Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-02-20
LOCAL MARKET

National Stock Yards
Hogs 1880 ............ 10c lower
Top $3.50
Cattle 5000 Steady
Sheep 1900 ............ Steady
SPECIAL REPORT
OF THE
ST. LOUIS LIVE STOCK MARKET
National Stock Yards, Illinois,
Feb. 18th, 1919.
Cattle .......... $500
Hogs ........,.. llOOO
Sheep .......... 1900
.CATTLE:-Market continues very
active and strong at last weeks adj
vance.
Beef steers 50 to $19.25; stockers
and feeders $7.75 to $3.50; yearIing
butcher cattle $3.50 to SIS; Beef cows
50 to $3.50; cutters $3.50 to IS; can
ners 1928 to $5.75; Stock COWS and
heifers $3.50 to SO; Fat bulls SO to
SIP; sausage bulls So to $40.
HOGS:-Early trade strong on best
fat Northern hogs, early top $18.25.
General market closing 25 to 35c lower
on these; SOC lower on lights, With
pigs and Southern stuff demoralized.
Good to choice hogs 210 lbs. up SIS
to the top; light and mixed 100 to 200
lbs. SIT to $17.6O; light 100 to $50
lbs. $15.75 to $16.25; light native
pigs 80 to l15 lbs. $12 to $3.50;
Southern pigs 50 for common, up to
s14.5O for the good weights; best
rough hogs $16.4O; habitat roughs
$12 to SIS.
SHEEP:-Lambs active and so to
65c higher than a week ago; sheep
steady.
Good to choice lambs Sits to SIS;
habitat and medium kind of lambs
$16.25 to $17.25; Gull lambs $12.75 to
$15.25; fat sheep $11 to $11.5O; chop
pers So to $3.50; tanners S. to Sc; fat
goats 81 to 50; medium flesh goats
6 to 81; thin common kind of goats So
to $3.50; kid goats 81 to $11.
NATIONAL LIVE STOCK COM
MISSION co.
John Bunch of Audrain county, Mo,
marketed yearling heifers on the st.
Louis Market Monday, which topped
the market at $14.00 per cwt. There
were twenty-three head that averaged
673 pounds. Mr.. Bunch accompanied
the shipment and was well pleased
with the sale.-Live Stock Reporter.
W. A. Hunolt, a farmer living north
of Clarence, has lately lost $50 hogs
valued at $4,000, that died of influ-
enza, says the Shelby County Herald.
Other farmers in the county have lost
hogs from this disease, and vaccina-
ton has been resorted to in a number
of instances in an effort to stop the
disease.
The Mrs Alpha Mongler sale which
was held Tuesday drew a large crowd
and everything brought a fair price.
The sale totaled $1,000. A span of
horses sold for $3.50 and COW sold as
high as $S5. Shoats brought SIG a
head. J. G. Ford was the auctioneer.
One of the largest deals in corn
ever pulled off in Scotland county
from a single farm was that made by
Sol P. Corwin, who is employed as man
ager of the 700 acre tract known as
the Judge Burrus farm and now owned
by Tyler, Kennedy and Otto, of Iowa
says the Memphis Democrat. Since
the 22d day of December he delivered
and sold 1851 bushels of corn, being
the rent corn or one-half what was
raised or the farm during the past
year. After paying for help in hau-
ling, etc, Mr.. Corwin Melted the sum
of $4.427,28 as his part of the proceeds
of the corn crop for the year 1918.
There's good money in the milking
of cows, sage the Monticello Journal.
] B Felger milks six and sells the
cream at Lewistown One week it
amounted to $22 and the next week
S18 and last week $23 The other day
Mrs ] B Porter was going to Lewis
town and had two gallons of cream on
hand and thought she would take it
over and see what it would bring, She
was very much surprised when they
paid her more than 81 for it
The A. B. Madey's sale held Friday,
February IA at the farm two miles
north of Mexico was a good one,
everything bringing fair prices. A
pair of mares sold for $425.50 and a
span of mules for SAILS. One horse
S167.50. Cows sold as high
as 800. Hogs also brought a good
price. j. G. Ford was the auctioneer.
The johnson & jackson sale will be
leld Friday, February % at the farm
miles southwest of Mexico. At
hat time a large number of horses,
attic, hogs and sheep and all farm
Implements will be disposed of to the
bidder.
The Considine sale vas largely at
ended today, and stock brought good