Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-06-24
Two new world price records for

| l"o new world price records for
purebred beef cattle were made in
the sale of Aberdeen-Angus cattle
heid near Holbrook The first rec
ORD was scored when the great show
and breeding COW, Blackcap Lassie
was Knocked off after a spirited bid
dung contest for $4,000 She was ex-
hiblted with fine heifer calf by Bre-
Vler The second record was scored
When at the end of the selling it was
found that ii animals had been dis
posed of at a total of $271, $50 an
average of S5,316 There were %
COWS sod with calf at foot Trojan
Erleas predominated, with almost as
many Blackcaps and smaller num-
Der OF the Blackbird strain.
The Cherokee County Farm Bureau
has recently received carload of
ground agricultural limestone at each
OF the following towns: Cherokee,
/ Aurella, Larrabee, Meriden and Wash
ia The stone is of very good quail
lty running about half dust and all
passing through Is inch mesh
screen. The Hawkeye Quarries Com
pany has co-operated with the Chero.
kee Farm Bureau and has furnish
this limestone for test purposes.
| THESE shipments were order last fall
Dut due to the car situation they
could not be made earlier. Freight
| charges and the cost of unloading
| the cars are the only expenses i'm
/ posed.
| The total amount of promotion pa
| per held by state and savings banks
ana trust companies under jurisdc-
ton OF the Iowa state banking de-
partment as reported to the depart
ment is S5,1S2 ,9105S This does not
| include the national banks since they
ere not under the control of the
state. Polk county banks and trust
companies report s1,905, 534 So, Du-
buque, S2oS,255; Woodbury., S192,3O1.
80; Jackson, S145QOO Hardin sl31,-
Gee; Henry $1210O0; Washington,
Sll7,44o; Cedar S1lS664 80; Clayton,
$4,000; Johnson, $10S,02o; Winnie
shiek, Slo3.915; Muscatine, s1o2.671.-
b Harrison, $1o2,9So. three counties
Adams. Clarke and Lucas reported
no promotion paper held
Hampshire breeders of Iowa to the
number of fifty, met in Des Moines
recently to discuss conditions and
ways OF improving the brood in Iowa
Among the important pieces of work
out is the organization OF HAMPSHIRE
MIC plIIbS in ,-oriO,,c
state. Last year there We're but five
clubs of this kind; now there are
more than forty such clubs, all de
voted to the Hampshire breed ex-
clusiyely The sta,e association is of
fering prizes to the amount of 500
IN each county where such a club
has been formed. In order to raise
the money to carry on the work sue
cesssfully a strictly Hampshire gilt
sale is scheduled FOR West Liberty
on September 10Th to which each
breeder will ship one animal to be
sold, he to receive fifty per cent of
the price. while the other half goes
for promotion work in connection
with the clubs.
Iowa, up to March S. had received
from the War Department SIS motor
vehicles. OF this equipment 5l2 are
trucks and 81 touring cars and is
Ford ambulances, II G. NJ C. ambu-
lances, Ia tractors, concrete mixers
and considerable quantity of mis-
cellaneous equipment To date 2SS
of the trucks have been distributed to
the various counties and to of the
state institutions where there is con-
siderable road maintenance. OF the
trucks received 2a2 had seen usage
IN various military camps OF the I
used trucks only about 80 have been !
found to be in very poor condition.
the majority of the others requiring
very little repair to put them into |
splendid working condition. 376 OF |
the trucks were absolutely new. and |
many OF them never having been run
at all. The touring cars have all |
seen usage and number of them are .
in first class condition Twenty-nine /
of the touring GERS are Fords which
saw service at Camp Dodge
The condition of Iowa's winter
wheat crop June l was not as good
as year ago. Soil conditions at
seeding time was poor. There was
a lack of sufficient moisture during
the early fall of 1919. There was lit
tie snow cover during the period of
extremely low temperatures about
December TO- Excessive rains this
spring lowered the vitality of the
plant on low and fiat ground. The
on June | was SO per cent.
forecasting a production of $4,000
bushels, compared with 1880 900 blu.
shells last year. The acreage of win
ter wheat this year in Iowa is es-
timated at 431 900 acres. Iowa's
spring wheat acreage this year is on.
ly 50 per cent of last years acreage.
amounting to approximately $4,000
acres. The condition June | was SIS
per cent of normal. forecasting pro.
duction of 6164 900 bushels. compared IA