Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-17
STATE NAY GET LAND
Valuable Tract For Fair Ground
Addition Open to Purchase
By the Legislature
SWINE MEN WILL BENEFIT
If Secured, New Pavilion for Swine
Breeders Will Be Erected Thereon
,tock Breeders Association to Be
Reviewed - horticultural Society
Meetings to Be ,reld.
to rlmes-Repub1ycan.

Special to Times-fepub1ican.
Des Moines. Nov. 17.-After a great
deal OF difficulty a committee OF Des
! Moines men has purchased the tract
Of seven acres of land lying south Oh
the state fair grounds. The commit
tee will hold the land in trust till the
legislature has been given an oppor-
tunity to make an appropriation to
purchase the land, for the state fair.
The directors of the state fair had
tentatively, awaiting the approval of
the executive council, arranged to
trade thirty-nine acres at the rear Of
the state fair grounds, and land not
used by the state fair, for the seven
acres on the level land between the
Rock Island tracks. The price at
which the seven acres were purchased
is about $500 less than the land was
valued at to the directors of the state
fair and the price which the executive
council was offered for the sale of the
thirty acres when it was adver-
tised the piece was $1,000 less than
the value as offered in the trade. The
deal therefore is thus far on a tie. 1t
will be remembered that Des Moines
citizens thought the price for the sew
en- acres much too high and the price
for the thirty-nine acres much too
low.
The directors of the department of
agriculture are not adverse to getting
the seven acres without parting with
the thirty-nine, however, and the
only difference is that where the de-
partment would have erected number
of buildings on the land this winter
it will now have to wait till after the
legislative session to find out whether
or not the legislature will buy the
tract.
The swine men of the state will
probably get behind the movement to
buy the seven acres since it is on this
land that the department will erect
the new swine pavilion that the swine
men have wanted so long.
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An effort is being made by the state
department of agriculture to revive a
number of the partly defunct and ex-
tinct stock breeders associations of
the state. The Improved Stock
Breeders Association was at one time
one of the most f1ourishing societies
of the state. It was considered so
much of, fixture that the legislature
was induced to enact a law providing
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ceedings of the society for distribution.
The society has, not met for three
years. Another is the Shorthorn
Breeders Association of the state,
which has been losing strength and
vigor. The department has plan
about ready to suggest to the two
societies and some others in order to
keep them in full visor and the de-
partment will make every effort in its
state fair plans to bring about their
resuscitation.
The annual meetings of the four dis
trict horticultural societies will be held
next month just preceding the meeting
Of the state society here. The North
eastern horticultural Society will meet
at Charles City, November 20, Fl and
%: the southeastern at New London
November 81, % and 90; the north
western at Sioux City, December 4, 5
and s; and the southwestern at Coun-
Gil Bluffs, December 5, and Z. Men
of national reputation will address
these conventions and the same men
and others, in addition, will be at the
state convention here later. H. w.
Collingwood, editor of Rural New
Yorker. G. G. Patton, of Charles City,
and Mcbride, Of Iowa City, will all
speak. The northeastern Iowa society
meets this year at Charles City pur-
posely to be able to visit the ideal hor-
ticultural farm of C. G. Patton, who is
president of the society. During the
same week in which the Corn Belt
Meat Producers Association, the State
Farmers Institute, and the State Hor-
ticu1tural Society meet here the Iowa
Park and Forestry Association will also
meet. A number of speakers of note
will dis lss various phases Of the tree
problem. and Hon. Harvey Ingham,
editor of the Register and Leader, will
give an address on "The Problem OF
Rural Iowa"
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