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WATERLOO DAILY COURIER, WATERLOO, IOWA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929 19 Courier's News for Farmers These Boys and Girls Are National Champs Here are national 4-H club champions crowned at the national livestock show left to right: Helen Haldiman, Monroe, Lipton trophy; Elsie LeBlanc, White Florence Smock, Florida, healthiest girl; Beulah Livingston, Raleigh, S. cotton leadership; Nola McCormick, Kansas, wool dress winner; Marie Sieverson, Brewster, canning judging: Lucille Waring and Beatrice Steffler, garment judging. brook, Dixon, meat judging: Harold Deatline, Indiana, healthiest boy; John Theodore Lorenze, Hitchcock, leadership; Lloyd Breisch and Arthur Schick, Enoch Vigness, Alfred Mueller and Chelsea Pratt of Minnesota, poultry judging. Lower Butterfat Prices Reflected in Closer Culling, Less Purchases Pioneer Association, Hansen Car Jumps Curve Herd in Top 10 in State Test. Ames, Ia.

-Lower prices for butterfat this fall were reflected in the records of Iowa cow testing association members by much closer culling and selling of more cows for beef during October and November than during September and October, the monthly report just issued by the Dairy Extension Service indicates. The report also shows that 100 fewer cows were bought by the association members than were bought in November, 1928. A small percentage of the men have started feeding silage, the November report states, indicating that the regular winter feeding program has not generally started. A total of 1,030 more cows produced 40 pounds or more of butterfat than in the same month last year. The Story county No.

2 association topped the list of high producing herds the past month with an average butterfat yield of 27 pounds and 621 pounds milk. The report states that this association had 20 members feeding alfalfa hay and next to the smallest number of dry cows of the seven high associations. Other associations and their rankare: Polk, second; West Branch, third; O'Brien, fourth: Pioneer, fifth; Mahaska, sixth; and Hardin, seventh. C. Cain, Hartley, owns the highest producing herd for November.

His grade Holsteins produced 47.7 pounds butterfat and 1,161 pounds milk per cow. Other owners of high herds are: Bert Sams, Clarke county, second; C. M. Hoyt, Vinton. third: I.

Hounold, Des Moines, fourth; R. D. Sanford, Anamosa, fifth; Thomas Hansen and Sons, Cedar Falls, sixth; and E. C. Forest Son, Cedar Rapids, seventh.

$9,000 Prizes to Pay Ames Expenses Rose Hill, Strike," the grade Angus steer which won for its 20-year-old owner, Elliott Brown, of near here, the grand championship at the International Livestock show in Chicago last week, was not "home grown." The 949-pound animal which showed more beef perfection than hundreds of choice animals fed by more experienced cattle men, and brought young Brown $9,110 in price and prizes, was purchased from the feedlot of the W. F. Jagner farm near Eddyville, about 15 miles southwest of here. However, it was the months of care and feeding given it by Elliott that produced the sleek and well conditioned steer that copped the nation's highest honors. Long after its slaughter, what are expensive beefsteaks and roasts to some will mean a full college course to young Brown.

He plans to enroll at Iowa State college next fall, to learn more about scientific feeding, farming and other things. Prize Ham Proves Treat for Friends Conrad. Coulter, Conrad, whose 300-pound Chester White barrow was grand champion of the largest market pig club class ever shown at the Grundy county fair. entertained friends and relatives with a rare treat Sunday. The champion barrow, like all fat stock champions, was destined for the block and was consigned to a packing plant at Austin, where it was bought on the dressing percentage basis.

In watching his hog go thru the plant Floyd decided that he wanted one of the hams. The ham WAS smoked by the packing plant and cured, and sent to him here. The 20-pound ham did not last long before the onslaught of friends, neighbors and relatives. Several members of the judging team, County Agent W. Plager and wife and Miss Frieda Carpenter, home demonstration agent, were among those invited.

THREE COUNTY AGENTS STILL AT FIRST POST Ames, Ia. -With the coming of Lee Nutty, county agent of Hancock county. to the extension service as district agent, only three of the original county agents are in the same location where they started work when farm bureaus were organized in their counties. Mr. Nutty assumed his new duties here Dec.

1. His district will include the 20 counties in the southwestern corner of Iowa. The three agents now remaining in the places where they startd work are Ray Laflin, Newton; A. J. Secor, Keosauqua, and D.

