Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-09-14

merville; 6 head, J. P. Buckley; 8
head, R. X. Dean; IS head, B. A.
Brown.
August "a, cattle: 3 veal, W. W.
Mundy; 5 head, Earl Carter; 5 head,
Thomas Byars; one veal, Mr.. Will
Hams; 2 head, A. j. Cauthorn; one
veal, c. h. Dean; 2 head, C. F.
Clark.
August %, sheep: One Dusk, w.
W. Mmdy; z head, Henry Albus; IL
head, A. E. Lawyer; IA head, ]. ].
Cauthorn; 2 head, L. NJ. Clark; 8
head, Dwight Carpenter.
The highest temperature recorded
here Friday afternoon was SO. The
coolest during the night vas So,
which is four degrees cooler than it
has been for four nights. The mer-
curry at z o'clock Saturday morning
stood at 72.
Heavy rains in northwest Missouri
is the report of Chal Blum, who has
just returned from that part of the
State. The d6wnpour began Friday
night and was still continuing Satur-
day morning.
The total rainfall from Saturday
evening until Sunday afternoon was
two inches making the amount of
rainfall SO far this month three and
one-fourth inches as compared to five
inches last year. The highest tenn
p%erature Saturday was 96 the highest
Sunday was 66 and the lowest A. At
Z o'clock Sunday morning the Their
mometer registered 40.
The highest temperature a year
ago Sunday was Sc which was 20 de-
grees higher than yesterday.
The highest temperature recorded
in September this year was 106 as
compared to SO last year.
The farmers of Audrain County re-
port to this office that, on account of
the heat and dry weather Of the past
month, corn is rs per cent Of a crop
and that there is being cut 5 per cent
for silage and 6 per cent for fodder.
In addition to other crops
reported, the farmers place Irish po-
tatoes at AS per cent Of a full crop,
apples at 8 per cent and they say tame
hay yielded this year so tons per
acre. Fall pasturage is now "a per
cent and grapes 81 per cent of a
crop.
Missouri corn lost ten points dur
ing August, and now stands at II
per cent of normal.
Missouri corn at n per cent of
normal, in September, indicates an
average yield of 29.8 bushels, COM
pared to 80 bushels in 1921.
Corn fields that promised 100 per
zen on August 7st were cut down
rs per cent in ten days by the drouth,
heat and hot winds.
A. G. Beaver, from Monroe county,
No., was on the st. Louis Market
Monday with a load Of good quality
fat lambs, that contained ITO head
which averaged 81 lbs and sold at
$3.50, thetop Of the market and as
high as any lambs brought on this
market last week.-Live Stock Re-
porter.
A fifth unit in vocational agricul-
ture has been added to the curriculum
of Mcmillan High School this year
and eight students r taking the
work. The first half Of the work will
consist of courses in Pork Production
and the latter part on Farm Manage
ment and Rural Economics. Very
few schools in the State will offer
these courses and Mcmillan is to be
congratulated in having a man Of
Prof. A. Gorrell's enthusiasm at the
head Of its department. Besides the
work that was carried on during the
winter many Of the students Of the
school very proftably put their know
ledge Of agriculture into practice
during the summer.
If you believe in vaccination against
smallpox and hog cholera, it should
be easy for you to adopt the equally
sound doctrine Of inoculating soy.
beans, alfalfa, sweet clover and other
Iegume seeds against that old disease
best known as sFailure" and some
times called bad Luck" so says Sec.
rotary Jewell Mayes Of the Missouri
State Board of Agriculture, in an ap.
peal for larger planting Of alfalfa
IN August and September this year
No exclusive recommendation is made
as to where the farmer should bus
his bacterial inoculation. There are
three general sources Of supply a
follows: First, the commercial bac'
terial cultures sold by seedsmen and
available either at retail or on spe'
cial orders from any dealer selling