Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-05-09
Especial correspondence.l


the present prices remain the farmer car
afford TO grow and sell products from LAND
worth $dO or SIS an acre. There are sections
of the state where the Land Is worth $1O(
and $l5 an acre right along. The east.
ern part Of the state is rapidly taking On
the Illinois status.
The farmers who sell are not moving
away into the west or into other states,
az rule. They are staying right in Iowa
But they are moving into the towns and
cities and are sending their children to
the better schools. Few farmers, compare
lively. are going to the cheap lands west.
The Iowa money put into Dakota, Mime
sofa and Canadian lands ie put there by
investors rather than by Iowa farmers who
have sold their Land and are seeking new
homes. With the Iowa bank deposits
quadrupled within the last II years the
iowa farmer can afford to hold his Land
and farm It or he can sell It and be inde-
pendent all the rest of his daye."
The reports to the state executive
council last year showed that the av-
erage consideration for Iowa land on
March /. 1901, was $44. This is be-
lieved to have been very low, al
though more Of the rise in prices has
occurred during the past year than in
the first year since 1900.
Delegates Named.
Governor Cummins has appointed
the Iowa delegates to the American
Congress Of Tuberculosis to be held
in New York City May IA, Is and 16
Great interest attaches in Iowa to
this congress for the reason that the
state board of health believes that
tuberculosis may be transmitted from
the bovine milk to the human system
despite the fact that DR.. Koch in the
tuberculosis congress in London de-
clared last year that it could not.
The Iowa delegates to this congress
are the following physicians: II. H
Clark, McGregor; ]. l. Gibson, Deni.
son; c. F. Kellogg, Clinton; C. H
Preston, Davenport; w. E. Hartman
Ames; F: w. Porterfeld, Atlantic; ]
M. Emmert, Atlantic; L. w. Littig,
Iowa CITY; j. r. Guthrie, Dubuque;
E. E. Dorr, Des Moines; W. S. H. Mat.
thews, Des Moines; d. McCrae, Coun-
Gil Bluffs; George +. Neil, Fort Madi-
son; c. B. Adams, Baskerville; w. S,
Lessinger, Mount Pleasant; R. P.
Berry, Clermont; r. E. Coniff, Sioux
City; A. j. Hobson, Hampton; E
Porterfield, Indianola; j. w. Lauder
Alton; Il. II. Little, Muscatine; w. j
Eylotf, Mason City; A. Poore, Cedar
Rapids.
weighing Grain.
The Iowa grain dealers have given
considerable attention to the argu,
ment of A. +. Schuyler, assistant
weighmaster of the Chicago board OF
trade. in favor of the Genital system
of weighing grain. This system OF
weights and measures prevails on the
Pacific coast. 1t is based on the hun
dred weight instead of on the bushel
1t dispenses with practically all the
computation between the buyer and
seller. The scales weigh the grain by
the hundred pounds, while under the
present system it is necessary to
keep complicated system of figures
in mind. A bushel of corn is st
pounds shelled or 70 on the cob; oats
is 80 pounds to the bushel; wheat
60. etc. The number Of pounds hat
to be divided by the number OF
pounds in the bushel weight, which
is different for every kind of grain
Moreover, the weight of bushel OF
the same kind of grain varies in the
different states. The result is end
less confusion. All this could be
eliminated if every bushel, as it were
weighed 100 pounds.
Commissioners Chosen.
Governor Cummins has announced
the members of the Iowa commission
to superintend the Iowa exhibit at the
st. Louis exposition, for which the re
cent legislature appropriated $125,0OO
On the commission as named is one for
mer governor, two former congress
men, four former state senators anc
three former representatives. There
are five democrats on the commission
as required by law. The list is as fol
lows:
Commissioners at Large-William LARA
bee. Clermont, Fourth district; w. w. Wit
mer (dem.). Des Moines.
District Commissioners-First, Leroy A
Palmer Mt Pleasant, democrat; Second
George M. Curtis. Clinton; Third. w. F
Hartman, Hampton; Fourth, Thomas Up
degraff, McGregor; Fifth James H. Ire
win, Cedar Rapids; Sixth. Samuel 8. Car
ruthers, Bloomfield, democrat; Seventh,
M. Leach, Adel; Eighth. p. l.. Prentis, Del
phos: Ninth. w. T. Shepherd, Harlan. dem
Dcrat; Tenth. c. J. A. Ericsson, Boone; Elev
enth, W. c. Whiting. Whiting. democrat.
Grand Army Encampment.
Commander George Metzger of The
Iowa Department of the Grand Army
of the Republic has issued genera
order governing the state encampment
here the latter part of May. In it he
says:
"The twenty-eighth annual encampmen
OF this department will be held in the city
of Des Moines, May 20, 81 and %, 1909.
The programme for the encampment may
be outlined as follows: Tuesday, May 20
2:oO p M, meeting Of the council Of admin
istration; four p. M, reception at the state
house by the governor, the commander IL
chief, Gov. Van SAINT, and officers of The
various societies; at eight p. m, grand CAM
| fire at the auditorium, at which there viii
| be speech of welcome by the mayor o.
Des Moines, also by the governor, and re
| sponses by the department commander ani
| BY tbs COMMANDER In chief 8. r. Var
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