H. Zentmire, Marengo. Presbyterians at Independence Pay Honor to Pioneers Seventy- Fifth Anniversary of Parish Founding Is Observed. (Courier Service) Special Independence, Ia. Residents of this community affiliated with the Presbyterian church commemorated the diamond anniversary of the local parish with a program honoring the pioneer members, particularly Mrs.

E. M. Daniels, who has been enrolled 72 years. Mrs. Daniels has been continuously a member of the church since she WAS admitted into its fellowship.

She was presented a silver vase, engraved with her name and the jubilee date, and filled with chrysanthemum blooms. The gift was proferred by great granddaughter, Maxine Tiffany. Its presentation WaS part of the program in recognition of older members arranged by Mrs. J. F.

Hinkhouse. Former Pastors Preach. Bouquets presented Mrs. John McGill, Miss Fannie Clark and Robert Clark, other longtime members representatives of charterroll families. Rev.

Theodore Morning, D. Colfax, formerly pastor here, and Rev. F. N. Riale, Worcester, preached at Sunday's closing services.

A communion service in the afternoon was conducted with Rev. George W. Brown, now of New York City but formerly pastor here, 111 charge. No Charter Members Surviving. None of the members of the church, organized Dec.

16, 1854, with 16 names on the roll, are living. Rev. Joshua Phelps, Dubuque, was invited to come as pastor. At that time there were no churches of any other denomination here and 9.5 other groups organized some of those enrolled with Presbyterian parish went into the other societies. The society has had only dent pastors, their terms averaging seven and one-half years, Five have gone from its membership for servive in home or foreign mission fields.

Rev. R. V. Gilbert is the present pastor. He has been on duty since Nov.

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BENNETT TIRE BATTERY CO. Willard Distributors Phone 2808 313 W. 5th St. WILLARD SERVICE STATION Genuine Original Equipment 72 COUNTIES SOIL LIST WORK Five Additional Counties Petition to Have Soils Mapped: Buchanan Is Surveyed. Ames, Ia.

-With 72 counties already surveyed and petitions for survey on file from five more counties, the soil survey work of Iowa is rapidly nearing completion, according to Dr. W. H. Stevenson, head of the farm crops and soils department here. Of the 72 surveys made 59 reports are now available.

Counties mapped or partly mapped during the last year included Buchanan, Washington, Guthrie, Poweshiek Hancock. The counties that have applied for the survey are Franklin, Ida, Monroe, Marion and Davis. State. Federal Work. The soil survey which classifles, describes, separates and maps all of the different kinds of soils in the state, has been under way since 1917.

The state co-operates with the United States department of agriculture in the work, the costs being divided among the two. One soils man is provided by the state and one by the federal government to carry on the actual field work. The map shows all primary and secondary roads, farm houses, towns, cemeteries, schools, churches, railroads. streams and identifica- drainage ways. The classification, tion and mapping of the soils is difficult work, and great care must be taken if the accurate information is to be obtained.

The soil surveyor separates the soils on the basis of the top or surface soil, the subsoils, and all of the underlying layers or horizons down to, and including the original material from which the other solls have been derived. Analyze Samples. Soil samples are collected of all the types and mapped, the samples being sent to Ames for analysis. In addtion, samples of the major types found are shipped to Ames and used in greenhouse tests during the winter. All of the information is incorporated in the soil survey report of the county, and is accessible to anyone interested in the counties covered.

A report from Washington indicates that the soils of Howard county and their characteristics are available in bulletin form. Warren county is another county with 3. bulletin on its soil types. FAYETTE BUREAU SENDS DELEGATE TO CHICAGO Fayette, E. Sauerbry, Oelwein, president of the Fayette county Farm bureau, has been selected as a delegate from this county to the annual meeting of the American Farm Bureau federation annual held in Chicago this week.

The executive board in their meeting Saturday felt that the county should be represented and Mr. Sauerbry was chosen as the one to attend. He will make a report of the convention at the annual meeting of the county bureau Monday at Fayette. Willard as $1050 Batteries Man Wanted at Osage Not Found in Cedar Falls (Courier Special Service) Cedar Falls--Robert Lynn, wanted at Osage for defrauding an 1 inn keeper, could not be located here Monday when warrant and request for his arrest were received from Sheriff Arthur Hungerford of Mitchell county. Nathan Enlow, marshal here, received the request.

