Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-07-20

The total number of horses of all
ages on Iowa farms this year is L.
241,3S3 as compared to 1,279,525 in
1915. This year the average value is
given at $50 per head and the total
value $99.244,260. Last year the ay-
erage value was $S4 per head, and
the total value s1o0,77o,450. The to-
tai number OF cattle OF all ages re-
ported this year is 2,953,796, as COM
pared to 3,0S3,S21 last year with an
average value Of s31 per head The
total value this year is given as $685.
766,796, as against $95,610,974 last
year. The total number of swine over
six months old this year is reported
as 4,243,767 as against 4,641,75l in
1915. The average value per head
this year Is 1888 as against $3.50 last
year. The total value this year is
$31,s56,S72, as against s36,225,740 a
year ago. The net actual value of
personal property not including mon
eys and credits this year is given as
s447,030,3SS as compared to $461, $780,
016 in 1915.
A state good roads fund consisting
of all of the automobile revenue
money in excess of $4,000 per county
rs suggested by D. w. Norris, Mar
shalltown, chairman of the state good
roads commission. Mr.. Norris sug-
gests that this state fund be increas-
ed by the federal money FOR good
roads apportioned to Iowa under the
Bankhead bill, which has Just been
signed by President Wilson. For
Iowa II provides: In 1916, 100000;
in 1917, 100000; in 1918, 100000; in
1919. $S00, 1000; In 1920, $1,000, 900. This
money 70 only available in Iowa as
long as she maintains her state high
way department, and is continued on
the state appropriating funds to be
used in connection with the federal
aid. Under the Norris suggestion,
much of the automobile money now
Seing apportioned to the counties will
be held as state fund to help OBJ
tain from the government the large
Iowa with $4,000 motor cars reg
istered, ranked fourth In point of rev.
enue paid by autoists for licenses and
registration in the states of the union
In 1915. The total registration fees
reported for Iowa during the year was
$1,5S3,0s4. This sum was exceeded
only by California, New York and
Pennsylvania. The office of public
roads, of the department of agricul-
ture, at Washington. D. c., made pub
lie this information. Iowa, the re-
port declares, leads all states in the
number of cars per population, hae-
ing one motor to every sixteen per-
sons. The average in the United
States Is one car for every forty-four
persons. Alabama is at the foot of
the states with one car for every two
hundred persons. = S--@f~-~--s-
The largest hard wood mill in the
country will be established at Keokuk
when the old Taber lumber mill is re-
opened for the manufacture of hard
wood. Walnut will be used exclusive
IL In the mill, and Iowa Walnut mills,
incorporated, will reopen the former
white pine mill along the river there.
1t is expected at first to make mill
run lumber and to ship this to the
southern markets. Later when the
kiln and scroll saws are installed the
mill may fill gun stock orders.
Wesley Green, state horticulturist
has issued report that the apple
crop of 1915 will be about 80 per cent
less than that of 1915. He reports the
condition of the fruit crop in Iowa on
July /, as follows: Summer apples, AZ
yer cent; fall apples, A.; winter ap-
Pies As, pears rs, Americana plums Al,
Domestica plums 26, Japanese plums
20, cherries 30, grapes 65, red rasp-
berries 60, black raspberries ", black
berries n, 0urrants so, gooseberries
SO per cent of full crop.
In statement issued while at Iowa
City in an attempt to get recruits for
the First Iowa cavalry, Captain F. l..
Love assails some newspapers for
printing misinformation regarding the
clothing and food given the men at
Camp Dodge, stories which he brands
as deliberate falsehoods. He says that
their circulation over the state is the
reason why 1t is hard to get recruits,
the men and their parents believing
the militia are leading a wretched
life at Camp Dodge.
An average of more than one auto
mobile day is stolen in Des Moines,
according to police records. The ma
jority OF these cars are taken by JOY
riders, mostly boys and young men,
however, and are abandoned, either
In the city or on country roads, near
by. Few cars have been stolen which
we're not recovered within few days.
Paul Crowley, member OF the state
food and dairy department for the
past four years, has accepted a posi-
ton on the extension department OF
Iowa State college for the coming
year.
Willis Raymond, first mayor of
Hampton, who died at Los Angeles,
recently, did not forget Hampton. He
left $1,000 to the Baptist church
there, and James Green, a nephew,
was left $4,000. T. G. Hartman,
and r. J. Clock, former residents Of
Hampton, are trustees for a $4,000
fund.
Iowa corn is now normal in size,
due to favorable weather conditions
during the past few weeks. In ap-
pearance, the crop is strong and
healthy, according to the bulletin Of
the Iowa weather and crop service re-
Gently issued.
President Wilson RENTED the I'M
expired part Of the sentence Of Ray
mond e. Hadley and ordered him re-