Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-01-05
MARKET

Sheep $500 Steady
j. T. johnson and Cave johnson
have two loads of cattle and a load of
hogs on feed for market about May
first
From cost-fnding investigations
just completed by the Missouri Col
1ege of Agriculture, o. R. Johnson of
the rural life department, states that
a ton of settled silage fiow costs 49,
80. In arriving at this conclusion,
prices assumed as fair in 1921 were
applsed to all the requirements of sill
age making as shown by actual rec
ords on the filing of ten silos in 1918
and 1919. From these silos the sill
age was weighed as fed and the cost
therefore, is based on the actual ton
mage of settled silage ready for de-
livery to the feeding trough.
To fill the silos in question 1881
acres of corn We've used, containing
9,157 bushels of corn, and making l.
794.S tons of silage. The stalks were
valued at rs cents an acre and the
corn at % cents a bushel in the field.
Other costs included 23h engine
days at SIS, 154s engineer days at 81,
6-85 gallons of gas at 20 cents, 1882
tUns Of coal at $3.50, 2,S89.6 horse
hours at SO cents, 6,418.5 man hours
at % DENTS, 733 meals at rs cents,
dI3A acres Of cutting with corn bind
Rf at SIPS an acre, Si7 pounds of
@wine at 16 cents, 10 days water
pumping with small engine at 50 a
day and III days carrying water
thoy) at 81
depreciation ON siIage cutters at
TN per cent amounted to $128.62.
Depreciation on silos amounted to
$E9256, and interest on value of silos
lSS,O84 at 5%) amounted to $404.20
MORE.
The total cost Of 1,794.8 tons Of sill
age was 1921. rs; and the ton cost
was $3.50.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Dec. 30
It may be amusing at the first glance,
but the Missouri State Board of Ag-
riruItnre was puzzled the other day in
themaking ola perfectly correctreply
to the question Of what is a bale of
hay?" The inquiry came up by cor
respondence relating to a legal con-
tention concerning baled hay.
The State Agricultural Department
decided to use the standard of size
and weight of average commercial
bales Of hay as established by the
Kansas City Hay Dealers Associa-
ton, in the world, which is as fol-
lows.
~The average weight of commercial
bales of hay is about rs pounds. The
dimensions are fourteen inches by
eighteen inches and the bale is tied
with eight foot wire"
Irwin Maddox, prominent feeder Of
Audrain county, Mo-, had in another
load of his fat heifers on the st.
Louis market Wednesday, Dec. % that
hrought $40 per cwt, a favorable
price, which was Influenced, no doubt,
by the good quality usually found in
stock handled by Mr.. Maddox.-Live
Stock Reporter.
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.--The American
Farm Bureau reports that displace-
ent Of horses by autos in the last ten
years has removed a market for 49,
100000 bu annually Of oats, W,Q00,000
bu- of corn and 4,750,OO0 tons of hay.
Missouri, The Well Watered," has
more acres having more water nearer
to the top Of the ground than any
other American State.
The average acreage Of Missouri
farms is 1922 acres against 124.8
acres ten years ago. The average
amount Of improved land per farm is
S44 acres against 1877 acres ten years
ago. d
Having seen morethan 100 hats
rnade under her instruction by the
women of Saline County, Miss Eva
Luther, home demonstration agent,
asked her local leaders to bring in the
best hats from their communities to
9orn an exhibit. Nine beautiful hats
&hns brought together were found TO
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