Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-01-22

quality apples, while orchards all |
around it, which had not been spray
ed. produced no fruit. This orchard |
netted the owner $3.50, and a score
of farmers around him, who bought |
the apples are resolved to spray next |
year.
Pocahontas county has given con- !
siderable attention to the care of her !
orchards the past year. Spraying. |
pruning and grating fruit trees has
kept many farmers busy. The farm
bureau purchased spraying outfit
for general use and hired an assist
ant county agent to run the machine |
free to the farmers. Twenty-three
orchards were handled in this way
and in addition about 1000 trees were
pruned, 800 trees grated and several
hen houses and potato fields sprayed
Records availa BILE at the county
agents office show that the sprayed
trees in the county this year yielded
81 bushels more than the unsprayed
trees.
Winter officially blew itself upon
cording to tradition, that is the short
est day of the year. but it is no short
en- in fact, than yesterday was or to-
morrow will be. At this season, the
winter solstiee, the days are the
shortest, and within a brief time
there will be frightening, especial
ly observable In the evening hours.
While winter has just arrived, it
was one of the mildest days of the
month This is the season of dark
ness and gloom, of short hours of
daylight and of small heating power
by the orb of day. Soon the clouds
will be lifted, the days will lengthen
and the sunlight will increase.
w. ]. Henry OF Hancock, Pottawat
tamie county marketed SIS head of
hogs on the Omaha market which
averaged 249 pounds and brought the
owner 1886, or the top for that day.
They were mixed bunch OF his own
raising and had fine finish. Soy
beans as a crop in Cherokee county
is new venture for farmers. Not
more than six farmers in the county
grew this crop prior to 1919. They
have been looked on as an expert.
ment pure and simple. Thirty-one bu-
Shells Of seed were ordered thru the
Farm Bureau and approximately $50
acres were planted to beans and corn
both for hogging down and silage
purposes last year
ENnr q nF Nat hn Nh.
Gregor Cow Testing Association car
| ried off honors in Iowa for best but
terfat records. Its 10 high cows av-
eraged SAT- lbs of butterfat for the
month One of the McGregor asso.
citation cows, pure bred Jersy owned
! by Kinsley Bros, held the record for
highest individual production. having
| yielded 77s lbs OF butterfat in the
month. During October SO cows in
the 10 associations reporting made
over 40 pounds of butterfat and 81
made over SO pounds. The COW test
ing associations are right now render.
| ing valuable service to their members
| in helping them to feed economical
| ly and proftably at time when
| feeds are high.
| Iowa breeders of purebred cattle
are more than ever convinced that it
| pays to raise purebreds SINCE the
sales which have been recently held
in Jasper and Polk counties. George
Eggert and w. E. Graham, two very
successful breeders, held sales re-
Gently The former sold fifty head on
| his farm near Newton for a total OF
| $16,755, or an average of $50S head.
This is Mr.. Eggert's second sale, his
first averaging $3.50 head All his
cattle we're federal tested The Ora
ham sale near Prairie City. at which
time number of cattle were also
sold belonging to F. e. Brown Of
near Mitchellville. brought $685. a
head, the top being $4,000. There
s26,Oa0 The top in the Eggert sale
was $4,000, paid for COW and calf.
j Iowa is Is years old this week
having been formally admitted into
the union when President James K
Polk signed the bill bestowing on this
lClIIlOIS LIE pt lSllSSS VI Sldlcu0Ou
on December 2Sth, 1916. The state
then had population of 96,0SS as
compared to the present population
of 2,35S.066 shown by the 1915 census
Immigrants had been coming into the
state in appreciate numbers for ten
years prior to its admission to the
union. The year Of 1886 showed set
Elements of white people in Des
Moines county whose population is
given as 6,257 and Dubuque county
credited with 4,274. When Iowa be
came state Polk county had 1901
inhabitants. The 1915 census credits
Polk county with 129,l2l people ant
the commercial club officers are now
estimating the population of the city
OF Des Moines alone as close to 140
900. In fact they expect the census
enumerators to find that many PEG
pie in the census to be taken during
the coming weeks.
Fred W. Burns Of lie Mars connect