Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-01-12

The highest price paid at the sheep
house on the st. Louis market We'd
nesday Jan. a, was awarded to w. G.
Bailey of Audrain county, Mo-, for a
double deck of fed western lambs.
The consignment embraced 271 lambs,
averaging 10 pounds and brought
$11.35 per cwt. No other lambs reach
ed the price. Mr.. Bailey is one of the
largest livestock operators in that
section of the state. He specializes in
sheep and feeds several thousand
lambs each year.-Live Stock Repor-
ter.
The owners of about fourteen hun
bred mules that are now on feed in
Galloway County, believe that indica-
items are now for a better mule mar
ket. Even at that the prospects are
that the feeders will just about break
even this year.
The worst market of the year pre-
vailed in st. Louis last week. The Of
ferings were small and the buyers
few. Commission men believe that
conditions will be better this week.
The financial condition of the coun-
try is delaying mule buying in the
South and it is predicted that there
will be fewer mules bought than for
a number of years.
A st. Louis commission dealer pre-
diets that the market in st. Louis will
improve about the middle of January.
The, reason given by him for this pre-
diction is that it will take several
weeks of preliminary buying by the
dealers to get ready for the trade
which will develop at buying time.
1t is said that almost every mule
on feed in the county is now ready for
tte market.
Bob Peck has sixty head of hogs
on feed on his farm. He is also feed
ing a IeW caULle.
w. Anderson of Audrain county,
has rented the Osgood place, south
east of here, paying cash for pasture,
n half the corn and one-third the
oats for rent
Lock Creigh, near Santa Fe, is win
tering a nice drove of yearling White
Face cattle. He grazed them on W. B.
Hanna's 800 acre pasture, which cost
$500 this year.
F. w. Tawney, on the Monroe Coun-
ty line has finished gathering his
corn. 1t averaged 35 bushels. Mrs.
Tawney sold 9 turkeys recently for
$54.
Individual instruction on poultry
culling, care and feeding, was given
to 1888 persons in Cass County by
Rayq E. Miller, county agent, in SO
culling demonstrations this fall. This
instruction was given at an average
cost of 1873 cents per individual. By
the county agent and persons instruc-
ted by him $4,000 Cass County hens
have been culled this fall, and enough
n~o-account hens eliminated to save
SIC, 900 worth Of winter feed.
At the recent meeting of the Corn
belt Soybean Growers Association at
Chicago G. E. Carter of the Missouri
College of Agriculture was elected
association president. I'll was also de-
cided that the next annual convention
of this organization will be held at
the Missouri College of Agriculture.
Arrangements for a corn show to
be held next fall to be participated
in by the farmers of Galloway and
Cole Counties, were made at a meet
ing in jefferson City Tuesday. The
show will be held in jefferson City
some time in November.
Harry Householder at a trustee
sale Saturday paid $4,000 for the
farm formerly owned by W. 7. Foun-
tain and located northwest Of Gem
tralia.
just now when you are still breath
less from the shock of learning the
amount Of your 1921 taxes and taxes
are still more popular than the
weather as q topic Of conversation,
ii is rather interesting to compare
present conditions with the amounts
paid here years ago. How would You
like to own o $40 acre farm and pay
an annual tax Of $5.11 on it? Sounds
rather unbelievable doesn't it? But
q history Of Audrain County, publish
ed in 1877 in speaking Of the condi-
ton Of Mexico and Audrain County
in 1912, six years after the county
was organized says:
"Our wealth had now SO increased
that $790 Of tax was levied for county