Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-01-05

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this week include a load of hogs We'd
nesday and a consignment of sheep
Tuesday.-Live Stock Reporter.
A. w. Martin & Son of Audrain
county, Mo-, sold cattle at the top on
the st. Louis Market Thursday, hav-
ing in three loads of 5SS pounds heif-
ers at $7.75 per cwt. These were
Herefords and of the firms own
feeding. They were purchased by an
order buyer. B. Martin accompanied
the shipment-Live Stock Reporter
The recent heavy sleet, 1t was fear
ed by many, would iniure the wheat
in this section However farmers
from various sections of Audrain re-
port that the wheat is apparently un-
hurt as the sleet in the first place was
heavier in and about Mexico than else
wher in the county, and also that the
wheat was not far enough advanced
TO be badly hurt while the sleet re-
mained only a short time and not suf-
iciently long to do any real damage.
The wheat acreage in the county is
, about as large as it was last year.
The Missouri Farmers Association
agreed recently to join the Farmers
Union of Kansas in the operation Of a
live stock commission company here.
Action followed an all day session
Thursday, Dec. %, which was extend
ed into a night meeting at the Hotel
Baltimore. The purpose of the joint
commission company H. A. Cowden
of Columbia, Mo-, secretary of the
Missouri association, said, is to secure
more favorable marketing. The COM
mission company up to now has been
operated b ythe Kansas organization.
Kansas City Star.
According to Daniel Hader, the way
to get god money out of your hogs
is to butcher them. Mr.. Hader has
Just butchered a Big Type Poland
China yearling gilt. The two hams
weighed as lbs, each and at the retail
price of 25 cents are worth $3.50.
The shoulders weighed So pounds
apiece and at II cents q pound would
add $1O.88. He rendered IL gallons
of lard, which at As cents a pound
would bring in $20.40. Sausage
amounted to 60 pounds valued at 10
cents a pound making S90e more.
without counting the value of the
bacon and other paftso the hog, Mr..
Hader obtained $62.78 worth of meat
by butchering a hog that would have
sold alive for less than $20-Paris
Appeal. q.
r. B. Kerr and son shipped a load
Of heifers and a load of steers to the
St. Louis market Tuesday.
Let the Ledger print your sale bills.
I'VE r equipped to do this work to
ro,,,. satisfaction. wifi
W. D. Mason sold two loads OF
steers ON THE st. Louis market last
week for from 81 to $3.50. He has
100 head of cattle on feed and about
100 head Of hogs.
Mrs. ". E. Littrell, who lives with
her husband on the j. T. johnson farm
near Thompson in 1921 sold $412.ls
worth of eggs and chickens from her
own raising. This is a record. We
would like to hear from anyone who
can eaual it or beat this record.
w. E. Cunningham, the well-known
and jovial farmer and stockman, OF
Audrain county, Mo-, paid his hrst
visit of the new year to the st. Louis
market Tuesday having in 3S9 head'ot
7s-lb lambs, that sold at $1l.5O per
cwt., which price represented the
days top. Mr.. Cunningham is well
known to the local trade, as m OF the
largest sheep operators OF central
Missouri. The handling and feeding
of sheep and lambs has been his
speciality for years and the enviabae
reputation he enjoys as a feeder is the
result of strice adherance to a set
policy of making them good. When
he heard the price his lambs brought,
he was well pleased, so much so, that
he promised that the next few days
would see more Of his ccnsignments
here.-Live Stock Reporter.
The price Of mules as about every
thing else the farmer has seems TO
have struck bottom. M. B. Lampson,
a farmer living near Shamrock, Gala
way county, was in this city Tuesday
and sold Sam Morris eight small furs
that brought him $25 and two 10 cent
cigars.
Mr.. Lampson, stated that a neighbor
Of his last week sold two 2-year-old
mule colts the pair only bringing s25.
He also stated that at a public sale
there recently eight 2-year-old mule
colts were sold, the prices ranging
from $3.50 10 $1S each .
1t is most unusual for a mar to sell
the hides Of five possums, two foxes
and a cat for more than two good
! mule colts would bring. But this Il
the time when many unusual things In
tha calling line are occurring.