Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1922-11-23

wisconsin and Iowa, with most of
the other honey producing states
showing much lower yields, due to
drouth and excessive rains on the
eastern coast.
The average Missouri price for
honey in September was 20 cents per
pound for white extracted, % cents
for white comb, and 20 cents for
white honey in bulk.
SIKESTON.-Cotton growers from
the South have begun to take advan-
tage of the excellent cotton-growing
conditions in this section. Southern
cotton planters during the last few
weeks have rented dozen farms in
a radius of twenty-five miles of this
town.
Ross Vanlandingham, near Row
ena, keeps dozen Shorthorns and a
pure bred Angus bull. The calves are
all black and, true to their Angus
sire, never develop horns. Ross sold
four at weaving time at SIZE
pound. He has eight more that he is
feeding for market.-Paris Appeal.
The farmers are already shipping
corn into this country for feeding
purposes. This is unusual as ordin-
arially sufficient corn is raised in
Audrain to feed the cattle until well
after the first of the year.
HIGGINSVILLE, Mo-, Nov. 1s.-
A closed season for two years on.
quail hunting Id Lafayette County
was voted at the last election, and
the county court today issued q pro-,-
clamation putting the law into effect.
Pollock and Winn, big feeders of
Audrain county, Mo-, marketed five
car consignment of 69S-lb. Hereford
heifers in st. Louis Friday at $3.50
per cwt. These were from a shipment
of stock calves shipped to that sec
ton in the spring by Mason & Car
ter. The cattle were finished for
market on shelled corn principally
Live Stock Reporter.
Grover C. Sims, Audrain county,
No., marketed double deck of sheep
today, of which yearling wethers
SO lbs. sold at $1,000, which was
the top of the st. Louis market Tues
day for that kind. His shipment also
included a string of 230 fat sheep a.
veraging 100 lbs. at SIPS. Live
Stock Reporter.
George Wolfe shipped 2S head of
mules from Shelbina by express last
week, the shipment going to Penn
sylvania. Transportation averaged
s18 per head, the total being s499
for the lot,
45-2
The Shelby county fair association
win send buyer to the Royal Stock
Show at Kansas City this month,
for the purpose of buying 500-lb.
high grade beef calves to be distri-
buted to boys and girls CT Shelby and
Monroe county calf clubs. All the cal
yes will be exhibited and sold at aue-
ton at the Shelby county fair next
year. The purpose of this work is to
train youngsters in huying, feeding,
judging and selling livestock.
According to reports; woman In
party of bird hunters from Parsons,
Kansas, who are spending the week {
near Rowena, is the crack shot Of
the party. AS evidence Of her own
belief in her shooting, she is said to
have offered to give anyone 81 for
every quail on the wing which she
misses, if she is allowed in return,
10 cents for every quail she gets. She
is known to have shot SO out of
possible points. Paris Appeal.
There win be a poultry show in
Vandalia ON December 6-S, inclusive.
From 1909 to 1916 there was an
nual poultry show in that place but
in the last few years interest in the
event Jagged and IL was discontinued.
During the show there win be two
good lecturers from the Missouri
State Poultry Experiment Station and
the Extension Bureau Of the College
Of Agriculture at Columbia.
French Field attended the Flask
amp and Roeesch Poland China sale
at DeSota Wednesday.
A catch Of furs valued at SAT, in
two nights, is an accomplishment
worth mentioning. That is the re-
cord of W.. M. Arnold, living near
ShelbyviiIe in Shelby county, Arnold
bagged seven. o'possuns. seven eoons
and seven skunks in two nights hunt
ing recently. He has two coon dogs
which he claims cannot be beaten.
No tuAsaSRys had been bought On
the MadiS6H market, "Wednesday.
18th where 36c was being
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