Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-12-18


national Live Stock Exposition at
Chicago.
A four-county corn show is sched-
uled for Ackley beginning December
1918. Premiums are offered for sew
ing and cooking, open to all girls in
the county.
Holding stock sales after night in
q well lighted pavilion is novelty
but it is proving quite popular At
Corning, G. F. Richards tried it out
and reports satisfactory results His
highest priced Poland China brought
Sa,O50 and there was an average of
S346
The return of the miners to work
will greatly relieve the suffering that
has been so apparent throughout
Iowa, especially during the exceed
ingly cold weather of few days
ago. In some localities the suffer
ing was intense, among the poorer
classes. All curtailed productions
will within short time have resum.
ed to normal
For almost half a century a small
fortune has been lying in plain view
on the farm of E. D. RidnouS, north
west of Perry, near Angus, and it
was not until a coal famine occurred
that it's value was realized By the
discovery this community will have
access to about 1000 tons of good
fuel, nor will the labor of miners be
needed to get it on the market.
Bernard White, son of R. j. White
received word that he had Won the
state championship in corn club work
and wins a free trip to the Interra-
tlonal Corn show. He raised 11S
bushels and twenty7pounds of white
corn to the acre. He is only IA
years cid and began to study cult
walton of corn three years ago and
won the county championship.
loWar, new oat, developed by l..
G. Burnett, chief in cereal breeding
at Iowa State college, made a very
satisfactory showing in the tests con.
ducted by the farmers of the state
this year. From total of lO6 re.
COL
lege. Iowar oats yielded 1891 bushels
in comparison with 1885 bUshel yield
of the home. varieties These figures
show an increase of over three and
one-hsif bushels in favor of the new
variety Of oats.
R. T. Parkhurst of Iowa State col. |
lege conducted successful demonstra.
tons on tie farms Of S. X. Slemmons
in Scott township and Joe Halter
Sharon township, recently The Wort.
has met with great enthusiasm in
johnson county. 1t has been found |
as result of the work done in Sep
TENDER along this line that of all |
hocks culled 25 per cent were low
producers and that as a result OF the |
culAng the egg production increased I
the average production per hen fIos
II TIC % per cent
Two Black Hawk coHaty farm;
within few miles of each other
show difference of $1,000 in their
labor incomes for the last year. ac.
eording to the survey made by the |
farm management department CT
Iowa State college. The two farms
We're practically the same size and
had nearly the same valuation an
acre. The first farm made labor in.
come of $4,000 from 1916 acres valued
at 1855, while the other farm made
only $1,000 from 100 acres valued at
$3.50.
The farm bureau of Decatur coun
fy is using full-page spreads in all
newspapers stating that "organiza-
tdon on the part of farmers is their
only salvation from peasantry or
slavery. Many think the farm is or.
.ly a fit place to raise cheap food
We believe the farmer has THE same
right to returns on the capital invest
ed as has bank or factory" etc.
Through the Iowa farm federation
.aFd the County farm bureau, it is ex
peeteasto perfect a strong organiza-
zion among the tillers Of the soil.
Ans orcfaId of 10 acres selected
some month"; ago by county agent
G GS4fF1Ieesep gNp experimental pro
Jet and ven ehr sprays, has pro
yen co9ehisivs,S that it pays to
spgay Ihis erehardaAeld many vari 1
sties Gepp1es, sucfsss Grimes Gold,
zen, N'rHS,tfsat1sS Wiesyap,g. Ben Davis
and "a hdnhsJ of others Spray ma
teriaas of aIr kinds weregpought and
the1.brchArd gixsn every attention.
Eis.s s costsper trss fopatRe work did
abexceea 5eeents. Sprays we're ap.
Piled 3 ah in e,Aprns May June and July
afd the finafs DEMONSTRATION shows
tfat fully sGssper cant clean fruit on
SPRAYED trees anhas2s per cent. on
unspfayed trees with a CORRESPONDENT ~.
yield ED tineEssaase pkr@tree of fruit. n
An loga) man, Patrick Hassett, re-
siding 5, a 81 SPORT distance FROM Denison.
has rseently rapIrchased the Albert
sehwiessw term of 24o acres, three
1hd 6Sa-half miles from Manila.
fhiSsSset SJtself would not be in
IerestifTg, dpN when we stop to con.