The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-06-17
.MAHASKA COUNTY
IS DOING THINGS
HTR ACCOMPLISHMENTS SUR
PRISE AMEs EXPERTS,
FARM TOUR A GREAT SUCCESS
Unfavorable Weather Cut Down
Crowds, but did not Interfere
the Work of the inspectors
or Success Of the Day. .,

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County Farm?
That question was answered and
demonstrated Monday in the Farm
Tour conducted by the University ex-
tension department OF the State Argi-
cultural College at Ames. -.
Mahaska county is working Won
dcI8. She is raising better corn than
any other county in the state, and
any other state in the country. She
is making apples the like of which
are not to be found elsewhere. She is
breeding hogs and draft horses, the
blood of which is known across the
land. She Is building silos. She is
raising poultry that finds it's way to
the New York market and her eggs
are as a gold bond. She is handling
cattle and sheep and making new
records on alfalfa and clover. She Is
doing other things on her lands that
tend to mako Iowa the best state in
the union. Other counties may be
better in some things than Mahaska
and Mahaska may excel others along
certain lines but the fact remains
that the Farm Tour of Monday open
ed the eyes of even the college crew,
men who have been in practically
all of the counties of the state. The
members were enthused in the di-
rections of their several specialties.
II was their place to tell things and
to instruct but the day found the
professors and the teachers asking
about as many questions as the in
dividuals of the company making the
trip. They insisted that the men
who had made records, tell how they
obtain results.
Mondays weather was threatening.
Several times during the day rain
fell. Had fair warm Sunshiny day
favored the trip an enormous follow
ing would have made the swim
around the county"
1t Was a Long Trip.
One hundred and twenty-seven
miles were made during the day fifty
nine in the morning and siXty-eight
in the afternoon. Fifteen stops were
made enroute including that at Os-
kaloosa Several times during the
day fifty or more automobiles were
in line. Rain came down during The
dinner hour while the cars we're gath
cred about the park in Oskaloosa.
1t was raining as the tour left the
city for the afternoon trip. The
clouds hung low and black and only
the bravest ventured forth. The
start was delayed for an hour that
the weather might settle itself one
or another way but with break in
the clouds the tour was resumed. Had
conditions favored the pro-
I.-ol
would have started from OskalOOSa
at one o'clock More than this num-
Der of cars were about the park and
in adjacent streets ready to make the
start but the continued showers in
tcrfered with the departure of many
on the second half of the county run.
Rain was coming down hard as the
cars pulled out of Oskaloosa a little
before two o'clock. Rain was en-
all the way to the first
stop, the II. r. Harris apple orchard
northwest of town on the Pella road.
This place was inspected in a drizzle
Of rain and Prof. Bob" Herrick talk
ed to an audience that stood out in
the rain. The crowd would have re-
manned longor,-thcre was so much
Of interest, so many questions to ask
but time was limited. A vote was
AIKEN at this stop whether to Contin-
he or abandon the tour and return to
he court house for the remainder of
he afternoon. The crowd voted to
proceed, go on for at least another
stop and they kept going for the re-
nainder of the afternoon.
The Afternoon Tour. ..,.
Although not scheduled, stop was
made at the Rickey-Lacey White
feather poultry farm. Here abound
white Leghorns, white turkeys and
White gnineas and the, crowd just !
lad to stop to take advantage of the |
to see how the poultry is |
Ioused and how the houses are made !
Next stop was made at the county |
arm. No talk was given here but !
While a part of the crowd investi- |
ated the garden and looked at the )
took and farming equipment others I
we're shown through the home. Su-
w. II. Broerman, was
upon the showing he is
making on the farm. .. Il
On across the Des Moines to the i
!, w. Hoyt farm in Jefferson town
hip the tour touched the southwest Y
orner of its route and this visit was
ne OF the best of the days program.
Iere we're exhibited some draft stall
ons that were prize takers This
ave professor r. f. O'Donnell OPP :
ortunity to preach stock which he I
Id in the few minutes available. Ac-
Drding to the Ames specialist the II
est time for the draft horse business Il
! Iowa is now. The old plugs and Il
rades have been sold to the eastern Ii
ar market, the tractor as a piece, OF /
Irm equipment is not yet. a success,
lie demand for horses for farm work
as never better and the draft horse
'eeder is coming into his own.
Along the Des Moines. c
From Hoyt's splendid stock farm v
it'll its immense buildings and splen 9
d equipment for which too little I
me was available for inspection the d
ovid hurried along back across the
YER to see the corn breeding farm of
alter Imig a little south of the
var school in Harrison township. e.
ere the topic talked was corn and a
+. lmig was prevailed upon to re- j.
e something of9rhisg methods, his Il
idy and his work. The crowd was ia
re privileged 70 pass through Mr.. Il