Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-03-06
FARM. PRODUCTS IN IOWA
Report.of National Department Of
Agriculture Is Pleasing to the
Farmers Of the State.
INTERESTING STATISTICS ARE GIVEN.
Plan, for, school Exhibit at the st.
Louis EXPEDITION Good Roads
Convention to De Held in Des
.Moines-SchoOlhous Sites - Other
Notes Of General Interest.


Conventions to De Held in Des
..Moines-schoolhou Sites = Other
Notes Of General Interest.
Especial Correspondence
Des Moines, Ia, March 2.-The re-
port of the national department of ag-
riculture with respect to Iowa farm
products and their value is very graft
flying to the farmers of the state. 1t
contains the following information:
The principal farm animals of Iowa
are worth SPIT, 100000, or $65,00O,0O0
more.than those of New York, which is
the second state. Iowa leads the coun-
try by that sum. Texas has few more
horses than Iowa, but Iowa leads Texas
in value. There are 1,O44,000 horses in
this state, worth 500 each, of $780, $780,
600, while the 1921, 900 horses in Texas
are worth only $3s,oo1 900, or less than
half the value of the Iowa horses. Ken
lucky featured as the big horse state,
is way down at the bottom of the list.
In dairying, Iowa is second only to New
York. There are now 100000 mich
COWS in this state, worth 41,769,0S7.
New York has 1876, 900 cows, valued at
$55,619,O0O. In the combined value of
all classes of cattle IowA.deads. AS
mule producing state Iowa is said by
the national department of agricul-
ture to b seventeenth. There are only
So, 100000 worth of mules in this state.
Sheep growing in Iowa is small COM
parative industry. There are less than
900, 900 of them, and they are worth
now to exceed $3.5O00O0. But in the
production of hogs. the state is farm
the lead. Iowa has 7.43S,000 hogs, val
ued at 500. 724 900. Illinois is second to
Iowa in this industry.
Iowa school Exhibit.
1t has been decided to ask an appro-
priation of $4,000 and 10000 feet of
space in the educational palace at the
ST. Louis exposition for the exhibit of
the Iowa schools. Senator James II.
Trewin is at the head of th1 d lart-
ment of the work. AT a conference
held with him in Cedar Rapids recently
prominent educators agreed, in gener-
al, upon plan for the educational ex-
hibit. The exhibits will be classified
as follows: Ungraded schools; graded
schools; high schools; colleges; pa
rochial educational institutions; pri-
vate colleges and normal schools; bust
ness colleges.
The elements to be represented in
the exhibits made from Iowa schools
will include the following: Legisla-
ton, organization and general statis-
tics; buildings, their location and de-
sign; systems of heating, lighting,
ventilation and sanitation; furniture
and fittings; training of teachers; ap-
paratus and appliances; text books;
regulations, courses of study, methods
of instruction; pupils work-literary,
artistic, scientific and mechanical;
original investigation. Especial at
tention will be paid to the mechanical
and industrial exhibits.
For Good Roads.
A good roads convention will be
called to meet in Des Moines March IS
and 26. An effort is being made to in
duce Gov. Cummins to call the conven-
ton, in order to give it the state char
acter which it is essential that it have.
It is being promoted by the bureau of
public roads of the national agricultur-
al department and by the commercial
exchange of Des Moines. II will select
delegates to the national good roads
convention, which will meet in St.
Louis in April. R. w. Richardson, of
St. Louis, has been in the state, togeth-
er with other government agents,
working up the sentiment for the con-
vention.
Schoolhouse Sites.
The state superintendent has held
in case from Des Moines county that
a new board of directors may not re-
move the sites of schoolhouses which
have been selected by the old board,
and whose decision has been affirmed
by the state department. He holds
that if every new board could relocate
the schoolhouses, the houses never
would be at rest, which would be bad
for the schools. In this case the form
er board removed the sites of three
buildings; an appeal was taken, which
was settled in favor of the board. The
whirligig of politics elevated the oppo-
sition to control of the board present
iy, and then the schoolhouses were
moved back. This action of the board
is reversed by Mr.. Barrett on the the.
DRY described.
Cattle Sale.
Prices ranging from $500 down were
paid at the cattle sale held in Des
Moines the past week. 1t was the first
combination sale ever tried in the
state, and is the first of series intend
ed to build up market in Des Moines.
There was large attendance of stock
men, and some of the Iowa animals
sold went to Montana and other far
western and eastern states. Prof.
Charles F. Curtiss, of the state agri.
cultural college, said at q stockmen'a
meeting, in connection with the sale,
that he saw no reason why as good a
market could not be built up by these
sales in Des Moines as exist out of the
state, and to which Iowa breeders now
go to the expense of shipping their
herds, and Iowa buyers to the expense
of shipping back the same. animals
About 200 head of Hereford, s1aprthorn
and Pollsd Angus cattle were solo at
Ne ssasl aaa sbsyt "A bard Is saa.