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

Ottumwa will have new 100000
high school building. A proposition
to issue bonds for new school house
carried in a recent election by ma
jority of 2,061 votes.
Five acres Of pop corn raised by W.
A. Middleton, we'll known farmer of
Ringgold county, brought the owner
s5,375. He raised 215 bushels to the
pound for it.
William Clark, poultry buyer Of
Waukon, reports this year one of the
largest turkey seasons he has known.
He sent out a carload of dressed tur-
keys recently and has another ready
for shipment. He has paid out $685.
999 for poultry and eggs this year.
No county in the state has advanc-
ed SO far with tuberculosis eradication
work as has Kossuth. There are at
present in the county "a herds which
are signed to be tested. OF this num-
Der So have already been tested, with
a total of 24G0 head of cattle. OF
this number 6.5 per cent have reacted.
James Timbln, farmer living
near Battle Creek. Ida county, says
that the run of feed lambs out of
Iowa corn fields and feed lots has
been as heavy as rail traffic would
permit for the last month. About 80
per cent of the lambs placed on Iowa
farms this fall have already been re-
turned to market.
Madison county has most sue
cessful shipping association at Earl
ham, with the prospects of several
more in the county in the near fu-
ture. Preliminary steps have been
taken to form such organizations at
two points, besides Winterset, where
steering committee was appointed
to look after the work some months
ago.
Iowa farmers will be given chance
to demonstrate their ability in cut
ting and curing meats at the Ham and
Bacon Show which will be held at
Iowa State College during the Farm
and Home Week Short Course, Feb
ruary 9 to IA. The entries will con-
sist Of ham. bacon, shoulder and
sausage. Cash premiums amounting
to $3.50 have been offered by the Iowa
State Board of Agriculture, for the
winner.
The public pretty we'll knows by
This time what the farmers of Iowa
did toward winning the war by their
crop and live stock production acti-
vities in 1917 and 1913 The results
of their 1919 operations are summar.
tied in the annual report of David F.
Houstan, Secretary of Agriculture.
They would have planted, he says,
the largest acreage in the nations
history If fighting had continued and
the season had been favorable.
Forty head of pure bred ewes were
distributed to 20 boys and three
girls. These ewes will be sold at
public sale this winter. Fifty dol
lars was given in premiums by the
Henry County Fair Association for
lambs exhibited and $35 was raised
among the merchants Of Mt. Pleas
ant for wool exhibit Boys and girls
OF the club showed IA feeces, the
feeces being afterward sod to local
buyer for 60 cents per pound.
All records for the production of
butter by a single COW are believed
to have been broken by the register
ed yearling Lulu Alphea of Ashburn.
She produced 1869 pounds of milk,
from which 1000 pounds of butter
we're made, in the year ending Nov.
l. The butter produced is 100
pounds more than the cows weight.
and is said to be five times the nor
NAL production. The milk tested at
5.S5 per cent butter fat. j. ]. Van
Kleck is the owner Of the town.
Mrs. M. A. Colipriest, a woman fif-
ty-two years Of age, is one of the
most successful farmers in the state.
Mrs. Colipriest is farming half
section Of land known as the Bevan
farm, near Estherville. She has had
200 acres in crop the past year, has
plowed as many acres and milked as
many COWS as any hired man. She
has SO head Of cattle to look after,
O0o1uCS ~ AO6S anu "a COWS. IL
takes IA head of horses to run her
farm.
Word has been received at Rose
mere farm, which produced Idolmere,
the grand champion and first individ-
ual at the recent International Stock
show in Chicago, that the famous
bull was burned to death in fire
which destroyed a train on which the
animal was being taken to the home
farm. The animal was the finest bull
in the United States and was sold
by Otto v. Battles of Maquoketa to
an Illinois man. who in turn sold him
to Higgins who owned him at the
time of his death. He was valued at
$4,000 and it was not stated how
much of the loss was covered by in
surance.
All of the 1,l19,215 pounds OF wool
that was consigned to the Iowa Fleece
Wool Growers Association has been
sold. The coarse woods which remain
ed unsold for considerable time ow-