Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-10-26
STOCK
NEWS
LOCAL MARKET
THE MARKETS.

NO. z yellow Corn ..,......... ~
No. 3 Yellow Corn .......... 72h
No. 8 White Oats .............. AZ
No. 2 White Oats go. 43h to 43&
St Louis Stock Yards
Hogs 1880 =. Steady, Top $685.
Cattle 5000 ............. Steady
Sheep $500 ............ Steady
Wednesdays Local Poultry Market:
Hen, per lb. .......... 18c and 12c
Eggs, per doz. 35c
Butter Fat, per lb. ........... 37c
The use Of limestone and phosphate
for alfalfa has proved very profitable
in numerous demonstrations On De-
Kalb County farms, according to P.
r. Schowengerdt, soils extension
specialist Of the Missouri College of
Agriculture. During a recent tour
conducted in that county several
fields were visited where lime Or
phosphate fertilizer had given good
results but among these some stand
out especially. On the Bromley farm
near Maysville limestone was applied
on what was considered a poor hill.
When walking through the field the
men present could all tell exactly
how far the lime had been applied
because where there was lime the
alfalfa stand was good, while the
part of the field that was unlimed
was grown up almost entirely to
grass and weeds.
Only high producing cows are eco
n0mical producers. Low producing
scrub cows are always the ones that
consume the most feed in proportion
to the milk and butterfat produced.
This fact is proven again by the
past years results in the Webster
County Cow Testing Association, &C
cording to E. M. Harmon Of the Mis-
souri, College Of Agriculture. The
cows which averaged only 100 pounds
of butterfat per year, produced that
butterfat at an average feed cost OF
25.6c per pound. This cost, gradually
decreased as production per COW in
creased. The COWS which averaged
200 pounds of fat for the year, pro-
duced that butterfat with an average
feed cost of 16.1c per pound. Those
that averaged 900 pounds Of fat pei
cow showed an average feed cost pei
pound of fat of 12.8c, and with the
400 pound cow the average feec
cost for each pound of butterfat wa
only 11.4c. The profit per cow allow
feed cost varied from $18.N in tn
case of the lowest producing class
to $115.10, in the case of the cows
averaging 400 pounds Of butterfa
per year. The average Missouri Gov
is credited with from 100 to III
pounds of butterfat per year. Ac
cording toG the above results. thes'
average cows charged their owners
over 25c worth of feed for every
pound of butterfat they produced las
year. Through the COW testing as
sociations, a few herds have been de
veloped which average v 400 pounds
of fat per year. A great many aver
age over 800 pounds of fat per cow il
a year. These herds last year cos
their owners only lie to 13c fol
each pound of butterfat produced
Who makes the profit?
JEFFERSON CITY, Oct. 19.-A
cream and egg grading %demonstrat
ion will be given by a field represen
tative of the Missouri State Market
ing bureau at Mexico on October q
ant %: Rush Hill October %; Lad
donia, October "a and Vandalia Oct
Ober rs and rs.
This demonstration will be be givel
in cooperation with all cream anc
egg buyers.
Producers of cream and egg arr
requested TO bring their products Il
town on the dates assigned. Tit
Marketing Bureau representative vii
grade each producers cream and egg
and discuss with him the importance
and necessity of raising the qualit!
thereof.
Over four hundred cream and egt
grading demonstrations have beer
conducted by the State Marketing
Bureau since July /. These demon
strations have extended into ap
proximately one hundred counties
These two programs of practica
marketing service have reached il
a direct way approximately $500
cream and egg producers. Includ
ing the cooperation of the Missouri
Press, it is estimated that full,
100000 Missouri cream and egg pro
ducers have been brought in con
tact with these great campaigns 70
the betterment of the dairy and poul
try marketing industries Of thi
State.
MAKE MISSOURI CREAM AM
EGGS BEFTER-IT WILL PAY.
is the slogan Of the Missouri Stat
Marketing Bureau. Already praci
icaIly all Of the largest creamerie
operating IN Missouri have agree