It was explained Lynn was expected to visit Cedar Falls in his work as a lecturer before high school athletic departments, WED AT NASHUA. Hamilton, R. both of Maand sol City, were married Sunday, Dec. 8, at the Little Brown Church by the Rev. William Kent, pastor.

WATERLOO RESIDENT GIVES BOND AT C. F. IN LIQUOR CASE ECONOMIC FACTS AIDING SALES OF AMERICAN FARMS Market News, Crop Conditions Part of Work of Federal Farm Economist. The better balance between production and market demand in agriculture has occurred coincidently with the more extensive use of the facts and services provided by the expanding organization of the bureau of agricultural economics, says Nils A. Olsen, chief of the bureau, in his report to Secretary Hyde of the department of agriculture upon the work of the bureau in the fiscal year 1929 just made public.

Market Service Extensive. Market news gathered by the bu- reau's 50 offices principal markets: crop reports from hundreds of thousands of producers; shipment reports furnished by railroad agents; storage stocks reported by warehouses and cold storages; the grading and inspection of thousands of cars of fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy, and poultry products; reports from foreign countries on production; analysis of demand and price trends to form the basis for more intelligent planning by producers and market agencies to avoid losses and to enhance returns--all these services of the bureau have been effective factors in improving the economic condition of American agriculture, says the report. A staff of more than 2.000 workers scattered thruout the United States and in several foreign countries form the largest economic fact--gathering agency in the world working for the agricultural industry of any country. Thru the use of economic information, the business of farm production and distribution is gradually bereorganized and redirected. New methods and practices to meet changing economic conditions are being developed more rapidly than ever before.

Nearly 300 economic research projects now under way in the bureau are giving aid in solving many of the complex problems in agricultural marketing. The bureau's market-news service this year was made practically nationwide in scope, by extension of the leased -wire system to more than 10,000 miles and the opening of several new offices in the south and northwest. Needed by Farm Board. The federal farm board has increased the need for economic facts 011 agriculture, and the bureau has broadened its activities upon request of the board and is planning further expansion of its world crop and market reporting agencies. The extension of co-operative activities by the board is creating a further need for the services of the bureau in marketing.

Increasing use of the standard grades for farm commodities, Mr. O1- sen says, is being reflected in better quality of products and correspondingly higher market prices. Use of the bureau's shipping, inspecservice, federal and tion state inspectors certify the quality of products shipped to market, is increasing, says Mr. Olsen. Among the bureau's research projthe mere mention of which inects, dicated the complexity of modern commercial agriculture, are studies of types of farming, large-scale versus small scale farming, power farmoutlook for farm commodiing, ties in the markets of the world.

statistical methods of crop estimating and forecasting, cotton grade and staple estimating, co-operative marketing, direct buying, foreign competition and demand, price, analysis, transportation, credit finance, in farm population, land utilishifts land settlement, and land zation, values. Dairy Barn, 36 by 60 Feet Added to Spring Creek Farm La Porte City, farm building project costing $6,400 is nearing completion on the George Fell farm three and one-half miles northwest of here. A new dairy barn, 36 by 66 feet and costing $4,200 is the major project, The barn is built on a cement foundation, with the Arst floor of hollow tile construction and the remainder of lumber. The barn has steel stanchions and equipment, and will provide room for 18 milch cows. A calf pen and stall room for eight horses is also included.

One end of the barn contains a sealed separator and milk room. The milk can be taken directly from the milking machine to the separator, rather than being carried to the house, and skim milk carried back. The barn loft has room 75 tons of hay. A new cement stave silo, 14 by 40 feet. adjoins the barn.

It has a silo room 14 by 40 feet. The third project on the farm is the new hog house, 24 by 60 feet. It has cement walls extending a foot and a half above the concrete floor. The hog house contains 18 pens, in addition to corn and feed bins. The loft above the hogs holds eight loads of straw.

The hog house is valued at $1,500. Mr. Fell has a herd of 30 Holsteins, and in addition raises many hogs and chickens each year on the 180-acre farm. William Ballheim of La Porte did the building. Chickasaw School Gets High Ranking Des -Bradford school No.

8, Chickasaw county. Monday received the distinction of being the the new state rating "superior first rural school in Towa, to acquire school." it was announced by Miss Agnes Samuelson, state superintendent. The designation is given to schools that have not only met the requirements for a standard school, but have provided additional facilities for making rural schools attractive. Mrs. Lela Martin, the teacher, was trained at Iowa State Teachers college, and holds a state certificate.

