The Cedar Rapids Republican from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • Page 20

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1926 NEWS AND VIEWS OE THE FARMERS Now of thin department ti FARMING BHliKDINl! FARM BURUAU VfaiJ hv nj. HUwus BOYS' AND GIRLS' WORK FRED MILLER PAYS $90 FOR TOP POLAND SOW AT McCORMICK'S SALE lebate for Tama Farmers TIPTON BOYS TEST 15,760 EARS OF CORN Affirmative Argument Institute, Team Wins at Keystone Friday Night CREAMERY TO SCORE CREAM AT GARRISON 36 Poland China Sows Sell for Average Price of $60.50 at Mechanicsville pH SSSB Farm Bureau to Make Paul M. Smith ot County nd Sitl DjOs Dirt Farmer and cturr Giv Talk at Meetin H. F. McCally, Marion, Pays $152.50 for Top Spotted Poland China Gilt Sold at Weiler and Son Sale, Ryan EfM LLwHLLl With the oftici rs directors jjR HmbbbbI vne buienu planning to ntnke cowjwed A.

kxh a laBk Ijjl th0 WIUl thc WXiSL Sl Hl i thc testing the dekve the rrvH NMf i nVfht p.iiSttu ot the Keyte Fjnr which oW Ivttxshi, The ne.Mlie ot the quelkwi was upheki Rov Jvhttcheit MECHANICSVILLE, Feb. 27. (Speal). Thirty six head of Poland China bred sows sold for the average price of $60 50 a head during the annual sale of C. A.

McCormick, Mechanicsville, Friday. The first 20 head of Polands which were sold went at the average price of $70 a head. The average was the highest of any sale which r3r iirr corn BELT FARMER was held FrldiP. in Mlte of tho tu ut ttitr.mtf eKi.l. Tru Kr.srsofr.

Photo Jw Studio at GrinneU. tron seed corn bud loads The winner OX th nesv Harmon sl.n.: thai I' roush TOl.t:iK Fb St AUhoush tho Tama 1 arm bureau debat rar, and iviurh t.sted hlrii ns contc will be announced tonight Northern States NOW thv would U.iui tnt t. i' 'K Muscatine Lountj team bv the judges' 9, per oent stron Cnb corn which imring Fndav pro Have Most of Na TuXlZ ZfXSSZ coumy or'jono, tlOn's HogS frequently. Jkecp.nB ht 1 MtUn. Tama C.

MaeKelhlnnej Dysart, and hi.h 60 cet strong efspi WASHINGTON. Feb. 27 (Spe ummcCr.nTdinV of The botesT tTrn on the bv the mionc band clal) Marked decreases In hog silage just prewoiii, to milking and farmers' farms The boys are Sss TV "ssrsxra'sr FARMERS OF GRANT or ssr rs, Sn.rted3 of March to acqua.nt patrons of 1 Advises Panr equipment to the farm, start the as ssjissst msts: farm bureau MEET! p77n s.svssr Md complied by the department of rk can be started in April. I fllllfl UUHL.ni! IflLiU I Each directorjr tQwn Fied Miller, Lisbon, paid $90 for thc top priced sow at the sale. About 100 bidders were present Thc following breeders bought the first 30 head that were sold the aveiage for the first 30 head being.

F. A Stores, $87. 50 and $85, I. J. Dyas, Belview, $65, Blackford, Oskaloosa, $75; r.

Moffit, Tipton. Fred Miller, and $'90; Wilbur Lutts, Stan wood, $60, Harlan Rigbe, Mechanicsville, $62 50; Glen Grank of Illinois, $85, John Wakner, Washington, la $80; John Grig. $77 50, Virgil Cole, Mechanicsville, $62.50 and James Robinson, Brandon, $62 50; Edward Penmngroth, Tipton, $65 and $57 50; Harm an Merr, Wheatland, Lee Carl, Tipton, $65 and $60; Mont Hering, Mechanicsville, $50 and $52, Fred McShane Marion, $60 and J. C. Moffit, Tipton, $50 rwo men lrom tne lowa ex CLERMONT, Feb.

