Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-10-19

mers estimate that 73 per cent of thu
1922 wheat crop has been marketed
and that the quality of the oat crol
is only 63 per cent of an average. II
addition, the yield of Irish potatoe.
in the county is put at only 2I
bushels per acre and the condition Of
apples is rated at rs per cent ant
pastures are now rs per cent.
Missouri corn made no improve
ment for the State as a whole dur.
ing September, now n per cent Of
normal, indicating 1863, $4,000 bush.
els, according to E.. A. Logan and
Jewell Mayes of the State-Federal
Crop Reporting Service. The yield
in 1921 was 1S2, $4,000 bushels, the
five-year average 176,224,O00.
Missouri corn shows average yield
of 1854 bushels on 5,913,000 acres
totaling 169,34S,0OO bushels against
80 bushels average and 182,830, ,00G
bushels in 1921.
Joe Gregory of Audrain county,
NO., contributed two loads of good
quality corn-fed steers to Thursdays
St. Louis market, which sold for SOLO
Live Stock Register
September 1922, was one of the
warmest Septembers in the History
of Audrain County for many years
according to the government wea-
their statistics. The month ran true
to form in uphOlding Missouri's re-
putation for all kinds Of climate in
short time and hung up maximum
temperature of SO on the first day
to 46 on the 11th. About half as
much rain fell in September, 1922, as
in September, 1921, the total pre-.
cipitation for that month this year
being only 5.3 inches, while last yeal
/ it was 1922. The greatest rainfall
/ in twenty-four hours this September
was S.5 inches, and last year 2.95 in
/ ches fell in a corresponding amount
/ of time. One-hundredth or more Of
an inch of rain fell last month or
seven days, than last year on twenty
September, 1922, had 10 clear days
is partly cloudy, and S cloudy, while
last year the same month had Il
clear days, 10 partly clody, and
cloudy. The monthly mean for Sep
tember in Missouri for the ten-yeal
average is SO, and the ten-year a
verage precipitation for the state j
388 inches.
R. T. Maddox, east of Hams Prai
rie, who owns 100 acres of land, on
and one half miles south of Harri
Ford, has an unusually productiv
tract. The field on which he has plan
ted corn for the last SO years viii
yield from 80 to 80 bushels of corr
this year. Mr.. Maddox ascribes tn
unusual productivity to the overflow
from the Auxvasse Greek.
Sam Jordan in his bulletin "Cor
in Missouri" put out by the Missour
State Board of Agriculture says tha
what Missouri needs is 100 pc
cent production in corn and an eff
cient market. You will never pay fo
a farm by farming except throug
production and an efficient market
A cheap mineral mixture for pre-
venting worms in hogs is compose
of Glauhers salts, three parts; COP
peras, three parts; sal soda, thre
parts; common salt, three parts; char
coal, four parts; sulphur, one par
| When kept in boxes within reach G
: hogs, this mixture viii prevent wol
ms, according to the experience c
: Professor L. A. Weaver of the Mi:
2 souri, Experiment Station.
"C0rn show" is becoming an il
stitution, an annual local event,
nearly every Missouri county--and il
deed does it well deserve to so be e.
: tablished in every county and con
munity in the Corn Belt.
: The local banks Of Missouri mer
. praise for fostering the exhibiting
J corn, and in fact many annual show
have grown from the displaying
1 good ears at banking houses. Coz
as the "money crop" appeals to Il
sentiments of the banker.
! The year 1922 is such good col
crop in more than half of the cou
ties of Missouri that this is the ye
1 for corn shows and seed corn auc
ions, so says Secretary Jewell May
e Of the State Board Of Agriculture.
= The value of an annual corn she
is well illustrated by the work al
g worth Of the Jasper County Co
Show at Carthage, Mo-, which h
: made first class seed corn recognize
it which has resulted in increasing t
acre-yield Of the county over VIII
: it otherwise would have been.
y Curtis Wilson Of four and OF
half miles south Of Mexico repoi
n that four Of his hogs were struck
I. lightning last Friday
= ANEENIA, N. D., Oct. l3.-A ha
ID interest in Achievement Girl, que
honey bee Of the Armenia apiari
has been sold to .. M. Cutter
Son, Montgomery, Ala, for $50, 3
ting a new record for bee valu
according to w. A. Critics, rnanaf
of the Amenit bee farm. The que
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