The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-03-03
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CARNATIONS throughout the United
States.
ianapolis.-Governor McCray has
| reappOinted John l.. Norman, Of
Knox. TO the board of trustees of the
State Prison and Mrs. Nevada NJ.
| Duncan. of Cloverdale, to the board
OF trustees of the State Sanatorium.
Mrs. Duncan is the wife of Estes
Duncan, state senator, who now is
secretary of the board of trustees of
the state teachers pension fund.
Indianapolis for the state
convention OF the Indiana League OF
Women Voters were made at the Feb
ruary meeting of the board Of di-
rectors at Indianapolis The dates
were changed To May g. 10 and IL.
Ii will be held at Terre Haute. A
meeting OF the board of directors
Tuesday afternoon, May 3. will pre-
ming, when national speakers will be
present.
afayette.-Indiana ranks twelfth in
total number Of cattle and tenth in
purebred registered dairy cattle in
the United States There are 946.-
401 dairy cattle in Indiana, Of which
727 900 are of milking age. There are
21.115 purebred registered dairy
cattle, or 2.33 per cent of all dairy cat
tie in the state In the north central
states. including Ohio, Indiana, Hi
nOis. Michigan and Wisconsin there are
2S9, s59 purebred registered dairy cat
tie, which is 90 per cent of the total
number of dairy cattle listed.
Connersville.-Asser that the fl
nancial situation i'm the United States
| does not Justify at present the giving
of a bonus TO former soldiers of the
World war, the Fayette county farm
bureau adopted a resolution oppos-
ing the plan. The action was taken
at a county conference in Connersville
OF the officials Of all township units
and they also advised a 80 per cent
reduction in the appraised valuation
Of farm land and expressed deter
in taxes.
Indianapolis.-Deve of agri-
cultural interests in southern Indiana
will be discussed at q conference of
farmers of five counties with Governor
McCray and representatives of Pur-
due university at Huntingburg, Feb
ruary 2S. Farmers from Crawford.
Perry, Wardick, Dubois and Pike coun-
ties will attend the meeting. The gov
ernor has asked the advisory com
mittee of the Purdue experiment sta
tion to give special attention 10 the
needs of farmers in southern Indiana.
Development of the poultry and dairy
interests will be discussed at the meet
ing. \ proposal for the university to
establish model farms in the district
will also be considered.
Petersburg.-Ideal Sugar water
weather has caused a number Of
camps in Pike county TO open. This
seasons output is expected TO be much
larger than last years run. A camp,
three miles west of Petersburg. has
been operating for some time, and the
run has already exceeded last years
output. Farmers are still holding
their wheat and corn. Many farmers
now believe wheat will advance to
ST. 30 a bushel by April 1. Little corn
is being sold, and then only 10 feeders
who are paying from cents TO 10
cents more a bushel than the market
price. The corn cribs in Pike county
are full of corn and nearly all farmers
have engaged in stock raising and are
feeding their surplus corn. Carloads
of cattle and feeding hogs are being
shipped to this county, and there are
more feeding cattle and hogs In Pike
county now then in years.
Lafayette.-Seventeen Indiana dairy
men have herds which qualified for
cording TO announcement made by f.
A. Cannon. OF the dairy extension
staff of Purdue university, who has
charge of the COW testing association
work. OF the Il, four won gold med
ais for having seven or more cows
which produced 800 pounds Of butter
fat or more during the pear; three won
silver medals for a herd of eight or
more in the 40O-pound class, and ten
won the bronze medals with ten or more
cows each producing more than 800
pounds each. For the second year.
the GoSsard breeding estates, Martins
Vile, was in the 5OO-pound class. or
among the gold medal winners. with
Il head Of Ayrshires. AT Purdue
university, l. head of the herd COM
posed of the four leading dairy breeds
jumped from 400 10 the 5O0pound
class ]. ~ Driscol. Liberty. had seven
Jerseys in the gold medal list and c.
NJ Bottema < Sons. indianapolis. had
nine of their Holsteins above the 500
mark. The silver medal winners. or
4OO-pound herds. were Morgan Bros.
Chesterton. with Is Holsteins; Dan
Haxton, Hobart, ten Holsteins. and
J. F. McCulloch. Charlestown, eight
Jerseys.
Indianapolis.-The right of the state
to issue mortgage against property
OF which IL Is trustee will have 10
be decided in court in order 70 de-
termine whether the S1,0O0,0O0 bond
Issue ~ rho state hoord Of aUrfculfrlrs