The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-07-17
Farm Bureau Notes.

Decided improvement is manifest
IN the horse market. Exports to
Europe have begun, despite the high
Iens buyers are areei buying @ horses rs sne on the
Chicago market and are shipping
now 100 per week to foreign mark
cts. Another firm will be buying
on and after July 18th and this will
insure an outlet Of from 400 to 500
per week. St. Louis will soon be in
ter market for the surplus horses In
this territory.
The Marx & Hammill shipment
that left Chicago on July 1st was
good useful lot OF work horses and
ready for immediate service. They
were fresh from the farm and just
out of harness and hardened to
hands high and from 1900 to 1900
pounds were the kind most sought
after. Mares and geldings are both
acceptable. The best type of draft
ers are wanted but if not available,
the poorer class of horses will be
taken. This is the thing that is of
most Importance to the farmer TOR
buyer cannot get what he wants he
will come again and you are en-
abled to sell your culls and keep the
desirable stuff on the farm for
breeders. Keep. all your good breed
ing stock for the time is coming
when the horse market will ADVANCE
and all good breeding stock will
then sell at premium. Then per-
haps five years too late the farmer
will awake to the fact that he
should have been breeding for the
future market Raise some top
notch stuff now while you can get
in on the ground floor ON good
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There never was a better time to
start in the game of breeding good
horses than right now.
! The prices paid for the class of
| horses that are being exported has
been around 1925 to 1925 per head.
The better class bringing the most
money and finding the more ready
sale.
There is also a decided upturn to
tie prices have advanced $3.50 tc
$500 per cwt. Many range cattle
have been coming from Montana,
land every indication points to a
Sheavy run from this territory for the
ineXt three or four weeks as that
country is hard hit by drought and
all range grass is almost exhausted
sion houses that these cattle will be
selling lower in next ten days. Now
| is a good time to fill up some OF
Decatur county's good blue grass
pastures with some of these cheap
cattle if they go much lower. These
cattle can be bought in the growers
hands through the marketing bureau
and no commissions be paid.
Held a meeting of the directors OF
the county fair association on Satur-
day last and it was the opinion OF
those, present that the secretary be
in strncted to draw up the subscrip-
ton papers and blanks and place
them in hands of the township di-
rectors that the business Of taking
the subscriptions for stock might
proceed at once.
We are sending to Ames this week
about 40 or SO samples of wheat
taken from as many different fields
| for the purpose of getting fairor
| test and grade on the average wheat
of this locality: There is every in
dication that there will be much dis
satisfaction between farmers and
grain dealers in regard to the grade
that will be made on wheat offered
for sale owing to the scab. To all
| those who are dissatisfied we wish
! to- say that the services of the
county agent are at your disposal
and we are only too glad to help
you adjust matters of this kind at
all times. If you are dissatisfied
take a sample of the wheat and senu
or bring it in and we will do every
thing that we possibly can to make
| it satisfactory to all concerned.