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

been partly due to the organization
of a Pure-b bred Breeders association.
More than So breeders of pure-bred
animals are now members of the as
ISOLATION.
Practically every farmer solicited
in Winnebago by the solicitors have
Joined the county Farm bureau. 1863
new members have been secured and
S3461 secured to carry on the work
in the county. Approximately 500
persons attended the preliminary
meetings before the drive. 1t is
planned to have local men finish the
canvass in December.
Fayette county has the distinction
Of organizing the first calf club in
the state in which the calves were
pure-bred Holstein heifer calves.
This club was organized by Cludge
Combs, the county agent of Fayette
county, with the Farm bureau and
the Iowa State Dairy association CO.
operating. Beef clubs are common
in Iowa, but dairy clubs are new
venture
North Iowa winter weather has not
stopped the movement of real estate
in the vicinity of Rockwell, accord
ing to Piersal & Grummon, who re-
port the sale of the H J. Doderer
eighty northeast of town to Fred G.
Eilers, of Sheffield. The purchase
price was 1925 per acre. This farm
is thoroughly tiled and fairly we'll
improved. The farm was sold sub
ject to the 1920 lease
A sales pavilion costing $4,000
and swine barn erected at cost of
$4,000 show that Hamilton county
breeders are alive to the advantages
of good stock of all kinds. The Pure
bred Breeders association is progress
sive and at the recent fair held in
Hamilton county awakened the inter
est to such an extent in the county
that fully four hundred or more hogs
were on exhibition from various parts
of county.
The Girls Canning Club of Wapel-
10 county gave an exhibition of their
skill at the Vanvee building in Eddy
vile, only the younger girls of the
club being allowed to compete. The
numerous exhibits were of great in
terest to those who attended The
following premiums were awarded:
II jars. IS, 81, So, 50 and 81; single
Jars soc, Csc, 121sc. There were 9th
er exhibits of apples, peaches, black
berries, vegetables, canned chicken
and greens of all kinds.
Lively bidding at an auction sale Of
a farm near West Union resulted in
the highest price per acre on record
being paid for a Fayette county farm.
The 40-acre place put up at auction
by James F. Smith of Oelwein, ad-
minjstrator Of the estate of his Sis
terjn-law, the late Miss Celesta Hack
| EFT, sold for $3.50 per acre. So far
as can be learned this is the highest
price per acre paid for any piece OF
| FaYette county land at any time, ex-
cept small acreage tracts within city
limits. The purchaser was Clarence
| s. Holmes
| December has been assigned as the
lime for the eleventh annual poultry
show IL Maquoketa. Judge w. q.
Harnock, a veteran OF the big shows,
will make the awards, using the
score card system Maquoketa has
more pure bred birds than any city
of its size in eastern Iowa. EARLY
entries indicate that there will be a
larger exhibit this year than ever
special effort is being made by the
secretaries to arouse the farmers tc
enter their pure breds.
/ The beet season was brought to &
successful close in Garner recently
From that station los car loads o.
4 beets were shipped to the factory al
| Mason City About the same amour
was shipped from there. last year
though many more beets w e raised
in that vicinity. The diffe uce il
the shipments is because vera
more dumps have been installed a
nearby points Land which a few
! years ago were impossible sloughs
by drainage makes the richest TO
beet raising. The yield this year ha
been from eight to fifteen tons to tn,
acre, for which the farmers receive.
So ton.
More than 700 farmers of Fayett
county have petitioned for a soil SUI
yey of the county. Five and one
half months have already been put II
by experts making this survey. TIL
men, A. H. Meyer and j. H. Harper
have been on every 40 acres of sol
in Fayette county. Maps have ,beel
made, not only showing type of sol
but the character of soil on ever
piece of land, also the little varia
tions, such as distinguishing smoot1
land from rough. outcrop rock, ais
streams and sullies in each field
Work OF testing the soil, for acidity
soil plot work, fertilizer fecommen
dation and drainage problems, ha
also been carried on by the Farr
bureau.