Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-07-31
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
STOCK
NEWS

munity, for the first half Of the Aug
ust delivery.
Dick Davis, of Madison, received
$21.75 per hundred for a recent ship
ment of hogs to the st. Louis market
the highest. price eve received by a
Monroe county hog shipper.
The wheat crop of Audrain county
is pouring into the local mill in great
quantities. The favorite method Of
moving the grain seems to be with
trucks. Every truck available has
been secured and the grain is being
rushed to elevators as soon as it is
sacked.
All of the local truck owners are OPP
Grating at top speed to get the wheat
in. The trucks that are hired by the
farmer and payed on a bushel and
mileage basis. One cent per mile per
bushel is the standard rate in this
part of the country. Hoxsey and
Shrout have sent out n traffic truck;
Bruce Piper has two running; Abe
Sudar has one, and AL Hendrix, two.
Besides thes Their are many trucks
owned throughout the county by in
dividual farmers. All of these are OPP
Grating at top speed. A. P. Green's
big trucks now at Fulton r reported
to be hauling Galloway wheat.
At Pollock's Mill the scene is one
Of orderly confusion. Trucks line up
to pass under the shed to dump their
load of grain, then whirl around back
to the scales where they are weighed,
to determine their load. Sacks are
piled high on the mill platform and
horses and wagons occasionally come
in with a load of wheat. The work
there, according to one of the mill Of
fcers, is two or three days behind
time and all of the employees are
working over time. Some stay almost
every night he said, till nine or ten
o'clock.
All indications are that Audrain will
have a larger wheat crop this year
than she has had for years. The yield
per acre is pretty good and the farm.
ers are hurrying to take advantage
of the good prices. The number OF
threshing outfits in the county have
something to do with the sudden de-
LUCE of wheat, as there are severa'
more operating in this territory thar
have been in former years.
The apple crop of the M. L. Cole
man orchard near Marionville was sol'
last week for 100000. The orchart
comprises 200 acres.
Over n hundred farmers of thu
Clark county farm association poole'
their wool clip, amounting to 1882
pounds, and sold it for $$19,851.
Melvin Patterson, a north allawa!
farmer, received $40 a hundred for q
stock hogs that he sold Les William.
son, near McCredie, a few days ago.
Chas. Helm & Son, of Audrain coun'
ty, Mo-, had a load of hogs on the st
Louis market Wednesday that sold al
the top, $23.35. This is 30c above the
top of Tuesday, and the highest hogs
have ever sold for on any of the west
ern markets. These hogs were wei
finished and averaged 240 lbs. MIR
Helm accompanied this shipment tx
market and was exceptionally wei
pleased with the sale. These hogs were
his W feeding. He bought them sew
enty days ago an sine that time ha'
:. had them on good pasture and run
ming to a self feeder, having all tn
corn they could eat and they made
:, big gain. In talking with Mr.. Helm h
mentioned that he had sold hogs abou
as good as these some years ago a
1885, which was in sharp contras
with Wednesdays good prices.-Liv
Stock Reporter.
W. F. Green, a farmer living nea
= Armstrong, in Howard county, ha
produced a timothy head measurin
= IL inches in length.
The wheat crop Of Boone county wi
amount to about 100000 bushels 70
: which the farmers of that county wi
receive over $500, 900.
Harry Thale, of haywood, the be
y king of Missouri, expects to produe
over n hundred thousand pounds
honey this year.
The $66,5OO bond issue by the Do,
iphan road district was carried by
:, vote of seventeen to n
!, Last week the Auxvasse Bank so
. the 1859 acre farm known as the J.
: Laws place, near Hickory Grove scho
house, to F. L. Crosby Of Mexico, Nj
at $55 per acre.-Auxvasse Review.
Jake M. Buckner and Robert Loo
ridge, well known Audrain mule bu,
ers, we're down east Of Auxvasse Sa
IS urday morning and among their pu