Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-10-26

A big gray wolf and a red fox
we're killed near McCredie Tuesday
morning by a party composed of a.
bout twenty-five men living in that
neighborhood. Both animals had
been seen in the vicinity of Nc
Creole and had made raids on sew
eral chicken houses in that section
of the county.
The animals were surrounded in a
cornfeld on the George Ely Craig
place west of McCredie.
Leslie Davis, Audrain County, Mo-,
feeder, topped the cattle market in
st. Louis Wednesday Oct. 18, with a
load of yearling steers, mostly of
Angus breed, that averaged 953 pounds
and sold to a packer at $11.1O per
cwt. The drove, comprising "a head,
was of Mr.. Davis own feeding
Live tSock Reporter.
Following a conference of business
men and representatives of farmers
held in the chamber of commerce
rooms in Moberly Tuesday 1t was an
nounced that the Farm Products and
Poultry Show would be held Novemb-
er IA and Is.
E. S. Dunlap Of north of Fulton
is having home grown blackberries
served at his table in October. MI.
Dunlap gathered about half a gallon
this week.
Let the Ledger print your sale bills.
We are equipped to do this work to
your satisfaction. wifi
Kendrick Brothers, near Moline,
shipped IA head of 1874 lb. hogs thru
the Mexico Shipping Association,
Monday. They have rs head of 100
lb. shoats and IS 100 lb. lambs on
feed. On a two-acre field of corn
and soybeans they turned in 45 head
of 125-lb. hogs recently, four weeks
being required for the hogs to clean
up the patch. They estimated that
the corn, which was On bottom land
would have yielded between 70 and
100 bushels to the acre. They are
strong believers in soy beans as q
profitable crop for this county and
have brought their lambs to 100
pounds almost entirely on them.
Greene County Cow Testing Asso
|, citation Number l has just completed
its second year and has proved con
clusively the value of testing. The
i, first year the COWS tested in this
|. association averaged 5,074 pounds o.
milk and 251.9 pounds of butterfat
} There was an average return pei
dollar feed-cost of $2.68. The sec
ond year that had increased to ssh
pounds of milk and 200 pounds Of
!, butterfat with an average return pei
|. dollar feed-cost of $2.S8. This shows
an increase of 534 pounds Of mill
and 80 pounds of butterfat per COW
The increase of 20 cents in profit a
bove the dollar feed-cost means an in
crease of 1898 net profit per COW
!. over last year.
JEFFERSON CITY.-The Mis-
souri, State Poultry Experiment sta
ton at Mountain Grove, according t.
Ia statement made here today by Jew
ell Mayes, secretary of the Missouri
board of agriculture, is urging poul
try raisers to repair poultry houses
and prepare food supplies for winter
Warning also was issued, Mr.. Maye:
said, against poultry diseases, par
ticularly roup and chicken pox.
COLUMBIA, Mo-, Oct. 2O.-Mis
souri, farmers wives entertained
favorable opinion of farmers as sons
in-law, according to replies to letters
sent out by the Missouri agriculture
} college to Missouri farm women.
} "Would you want your daughte
to marry a farmer?" was a perth
!; emit question which brought 1877 re
: plies and of this number 104 mother
: favored the farm boy for sons in
law.
!; The others answered adverse t.
the young tiller of the soil.
T. j. Hoxsey ct al. has filed
= suit against Charles T. Powell ask
: ing for $184.55 damages. The peti
ton alleges that the defendant sol
! the plaintiff fifteen young hogs il
4 December 1921 which proved to hay
} been infected with cholera.
: Seventeen prizes were won at tn
] recent Cape Girardeau County Fai
by the Kies Stock Farm Of Jackso
and much credit for this winning J
: given by the firm to the training r.
r ceiyed by one Of its members, Adolp
: Kies. in the two-year Winter Shoi
Course at the Missouri College
Agriculture. Kies graduated from tn
} short Course in 1916, returned
, once to the farm and, in p~artnershi
3 with his father and brother, has bee
very successful in breeding purebre
s Ishorthorns and Poland Chinas. III
d prizes won by the Kies firm at Gar
Girardeau this season included !
/ irsts and championships, five second
Q two thirds and two fourths.
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