Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-12-29

1t is feared by many that the slee
will do heavy damage in the whea
fields of the county. In fact som
even go so far to say that the dam
age is already done.
J. H. Scott, of near Martinsburg
had a 100 head of fat cattle on the st
Louis market Monday, Dec. 10.
John Bledsoe sold Golfers Marke
six turkeys Thursday for an even $50
They were sold Immediately after the!
had been put on display.
]. Ed Moore, of this city, bough
ten mules this week from C. H. Hud
son, of Guthrie, at $105 around. HI
plans to ship them Monday.-Fultor
Gazette.
johnson Bros, of southeastern Aud.
rain, purchased 30 purebred sows at
Perry.
Lee Freyer, of near Martinsburg,
had aload of fat cattle on the st. Louis
market recently,
E. P. Johnson, of southeastern Aud
rain, recently shipped in 26O head of
stock hogs bought on the National
Stockyards market and has placed
them on feed.
Bob Peck bought IS head of 668-lb
yearling steers from Hartman,
Thompson & Co., south of Paris, at
4hc a pound and will feed them on
his farm south of Strother.
John Fennewald of Martinsburg, re-
Gently received a load of feeding cat
tie which he will prepare for market.
H. L. Berry sold 25h pound
turkey in Mexico Thursday that
drought $14.44. The price was So
cents a pound.
Let the Ledger print your sale bills.
We Are equipped to do this work to
your satisfaction. wifi
Judge j. K. Outright, southwest
of Paris, shipped two Shorthorn steers,
a COW and a 550-pound steer calf to
st. Louis last week. After paying
shipping expenses he received a check
for $S8.40. The same week Mrs. Curt
right sold 10 turkeys. Her check called
for $1,000, just $50 more than the
judge got out of his cattle.-Paris
Appeal.
The Producers Grain Company
shipped a carload of lambs to the
East st. Louis stock market this
week, which averaged about sixty
pounds and brought as high as $40.
The wool in the Monroe county
Farm Bureau Pool was sold in st.
Louis, Saturday, according to a notice
received by Harve Ball, manager of
the pool. The notice did not say how
much the wool brought but added that
this information would be Forthcoming
next week. There were $4,000 pounds
of wool in the pool, most of it carried
over from 1920, Mr.. Ball thinks il
likely brought around 20 cents
a pound or a little better.-Paris APP,
peal.
Detailed accounts kept on a large
number of Missouri farms in cooper
alton with the department of rura
life at the Missouri College of Agri
culture form the basis for an author
itative statement of the cost of tn
corn crop of 1921. The summary j
made by o. r. johnson and B. II
Frame of the College, as follows:
Cutting stalks--l.24 mar hours a
2sc; 2.Ss ho hours at csc; equip
Tnent charge at Sc $0,63I
Breaking ground-2.9 man hours a
23e; 9.52 horse hours Al SIC equip
ment charge at Sc .,......... $2,05
Disking, narrowing, dragging, etc
Eat man hours at 2Sc; 7.87 hors
hours at 9.8ci equipment charge a
. cents Observation-Disclosures. Sl,71
Planting-1.106 man hours at 23c
2.10 horse hours at csc; equipmen
M S&AdAS ~ az OC DUsOO
Seed-7T pounds ats1.875 pc
bushel $0.25
Cost Of putting in crop ...... 1921
Narrowing corn-1.49 man hours a
2Sc; 1888 hours at 9.6c; equipmen
charge at Sc .,.............. S0.SS
Eultiyating corn-3.99 man hours a
23c; 8.26 horse hours at 9.6c; equip
saent charge at Sc .......... $2.12
Cutting weeds and miscellaneou
hbor-2.2 man hours at 23c +. $0.55
Cost Of cultivating crop /. 1886
Harvesting-Man labor at AK
per bushel; s.S7 horse hours at 9.6c
equipment charge at 5c...... $265
Total operating cost per
sacre OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $ll.4S
Rent on crop at rs crop $7.62
fetal cost per acre $i9O5
Cost per bnshei at farm (yiei
3O.75 bushels as reported BY E. "A
Logan, Bureau Of Crop Estimates \
Octdber, 1921 $O'o'