Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-10-05
MISSOURI VALLEY TIMES
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Elmdale still ON his travels,
and was one of the la who
went to Ames last Friday, and
have concluded to let your rea-
ders know what | thought of
the meeting and College, and
then redeem my promise, for |
| told a number that | would re-
port it.
The train at the Valley was
ON time, and landed us on time
at Ames. | noticed that some
Of the corn crops, on the way,
was small, and leaned as though
it had had heavy wind and hail.
| should think it will not yield
over 40 bushel per acre.
1t seemed our car, some of
| the time, was runnin over, for
the boys would go in strings
through the cars yelling and
laughing, enjoying themselves,
as we all did.
When we arrived at the de-
pot, at Ames, my first aim, as
it was with others, was to fill
the liner man. Quite a number
| OF the Churches had tents and
set up a good meal for 25 cents.
thought | was a good eater
until new conner, who sat at
my end of the table, and the
way the beef disappeared was a
caution to behold.
1 After all our wants were sup
piled, we proceeded to walk to
the grounds some u miles dis
tant. guess the dummy en-
CINE with three cars, runs back
and forth for 10 G., per trip,
but as | wished to straighten
my legs out, preferred to walk.
Well, when that dummy came
roaring along we all got out of
its way, but oh! we got into a
lot of sand burrs, and got
double dose the first effort, af-
ter that picked my stepping.
1t was real fun picking them
off. and then to see others so
engaged.
The College grounds contain
1920 acres, have 1900 trees and
1T varieties. There are about
4S different buildings, some
large and some smaller, especi-
ally the hog and sheep houses.
will describe a few of what
the buildings contain.
First on the program was the
horses, great, big; fat 1900 to
100 horses, Clydesdale, Per-
cheon, and then some smaller
ones.
The cattle had some Blue
Durham, Short Horn Holstein,
and a few Jerseys.
The Sheep are the Ctoswolds,
Merino and Testers.
Hogs are Poland China, Ches-
| ter White, Duroc-Jersey, and a
new kind, red, and have an aw-
full long nose on them. don't
fancy them.
did not see any Chickens,
or bees. They have a place for
Seed Corn to dry, and five diff
ferent kind of bugs or worms
that eat corn.
In the cattle building they
have a small Silo, a new thing.
Gould they of gone to Illinois
they would have seen them in
use eight years ago, and yet in
use there.
The Dairy department WASH t
running, but will start up in
about month. | was much in
terested in the grain depart
ment. Had about 8 varieties,
and the Manchurie came out
ahead, 81 bushel, ripe July IL.
Some variety of Oats and the
keherson corn came out ahead,
IS, and rlpened July IL.
They have a large green house
and have nice lot of flowers
in bloom.
A large Museum that will
compair favorably with any |
saw in Portland. Of course |
didn't see many big eggs, but
there were others to make up.
In the Electrical department
they have 3 arc lights burning
night and day. | saw them
weld 2 pieces of iron together
with elcci.l.l.y that would
break in other places before in
the weld.
They have a soil map of Iowa
showing 4 different soils. The