Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-02-19


ware county organized the first far
mers' institute held in Iowa in 1875.
Miss Clara Suffer, home demonstra-
ton agent of Black Hawk county
spoke on poultry. The program was
very interesting and instructive
The city council Of Belle PLANE
has bought first class fire equipment
in an effort to safeguard the prop
erty owner from loss by fire. The
purchase includes 800 feet of bi-later-
al hose with new controlling nozzle.
This added to the present apparatus
for fighting fires, gives the city
plenty of equipment.
That skunks will eat bees is the
testimony of E. l.. Denslow of Black
Hawk county. He came upon one
in the act of moving his hives enough
to bring out the bees. and when they
came out the skunk ate them. Den
slow fired at the animal but missed.
Later the skunk came back and re-
peated the performance, again get
ting away.
w. H. Lower has sold his farm Of
109 acres to Seymour Grimes for $40,-
900 averaging 1867 an acre. which
is the highest, price an acre paid for
any farm in Fayette county except
small acreage tracts. Mr.. Lower
bought the place thirty years ago for
sc, 900, and so on the advance OF $34,
900 made $1,100 year by the In
IN, NJ 1on
ing that time.
A credit balance Of $1,207.92 is
shown above the expense necessary to
run the Sac county farm the past
year. The invoice lists a 100 acre
farm with Improvements, valued at
| $4,000, or $40 an acre. In addition
there is 1000 bushels Of corn, 500
bushels of oats, 16 brood sows, Ill
head hogs, "a ewes, besides much
other stock, the entire inventory to-
falling $41.02035.
The sugar factory at Mason City
has closed for the season, but fifty
men are being retained to work on a
remodeling job in the plant. 12,000.-
900 pounds of sugar was made this
season as against 100000 last year
The deficiency is said to be the re-
suit of poorer quality Of beets this
year. During the operating season
500 persons We're employed. Two
| shifts of twelve hours each were re-
| quired to turn out the sugar this year.
Ben Pringle, we'll known Floyd
| county farmer, gave out some inter.
esting figures to County Agent Dick.
inson recently on the cost Of feeding
| his hogs. Mr.. Pringle said: During
the feeding period of my hogs now
on feed, the hogs gained 1850 lbs
They consumed 70 bushels of corn
at 81 bushel early in the fall, and
$50 pounds of tankage, costing 55c
per. pound. This makes the cost OF
] gain on these hogs So per hundred
4 Can you beat it? The tankage was
4 81 per cent by weight Of the amount
/, Of the corn fed"
Il That hog flu" is caused by poor
housing conditions rather than by any
specific germ is the opinion of K. w.
Stouder, extension professor of vet
Urinary medicine at Iowa State Col
lege. When farm animals get sick
people make great effort to find
some disease and overlook ordinary
sanitary precautions that would pre-
vent the trouble.
1 Live stock shipping associations,
organized over Monona county in the
past few months. are prospecting The
Blencoe organization has shipped
two cars of stock A general meet
ing and program was held recently
and a good attendance was had. The
Onawa association is leading with
from two to four cars a week. The
Turin association also is doing well
Farmers in the vicinity of Soldier
L are organizing.
Rex Beresford and w. H. Lapp, in
structors sent out thru the state by
the extension department of Iowa
State college, Ames, who are engag
ed in short course work in Black
Hawk county were in Cedar Falls re
Gently. These instructors repor'
great interest on the part of. farmer.
of the state. Many indicate desire
to profit by the experiments of the
agricultural department of Iowa Stat
college and are adopting the sugges
tons put out as fast as they COM
TO them.
Word has been received in Boon
of the death in Long Beach, Calf
of Rev w. D. Weaver, former resi-
dent of Boone Mr.. Weaver live
there for about seven years befor
moving to California and was paste
of several Baptist churches in variou
! parts of the state, at Ames, Newton
= Fort Dodge, Webster City, where h
was ordained, Comanche and othe
Iowa cities He served turnout Tn
Civil war with the 125th Illinois vo
unteers and was educated at Shur
left College, Alton.
Countv Apent Dick in SON raDDrt