Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-03-02

hogs to Albert Price; ten stock hogs
sold for $3.50 apiece. Corn in the
crib sold for so cents a bushel.
Hogs went to $11.00 in East st.
Louis Saturday.
Louis Berger, of R. F. D. 4, Mex
leo planted four bushels of potatoes
on a half-acre of ground February
22nd!
The Joe Considine and Sons sale
of fine hogs held Saturday in this
city attracted a large number of bid
ders. The highest priced animal
was bought by William Wood which
went for $3.50, and the lowest for $50.
AS a rule the prices offered for the
hogs were very good and somewhere
better than the bids that have been
received at a number of the sales in
this county. The total of the sales
amounted to $2,655.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 25.-A shipment
of twelve watermelons was received
recently by a fruit company from
South Africa. This is said by fruit
buyers to be the first shipment of
melons ever received in st. Louis
from Africa. They are in every res
pect similar to the American-grown
product. They are w~holesaling at
$500 each.
The Producers Grain Company
shipped a load of hogs last week to
the National Stock Yards in Illinois
that weighed up very satisfactorily.
B. A. Brown had IS head that
weighed 279O lbs.
L. L. Holt, 3 head, $50 lbs.
j. G. Crawford, 6 head, 1880 lbs.
/. B. Rutter, / head, 400 lbs.
Harry Platter, II head, 1470 lbs.
Shook, 4 head, ITO lbs.
W. c. Berry, 1 head, $50 lbs.
Theo. Barnes, 5 head, $40 lbs.
Chas. Dickey, IA head, 2080 lbs.
Roy johnson, 1 head, 470 lbs.
], r. McVey, IS head, 2670 lbs.
The thermometer registered 5
above zero at Z o'clock Tuesday
morning and at 9 o'clock it was no
warmer.
Sale Called OF.
The l. L. Rudasill sale has been
called off.
IA. N. Day, a big feeder and shipper
of Audrain county, Mo-, had on the
St. Louis market Tuesday a load Of
lambs that topped the market at
$15.75 per cwt straight.
H. w. Stuart, a prominent feeder
and shipper of Audrain county, No.
had on the st. Louis market Tuesday
two loads of lambs that topped the
market at $15.75 straight.
Another Audrain county, Mo.
feeder whose lambs topped the
market in St. Louis Tuesday was w.
C. Schuette.
&C. w. Pease of Audrain county,
Mo. had on Tuesdays st. Louis
market a load Of sheep at good
prices.
Grover C. Sims, Audrain county
Mo, marketed a load of lambs in st.
Louis Tuesday.
Household goods and small farm
tools comprised the large part OF the
U. Rodescape sale which was held
Monday. The animals sold were as
follows: 6-year-old brindle COW to
Ed Can't for $3.50; 4-year-old black
mare to ]. T. Van Note for SAL; TO-
vear-old black mare for $3.50.
WASHINGTON, March las the
secretary of agriculture, Henry G
Wallace, e e it, the biggest thing
that communities can do right now
to help thefarm situation along is q
push the feeding of corn to hogs
The banks q do more toward this
than anybody eises the country
banker by lending more freely 70 tn'
| farmer on corn so he a carry his
hogs along; the city bankers by ex'
tending aid to the country banks
Business men should encourage mort
feeding of corn. ).
The Producers Grain Company i
calling a meeting Of its stockholder'
at the city hall at one o'clock, p. M
on Thursday, April ~ for the pur
pose Of voting for or against th'
proposition to increase the capita
stock in the company from $4,000 t
| sac. ooo.-Centralia Guard.
Miss Allen Engaged to Marry.