The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-25

The American peony show will be
held In Des Moines week OF June Is.
Peony growers from over the state
will attend.
Plans for the third annual bible
conference at Riverview park in Ce-
dar Falls the Hrst week In August are
being perfected.
Laurens and Charles City are the
latest Iowa towns to have COW test
ing associations added to their list Of
community organizations.
The Black Hawk county corn yield
contest fill be staged again this year,
according to an announcement by A.
A. Burger, farm bureau agent.
Mayor A. G. Conway has reiterat-
ed his declaration of a year ago that
the celebration of the Fourth Of July
In Marshalltown this year must be
safe and sane.
"CitiEenship ia the May topic for
rural organisations in Iowa, helps for
which have been developed by the
rural organization section, extension
service, Iswa State College.
A certificate of merit to the Iowa
high school student winning state
honors in the annual COED roads es-
say contest will be awarded by the
Highway Education Board.
Sweet clover is coming to be a
popular pasture crop in many sections
Of the state and especially In western
Iswa, where sweet clover is grown
more than any other pasture crsI.
A contract for 7O0,sss pairs sf au-
tsmobile license plates for 1s7s has
been let by the executive council at
cost of six and four-fifths cents Per
plate. totsling approximately $500.
An enrellnent of LOO delegates
from Marshall county alone will be
sought by the executive committee
for the State Sunday school conven-
ton at Marshalltown May 9Th, 7th and
Sth.
There are fewer tax deliRquents
this year than usual, despite the talk
Of hard times among farmers. Fully
80 per cent of the first half Of the
years taxes we're paid before taxes
became delinquent.
A certificate of incorporation has
been granted by Secretary Of State
Walter Ramsay to the Iowa Ku Klux
Khan which makes the organization
responsible for its acts; 1t can sue In
the courts or be sued.
Orchard spraying for Iowa." ex-
tention bulletin lis, is the latest addi-
ton to the long list of popular IN
formative writings which are sent free
to Iowans who write to the bulletin
section, Iowa State College, Ames.
1t should be a matter Of pride in
this state that Iowa is a pioneer IN
the state park movement. Thirteen
state parks already have been estab-
lished in Iowa and formal plans have
been made for several additional
parks.
The Retail Merchants Bureau Of
Des Moines Is endeavoring to secure
the establishment in schools of a
course of training in retail salesman
ship. Just recently a course In real
estate training was instituted at the
State University of Iowa.
An outdoor religious pageant to be
held at the State fair grounds early
in the fall will be staged this year
by the Polk County Sunday School
Council of Religious Education In
-
held for the last two years.
With the opening of spring farm
work employment conditions in Iowa
have shown slight gains according to
a report issued by the United States
Department of Labor. Gains were al
SO registered in leading industries in
the state with Indications of great
er improvements during the coming
months, the report says.
The ruling 0 Judge Fuller in dis
trict court in Adams county, concern
ing the validity OF the Iowa county tu-
berculosis testing law, has created
much interest and discussion in the
farming districts OF Iowa. Judge Full
Ter held that II is illegal for the coun-
ty board of supervisors to levy the
tax necessary to have T. B. testing
done unless the question has first been
submitted to a vote OF the county.
Hundreds Of Iowa farmers have
tried the plan Of planting ssybeans
with their corn and then begging
down, thus furnishing a COED hog pas
ture and replenishing those factors In
the soil which corn growing tends to
exhaust. A large number Of the far
mers now use this system. The Iowa
Agricultural Experiment Station is
furnishing one bushel Of Mapchu seed
to farmers who wish to try the ex-
pertinent this year.
All legume crops, such as sweet
clover, alfalfa and soybeans. require
certain bacteria in the soil to grow
properly and improve the soil, accord
ing to F. G.. Churchill, extension farm
crops specialist In Iowa the best
proposition Is to inoculate alfalfa,
sweet clover or soybeans when they
are being grown on ground for the
first time.
Iowa has more telephones than
France. The Bell Telephone Com