Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-10-19

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LOCAL MARKET
Oats -. .....-.-...... SSc, 40c
Wheat $1,000. $l.14
Corn "....-,..... 6sc, zoe
THE. MARKETS.
Chicago Dec. May
Wheat sI.13% s112h
Corn 67ss 68
Oats 41z AZ
St. Louis Cash.
No. 2 Red Wheat :. $1.27 to s1.29
No. 2 White Corn ............ rs
No. 2 Mixed Corn ......... "a
No. 2 Yellow Corn ........ 75h
No. 2 White Oats ........... 47h
st. Louis Stock Yards
Hogs 10000 -. Steady, top 1856
Cattle 5000 ................ Steady
Sheep 1000 ................ Steady
Top on Lambs .............. $1400
Wednesdays Local Poultry Market
Hen, per b. ............ 1Sc and 13c
Eggs, per doz. ............... Sic
Butter Fat, per ID. ........ 34c
The Farm news columns of the
Ledger are the clearing house for
Audrain and adjoining county farm
news. 1t keeps the farmer in touch
with what prices are being paid for
stock, what other farmers are doing
along various lines of agriculture and
in general farm news of interest.
Those who read these columns are
much pleased with the news they
contain and which is of decided pub
lie service.
Reports from corn shuckers in the
chinch bug infested districts are to
the effect that the bugs are worse
this year than ever before. Bugs, in
some instances are SO numerous in
the fields, as to cause considerable
annoyance to men cutting corn. The
bugs get into pockets, shoes, inside
clothes and one farmer even tells of
getting them mixed with his chewing
tobacco.-Paris Appeal.
There are four varieties Of wheat so
well adapted to Missouri conditions
that they are 20 per cent more pro-
ductive-on five-year averages, than
the varieties generally grown in the
state. If these varieties were usd
exclusively, each in the section Of the
state where best adapted, even if
methods Of culture were in no way
improved, the States annual yield of
wheat would be increased by eleven
million bushels! This. much is
proved conclusively by long continued
experiments at the Missouri Agricul-
tural Experiment Station. And all of
these four high-yielding varities are
soft red wheat The varieties of soft
red winter wheat that have given the
best results in these tests are: For
North Missouri, Poole and Dietz; for
Central Missouri, Michigan Wonder
and Fulcaster; for South Missouri,
Fulcaster.
Farmers OF Boone County are pet
itioning the county court to submit
to the voters at the November cleo
tion a proposition to establish two
year closed season on quail. The
Boone County Farm Bureau is lead
ing this campaign.
The Farm Bureau quotes A. c.
Burrill, entomology extension expert
of the Missouri College of Agricul-
ture who says that "the average
quail will eat 500 chinch bugs at a
single meal and that the stomach Of
the quail Graves a meal every two
hours. The quail is the only wild
bird that exhibits this fondness fol
chinch bugs as a regular diet.
The chinch bug also eats the seeds
of number of weeds which are in.
furious to crops.
The first frost of the season was
Wednesday night. This is unusually
late.
W. G. and Fletcher Sims will hole
a sale of 440 head of live stock Fri
day Oct. 20. They have a splendit
lot Of animals listed in their SALE
which should be an especially large
one.
The farmers of AUDRAIN Count.
are now reporting their corn as of |
full crop with prospective yield a
veraging % bushels per acre, ant
81 per cent fully matured. Our Far