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I b'l • The above cut shows the educa tional program of the Audubon County Farm Bureau. The out standing lines of work were the poultry culling and soil erosion. There were 66 demonstrations at tended by BXI people. The people who had the demonstrations were asked to keep a record of the num ber of eggs laid by the hens for 28 days, 14 days before the demonstra tion and 14 days after. There were 36 people out of the 56 who kept this record and returned it to the farm bureau. Before <'oiling Total number of hens before culling 4534 Total number of eggs laid be- fore culling per day 1152 Percentage each hen laid be- fore culling 25% After Culling Total number of hene after culling 3080 Total number of eggs laid per day 1021 Percentage each hen laid aft- er culling 33%% The Culls Number of culled birds 1454 Percentage of culls 32% Number of eggs the 1454 cull,* laid the 14 days prev ious to demonstration 131 Percentage of eggs laid by the culls 8 % Assuming that these flocks are only the average egg production farm flocks of Audubon county. 32 per cent of the birds are unprofita ble birds. The 1454 culls laid only 131 eggs in the fourteen days and -when they were removed the per centage of the egg production of the * hens was raised from 25% to 33%%. Another conclusion which the fig ures prove is that these low produc ing birds may be picked from the flocks. It is a common custom for a farmer to sell off a number of the old hens and market them, which will enable him to increase his egg production. One of the purposes of these dem onstrations is to enable the farmer to pick out the 32% of non-profita ble hens and market them, which will enable him to increase his egg production as time goes on. While we do not have any fig ures on the work done by farmers who attended these demonstrations and went home and culled their own flocks, yet we have had them give us reports which are equally as good as the above figures. There were 14 demonstrations on soil erosion attended by 272 farm ers. At these demonstrations farm ers were shown the principles of building dams, by actual installation by the demonstrator. Not only were they shown the wav to put In /lams which would hold, but alsot they heard good talks on the control of soil erosion before the water reaches the ditches. Some two months ago the bureau office sent out questionnaires to the 14 farmers who had demonstrations on their places this past year and to 13 who had the demonstrations last year. The answers to the question- THE WORK OF THE FARM BUREAU DURING 1921 ILLUSTRATED Audubon County L I NCOI N C. PC c* 13 cn U \ PC s" ,S KI V ™ f 35 Tr p > re PC FB 25 15 is jf a OpUGiyAS Li a/s ' 37 24 1 PC ZB n sc re FC H 713 5U IB 13 pci TO H a IE PC *§ fg 3C FBP PC PC OAKFIELD SE 23 PC 33 14 PC 6 EC c PC IE 14 PC u re 14 30 13 43 / 5 s § » 13 63l C.Boya and Girl* Club Meeting PC-Poultry Culling Dem'n. B-Bee Meeting Denonatratlon FU-Farn Management • W.Wool Iteetlng FB-Tcenehlp Pam Bureau Meeting 04P-Dual Orchard 4 Poultry D-Dairy School' AFB-innual Farm Bureau Meeting SA-Shlpplng Aee'n Meeting SC-Short Course CFB-County Farm Bureau Meeting BA-Breedere ■ • FBP-'.ownahlp Farm Bureau Plonio O-Orohard Dem'n. The Season’s Greeting We wish you heartily the Season’s Greetings and assure you of our sincere appreciation of your good will and patronage. • ' May you be blessed a Happy New Year —Prosperity and Success in abundance. Carter Hardware Company Quality Hardware AMERON E § PC X PC X IT B S ru/ 16 13 tt/ec anosy _^ZMEL J 58 ■H* p fl n g a> o pc 4j— y - a n Si ba* 1 11 42 ' PC 11 FM % % 8 H 'I S. FE£ 1300 B n HA ML HAMLIN £ s 1? 0 H E 10 JB 40 EXIRA A CFBP OP /; eooo is 41 £ $ 5E pc 14 31 ing the approval of the farmers and is resulting in a large amount of soil saving work on the part of the farmers who have attended these demonstrations. Every one of the answers receiv ed expressed the opinion that soil erosion was an Important work in this county. There was equally unanimous opinion that the methods demonstrated were successful in practice. However, one or two ex pressed the qualification that the dams require some attention after being built, if they are entirely ef fective There have been two distinct types of dams used, woven wire, and brush. Of those covered by the re port four were brush dams one was woven wire and eleven were combi nation dams of both of these mater ials. In answer to the question as to whether the demonstration dams had been successful in holding the dirt, many different answers were received. , One answered that the wire obstruction was full but had been washed out this fall, but that the brush dam had held and was full to the top. Other typical answers were, “Yes. the woven wire was full to the top.” “The brush dam held the dirt but there has not been enough rain to fill the woven wire.” Seven answered the question “Yes.” In reply to the question: “Do you think they will continue to hold the dirt” some of the answers were: “It looks as though they will hold a long time.” “Woven wire will.” ‘I think so, but they will have to be watched for they are liable to need a little patching at times.” Others agreed that they nqed attention when they begin to wertcen. The questionnaire further showed that much work was done by the farmers as a result of the demon strations. Many report that they had built several themselves and that they are all full and some re ported that one or more of their neighbors had nut obstructions on their farms. Mads Walter appears to have done the most work, for he (reported twentyv-flve. all filled to the top. There were several others who reported that they had built six or more since the demonstrations were held. There were two dairyi-feeding management schools to teach how to balance ration for livestock, and in structions on livestock management. Four farm management short courses to teach the farmer a sim ple method of keeping a record of his transactions and to analyze his business; five short courses and twelve meetings of the federation. Altogether there were 192 meetings attended by 14,037 people. There were 2341 calls at the farm bureau office for information. According to a calculation made by a German physician, a man who has shaved himself for fifty years has spent 250 days of 12 hours each, stand ing before a mirror with his razor in his hand.