Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-12-21
STOCK
NEWS
LOCAL MARKET.
THE MARKETS.

SI. LOUIS CaSh :----
No. 2 Yellow Corn ... 75k to rs
No. 2 Red Wheat -. s1.S9
No. White Oats 49,. 47h
No. White Oats AZ
No. 8 Red Wheat $1.36 to S1.37
No. 2 Mixed Corn ........ 741k
No. 2 White Corn ...... TAN to rs
st. Louis Stock Yards:
Hogs 10000 Sc higher, top. $8.45
Cattle 1000 ...............S Steady
Sheep 1000 steady, top on
lambs ......,..... S14.75
Wednesdays Local Poultry Market:
Hen, per 10 ............ Ice and 10c
Butter Fat, per lb ........... 46c
Eggs, ped doZ. ................ 42c
Algerian sheep are comparatively
immune to anthrax, while all other
sheep seem extremely susceptible to
it.
Two horses, Donovan and Ayrshire,
won more than $365,000 in a single
racing season for their owner, the
duke Of Portland.
The mercury Sunday night fell to
four below zero which is the coldes;
weather recorded in Mexico for
long time. Ats o'clock Monday
morning the mercury stood at 3 be-
low.
At 7 o'clock Sunday morning the
temperature was IA above zero and
at 8 o'clock Sunday night seven above.
The snowfall Saturday evening was
one and one-half inches.
Sillon, the largest horse in Amer
lea, weighting 2,45O pounds, is the
world champion stallion in the 3-year
old class.
A new high price for cattle in full
loads on the st. Louis market since
1920 was made Wednesday by the
sale of fifteen choice to prime Here
ford yearling steers, 1867 lbs. aver
age, marketed by Mason, Carter and
johnson, operators of Audrain Co.
unity, Mo. The cattle sold to Armour
for their Christmas trade at $13.75.
Mr. Mason recently predicted these
cattle would make a record at the
stockyards and stated they We're the
best Of their kind he had ever seen
in this county. s4
They were among the cattle he and
his partners have been importing in
to Audrain in large numbers during
the past year, :.
For the eleven months ending No
vember /, the Producers Grain Com
pany of Mexico had shipped 1856
car loads of stock 90 market, which
brought total Of l$d72, ,722.38. For
the twelve months Of 1921 the COM
pany did business on the market Of
about 100000.
In the last eleven months "a car
loads of cattle totaling 722 head; SO
carloads Of hogs totaling 1908 and
10 carloads of sheep totahng 2,466
were sent to market.
This company does one of the
largest businesses Of its kind in this
part Of the country and is to be con-
graduated on its success during 1922.
Figures just complied by William
H. Yates, manager of the Auxvasse
Shipping Association, show that dur
ing the eleven months ending No
venlber 30th, the Association shipped
AZ car loads Of live stock for the
farmers Of this cornmounity. and
shipped in two car loads OF corn.
The stock shipped comprised 1906
head and sold on the market for
$76,807.47, being divided in the diff
ferent departments as follows:
Horses and mules, 166 head, $t4,048.-
so; sheep, 1853 head, $5,740.47; hogs,
2674 head, $45,930.95; cattle, 298
head, s11,O87. So. Auxvasse Review.
Let the Ledger print your sale bills.
we are equipped to do this work to
your satisfaction. WITT
The top of the fat sheep market
\ Thursday in st. Lons was obtained
by Grover Sims, that thoroughly sue
cessful sheep feeder of Audrain CO.
unity, Mo-, who disposed of single
deck of his fed Western ewes, 1O6
head, agevarging 107 lbs. that sold
to Swift and Co, at $6.75 per cwt.--
Live Stock Reporter,
There will be no scarcity Of turkeys
in Mexico this Christmas but the
price is SO high that local poultry
dealers, although they are buying a
large number Of the birds, will have
the majority of them dressed and
shipped East for the Christmas mark
et which will be considerably higher
than the market in the Middle West.
1T is probable that the dressed turkeys
win retail for from go to 65 cents A
pound here which is about the same
as last year
Lee S. Allen Of the Blattner Broth
ers Produce Company said Friday
morning that he had never seen a
time when the farmers Of this conn
munity were raising as much poultry
and reports from other towns in this
part Of the state report the same con-
dition. Mr.. Allen bought 167 turkeys
Thursday which lacks just three Of
being as many as the total number
purchased by him during last Dec
enlber.
Then number Of geese is also UNI
usually large and will retail for q
bout 80 cents a pound There is not
such 4 large number OF ducks.
Fred Shelby infornns us that sixty
4 days ago ~ LET y. ! !. KeeHae aIia !. \.