Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1920-06-17
STOCK
NEWS

F~'SO - W 20
st. Louis Cash.
No. White Corn ............ $205
No. 2 Mixed Corn -. $1.SS to $3.50
No. 2 White Oats .......... $1.1S
st. Louis Stock Yards:-
hogs lO,50O ............ 25c higher
Cattle 4500 ..........,..... Steady
Sheep 5000.
Bill Mason has sheared 1000 sheep.
He contracted his clip early in the
season to Mexico buyers at 60 cents
a pound.
James G. Crawford, near Moline,
reports his 40-acre crop of oats be-
gining to head out. They were sowed
early. He has 120 acres of corn. Mr..
Crawford put up 400 tons of silage
last fall and has enough left to finish
up the two cars of cattle he is feed
ing. He also has 60 acres of wheat.
]. C. Dowell or near Molino reports
the wheat in his vicinity as looking
fine, having come out wonderfully in
the last two weeks. The early oats
are doing well, too. He says Ross
Ewing has joined the all night work.
ers with his Fordson tractor. Ross
is through planting IT'S acres of corn.
st. Clair Lmmons, out on Long
Branch, has finished breaking and
planting 200 acres of corn. He used
tractor, running it night and day
part of the time. One night some
thing he bumped into opened the
valve and drained the radiator be-
fore he know what was up. 1t fore
ed him to carry water a quarter Of
mile. He drove until 2;30 Saturday
morning, then tumbled off for little
rest, going back on the Job at 5. II
you don't believe farming is a siren.
uous life ask Emmons.
Over Perry way they ring the bell
almost every day in the raising Of
purebred swine. Last October C. s.
Mccoy Of that neighborhood bought
a Duroc-Jersey gilt bred to Mayor
Sensation, the boar owned by Clyde
Lorentz of Leonard, Mo. He paid
$500 for the Gilt and all of his friends
thought he was crazy. Saturday he
sold her, with eight fve-weeks-old
pigs, back to Mr.. Lorentz for $4,000
Incidentally this is a record price for
profit for one man with one SOW
Vandalia Leader.
In the recent heavy rains Charles
Clark had thirteen sheep drowned.
A fine horse belonging to Chas.
Clark died this week from the effect
of the heat.
j. w. Gallaher has had IL sheep
killed by dogs on his farm formerly
the Layson place south of Mexico.
T. J. Hoxsey lost fine horse this
week because of the excessive heat.
Missouri has practically no aban-
doned farms. The idle crop land OF
$4,000 acres is due to the high cost
and scarcity of labor, and bad wealth
er at planting time. Farmers expect
to SOW "catch" crops such as sorgh-
ums, cowpeas, soybeans, millet, ETC..
upon land too wet this year for corn
and oats. Missouri farmers can not
be accused of maliciously restricting
production.
Ross Ewing, who has been using 9
Fordson tractor day and night, has
his 200 acres of corn in.
w. F. LaFOn, one of Audrain's pro.
gressive farmers, has completed the
planting of lao acres of corn with the
aid of his Fordson tractor. He drove
the machine at the rate of an acre
an hour and figured it consumed Il
days of daylight work in all. He die
part of the plowing by moonlight
which made up for time he lost dur
| ing the day while busy with Other
things. He drove the machine him
self and said without the tractor HI
couldn't possibly have plowed more
than 80 acres in the same time.
Ellis Bros, Clyde and John, whit
farm north Of this city, have been us
ing a Waterloo Boy tractor and hav'
put in 200 acres Of corn. They hav'
done their work during the day anC
are much pleased with the result o.
using tractor.
Homer Slonaker, on the Robinson
place north Of this city, is putting II
large acreage of corn with teams.
R. B. Kerr sold tweve registered
White-faced Hereford bulls to Car
Miller, Of Bclleviow, Kan, Monday.