27. ship in the county is co operating Members Gather at Jt ZrTTuL fl oLTy. fi ulc Hmi Hairrhilrl Hnmp Iar 1862 as it is now. ac 1 1 expect to learn the actual condi L.u7hArti coding to an o.d newspaper, p0Jnts. Twentj f.ve members of the trtlci found hnh Grant TownshiD Farm bureau at I Twenty five members of the Grant Township Farm bureau at tended a meeting of the organiza tlon at the Harry Fairchild home serious, the price of whisky ThurS(j I was onlv around 27 cents, re I ports one copy of the Mer I i at the Harry Fairchild home, Miss ari.e uampoeii chants' Exchange Price Cur health nurse, spoke.

Mrs. John I rent and Tletd liss Cari.e Campbell public health nurse, spoke. Mrs. horses and mules at the time I the paper was printed Mules 90, cavalry horses I an artillery horses I I scarce as is reported to be the I case now they sold for 25 I cents a bushel then. II Hwre, tVs vttsl groups of states.

4. than beforo. is the source of the) is hog supply, the department I points out. The hog supply in the nortn central states, wmch belt, was 37.923.000 head1 head on Jan. 1 1920.

The peak was reached in this area on Jan. 1 1923 48.OS0.000 head. the highest on record. hogs for tryis a whole is placetfat 51.223,000 head on Jan. 1 this year, compared 1920.

The peak period was 68,447 000 head on Jan. 1928. Farmers of Whittier Club to Hear Debate WHITTIER. Feb. 27 (Special) Members of the Whittier com munis club will hear two debates during their regiilar monthly meeting here.

March 14. "Resolved that capital punish ment should be abolished." wrill be debated by Alfred Stanley and Lewis Taber on the affirmative and Daniel Hampton and John "Wil lis on the negative 'Resolved that house cleaning debated by Henry Hood ar Ralph Cornthwaite on the atnrn ative and Floyd Hampton and Fred Wild on the "negative. Miss Arline Pine will give a reading. Guernsey Sale we w31 sell to the highest bid Homer Daker farm. 1 miles Ft LURCH SONS, Omers THEO.

W. HWiilWrt. Clerk Th nw nf'im nt1 UeThSorrkLh slates, and the north States 0 head POTATO GROWERS INCREASE ACREAGE WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. Spe i dal) with unusuaJly high pnees for seed potatoes many growers will not consider increasing their potato acreage but will their efforts towards increased acre yields through good seed bed preparation, heavier fertillzat and" more adequate pi the crop from insects and dis "If history repeats itself, and potato prices remain at a fairly High, lei el during the wratei will be an abnormal interest potato ra sing next spring, Professor R.

F. Taber. agricultural Di month If bulletin of the Ohio Experiment "If the usual happens, they will oe well planted, well fertilized, and 11 cared for. The farmer's best policy in the potato business, unless he be gifted with unusual speculate instinct, is to plant about the same acreage year after year and give them good care and Te great interest in potato growths this season is indicated by tie zt sac the soil improvement cnirrte tie National Ferti xsc.u2ar; has found it zss 5zv printed more ifes cf a booklet en Potatoes." Coun 3nr i to obtain in tD9t at helping to rr Sii jzx5. i2Z.

possible acre Dispersion Public zanz tct of dairying, a the tirrn fCBrrnCL. 1, be 7 Patrons to Mold Mgin in March 'The suggestio lendations and stated Harrison. ith the creamery does intend to pay any difference adopted the plan to encourage pa which ill allow the cream Iris Is Ideal Plant for Flower Gardens the busv man or woman a better plant than the ins can hardly be chosen, sais B. T. Morrison, hor ticulturist of tha 'bnitea states Department of agriculture, the author of a new publication issued by the department entitled "Garden Irises." The iris is to be had in a anei of colors and forms equaled by few bnrrtv olanls.

