Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-01
Pleasant Hill Plans Beef Calf Club.

Hill Is making q start TO-
ward making that community one of
the leading breeding points for pure
beef cattle in Missouri. The cooper
alton club has prepared for a big Boys
and Girls club which will have not
less than 25 pure bred calves of the
Hereford and Shorthorn breeds bought
comparatively and paid for by the
boys and girls who will secure the
money with which to buy them at the
bank on easy long time terms.
Frest Friday night killed tomatoes
at the home of Pate S. Morris. Mr..
Morris covered one row of the toma-
toes with tin cans. All of the plants
under the tin cans were killed by the
frost and none of those under the
rolled oat boxes were hurt.
Mr.. Morris had this same exper-
fence last year. Next year he will
use ~pasteboard boxes instead of the
cans.
SHELBINA, Mo-, April 26.-Farm-
ers' clubs in this county are determin-
ed to raise $1,000 with which to pay
the portion of the county farm agents
salary, since the County Court has re-
fused to assist in the matter. Farm
ers from all sections of the county are
working on the matter and it is GER
tain they will be successful. C. L.
Wood, who was a member of the dele
cation which called on the County
Court to interest them in the matter,
pledged the amount on behalf of the
farmers of the county when the court
turned them down.
JERSEYVILLE, Ill, April 29.-The
chinch bug menace in Eastern Jersey
County is the worst in the history of
this section. The old bugs are issuing
from their places of Information and
going into the wheat fields to deposit
their eggs, which will produce the crop
of young bugs that emerge from the
wheat fields at cutting time and de-
stroy the young corn. Automobiles
driven through the infested territory
came into ~Jerseyville Tuesday after
noon with a quarter-inch of bugs over
the bottom of the machines.
Mexico Ledger:
We are feeding our young poultry
to the crows. Not willingly, but be-
cause we can't help ourselves. They
made five visits to my poultry yard
this morning and but for the motherly
instinct of love and protection of the
mother hen they would have succeeded
in satisfying their crow appetite.
Now | want to ask all sportsmen,. and
every man and boy that carries a gun
to declare war on crows and save the
young poultry.
When eggs are Csc per dozen and
chickens 80 cents per pound and the
expence of raising them, we can't at.
ford to have them fed to crows. So
volunteer for the duration of the war,
and whenever an opportunity affords
bring Mr.. Crow down.
MRS. FRANK HARRIS.
B. R. Middleton paid J. T. Beatty
$500 for. a good jack recently.
PANA, ILL.,, April 28.-Gardners
and growers of small fruits in this
section of Central Illinois reports that
the ruin wrought to small fruits and
young gardens by the heavy frosts of
the past three nights is beyond esti-
mate. Young grapes were frozen on
the vines and are dropping in millions
of punches. Peaches are badly dam
aged, and perhaps completely ruined,
while Strawberries will fall so per
cent of a crop, fruit growers report.
Tomatoes, cabbage and growing
beans were laid low by the blighting
frosts, said to have been the heaviest
for late April in 20 years.