Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-30

Ii .here would be an assurance Of
getting from 800 to 400 gallons a day
all the year round | believe there
would be a milk buying station open
at Mexico. What hours to express
trains leave Mexico for st. Louis.
Any information in regard to this
matter will be appreciated.
Respectfully,
B. F. MASTERS
Let the Ledger print your sale bills
We r equipped to do this work ia
our satisfaction. wifi
improvement IN marEet elniltions
the last ten days is causing the mule
dealers to feel more hopeful of break.
ing ever ON their feeding operations
this season, though prices have not
yet advanced to the point where the
local dealers can sell out without los.
ing money. Very few mules, how
ever, are ready for market. Here
and there a few can be found with
finish fat on them, most of those
being conditioned will not be ready
to 60 before Thanksgiving time OF
afterward. So far, only a few buy
ers have been here and they made
offers that were considered ridicul-
ously low.-Centralia Courier.
Grover Dowell of north of Mexico
has sold his big coon dog Dude
for 500. The dog was purchased
by a Galloway County man.
Ellis Bros. great flock of Rambouil-
let sheep, which have been winning
at all the big state fairs this season,
won 100 per cent at the American
Royal show in Kansas City. There
were two other flocks showing a
gainst them both from Kansas. They
won Champion eve and RAM, nine
firsts, all that were offered, and six
seconds and thirds.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Nov. 81.
The total estimated yield of corn
for Missouri of THAT, 900 bushels
is below that of last year (182,8S0,0 00)
and is also slightly less than the s.
year average of 176,224,000, the plant
ed area being less than formerly;
the acre yields is one bushel below
last year but 2.6 above the 10-year a.
verage, and the quality if 81 compar-
ed to 80 in 1921. The value of Mis-
souri's corn crop is much above last
year, as the average price per bushel
November 1st was 63 cents, against
81 cents last year.
At the second annuaI meeting of
the Missouri Shorthorn Breeders
Association, held recently at Mexico,
Mo-, the following suggestion were
made:
The encouragement and assistance
to calf clubs and encouragement to
local sales.
Development Of county fair shows.
Encouragement in reduction of pas
senger and freight rates.
An effort to have the Missouri
State Fair and American Royal dates
put into a circuit in such a shape that
they will be mutually advantageous
to exhibitors of Shorthorn cattle.
The giving of trophies to Short
horn exhibitors at county fairs at
terms and conditions to be laid down
by the National Shorthorn Associa-
ton.
Suggested meeting to be held next
year before the Prewitt sale, the Mil
Ter sale, the Green City sale, and other
sales to be decided upon later.
Suggestion made that good prices
for some cattle might be received by
making up a carload and ship them to
Western Kansas and Oklahoma.
Points for such sales could be locat-
ed by writing agents in those sect
ions.
On November 10th the Farmers
Live Stock Commission Co., at st.
closed their first years SER
vice by selling the TOOL a live
stock, a record never equaled by any
other commission company in the Nat
ional Stock Yards. This company al
so broke all previous records last week
by selling 251 cars Of live stock, out
distancing their nearest competitor
by 80 car loads.
The estimated wool production for
the United States in 1922 is 219,095,-
90 pounds compared to 249,958,000 in
1919. or a reduction of IL per cent
according to the Missouri Co-operat-
i've Crop Reporting Service in a state
and national wool statement by E..
A. Logan and Jewell Mayes.
Practically all states show a re-
duction in woll output, excepting
Texas with an estimated production
of 19,300,O00 pounds this year a.
gains 1896 900 in 1919, but other
smaller producers, such as Virginia,
North Carolina, Michigan and Ariz-
ona, promise slightly more wool than
four years ago.
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