Is tolerant of many adverse conditlons. is subject to attacks from few diseases insects, and relatively permanent It readily adapts itself to widely differing environments. ce arieties growing in bogs, along the edges of the desert, some ell with marked ury seasons. au great many flourishing verage conditions of climate TINY GLAND MAKES MEN Get Up Nights oow tiiat a great pcrcen lervooswss. resiless.teis.

frt 5C praiseworthy treatment fwr syaptoas. thi ooc r3rfn y. An OLl TEI.V I No Cold to morrow ifyemmieAe rfffct help tola TJc HfU. ZX asm a a i suggestions for improving the cream will be icturned to each patron I "The suggestions stated on the score card are merely recom MmMta? i wL HHHv AWf jfVWWrm I 1 I I McCormick ever held. GARRISON SHIPPERS SEEK 125 SIGNERS Association Asks Men to Sign Producers' Contracts GARRISON, l.Sl.L No shipments of Inestock will be made by the Garrison Shipping sociation until 135 farmers have signed producers contracts, members decided at a meeting Wednes Eight gioups of faimers were appointed to secure signatures to acts in this territory Thes ire make reports on the oik which will have been done up to that Because farmers, who were hsestock to local buyers instead of the members de cided to have its members sign the stated that the signer will noi sell cept the association of which he is er.

The association will accept stock only from men who TEAM OF MULES SELL FOR $490, WILTON JUNCTION WILTON JUNCTION, Wb 27 (Special) A team of mules sold for $490 during the sale of F. er Horses aerage from $23 143, cows $62.50 to $S2; old i sows, $49 to $53.50, jou trood sows, $35; fall pigs. to $14; calves 18 and corn at cents a bushel The.itotal amount of the sjle was $8,500. LINN COUNTY 4 CLUB LEADERS TO ATTEND MEETING county 4 club leaders will tend a meeting in Cedar Rapids Wednesday of next week County rent W. C.

Sheets announced to y. Miss Adeline Wurdenian, spe ihst with the Iowa Extension service, will gne instructions to the leaders The clubs arc studying the home furnishings project. Johnson. OR. If.

B. JOHNSON Guaranteed SS Rant Croon S3 09 nridar Work, per IwUi S4.0U Infer tf.OO up sflT Killing SI.M H. Cooper, J. H. Holing and OUv Johnson were the auctioi ind H.

E. Gibeaut of the Hel and Gardener State bank, ClLTk. Pays $152.50 RYAN, Feb. 27. (Special) F.

McCalij, Marion, paid $152. 50 for the top priced sow sold during the sale of Spotted Poland China sows and gilts at the Weiler and son farm here, Friday. The average price paid "for tho 34 head sold was $64.15. Four head were sold to breeders living outside of. the state.

The breeders living outside of the slate paid the Kent, IllT, 66; Roy Hutchinson, Toy, HI $50; John Larson, Cres ton. $92 50, J. T. Kress, Freeport, 111., $125. James Ironsides of Coggon was the largest buyer, taking five head.

Eibs and eon of Laurel paid $120 for a sow. Charles Taylor, Hopkins and Turner were the auctioneers. Louis J. ReiHy of the Security Trust and Savings bank. Nic's Blood Tested Chicks Buy baby chicks from flocks that have been blood tested for White Otorrhea.

We hatch blood tested chicks of thc leading varieties, of the best laying strains, pure bred. Strong and vigorous. Write for catalog. First hatch Feb. 1st.

XI COLL HATCHERY Mcchjuiicsrille Dentist Good dentistry is now available to the hundreds of people who heretofore found the cost prohibitive. Johns n. Dentistry has always proven more than satisfactory. It must for Johnson Dentistry is guaranteed dentistry. Dentistry I'OfY rtaln KU1HC SSJW iuyi luihw rir rfikf Rwr KaMMT Plate Natural Haw Rubber Plate wHJi TrabHc Teeth.

1 lili V'nofliv, SIV Fairchild. project leader, gave the Home," to the women of the home furnishings project. County Agent C. Sheets among the men of the use of limi the growing of legui The farmers were interested le use of limestone. Sheets sta that at the present farmrs who are operating! the Wetzel farm.

N. Gibson farm. Spring Frank Krob farm. Ely and rm near the Ivanho'e bridge, Daly Reads Poem, Down on the Farm EDITOR'S NOTE The follow is a copy of the poem which has been used by Bill Daly, dirt farmer from Anamosa, to close his on "Barnyard Philosophy." Several requests have been re asking that this poem be printed DOWN ON THE FARM on the farm 'bout half past slip on pants and snak the door, in the yard I run like dickens out the barnyard, curry Maggie and Jiggs, Separate the cream and slop al the pigs. Hustle two hours, then eat like Turk; By heck: I am rcadj foi 'grease the wngon.

put full the Throw Hitch i jug of water In the old thc mules, slip down the thc hay in. looks like the rampage, hogs in th mules, then for Maggie Joints all aching, fi. liank and hr Work year, didn't mak a thing. Isjb cfc now spnr.g i round I take il! a hitc j'ft. I aJ) for DAUGHERTY PAYS $385 FOR HORSES AT STANWOOD SALE of seed throughout the committee composed of For est Ford.

