Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-02-12

| acre. Winter wheat, ,399, grown on
2.2S1 acres; spring wheat, 1872 bu-
shells, from 226 acres.
In an attempt to market his stock
,rotitably and without delay, Adolf
Trede, farmer near Treynor, used
| tive motor trucks advantageously on
recent occasion when he marketed
on the Omaha market, ninteen head
Of cattle averaging slightly under
l,200 pounds and which brought him
Sl4.O0 per hundredweight.
An organization of Jersey cattle
| breeders for Iowa will be effected at
Ames, Feb II. Iowa has some Of
the finest Jersey herds in the coun-
try, and the American Society of Jer-
sey Breeders has seen the desirable
| ity of having a branch established.
National officers will be present at
Ames to perfect the organization.
The farm labor problem is the
most serious on confronting agricul-
ture today. This is the conclusion
of the farmers themselves. Out OF
! 2,3O1 farmers interviewed by the U.
S. department of Agriculture, big
percentage of them said that no other
problem weighed SO heavy in impor-
tance--not even marketing, good
roads or matters of crop improve
nlent.
/ John Miszner has sold his farm
near LaPorte City to j. R. Bitch at
] $4,000 an acre. Mr.. Miszner bought
the place five years ago for $1,000
an acre. 1t is not his intention to
quit farming as he has purchased an
other place three miles west of La
Porte City of e.. F. Suit for which he
gave $4,000 an acre. Mr. Miszner's
last purchase is fine place. The
soil is good and will make him an
ideal home.
A fee of SIS member is to be re-
commended by the directors of the
Polk County Pure Bred Livestock as
ISOLATION as the result of a recent
conference. Heretofore, membership
has been automatic after joining the
farm bureau. Funds needed for the
proposed advertising campaign made
the fee advisable A nominating
committee appointed consists OF
Clarence Pierson. Mitchellville: H
M. Meneough, Grimes, and Ohio
Smith, Altoona.
l.. NJ. Pearce, manager of the Otis
Dairy Farm in Yell township, Boone
County is the first man in the county
to have his herd tested for tuberci-
losis. The test has been completed
and only two reactors were
found in the entire herd OF
sixty head. These were disposed OF
at once. The loss of the two head
is nothing compared with the salts
faction of having a full accredited
herd with the state and government
o. K. upon it.
Iowa will spend s3O,0OO,O 900 during
1920 for road Improvements and
bridges, Fred R. White of Ames
chief engineer, announced recently.
This money will be apportioned as
] follows: Road paving-355.S5 miles
] Road graveling-231 miles. Grading
and draining earth roads-1334 miles
In addition, work will be done on
1000 miles of primary or main road
systems calling for federal aid. The
paving contracts are mostly for con
crete and brick.
E. 7. Meredith, of Des Moines, pub
Usher of Successful Farming. has
been appointed Secretary of Agricul-
ture by President Wilson, to succeed
WI hos
pointed Secretary of the Treasury
From penniless boy on an Iowa
farm, Meredith has become at the
age of forty-three the publisher
OF one of the largest farm journals in
the United States. He is president
of the Associated Advertising Clubs
of the World, and director of the
Federal Reserve Bank of the Seventh
District. With his family, the Des
Moines publisher will locate a tenn
porary residence at Washington His
term will extend to March 4, 1921.
Live stock marketing problems will
get special consideration in connec-
ton with the meeting of the Iowa
Beef Producers Association during the
farm home week at Ames, Feb 8 to
IA. 1t is not unlikely that the at
tending representatives of the local
cooperative shipping association or
ganized through the state will set up
some kind of state organization
The cooperative idea in marketing
will be discussed from the stand point
of the associations by Knute Espe,
president of the national organiza-
ton of cooperative shippers; by A.
A. Sykes, president of the Corn Belt
Meat Producers Association. and by
Capt. E. N. Wentworth, for the pack
erS.
The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
was organized December 81, 1918, at
meeting called for that purpose in
Marshalltown. Every county in the
State was invited to send delegates
to the meeting to participate in or
ganizing State Federation. Seven
ty counties responded. A constitu-
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