Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-03-02
MARKET

OALS ala 40 10
ST. Louis Cash.
No. 2 Red Wheat ............ $1.45
No. 3 Red Wheat ............ $1.40
No. 2 White Corn .......... 59Es
No. 2 Mixed Corn .......... 59k
No. 2 White Oats ............ 3s
81. Louis Stock Yards:-
Hogs $4,000 ...... tic to 25c lower
Top Observation-Disclosures, $11.15
Cattle $500 Steady
Sheep 1000 Steady
W. H. Turner planted potatoes
Wednesday, Feb. %. He wins the
medal for the first in the county.
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The twenty-fifth semi-annual sale of
Joe Considine which was held at
Hopewell Stock Farm at Thompson
Wednesday Afternoon brught a total
of $9,333.45. The crowd was large
and the selling was good.
The highest price paid for mules
was by R. F. Haupt, who purchased
a pair of a and 5 year old mules for
$440. Mr.. Haupt bought two other
pairs Of mules for which he paid $400
and 1866. A 5-year-old pair of mare
mules was bought by Doyt Miller for
1870. A 6-year-old brown mare
mule was bought by Milt Household
der for $165 and a 5-year-old bay
mare mule by Fletcher Sims for
Sl39.
yves sold in lots OF from 8 to II
bringing from $6.10 to $11.3O. Lambs
brought from $3.50 to $9.25 and were
sold in lots. The highest price was
paid by C. B. Keller for a lot of
twelve.
Gifts brought from $6S to $66, the
top being paid by H. S. Davis.
The highest price for a COW was 1853
paid by /. T. Van Note for a 6-year-
old Jersey.
A lot of twenty-five steers was pur-
chased by j. T. johnson for s806.25.
horace Mundy is in Cuba (Mo.)
to attend the purebred hog sale.
Jim Dowell, near Moline, sold go
head of 190-lb hogs to Beaver, Smiz-
err G Ball at Paris last Thursday at
ten cents a pound.
The story of how a we'll known
Audrain county stockman cleaned up
$3.50 on a hog deal recently without
having invested anymore than his
good Judgment is being told around
Mexico.
This stockman, along when hogs
were selling for 81 and $3.50 con-
tracted with two prominent farmer
stockmen Of Audrain for 10000
pounds of hogs to be delivered about
this time of the year at that price.
Contrary to the judgment Of many
and especially the two men who had
entered into the contract to deliver
the 10000 pounds of pork, the price
of hogs continued to climb until they
reached $3.50 and $40.
Rather than deliver because they
felt, when the time of delivery came,
that the price would go still higher
they paid him the difference between
the contracted price and what the
pork would bring on the market,
$500 and kept the hogs.
The johnson Brothers sale Of Pure
bred Duroc Jersey hogs, which was
held in Martinsburg Thursday
Brought a total of about $4,000. A
large crowd attended and bidding was
good. Eighty-fve animals were sold
at prices ranging from $40 to $75.
The highest price was paid by R. A.
Brown of Thompson, who also bought
a number of other animals. Among
the buyers who bought more than one
hog were Les Williamson of Gen.
tralia, Lee Burt of Auxvasse, Earl
Cunningham and Sam Terrell of Cen
tralia. Z
Mrs. D. C. Hollopeter sold two
Rhode Island Red hens, weighing
nine pounds each, to W. L. Daven-
port Company Saturday.
The S. A. Crum sale which was
held Friday four and one-half miles
southwest Of Mexico brought a total
Of about a thousand dollars. Five
horses and fourteen hogs were sold.
the remainder Of the sale consisting
Of farm implements. Among the
sales were: Red cow to G. Weidler
for $4,000; gray mare, L. R. Willis;
4-year-old mare, Louis Crum for SAB;
M H. 49, III