Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-01-30
Stock Notes


mules to market.
Lee Bros, bought s horses at Pari
and - at Madison last week, most O
them at $50 to SITS.
The 200 acre Boswell farm, nrai
Thompson, has been sold to Joe Mis-
kell, for 10000, possession March 1st
A farm loan of $4,000 was recently
placed on a Ray County farm, the iarE,
est farm loan ever negotiated in thai
county.
Taylor Berry is home from Colum,
bia where he attended the Farmers
Week exercises. He reports a most
delightful stay.
w. H. Fuhrcr, of Benton City, sold
Alex Carter & Son ten head of two.
year-old mules this week for $3.50
They are all good ones.
John Bailey, Of Concord, shipped tc
st. Louis recently a car load of fat
hogs from Auxvasse that were from
his own feed pens.
VIM. Bryson has I couple of scws
that narrowed last spring and toIaee
he has realized the goodly sum of 5000
from the pigs and still has the sows
left.
Lee Greed and ]. Mat Dunn ship
ped to st. Louis recently a car load of
fat hogs from Auxvasse that they had
bought from Spotswood, Huddleston,
Imam brothers and Jourdan Harding
for $1.20 of the top of the market.
The first prize pen of five White
Plymouth Rocks at the st. Louis PouI-
try Show was sold for $500. They
were bred by DIR. F. D. LeGear Of
Kirkwood and bought by David Rem
ley for his farm in Jefferson county.
John w. Creed of north Galloway,
shipped four car loads of 1,000-pound
cattle that he had sold to a trader
named Hale, near Bachelor, for 1917
cents a pound. Mr. Greed had given
them a 40-days' feed.
State Veterinarian l.. D. Lucky, de-
clared before the State Board of Ag-
riculture that the fight against tuber-
cular cattle in Missouri is going back
ward instead of progressing, because
of lack of funds.
The hunters and trappers of Shelby
County are making big money this
winter, owing to the unusually large
number of wild animals along the
streams. One trapper shipped $500
worth of hides and furs from tnat
market one day recently.
Mrs. H. S. Patrick, of near Deer
Ridge, sends us the following report
on poultry raising for 1918. From
four turkey hens she raised and mar
keted $441.25 worth of turkeys; sold
$316.20 worth of eggs and $50 worth
of chickens, making a total of $807.43
for her years work.-La Belle Star.
S. Shelton shipped a car of high
priced jacks by express to Spoken,
Washington, Monday. They were ship
ped over the Alton from Mexico. Mr.,
Shelton recently purchased the ami
mails from Hamilton Brothers. There
were fifteen in the bunch and the eX-
press cost on them was So per cwt.
w. A. Robbins traded his SO-acre
farm, in Western Audrain for a 100
acre farm, near the Monroe county
line, possession March list.
Ross, the ~12-year-oId son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Vance, near here, fell
from the barn loft at the home Of
Charles Wilson Sunday and suffered
the misfortune of breaking his right
arm.
jefferson is the fifty-fifth county tc
organize a farm bureau. The eXecu-
tive Committee is as follows: Pres
ident, George Sullens, Hillboro, r 8;
Vice Pres, Charles Lawrence, Kimms-
wick; Secy., Henry Toulouse, Plattin;
Treasurer, Robert Holecamp, Hills
boro; Dairy Interests, r. E. Dewey,
DeSota; Live Stock Improvement. A,
II. Welch, Vineland; Disease and In
sect Control, A. w. Morris, VineIani;
Soil Improvement, j. G. Bruins, Morse
Mill.
W. NJ. Patterson, James NJ. Patter-
son and Pat Tincher, farmers and
traders up Hatton way, shipped three
cars of 1928 pound beef steers to the
East ST. Louis market from AuXvasse
Monday. Mr.. W. NJ. Patterson sold
these cattle to Eff Fry last fall, who
fed the cattle. The bovines were
bought back last week, Mr.. Patterson
paying Mr.. Fry a good profit for
them Before shipping time came
Pat Tincher and James Patterson
bought an interest in the beeves,-
Auxvasse Review.
W. o. and B. A. Smith prominent
Audrain County farmers and noe
breeders will hold . dispersion anC
dissolution sale of their entire hero
of Duroc Jersey hogs at their farm i
miles southwest of Mexico, Thursday
February IS. In the sale will also bt
$50 head of extra good yearling breed
ing ewes and some 2 gear old mules.
Smith Brothers have been in the
pure bred hog business for the las
ten years and their hogs are famil,