The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-10-02
Farm Bureau Notes.

1t may be of some interest to those
interested in farming OF soils to
know that we have. secured three
week and are unloading them at the
present time. This ground lime
stone will be placed on the farm
lands of Decatur county farmers
| who are wide awake to the fact that
their acid soils are badly in need OF
limestone to sweeten them up and
This limestone was secured from the
Hawkeye Quarries Co... at Cedar
Rapids for just what the freight
would be on it and is costing the
farmers that are applying it the e
De ton. This offer is still open by
the Hawkeye people and if any more
Decatur county farmers wish to
avail themselves of this offer they
should call the county agent at once
and make arrangements to have 1t
shi lPbe to- h,s them meen has seen saven
members of the milk producers as
ISOLATION of the state of Ohio arrest
ed for collective bargaining and it is
very interesting to watch this case as
the outcome of it will be important
as to whether the court will decide
w work Viii be- and is being done
throughout the U. S. and the decis-
ion rendered in this case will affect
many cooperative ASSOCIATIONS
throughout the country. The milk
has been selling their milk to the
milk distributors of Cleveland at
prices ranging from 614c per quart
in May to 8 nc per quart in Septem
Der, and the distributors have been
selling it for 13c to 15c between the
profit? Who is the prefiteer? What
has been accomplished? There is
profound misunderstanding between
city dweller and country dweller,
a marked condition OF unrest with
the country dealer or producer and
a resentment of being misunder-
stood, and in the cities or with the
against the country people When
will this cease to be the case? Here
is food for thought. What is your
answer?
t the NJ 6e bea sod Nay
Goth to Dec. 9th. At this show all
kinds of hay, grain, etc will be shown
and a total of 100000 in pre-
miums will be divided. If you wish
to enter a bale of timothy, alfalfa
or clover, or some wheat, corn, oats,
| UdllCy VI 1yO DON IAo SOuACy oSOAe
for premium list. Surely some farm
ers of Decatur county could carry
off some of these prizes. Prizes will
be awarded in the sum Of $4,000 to
$500 and for about rs different
classes in each exhibit.
| Nearly every farm bureau of the
state has intimated that about to
&c per bushel was the. proper, price
for husking corn. 1t is not the in
tent of the farm bureaus to fix the
price of husking but rather to stabil-
iZe the price and not have so much
shiftinp around of labor. In other
corn in one section Of the state than
it is in another. A uniform price
means a better distribution of labor.
! We must not delude ourselves as
to the continuation of high prices for
farm products. They will go down
in the readjustment of things that
ducts will go down before the prices
of things that the farmer has to buy
go down. 1t looks like it was good
time to cut down on the present in
debtness while prices are good rather
than the time to plunge and buy
of marketing by, growing better
product, cultivate what you have
more intensively, study farming
methods more closely, do your work
more efficiently, less extensively, in
this way you can pay out and when
some Younger stuff that will grow
back into money quickly. This seems
| to be the safe and sane way at the
present time.
We have another report at this
time in regard to the culling OF
it shows that in a flock of $50 hens
before culling they were laying on
an average Of 80 eggs per day and
after culling out SO birds they con-
tinued to lay at the rate of 20 eggs
per day SO you see there certainly |
were loafers in this flock.
Nebraska Has Oldest Man in the
World.
Nebraska's oldest resident,
Thomas Morris, one hundred TWEEN
of his earthly pilgrimage. He is now
bedridden and feeble. He has lived |
for many years near Westerville, |
Custer county, with Charles Myt-
ton, an old friend.
Morris has the records to show
1894 eli has prided himself on the
claim that he is the Oldest man in
the world, and that he has lived in
parts of three centuries. He never |
married nor never attended school,
The old man has never followed |
any health rules. During his long
his waking hours and he drank |
strong coffee when he felt like it, |
1t has been his habit to eat hearty |
meals in the midle of the night for !
many years. When he awakes from
a deep slumber or stupor he wants |
food He feeds himslf and is still
able to fire his own nine small