Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-26
Effort Being Made to Secure
Meeting Of Two Large Live
stock Associations
AGRICULTURAL BOARD ACT:
Extends invitations to Berkshire and
American Breeding Associations, and
Dos Moines Joins In - Bankers
Views of the Green Mountain Fail
ure-Shaw Fails to Visit Iowa.
Special to Iimes-Republ,can.

Special to Times-Republican.
| Des Moines, Feb. 26.-Plans are be-
ing made to boost the breeding OF pure
bred stock by securing the conventions
of two Of the biggest associations In
the country for next year. AT the re-
cent meeting of the directors of the
department of agriculture, resolutions
were passed inviting the National
| Berkshire Breeders Association ana
the American Breeding Association to
hold their next annual conventions in
this city. The Berkshire Breeders AS
sociation is in session at this time IN
! Nashville, Tenn, and yesterday the
| Commercial club of this city and the
city officials and others telegraphed
the association, joining in the invita-
ton of the state board of agriculture.
The National Berkshire Association
is big association and its coming 70
Iowa for a convention where more
hogs are raised than in any other
state. would be big boost for the
Berkshire breeding business. Those in
formed say that wherever such a con-
| vention is held there is always no.
| ticeable awakening and increase in the
number of people who take to that
kind of stock.
| But the American Breeding Associa-
tion is still bigger. The secretary OF
| t., A ;Sfo ov,t
retary Of Agriculture Hayes Of Wash
ington, d. c. This association does
not devote itself to any one breed OF
animals, but takes In all animals and
all plants of agricultural worth. 1t is
an association Of the greatest agricul-
| tural breeders Of all kinds of agricul-
tural animals and plants and includes
| in it's membership scientists also. Pro-
fessor Kennedy Of the State Agricul-
tural College at Ames. recently ap-
peared before the association when it
met in Washington, d. c.. and told of
the plans to breed new draft horse
at the college.
| The coming of the association to
this city would bring many persons of
great ability. The purpose of the as
sociation is not only to improve the
breeds of agricultural animals and
plants, but also to encourage more
farmers to put their efforts on pure
blood stock. both of plants and animals
as the most remunerative and profit
able 1t is in the hope of benetiting
Iowa farmers in this regard that ef-
forts are now being made to bring
these associations to Iowa for the
lnext annual conventions
Bankers see a great deal to convince
them that the old system Of "kiting"
checks and drafts was resorted to by
the manipulators of the Green Noun
tain Savings bank. They are suspicious
that DIR. Stuart B. Mac Diarmid Of
Omaha, and those associated with him,
were ambitious to be the owners of
several banks without having the nee
essary capital with which to start
them.
| Having started one bank with real
or borrowed money the scheme is to
borrow of that bank money with
which to provide the capital stock
with which to start another bank To
cover this loan a sight draft is de-
posted with the first bank on some
other bank. 1t takes several days for
the sight draft to reach it's destination
and in the meantime a sight draft is
| deposited with that bank on still an
other to cover the amount Of the first
sight draft when it reaches there. This
is the system not in detail but in brief
| Mac Diarmid and his friends loaned
themselves from the funds Of the Green
! Mountain bank all that they had de-
posted for the capital stock and fur
/ thermore took the stock and borrowed
money on it of the Waterloo bank,
putting up the stock as collateral Sc
curty But it is not believed that there
has been any forgery practiced 1t is
believed that all the notes held by the
bank are good and genuine and all
| worth their face value.
| Information from Ringgold county is
| to the effect that the Cummns people
| carried the county at the caucuses and
| selected all the delegates to the county
/ convention. This convention will Sc
lect the delegates to the state con-.
| yention and the district congressional
convention at Creston which selects the
two district delegates to the national
convention.
Information from Clinton county is
that in the city primaries the Cum
MINIS people named all the delegates
to the county convention with the ex-
ception Of one.
The republican primaries in Polk
I; county are to be held tonight and
1 while there have been rumors that
| the standpatters led by James G.
| Berryhill. Ex-Governor Jackson and
,, Lafe Young were going to make a
fight against Cummins there has been
little activity in that line that was
really apparent. The primaries will
be open for one hour tonight There
is every likelihood that a ticket in op-
position to C'ummins will be put up
| in +ha north mart Of the CITY and pos