—lndinnupolls News. VIOLA FBP 500 3 VILLt- 12 re a? IS ax pc 10 AUDUBON II V SC 7 38 60 Fg pc re 18 3 PC SE 16 33 Facts About Shaving. the audubon redurttuax. aitdubon. towa, Thursday. December 29.192 *********** BRAYTON Miss Mabel Rasmussen, who is taking a nurse training course at the Jennie Edmundsen Memorial hospital at ' Council Bluffs, spent Christmas at home. Mrs. Robert Andersen and chil dren went to Ajtlantiic and spent Christmas with her husband's/ par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Anderson. Wendel Smith drove from his home in Nebraska one day last week and spent the night at the home of his brother. W. B. Smith. Charles Freeman came" from Des Moines Saturday and visited until Monday night with his parents, F. L. Freeman and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Garner Bartlett and children, of Osceola, are spending the week with his parents, H. M. Bartlett and wife. Claude Hardwick went to Pres cott last Friday to spend Christmas with his sister, Mrs. Clyde May and family. Carney Knutsen and wife went to Stanton, Neb., last Friday to spend Christmas w<ith her parents. Mrs. Carl Andersen and children of Atlantic, are visiting her parents Mr. and Sirs. Peter Nelsen. Noel Heath, of Omaha, spent Christmas with his parents, L. C. Heath and wife. Mrs. Lester Hansen and Frank Benham were Atlantic shop pers last F riday. Mrs. G. Williams, of Des Moines, is visiting her brother, Thos. Hard wick and family. Miss Bernice McGovern is home from St. Joseph’s academy for the holiday vacation. H. M. Bartlett and R. G. Nanear row attended Elk lodge at Atlantic Monday night. Mrs. George Andersen, of Green field, is visiting her daughter. Mrs. Albert Larsen. Peter Rasmussen, who iq, attend ing Grandview college, is home for the holidays. Harvey Thompson, of Omaha, sjent Christmas with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Bjorn are vis iting his parents at Kimballton. SHERIFF’S SALE State of lowa, Audubon County, ss. In the District Court of Audubon County, State of Iowa: By virtue of a special execution on foreclosure of a Mechanic’s Lien from the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Audubon County, State of lowa, in favor of The Green Bay Lumber Co., and against Tom Phippen, dated December 7. 1921, and to me directed, commanding me that of the real estate hereinafter described on the said Tom Phippen, I make or cause to be made the sum of $3611.60 debt and $86.72 costs, including attorney’s fees, with in terest and costs and accruing costs, I levied upon the following described real estate lying and being situated in the county of Audubon and State of lowa, viz: Sty of SW’4 and NEVi of SWI4 of Sec. 29. Twp. 79. Range 34, West sth P. M„ and I hereby give notice that I shall offer for sale at public outcry at the Court House door in the city of Au dubon, in Audubon County, and State of lowa, on the 18th day of January. 1922, between the hours of 9 a. m. and 4 p. m., of eaid date; sale to commence at the hour of 2 p. m. of said day, and I will sell to the highest and best bidder there fore in cash the above described property, or sufficient thereof to satisfy the above debt with inter est and costs and accruing costs (subject to redemption). Dated this 16th day of Decem ber, 1921. Andrew Jorgensen, Sheriff of Audubon Co., State of lowa T. M. Rasmussen, Attorney for Plaintiff. NOTICE OF PROBATE OF WILL District Court in and for Audubon County. State of lowa. Audubon County, ss. To All Whom It May Concern: Whereas, on the 29th day of De cember, A. D. 1921. a paper purport ing to be the last Will and Testament of Michael MCGuire, late of said county, deceased, was filed in my of fice, and was by me opened and read and the 25th day of January, 1922. at 9:00 o’clock a. m., at the Court House, Audubon, lowa, appointed and fixed as the time when the same will come before the Clerk of the District Court for final proof and probate as the duly executed last Will and Testament of the said Michael McGuire, deceased, at which time all persons interested may ap pear and show cause why the same should not be admitted to probate. Dated this 29th day of December, 1921. Glenn Turner, (Seal) Clerk. John Horning, 52-3 Deputy. Odd Idea Concerning Tobacco. When tobacco first came into use in Europe it was generally regarded as a cure for diseases anti a protection against catching the plague, etc. LIVE STOCK MARKETING Old Shipper Criticises Co-Operative Shipping Association Marketing of Live Stock. Editor: I have noticed for some time a number of articles running in various magazines covering the dif ferent phases of live stock shipping. A great many of the articles seem to have been written without any par ticular regard to facts. One was in “The Country Gentleman” o!f Oct. 8, written by Stuart O. Blythe, entitled "The Door to the Packing House.’