Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-06-08

cd runs . dangerous IAte OF cpetol
has a sound like the looming Of an
airplane.and divorces cream from
milk far more rapidly than the
divorce mills at Reno operate. Since
the invention Of the separator it has
been discovered there is a lot more
cream in milk than used to be thought
of. A diligent separator viii get rich
cream out of the poorest bluejohn even
accredited to a cow, while what it will
do to milk from a fine Jersey, for in
stance, IS a Revelation and a delight.
The other day Old Man Bnxaw, out
on Route 7, being in an experimental
mood, flied Aunt Cissie's separator
with hard water from the well in
the back lot and went to work on it.
When he got through separating the
product totaled three quarts of the
finest pulverized limestone one ever
saw.
Let the Ledger print your sale bills.
We r equipped to do this work to
your satisfaction. wifi
Missouri horses on farms decreas-
ed in number 1870 from January l,
1922, to April-time, according to un-
biased reports as mailed to 10000
farmers in all counties, tabulated by
E. A. Logan and Jewell Mayes of the
Missouri Cooperating Crop Report
ing Service, showing at crop-time
S67 900 now on farms, including colts.
Missouri's horse population now
amounting to S67,O 900 is divided as
follows: Colts, $1,000; yearlings, 55,-
900; mares, 100000; ~geldings, $685.
900; stations, 1000.
The 1922 foal of colts (horses) was
0.63%; brought on farms, 1880;
sold off farms, 5000; died, 1867.
The death rate during the past twelve
months was II horses per thousand.
Death rate of horses from all causes
Is per thousand.
Galloway county wheat will av-
erage but 10 bushels to the acre ac-
cording to j. W. Bush, county farm
agent who has made a complete sur
vey Of the county. Chinch bugs and
rust is prevalent in many fields and
accounts for this according to Mr..
Bush.
Expert wool grading service, free
of cost, has been made available to
Missouri farmers upon application,
through the state marketing bureau.
Counties wishing to pool more than
ten thousand pounds of wool "may
have it graded and the grades ex-
planned if the application is made to
the bureau" the announcement rays.
The bureau is adopting a campaign
of "know your WOOL" which is ex-
to result in helping Missouri
sheep growers to better the wool they
will have to Ger in the future.
Missouri's sheep population in May
time of 1922 was 1883, 900 head, in
GLIDING lambs. The total Of Missouri
sheep on the first day of 1922 was l.
042,0O0. The sales since that date
have been 9.05%, home slaughtered
0.12%, and deaths 10,13%. The in
crease from lambs has been 67.57%.
Missouri sheep on feed on May l was
100 900 head. The estimate of ship
ments for slaughter, including both
lambs and sheep, is set for the season
at 275,000. A careful investigation
in our ia counties shows 500 to be
ewes. Sheep are divided as follows:
Lambs, 747,0O0; ewes, 791, 900; rams,
10000; wethers, $4,000.
Red clover is the keystone for a
permanent system of agriculture in
Missouri. The reasons for the impor-
lance of red clover to the Missouri
farmer are summed UP by G. E. Car
ter of the Missouri Agricultural Ex-
tension Service as follows: In the
first place a crop rotation is a neces-
sary part in the actual maintenance
of soil fertility and the balancing Of
farm labor. Second, a successful ro-
tation must have a legume in it. Red
clover fits into our rotation system
better than any other legume because
it does not require extra cultivation to
get it seeded as it can be sown on the
wheat in the spring. In a crop rota-
ton red clover is obviously superior to
alfalfa since the occupation Of one
fourth of the cultivated fields by al
falfa, as would be the Ease if this