Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1920-04-15

Three hundred delegates will at
tend the Iowa State Congregational
Church conference in Iowa City May
1925.
R. H. McDuff, we'll known Duroc
hog breeder of Monroe county has
sold more than 100000 worth of hogs
during the past year.
R. G. McDuff of Monroe disposed
of his famous Duroc boar, Royal Path
finder for $4,000 He also sold ten
sows for $4,000
The sale of The Yankee 2-year-old
Poland China boar, to w. H. ELS
worth of Goldfield for $4,000, is the
biggest price ever paid in the Unit
ed States for hog.
Four new cottage dormitories for
women will be erected on the Iowa
State College campus to relieve the
congested housing conditions in Ames.
These cottages will house 200 girls.
Work on the new armory is progress
ing.
One OF the largest single sales of
land in Iowa during the past year was
that of the ]. C. Phillips farm of 500
acres, bordering Wayne and Appa-
moose counties, at $4,000. This
farm is mostly unimproved land. Be
sides this, a 290 acre farm near Hume
:ston, in Wayne county, sold for $92,-
GOO or $317.25 an acre.
The federal government will rent
what was the state home for inebri-
Sates at Knoxville, and turn the insti.
sutton into an army recuperation hos
pital accommodating $50 soldiers. The
Pental will be $500 monthly. At the
next session, the Legislature will con.
slider the governments offer to buy
the home and 400 acres for approx
mately $4,000.
The number of Iowa farms that
changed hands recently is given as
10000, or about 200 to the county.
The defaults that were anticipated,
at need not be restated, were not
many. The land that was sold at
boom prices must have been we'll sold
after all. The men who bought it
do not seem to be afraid to hold it
at the prices they agreed to pay.
j. B. Currie of Mt. Ayr reports that
mis- flock of 20 pullets laid 3O3 eggs
in December, AT in January, and 4O1
in February, making a. total of ISL
eggs, or 57R per cent per hen. The
average hen Of Iowa, lays less than
20 eggs year. Mr.. Currie's pullets
IN three winter months laid more than
four-fifths as many eggs as the aver
age Iowa hen does in IL months.
uowa's pig crop comes largely dur
ing March and April. The great loss
from standpoint of numbers occurs
during these months. Some springs
see greater losses than others, for the
kind of weather experienced is vital
factor one way of another. Last |
month has been severe one as re.
CARDS health in little pigs, and there
are reports of losses by the weather
Bishop Matthew Simpson Hughes
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
who died in Cleveland. began his min
isterial career in the Iowa conference
of which is father was a charter
member. lie held several small
charges in southeastern iowa before
being called to Portland, Me. At the
time OF his death he was considered
the foremost pulpit orator : in the
Methodist episcopacy.
Farmers in Marion county are be-
coming interested in tractors and a
blowing contest has been arranged
in which IL makes Of tractors are en-
tered. The contest will be held as
soon as ground conditions warrant
The contest will be conducted on the
basis Of o-t,y in blowing economy
I'm fue2, sp2r J, and work accomplish
ed. Very few tractors are owned in
Marion county.
The call" to the Iowa Business
congress, to be held in Des Moines
April l4-16, went out to Farmers bust
ness men, newspapermen and bank
'ers all over Iowa, and over twenty
five replies have been received from
iowa towns with assurance that their
writers would be present for the con-
gress. Many of those who attend
will be accompanied by their wives,
and the majority will remain for the
entire three days of the congress.
Waterloo's population is 5000, ac-
cording to figures issued from the Of
flee of the federal supervisor of cen
sus, Washington. This is an increase
of 1857 during the 10-year period
since 1910, or 35.7 per cent. The
city's growth during the 10 years
which closed with the taking of the
census at the beginning of the year
1920, is gratifying. 1t represents a
steady and substantial increase in
population, the per centage being con-
siderably above the average of the
cities Of Iowa, so far reported.
Declaring in their resolutions that
<'49 hours of work week will neither
feed nor clothe the world" the Mills
County Farm Bureau met and passed