Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-07-10

W. R. James hold the record for the
biggest fleece in that county. One
eve sheared twenty-five pounds.
Butler County Roads.
Butler county is soon to vote on a
road bond issue in the sum of $500, 900.
Some Hog.
A. c. Yountz of C%larksburg recently
sold a hog that weighed 800 pounds,
for $19.75 per hundred.
Cass County Breeders.
A county Poland China Breeders
Association has been formed in Cass
county, with a membership of twenty.
Clinton County Roads.
The people of Clinton county are
organizing for a hard-surface road
bond campaign.
The Mexico Tractor and Implement
company sold Cleveland tractors to
w. w: Pollock and Frank Weinand
last week.
J. L. Clark and NJ. D. Shinn, OF
Knoxville, Ia, have purchased the
Chapman farm near Skinner for $135
an acre. This place comprised 1921
acres in all and is extra good land.
6. T. Powell, had Isl lambs on the
St. Louis market Tuesday for which
he received 1914 cents. Mr.. Powell
topped the market for native lambs.
FULTON, Mo-, July 2.-The first
Galloway wheat was brought to Yantis
mill Tuesday by W. S. Sharon, who
farms neal here. 1t graded No. 2 and
sold for $2.O6 a bushel. Scores of
threshing outfits are at work and an
enormous yield will be secured.
: Altman Heinicke and Fred Rick
ers, who have 105 acres of wheat in
at Rush Hill are said to have a splcn-
did showing and expece 80 bushels
to the acre.
Heck Franklin has sold the old
Luckie farm, of 800 acres east of Mex
leo, to Richard Carter for 1925 an acre.
This is a splendid piece of land.
Charles Arnold, who resides north
of Mexico, holds the honor of bring
ing in the first 1919 wheat to the
Pollock Milling Company. Mr.. Arm
old brought part of his wheat yield to
the mill early Thursday morning
which graded SO and SO or No. 2. He
received $2.08 a bushel for it.
VI. Arnold was unable to tell what
his wheat averaged as the separator
broke down before he finished thresh-
ing. However it will be a little above
the average yield of the county, it is
thought.
Two dollars and ten cents a bushel
is being paid for No. l wheat. The
Milling Company expects many others
farmers to begin hauling their wheat
to the mill by the last of the week or
the first of next.
Alb Romans, of Benton City, sends
us a head of timothy raised on his
farm in that vicinity, which measures
eleven and a half inches long. Nh.
Romans challenges anyone to beat
this record in this kind of soil.
Henry Heinicke, of Vandalia, says
he had to replant much of his corn
but that it all looks fine and promises
a splendid crop.
f. R. Taft returned this week from
a tripl to Barton County, Mo. In
speaking of the crop outlook in that
county Mr.. Taft said he never saw
better looking wheat or found il in
such large quantities. The people of
that county expect to have a record
breaking wheat yield this year.
The greatly augmented value Of
hogs draws attention to the fact that
in the number of hogs on farms, Iowa
the most distinguished State in this
country. The estimate of the Bureau
of Crop Estimates of 1919 is 10,925,-
900 hogs in Iowa, 5,724,000 in Illinois.
4,943, 900 in Missouri, 4,668,OOO in In
4,266,OO0 in Ohio, 4,25O,OOO in
Nebraska and 3,O43, 900 in Georgia.
other State is below 3,000,0 0O.
Iowa hogs are about one-seventh of
The nations total and nearly double
the number in Illinois, the State next
The oats harvest, which is underway
n Audrain county, is most promising.
A record for bringing sheep over
and to this city in a motor truck was
made Monday morning by Tayl"r
)owell, a prominent farmer residing
, miles north Of this ,ity.
From the time Mr.. Dowell started