Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-11-09
STOCK
NEWS
LOCAL MARKET.

Dec. May
Wheat s1.15b $1.15 to $1.15M
Corn 691s to 69ss 701s to 10
Oats 425s to 42as 42M
st. Louis Stock Yards:-
Hogs 1880 butchers lower,
Top ....,............ $8.75
oaO1ie 4aVO '............... Stedy
Sheep $500 ................ Steady
st. Louis Cash.
No. 2 Red Wheat -. S1.25 to 1.29
No. old Yellow Corn :. 731k to IA
No. White Corn ............ 721s
No. 3 White Oats i. 49,. .445k to a.
Wednesdays Local Poultry Market:
Hen, per ID. .......... tic and 15c
Butter Fat, per lb. ...,...... doc
Eggs, per doz. .......... 43c
Receipts of cattle (unofficial) at
the st, Louis National Stock Yards
for the month of October, just clos
ing, today's supply estimated, amount
to 205,557 head. This is the largest
run of cattle ever seen at the st.
Louis market for single month. The
previous record was 201 1868 head in
/ October, 1917.
Hog receipts for October, unofficial.
total 296,000. While this is not the
banner hog run for any month it
establishes new record for the 10th
month, nosing out October 1911, when
286,020 hogs arrived locally.
Sheep and horse and mule receipts
for October showed gains over the
same month a year ago, but did not
reach record proportions.
/ Compared with October, 1917, the
current months receipts are as fol-
/ lows:
! Cattle increased 1850 head, or SO
per cent.
| Hogs increased 54,737, head, or 20
per cent.
Sheep increased 12,s77 head, or 80
per cent.
Horses and mules increased 5,682
! head, or 63 per cent.
The highest price received for
heavy cattle at the st. Louis market
so far the current year was obtained
Tuesday, Nov. 1st by Adolph B.
Fennewald, the well known stock
finisher of Audrain county, Mo. He
sold a car of 1907 lbs. Shorthorn
steers at S13 per cwt. the top for the
day and the year todate. He also
marketed load of 1453 pound Angus
steers as $3.50 and car of 1886
ID. Shorthorn and Hereford at $12.35.
Most of the cattle were bought in
small lots from time to time,' stat
ed Mr.. Fennewald "They were all
native Audrain stock. / kept no re-
cord of gains, just fed them all they
would eat of snapped corn, cotton
seed meal and molasses feed. They
had been on full feed since March.
/ figure these beeves make me some
money, replacing part of the losses
of the previous year. / expect to re-
fill my feed lot shortly" Live Stock
Reporter.
A large amount of farming imple-
ments were sold at the public sale
held by A. Pfitzer and Son at the
Wood Maddox farm eight miles south
of Mexico Wednesday. This was
partnership division sale. BY far
the heaviest buyer Of live stock was
R. Pfitzer who bought span of
mules for $500, four mares from S32
to $125, a blue mare mule for $132.5O
and a number of shoats and ewes.
Other heavy buyers of live stock
were F. Sims, Jake Buckner, l Mad
dox and R. CURL.
w. G. Bailey, Audrain county, Mo-,
successful feeder and citizen, had in
a band of his good lambs Tuesday,
Nov. 1st and under Bills careful
as feeder the top of the
market went to his credit. The
band embraced PSI head that averag-
ed 70 lbs, selling at $13.s per cwt.
In the shipment were 58 yearling
wethers Of 81 lbs. average $11.00.
st. Louis Live Stock Reporter. Il
C. C. Bledsoe, successful Audrain
county, Mo-, feeder, was represented
on the st. Louis market Tuesday,
Nov. 2, with couple loads Of beeves.
One car, averaging 1854 lbs, sold
at $11.25. John 7. Buckner, J. M.
Buckner and W. d. Mason were
other prominent Audrain county
feeders here today with fat cattle.
Live Stock Reporter.
]. e. Muir Of Galloway county, Mo,
marketed load Of hogs Of his
own feeding at the price Of $s.35
per cwt. Tuesday, Nov. 1st. The
hogs averaged 2t7 lbs. and were all
Chester-W Whites. Live Stock Report
ser.
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