Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-12-14
STOCK
NEWS
LOCAL MARKET.
THE MARKETS.

Wheat S1.24H 81 231k
Oats 45& A61k
st. Louis Cash.
No. 3 White Corn ....,. 75H
No. 3 Yellow Corn -. rs to II
No. 2 White Oats ...... 46A to 4r
No. 2 Red Wheat ,....... S1.23B
st. Louis Stock Yards
Hogs 225O0' 10c lower, top :. $685.
Cattle 5oOO ...:............ Steady
Sheep 1900, top on lambs :. $500
Wednesdays Local Poultry Market
Hen, per lb ...... 18c and 12c
Butter Fat, per lb ........... 46C
Eggs, per doz. 45c
Overcoats, nittens and red noses
were the order of the day Tuesday
morning as the mercury stood lat
above zero which was the lowest tenn.
Derature recorded here this season.
The Ledger received a warning oi
a cold diwave from the weather burear
IN Chicago late Monday afternoon
stating that it was probable the
aercuty would drop to zer; in thG
poEthorn pa Of the state and about
10 above in the central portion.
The days as well as the weeks
top for lambs went to the credit Of
enc OF Audrain county, Mos success,
full sheep feeders, c: f. Brakel, whc
marketed double deck of western
lambs at very renunerative price
in st. Louis Wednesday December
6. Part of the shipment was taken by
order buyers at $1,000 per cwt., thi;
lot averaging 81 lbs, while the bal
ance of the lambs averaging "a lbs
sold to Swift & Co., at $14.85, tn:
highest price the packers have paiC
for any Lambs this week. The ship.
ment included a few yearling weth
crS at $3.50.
Elmer Dicus, another of the sue
cessful sheep feeders and good citi
zents of Audrain county, Mo-, was
represented on the market the same
day with a double deck of western
lambs.-Live Stock Reporter.
&Oz .cZ "eid
/! Clansman's Beauty topped ths
ssterner, Owen, Willingham sale 0.
Poland China hogs at $120 Wednes
1 day afternoon being purchased BY
Pollock and Winn. The sale was helt
in the Middleton sale barn and th,
fifty animals sold brought total o.
SILL. The crowd was not 50 large
as the high quality Of the offering
warranted and the price paid were
only fairly good. Other sales were
as follows;
E. Q. Pickett: Gerstdale Queen $40
Pollock and Vim: Clansman'l
Beauty $12O; Columbian Giantess
$26; RangerS Maid, $25; Dorothy
$50.
| Owen and Hedges, Beauty Revela
tion, End, 9rd and 4th for $40 each.
| D. L. Willingham, Beauty Revela
tion 18th, 9th, 7th, 8th for S12.5C
each.
/ John T. Marshall, Clansman Rev
elation, $14.
Glenn Carroll, Clansman Revela
tion 3rd, Sc.
/ French Field, Dynamo Wonda,
$35.
Max Piper, Giant Lady, $71; Clans
man Maid $51.
/ w. D. Willingham, Jones Clal
$3.50; two gifts for $3.50 each.
| Ben Fecht, Busters Dynamo SAL
r. G, Pickett one animal not listet
| for S13; three spring gifts for 81;
each and fall pig for $13.,
L. J. Bezner, Lady Burgomaster
willard, Willingham, Lady Jonei
Best I'd, $4O
! L. E. Crews, animal for SIS.
I il. Stowers, spring Gilt for S2t.
! Abe Hall, animal not listed 70,
4 $40,
! ]. R. Johnson, spring gifts foi
$3.50 each and for $1,000 each.
| j. L. jenkins, spring gilt for SIC
three other animals for $1,000; on'
animal not listed for $26, spning gil
for s26.
Robert Hook, sow for $22.50.
Pollock and Vim, seven shoats foi
$3.50 each.
Cy Barnes, spring gilt for $26.
Galloway County mule feeders ar
again active owing to the fact tina
the price of cotton is higher and tht
demand for mules is increasing. Nor
buyers were at the stock sales in Full
ton Monday than there have been 81
any one day in two or three years
Fat mues are being shipped out Of th'
county as fast as possible and th'
Feeders are filling their pens with ami
mals which will be ready for th'
southern planters when winter br9elss
\ The shipments were made recentl.
4 BY the Producers Grain Compan.
were as follows:
Six cows, Dick Garter; two veals
FJs III. Hebel; one veal, Al. H. Peyton
five cows and die hull, Wallace john
ssofi: one veal, Wes Wiun; two veal
Henry Showers; one bull, Harr,
4 Householder; one COW, B. T., Craw
Efofd; three COWS, M. Boalware; on
acow, Adams and Wilkins; three veals
liz. W. Gallaher; two yeals, Charlel
iSchopp: one veal, Andy Meyers; on
A Jersey bull, j. G. Crawford; one yeal
j HarYsv Alhus. oile veal. Charlie
|Schopp; five cows, H Price; calf an
bull, Bob Mundy; ia head B. A
Broan; two head, q. II. Erdel; nine