Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-12-04
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corn in day.
Spencer is to have a new $780,
600 hotel. The contract for archi-
tectural work was let to Byrd &
Moore, Of Des Moines.
A double deck of 75-pound lambs
which have been on feed for two
months and half on the j. McPher-
rim farm, near Glenwood, We're ship
ped to the market recently and Mr.
! McPherrin received top price for
them, $14.S5. The lambs were in
good condition.
The Iowa state highway commits.
sion is not in favor of truck tours
over mud roads in Iowa. While the
tours demonstrated the ability of the
truck to travel on muddy highways,
the recent tour left the roads over
which the trucks travelled in such
bad condition as to make it difficult
to repair them before next summer.
, Formation of the Tri-county asso-
citation which plans to stage the an
nual fair in Perry next fall, is under
way. The association has secured an
option on site for the fairgrounds
Fand plans for buildings are being
drawn up Construction on the build.
sings is not expected to get under
way before early next spring.
n Assessments for the benefits, in
abiding the cost of construction, for
Iowa River Drainage District No. l.
Etotaling S177,546.16 are made against
land in the district, in the report
@nled by the commissioners appointed
by the board of supervisors. The as
easements against large land owners
stCtal in many cases, thousands of
dollars.
Woods Brothers of Lincoln, Neb.,
with M. A. McNeal, Vert Reid. Will
Rageth and DR.. E. E. Richards, Ere
mont county land owners, have be-
gun the construction of ditch
]. Which will be two miles in length and
reclaim $1,O00.000 worth of land The
county has also just let the contract
Tor ditch and dixie to cost over
S100, 000 which will eliminate five
bends in small river and shorten
Its course five miles.
In the past six months farm lands
u seventy Iowa counties have ad-
vanced in price about 60 per cent.
That statement is based on many
hundreds of farm sale prices gath
cred in those seventy counties dur.
ing the past six months by o. G.
Lloyd Of the farm management de-
partment of the Iowa State College.
In more. than fifty of the counties
land has sold for $500 and more per
acre. The advance in price for the
six months period has averaged 500
per acre. or nearly go per cent
Iowa has new automobile law
THAT is expected to put a material
erimp in automobile thievery. 1t
provides that when an automobile is
purchased, the owner must. sign a
registration blank. When he sells OF
trades the car he must fill out a
statement telling all the facts con
eerRtng the purchase of the machine
and furnish it to the purchaser, Civ.
ing the latter clear title. Severest
penalties are provided for defacing
the numbers on machine or other
wise Disgusting it to make identif
cation difficult or impossible. The
law became effective Nov. l.
Corn husking is being rapidly push
ed and many of the farmers of Butler
county are through. The average
acre. The windstorm that swept al
of this section, blew it down badly
and damaged the crop about one
: third, and has made husking very
difficult Fred Smith, one of the
champion corn growers, has just com
pleted gathering his 11O-acre crop
One field of 60 acres went 40 bushels
per acre and 50-acre field yielded
80 bushels He paid cents pei
bushel to the huskers on 60 acres ant
cents for SO acres, and used the ell
evators.
If sugar production increases il
other states in like proportion to the
promised increase in Iowa next year
the sugar shortage problem will bt
solved Two new beet sugar factor
les will open in Iowa next year, ont
at Belmond in Wright county and ont
at Waverly. At present there Il
just one sugar beet factory in Iowa
the one at Mason City. operated b.
the Northern Sugar corporation, Thi
factory has proved valuable asse
to Iowa's food producing plants ant
Its success in the growing of suga
beets and the manufacture of sugar
coupled with the big demand for thi
article, is responsible for the enlarge
ment of the industry in Iowa.
Twenty-four thousand dollars wortl
of thoroughbred Angus cattle wer
sold at the Cass county fair ground
by W. M Murphy and John Kram
beck. Both are prominent breeder
whose farms are in the neighborhoo
of Marine. The average for the sal
was $3.50 an animal. The highes
price paid for any one animal wa