(Courter Special Service) Cedar Ukerman, arrested at a residence on North Barstreet in Waterloo by Road Patrolman Harry Mason and ConJ. E. Rainbow, waived hearing justice court this morning when charged with illegal possession. Appearance bond of $250 was provided. NASHUA HOUSE SOLD.

Nashua, Mrs. residence in the south Susie: Crosse which she recently traded to Ira. Ingram of Greene for an apartment house in Waterloo, to which place she moved a few weeks ago, has been sold to Charles Schalloch, farmer living southwest of Nashua, consideration being $2,500. Mr. Schalloch will move his family to town in the near future.

in Chicago. Rear row, Castle, bread judge; dress; Lois Bailey, Eugene, Minnesota, and Nadine Front row: Tryon RosPatric, Lipton trophy; Illinois, meat judging; La Porte, Reinbeck Report Stock Loss Infectious diseases of livestock caused losses on eastern Iowa farms near the following localities during the past two weeks according to reports from veterinary practitioners received by the Eastern Iowa Veterinary association: Hog cholera: Barnes City, Ryan, Atkins, Reinbeck, Moscow, Preston, Spragueville, Lost Nation, Sharon, Keystone. Flu in swine: Wilton Junction, Keystone, Lansing, Elgin, Lost Nation. Algona, Green Island, Maquoketa, Cascade, Lowden, Marshalltown, Sigourney. Pulmonary infection of swine: Anamosa.

Pulmonary dedema of cattle: Tipton, Bennett, Lost Nation. Blackleg of young cattle: Frytown. La Porte City, Ainsworth, Wellman. Infectious abortion of cattle: Anamosa, La Porte City, Cedar Rapids, Worthington, Cascade, Monticello, Ryan, Ainsworth, Washington, Durant. Hemorrhagic septicemia in cattle: Waukon, Elgin, Lost Nation, Earlville, La Porte City, Monticello, Cascade, Worthington.

Fowl cholera of chickens: Frytown, Lowden. Roup of chickens: Cedar Rapids, Ely, Lost Nation, Lowden, Marshalltown. La Porte City. Tama Farm Bureau Names Nominations Toledo, for offcers of the Tama county Farm bureau, which will be voted upon this month, were made last week by' a committee consisting of H. H.

Lichty, Toledo; W. Wilson, Traer and Charles Gary, Montour. Nominations for president are H. P. DauSchmidt, Reinbeck; Robert Lyon, Toledo, and J.

E. Gray, Chelsea: for vice president, William Blazek. Tama; Julius Bunne, Gladbrook, and R. K. Stoddard, Gilman; for secretary, Charles Brandt, Toledo; Ed Dinsdale, Traer, and Harry Seydel, Gladbrook: for treasurer, F.

F. Cole. Gladbrook; L. C. Davis, Tama, and William Kroeger, Traer.

Lebert. Morrison, for Fleming, Traer, Traer, and were Mrs. the nominations the county chairmanship of women's work. $340 High Bid on Oelwein Holsteins Oelweln, O. Larsen, Dike, was purchaser of the high Holstein cow at the dispersal sale Friday of Edith and B.

H. Hanson. Two top bid was $340. Paul Stewart, Maynard, was second high bidder, paying $210 each for two cows. Two heifers brought $155 each.

Ray Wheeler, Strawberry Point, took a number of head, ranging from $155 to $190. In the regular farm sale a large sorrel team brought $395, and another work horse brought $162.50. White Rock sold for $1.10 each and pullets $1.22. Hay sold for $11 a ton, oats 47 a bushel and barley 66 cents a bushel. INDEPENDENCE MAN ILL.

Independence, R. Randall, an oldtime resident of this city, 1s seriously ill. He has been in failing health several years, but up to a few weeks ago was able to be up and about. CLOSING OUT SALE As I am quitting farming I will hold A closing out sale on the Ensign Farm. mile north of New Hartford.

commencing at 10 o'clock on Thursday, Dec. 12 10 HEAD HORSES Some extra good ones. 30 Head High Grade Holstein Cattle 50 Spotted Hogs Full Line of Farm Machinery Harnesses, two sets brand new. 900 bu. corn, 12 tons tame hay, ensilage and numerous articles.

HARM VIEL, Prop. Clyde Garner, Auct. New Hartford Savings Bank, Clerk WATERLOO HOTEL RUSSELL-LAMSON Hours 8 A. M. to 8 P.

