hol-
stein cattle to a Colorado buyer last
week for $2,625. Twenty-Five head
brought al average of $85 while the
other two sold for $3.50 each.
In Lafayette county q farmer was
about to cut down his twelve-acre o.
chard. The County Agent persuaded
him to try another year and spray.
The result was ihe farmer cleared
$4,000. In Adair county the agent
put on a brief he | culling campaign.
Seventeen hundredt and seventy-nine
Stacker hens wert culled out of the
farm flock and sold, saving at least
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