Edward Penmngroth, Charles Kreinbring, Harry Agne and Nevin Witmer has, been appointed to outline the campaign Have Corn Between 500 ana 600 bushels of seed corn, which has been ear re been located br the farm bureau to date buy seed from outside of the immediate vicinity," advises County Agent Ben Stevenspn. Each farmer is urged to test so that he will know just how much seed he will need when the surey In speaking of the work being done by the hoys of the Tipton high school, A Crary, teacher of ocationaI agriculture in tl Tipton schools, stated that the sti anxious to help all wl desire aid SCHREIRER STARTS NEW PRODUCE HOUSE Mark Harrison to Manage riant at (iladbrook TRAER. Feb. 27 (Special) The Schreiber companv of Traer has established a bifnch house at Gladbrook and will begin opera tions in the town on Monday. Mark Harrison, who has been ar nployee of the firm in Traer for vernl years, will be resident manager in Gladbrook.

and has already moved his family to that city Schreiber purchased the produce business of MltAell Glad brook and has leased the building it occupies. The Traer companv I naa an extensive business in the Gladbrook Lincoin territory. Five Seed Testing Stations Starting in Delaware County MANCHESTER. Feb. 27 (Special) Five seed corn testing nations are being started in Delaware county.

They are located at Oneida. Manchester. Ryan. Hop kinion and Edgcwood. Thc test intond to charge 1 cent (o 1 14 for Poultry Profit Successful incubators are (be only incubators that are cabinet made.

They are the only machines that heat the colder edges first just like a greenhouse or dry kiln. They a made in the follow From 65 egg to Taege Hardware Co. Cntr Aw. mi Ut St WOMEN REPORTERS TO ATTEND MEET Metcalf to Conduct News Writing School at Manchester MANCHESTER, Feb. 27 (Spe al) Newspapers from foreign countries will be exhibited by H.

Metcalf. publicity specialist with the lowa Extension service, during lews writing training school vomen reporters and 4 club rters here Monday. ic newspapers arc from Hawaii, Sojth Africa, Panama. India, China, Japan, and other English provin ces. Metcalf will point out the uinerences between these newspapers and those of this county.

Metcalf has been holding news writing training schools in Iowa counties In additioi teaching the fundamentals of gathering and writing. Metcalf wilt discuss rhetoric, spelling, punctu anon, grammar, composition capitalization. Country correspondents. high school journalism students. club girls, women reporters have been invited by the farm bureau to attend thc meeting.

FARM DATES Dates of farm meetings and sales are published in thc following col umn. If nay farm organization to hait meeting dates pub i rhed. or if any farmer ccsires to announce tho dales of stock public sales they should notify Q. C. Wilson, fans editor of the Cedar Rapids Republican.

Tha following announcement? bae been rcc eireo. FAXM 9ALES rVb 2C I tmria Imtc Joba Feb "It Be, 3 tnKr r. Mtchitn r. DKLAWARn rot NTT i maapnTiti will Grain Shipments to Cmdmr Rapids Inca'eil Itrrf rrportcrt that the Fitdajr: Wednesday. March 3 30 HEAD OF CATTLE 1 P.

a Create? Wt 3 yew oii: i 4 Coeraser cows. 2 to 7 ysan 1 tpnaziaj iesfer, 2 year oid; 2 UKutyuu, beifen. 1 yuj 7 ca 1 Hokteia beb'er If; 1 Hotter cow. 5 Tear 3 res 1 hatrj veL: i beifer. 1 jti okL iixut ctt a broie to sSc or atad and wtD make eatr good faai jr oow: tbey are 5 eagr Va bzaie: tboe aoe aow i23car are berry i4J.Lugt.t or wg be tresh by wi day Two borjet.

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