Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-08-10
STOCK
NEWS
LOCAL MARKET
THE MARKETS.


Corn 5S% 54%
Oats 3I% 34ss
st. Louis Cash.
No. 2 Red Wheat -. $1.0s to S1.09
No. Red Wheat -. $1.0S to $1.06
no. Yellow Corn ........... 66
No. Mixed Corn .......... 62
St Louis Stock Yards:--
Hogs $1,000 ............. Steady
Top ...... ''..''.. .''''.'.''' SS'Io
Cattle 1880 .......:.,....... Slow
Sheep 5000 ........... 25c lower
Wednesdays Local Poultry Market:
Hens, per lb. ........ tic and 15c
Eggs, per dozen .............. 15c
Butter Fat, per lb. .......... 27c
One of the largest stock deals that
has been made recently in North Cal
laway, was the sale last week Of 506
head of fat hogs by John w. Greed,
OF this city, to ]. D. Underwood &
Son, the Fulton fat stock shippers.
Two loads of the swine were deliv-
cred and shipped to market last
Thursday and the other four loads
are yet to be delivered. The two
loads shipped averaged about 225
pounds, but the remainder are heavier
probably being as heavy as 240 lbs.
each. The price for the bunch is
s10.10 per hundred. Mr.. Greed says
this is easily the best big bunch Of
hogs he has ever fattened.-Aux-
vase Review.
Let the Ledger print your sale bills.
We are equipped to do this work to
your satisfaction. WITT
JEFFERSON CITY, August B.
Plow up the hog lots at least once
every year, advises the state board
of agriculture. Swine parasites and
stomach worms live and multiply in
hog lots that are used from year to
i year for pen and feeding purposes,
Jewell Mayes, secretary of the board
declares results have shown. "Turn-
ing the soil destroys the eggs OF
roundworms to large degree and
helps to eradicate parasites as well
as disease germs" hesays. ""The cui-
tivation Of a crop still further COM
pletes the job"
One Of the largest fieeces of wool
ever sheared in this section and the
largest averaged from a big flock.
This is reported by Ellis Bros, near
Molino, The fleece from their show
ram weighed 35 pounds. A total OF
$500 pounds was sheared form their
flock Of 50 Ramboullets, an average
of almost 10 pounds. This wool was
sold to Chicago dealer at AZ cents
pound. The rams 35-pound fleece
brought $500. Ellis Bros, will ex-
hibit individual sheep at the Paris
fair and at the Missouri State Fair
Dogs killed nine sheep belonging
to Charles Early, Jr., farmer living
near Centralia. Other sheep owners
in the same vicinity are said to have
suffered losses because Of dogs which
got into their flocks at night.
Pettis county reports that the Hes
sian fly did little or no damage in
that county this year. The reason for
this is because practically 98 per cent
Of the wiies sown last fall was sowr
after the Ayfree date, which is Oct.
ober Sth.
Farming interests of the State will
be recognized definitely in the new
Constitution Of Missouri if the fol
lowing proposal being considered BY
the Committee on Agriculture il
adopted: Agriculture being funda
mental to all industry, and the basis
Of all economic development, and th'
paramount industry affecting tn,
happiness, prosperity and welfare o
all the people of the State, the legis
lature shall forever, by all prope
manner and means, promote and en-
J. courage agricultural research an,
education and the diffusion of scien
tific and vocational knowledge lead
ing to the develoment of agriculture
progress and welfare" In anothe
proposal it is recommended that tn
General Assembly by given constitu
tiOnal power to privide by law fo
the erection, purchasing or leasini
and operating Of grain elevators o
storage elevators for the purpose o
storing and marketing grain, gradini
grain received, and permitting Of is
auanee Of warehouse receipts unde
the supervision Of the State. In ye
another proposition the legislator
would be given authority to purchase
erect, construct or acquire stoc
yards at or near terminal points OF
Grated under the supervision Of Law
sush as the General Assembly Nigh
provide.
Russell Spurling, Of near Cen
traiia, one Of the few farmers wh
got their oats in early, threshed Fri
day and Ills oats averaged 20 bushel
20 the acre.
Harry Householder, of this county