Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-01-09
Stock Notes

vide for the employment of farm ad-
wiser for Randolph county.
Four thousand dressed turkeys have
been shipped from Shelbina in the past
few weeks.
Isaac Johnson. south of Paris, sold
coming two-year old steer in St.
Louis last Thursday for $225.75, says
the Paris Appeal. 1t weighed 1890
I pounds and brought II 1-2 cents a
pound.
F. A. Morgan of North Liberty
brought parsnip in to the Ledger Of
flee Wednesday that measured 26 in
ches in length, Morgan raised the par
snip in his own garden and says that
while diggind them, December 81, he
noticed that the fishing worms were
very near the ground and found an
unusually large number of the worms.
Mr.. Morgan says there is supersl'
tious saying that this is an evidence
that the winter will not be a severe
one.
]. H. and W. B. Starr have finished
buying sheep for 1918. They make
a speciality of buying sheep for feed
ers and breeders. This season has
been lighter than usual owing to short
crops in Kansas and Missouri, but
they have bought over $4,000 since the
first of September for parties in Mis-
souri,, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska and
Colorado. All these sheep have been
bought on the Kansas City and Den
yer markets.-Centralia Guard.
Farm $500 An Acre.
The Higginsville Advance notes
that the highest price ever received
for Lafayette County farm was re.
ceived recently by Reinhart Fieth
when he sold his farm of one hundred
acres at 5000 the acre. The farm 's
on the Blue Book route and has an un-
derlying bed of good coal. When Mr..
Fieth bought it four years ago it was
run down and almost worthless. III
that time he has modernized and i'm
proved it until it is we'll worth the
price paid.-K. C. Times.
Once more Col. J. T. johnson comes
to the front as market topper. This
time it is with a shipment of western
ewes of his own feeding. He had on
the st. Louis market Tuesday a load
that contained 112 head that averaged
81 lbs. and they sold at $1,000, which
is the top of the market for mutton
sheep here and the highest price paid
in several months. The colonel has
been in the live stock business many
years and has fed and marketed
thousands of head of stock and it is q
common thing for him to get the
highest price of the day for his offer
ings. He is one of the largest owners
of land in Audrain county, having
something like 1000 acres all under
cultivation.-Live Stock Reporter.
Shelby County Sheep.
Sherwood Bros, of Shelby county,
following their usual custom, took
most of the premiums on sheep at the
recent Chicago International Live
Stock Exposition, says the Shelbina
Democrat. They took three cham pion-
ships, eleven firsts, five seconds, eight
thirds and $10O silver challenge cup,
which was offered as a sweepstakes
premium in a competition open to the
world.
Mrs. B. j. Lambert has the record
here so far this fall on sale of tur-
keys. says the Browning Leader-Rec-
ord. She sold 164 turkeys that
brought $703.2O and kept back num-
ber she thought were undersize. They
were a fine bunch and Mrs. Lambert
is yer! proud of her success. She also
has soli S218 worth of chickens since
the first of the year and said that she
had kept no track of the eggs that
she had marketed. She also has 4
number of young chickens that will be
marketed soon. Some will have to
hurry if they beat this poultry record.
Miss Juanita Alexander, of Paris, is
to have set OF furs made from The
skins of mink caught on the farm Of
her grandmother, Mrs. G. P Grimes,
southeast of Madison. She now has
II of the skins, one of the number be.
ing the very rare black mink variety,
38z inches long. All these minks
were trapped by Lee Mccoy, together
with 267 muskrats, which also yield
a very fine fur.-Paris Appeal.
Jas. L. Wilson sold six head of fine
Shorthorns recently for $1,115-a hve
year old COW for $3.50, two calves at
800 each and the other three at 5000
each. Mr.. French of Fairmont bought
them and Tuesday he bought six
spring calves from r. o. Smith ut
800 each and a young bull for $150.-
Lewis County journal.
T. J. Bates & Son, west of Hatton,
shipped two cars, 46 head, of big
beeves ofthe firms own feeding to
the st. Louis market Monday. T. J. |
Bates, the older member of the firm,
went down to the city to look after
the selling.
I. J. Bates, a big feeder of Gala
way county, Mo-, was represented on
the market Friday with three-car