Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-30
NE YEAR BOOK ISSUED
Agricultural Report Contains
Interesting Facts About
Dairy Industry.
Number and Value Of Cows In.
creasine..Butter Ship
ments Larger.
Permanent Law Examination
Committee Named.-Liability
OF Supervisors.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Mones, May 3O-Within the Year
Book of the department of agriculture
which Secretary Van Houten has had
printed, and which will soon be ready
| for distribution, there is contained the
Ireport of the dairy commission on the
condition of dairyng in Iowa during the
| past year. But few of the facts con-
| tanned in this report have been made
lpublic. 1t has not been printed else
where, and this is the first time it has
been Incorporated in the Year Book.
! The dairy report shows that the number
of cows in Iowa is steadily increasing
and their value is being enhanced, even
| tho the price of butter is not what it
has been in some other years. There
were reported to the commissioner for
| 1900 total of 1,295,960 cows valued al
s3S.35S5O3, or an average of s29.60 each.
| This average is IL cents higher than in
the year previous and IS head higher
than in 1895 The increase in number
of cows over 1899 was about 10000,
while the increase over 1895 was 100000.
| The price of butter in 1893 was 81 cents
I on an average for the year; in 1894, "a
cents; in 1885 81 cents; in 1896, 20 cents:
and in 1900. % cents There are no Ii
4 censes for the sale of oleomargarine in
the state, the three in force the previous
: year not having been renewed. There
are 936 creameries in the state. of which
S42 are operated on the separator plan,
seventy-one on the gathered cream plan
and fifty on a combination of the two
plans. OF the creameries 501 are owned
by individuals, 349 are operated on the
/. cooperative plan, 1l6 on the stock plan.
and one is owned by the state. There
Iare many more farm separators in use
, than before. There We're 1882 reported
last year, az against 1.762 the previous
J, year and 904 the year before. Twenty
lone counties of the state shipped more
than 100000 pounds each of butter last
) Year. Buchanan is the largest shipper
: of butter, selling 2,56e.Os2 pounds. while
e Bremen sold 2.4s05o1, and Chicka saw
: sold 2.3S5.S61 pounds. The other coun-
{ ties shipping more than 1000 900 pounds
each are az follows in the order named:
Fayette. Jones. Delaware, Clayton, BUT
Ter, Dubuque. Kossuth. Hardin, Black
howk. Hamilton. Palo Alto, Winneshiek,
Mitchell, Story, Buena Vista, Howard,
I, Allamahee. Linn, Audubon, Greene and
Winnebaso.
The Year Book contains also the an
. nual report of the weather bureau, the
| reports of the state agricultural depart
ment meeting, reports from counties
and districts and other valuable matter.
i; A great deal of what is printed might
have been left out without mpairing
the usefulness of the book and the
lprinter has plainly padded" the mat
ter 80 as to make as many pages as
I possible But on the whole it is a de-
cided Improvement on the old way of
printing separate pamphlets. The plan
is a good one, and when rightly followed
will be of great value TO the farmers of
Iowa.
1 Before the supreme court adjourned
yesterday for the summer, the perma-
nent law examination commission was
4 appointed to take charge of all the ex-
4 aminations for admission to the bar in
the future in Iowa. The members of
the commission are: w. d. Evans of
Humboldt and F. H. Hesell OF Sioux
Rapids for one year, and Louis Block
Iof Davenport. Finley Burke OF Council
Bluffs and +. C. Ebersole of Toledo, to
serve two years each. This commission
will do the work which is done each
term by a special examining board and
recommend 70 the court tiiose who are
i to be admitted to the bar AS the new
law also provides for three years of
study before admission to the bar and
the commission will raise the standard
the prospect of another rush to get at
the bar5like that of the first week OF the
month is not good.
In deciding the case of Sells vs. Der
], mody. from Pottawattame county. yes
terday, the court passed on the measur.
of liability to persons of road super
visor in Iowa. The plaintiff sued the
road supervisor for damage done her
because the road was out of order. The
court followed the old common law rule
of liability fixing it in full upon any
official charged with the duty of per-
forming an act and neglecting to GO $40.
4 The fact that to a certain extent road
supervisor accepts his Office under COM
pulsion does not relieve him. nor is it a
defense that since he can be indicted 70.
failure to perform his duty the burden
falls upon the district or county or
state. But Whlie his responsibility iS
complete and he may be held to person
i al accountability for the failure to keep
the roads in order, his acts are of ju-
dicial nature and not ministerial. and he
must be allowed latitude in determining
when and how to fix the roads In short.
it was mistake of the Judgment and
j, not violation of plain duty with the
supervisor.
4
While the anti-Cummins people are
exerting their strength to make show
ling against Cummins in Madison coun-
ty the Cummins people appear to be
building back fire in Linn county and
are causing much annoyance in the VII
cinity of the goat farm This. it is un-
/ derstood, has had the effect of causing
a hauling off of the forces from Madison
county and other southern counties in
an effort to save Linn county from the
humiliation Of having abandoned the
J machine.
State. county city and federal offices
are closed in Des Moines today on act