M. Saturday, December 14th, 366th Visit Returns Every 28 Days. DR. WILBERT SHALLENBERGER Specialist CONSULTATION FREE Address Letters to--Wilbert Shallenberger, M. D.

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on Clayton Hill, Killing One Man J. C. Balluff of Strawberry Point Victim; Driver Is Unhurt. (Courier Special Service) Elkader, Ia. ---J, C.

Balluff waS killed outright, a companion escaping practically unhurt, when their automobile swung off a curve on Tinker hill, seven miles north of Strawberry Point, Monday night and toppled over a 25-foot bank. A verdict of accidental death was returned by the coroner's jury called soon after the tragedy, Balluff was riding in the automobile of L. C. Emerson. Both resided in Strawberry Point and were returning there after attending a horse sale at Elkader.

The accident happened about 10 p. m. The hill is steep, there was a fog and the sleety condition of the highway aggravated driving difficulties. There is no guard rail on the highway at that point. Balluff had charge of road work for Cass township, Clayton county.

He is survived by his widow and two children. World Farm Census to Be Taken by 70 Countries for 1930 The whole world is now ready for the first general census of agriculture, undertaken under the auspices of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, according to Leon M. Estabrook, agricultural commissioner of the bureau of agriculthe institute during the five tural economics, who was loaned, to years to organize this census. Two countries, Switzerland and Dahomey, have already completed enumeration of the area and production of crops harvested in 1929 and the numbers of different kinds of livestock and other agricultural data AS of the end of the year. In all, promises of co-operation by responsible government officials have been obtained for countries and their dependencies comprising more than 97 per cent of the land surface, 98 per cent of the population, and 99 per cent of the total agricultural and livestock production of the world.

Definite preparation for taking their censuses early in 1930 are reported by 70 countries, including the principal agricultural countries of the world and about 100 other countries have censomised to participate in the they have not yet reported what action has been taken to insure the taking of the census, Mr. Estabrook states upon his return to Washington after completing the preliminary work of organizing the census in the course which he visited the capital citles, departments of agriculture, statistical, stations, bureaus, and the agricultural botanical experi- gardens of practically all countries of the world. The success of the world agricultural census now depends on the various governments which have promised co-operation in this great undertaking. The results of this first world- wide census of agriculture will begin to be available in the winter of 1930. It is planned by the International Institute of Agriculture and the League of Nations that the world agricultural census shall be repeated every 10 years.

MANCHESTER ICE BOUND. (Courier Special Service) Manchester, Ia. -Rain, turning to ice as it fell, Monday, caused the streets of this locality to become a glare of ice and made navigating hazardous. No serious accidents were reported, altho motor cars and pedestrians cut many capers in reaching their destination. FARM UNION DINNER.

Raymond, Ia. -The Farm Union will have an oyster dinner at 12 o'clock Wednesday, Dec, 11. Is It Your Problem -or Ours? Suppose the Stock Fire Insurance companies had not fostered fire prevention. What then would have been America's record of loss by fire? Frightful enough it is -in spite of the efforts of the Stock Fire Insurance companies, working through the National Board of Fire Underwriters and its departments of Building Construction, Public Fire Protection, Engineering, the Arson Bureau, Underwriters' Laboratories, and other sources and avenues of activity. The reduction of the fire waste or the loss of life by fire was not primarily an insurance problem.

Insurance companies must charge for insurance on a basis sufficient to cover losses and operating expenses, regardless of how great the losses may be. Therefore--viewing the situation from their selfish interests only--they need be no more concerned than are other industries in working toward a reduction of the fire waste. For the Public Welfare However, for the welfare of the country a8 a whole the 239 Stock Fire Insurance companies, members of the National Board, voluntarily undertook the task of heading up the forces opposed to the destruction of life and property by fire. The results have been encouraging. People are building better.

Obvious hazards are being removed. But there is pressing need for further improvement. Future progress in this work depends largely upon the degree of co-operation extended by you and others in the use of available safety devices and measures, and in the elimination of the many known hazards which continue to threaten life and property. Inquiries relating to this movement and to the various services provided for its extension are invited. CONSERVATION AGAINST LOSS BY PRE THE NATIONAL BOARD OF FIRE UNDERWRITERS 85 John Street, New York A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF STOCK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES ESTABLISHED IN 1866.