Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-08-19
IOWA CROPS GREAT
Government Report Indicates
An Immense Yield.
PASTURE UNUSUALLY GOOD
the most Favorable Yet Crops Are
Surprisingly Good-Govern-
ment Report Follows.

Des Moines.-Iowa is going to have
big crops, favorable weather from now
on prevailing, previous bad weather
and bear talk to the contrary.
Especially will the state harvest in.
creases in winter and spring wheat,
oats, barley, potatoes, apples, rye and
all kinds of hay while pastures never
were better.
Corn is showing up surprising in
view of the gloomy talk that has been
handed out in prodigious quantities
within the last few weeks on account
of cool and wet weather.
This is what the farmer and bust.
ness man CLEANS from the August crop
report for Iowa and tine United States
as handed out by the bureau of crop
estimates.
Corn has surprised everybody In
responding to the most seasonable
weather recently to the extent of a..
100000 bushels increase in the fore.
cast over a month ago. On August /,
It is estimated the Iowa corn crop
was good for 32O,O0O,OOO bushels com
pared with 3O6,0O0,OOO bushels on
July /. This, OF course, does not
equal the 1914 final crop of $50, 424, 900
a bumper.
This is 14000,0 900 bushels more than
crop experts expected a month ago
Last years corn crop was a bumper
for true-3S9, $4,000 bushels. It was
far above normal.
Just look at the rest of the crops
as forecasted by the government:
Iowa will produce 100000 bush.
els more of oats this year than last.
Iowa will produce 4,250,000 bushels
more OF potatoes.
Iowa will produce 100000 bushels
more of apples.
Iowa will produce almost 100000
tons more of hay.
Iowa will produce 100000 bushels
more of wheat.
Iowa will produce $4,000 bushels
more of rye.
Iowa will produce $4,000 bushels
more of barley.
Danger from Foot and Mouth Disease.
Iowans and other western farmers
and stockmen are once more in peril
from the foot and mouth disease.
Department of agriculture experts
are alarmed over cases reported from
Tho aouptiae In Ill;pnis ord nodoa
county, Mimi. near the Iowa line.
The new outbreaks are supposed to
be from hog cholera serum manufac-
tured in the Chicago stock yards.
The last outbreak cost the govern.
ment s3,5O0,O00. Sixty thousand cat.
tie and $4,000 hogs were killed.
Although Illinois has had a new
outbreak OF the. foot and mouth dis
ease in cattle, the Iowa officials do
not expect the disease to reappear In
this state. DR.. ]. /. Gibson, state vet
erinarian, is now making an inspec-
ton of all OF the farms where the
disease existed. The lands have been
restocked.
Set Date for State Hearings.
A date has been set for the sher-
IFS jury to hear the condemnation
proceedings instituted by the state to
secure possession OF land needed for
capitol extension. It will be held Au-
gust &c. There are now but six tracts
on which the executive council and
the owners cannot agree as to price.
The chief justice of the supreme court
appoints this jury.
Cow Causes Trouble.
A Jersey COW is the basis Of the
case of G. w. Hull, appellant, against
Burlington route, appealed to the SUI
preme court from Monroe county. Hull
owned a COW. In some manner 1t got
out on the railroad track and was kill
ed. He sued the railway company and
lost in the district court. His claim
was that the railroad company did not
properly guard its tracks.
Pharmacy Board Reports.
The report of the state pharmacy
commission shows that receipts from
medicine vendors for 1915, up to July
/, were $4,000. This is an increase
of $1,7O0 over the same period for
1914. It shows that the practice of
peddlers going through the country
with covered wagons selling drugs is
increasing rather than dying out.
state Parole Board Asks Help.
The state board of parole is send
ing out letters to employers OF labor
asking them to cooperate with the
state in providing employment for
men paroled from the penitentiaries.
The state requires the employers to
agree to keep the men for period
of one year.
Property Clear for Years.
In going over the abstracts of prop
erty purchased by the state for capt.
toll extension, w. s, Rankin, special
counsel in the attorney generals Of
fee, has discovered two lots which
have not had a mortgage on them
since 1857.
Some Egg Market.
Iowa farmers marketed $4,000 600
worth of eggs during the year which
ended July 1, 1915, according to a re-
port made to the state dairy and food
department.
Commerce Counsel Pleased.
Dwight Lewis, assistant commerce
counsel. stated that his department
feels good over the decision Of the