* It is one thing to rattle along and tell how many cars of stock have been shipped by different co-oper ative shipping associations and how much money they have saved the producer, and another thing to give actual facts. He starts out by in terviewing “Old Man Corwin,” as he calls him. “Old Man Corwin” told him that in the old halcyon days when the country shipper was buying the stock the farmer did not have a chance, that the shipper would give just the same for stock worth $7.00 per hundred as he would for stock worth $12.00 per hundreo. Now, I have been in the shipping business for over forty years and have shipped about as much stock as any, and it is very obvious to any one at all familiar with the live stock business that any dealer that did that way would not remain in business very long. “Old Man Corwin” complains about so many buyers running over the country wearing out horse flesh and burning up gas, but he does not say a word about there now being more men handling' the same amount of business conoperatively than there were buying it, and on top of that a number more doing duplicate jvork in handling the busi ness two or three times, going through the country and forming state organizations- which does no one any good, and all of these men have to be paid. Neither did the old man tell Mr. Blythe that the man agers alone get more money per car for simply marking and loading the stock than I myself or any other shipper of my acquaintance ever av eraged profit per car when we paid the cash for the stock, took all the risks and did all the work. Old Man Corwin also told him that when they used to sell to the local buyer they filled them as full as they could so they could sell at the additional weight; in other words, they were trying to get the best of the buyers. Now, it would have been needless for him to have told any buyer that, for-they all learn very early in the game that a great many of them had the Corwin habit of filling. The old man might also have told Mr. Blythe that a lot of them were doing the same thing now so as to get the best of the oth er fellow when shipping co-operat ively. when the hogs are weighed together, and the shrink pro-rated, and right here let me say that co operative shippers never will know what it has been costing them to have their hogs sorted and weighed for ownership. I know of one load of hogs belonging to eleven owners that were sorted and weighed in eleven drafts. As the drafts came off the scales they were all held and when the last draft was weighed they were all put on together and they weighed 140 pounds more tn one draft than they did in eleven. Tfils simply Covers the loss in the breaking of the scales on the differ ent drafts, which would represent about 13 pounds to the draft. Hogs at that time were worth SIO.OO, so it cost the owners $14.00 to weigh that load of hogs for ownership, be sides what they would shrink while sorting, which would be at least another 100 pounds, which would bring the cost of sorting for owner ship up to $24.00 on the load. That alone is more than the average ship per’s profit, and no one gets the benefit of it except the packer who buys the hogs. Multiply this amount by the hundreds of loads that Mr. Blythe tells of being ship ped this way and see what it costs. No wonder the packer is very favor able to co-operative shippers. Mr. Blythe makes the statement that co-operative stock gives better re sults on the markets. Now, any experienced live stock man would like him to explain how that is pos sible. We all know the stock is not graded as it is loaded, and if it is sold all together somebody gets the worst of it, and if it is sorted in from two to twenty bunches, it is shrinking while being sorted, and again the packer gets the benefit. Mr. Blythe says they are saving from $25 to $250 per car. Does he tell you about any of their losses? Now, in the fall of 1920, about the time the readjustment started, I had three loads of hogs bought for one shipment that lost a little more than $1,400. The farmer had the money and I had the experience. I saw a statement last winter by a county agent about how many ship ping organizations there were in his county. It was 12 to 14. He told how much business they had done and how much they had saved the producer. I don’t know how he can tell if they saved money or lost money, as the farmer refuses to sell and the buyer does not get a chance to bid 'on the stock. I know in many cases I have bid them on their stock and they have refused to take the price, and their stock sold for less per hundred in Chicago, and I do not see how they can make from sls to $250 per car shipping that way. lam wondering if that county agent added my sl,- 400 loss on the one three-load ship ment to the profits that the asso ciation had made the producer. If these shipping associations have saved the farmer so much mon ey that the local shipper has been making, where in the name of good ness has all the money gone to, as nine out of ten of all the live stock buyers I have known in the past for ty years have gone broke, and I do not know of one that got rich, sim ply because competition was so keen that they paid too much for the stock, as there 'was generally a buyer at each town and every other town competing for the business. I have no objection to co-operat ive shipping associations if they could do the producer any good, but I cannot see where they are getting anywhere, if you get at the facts. It is very plain that the plan costs the farmer more to market his stock than the local buyer made, and this can be verified by any shipper’s books or any bank where he did his business. I have access to one of my com pel itor’s books who was doing bus iness at another town that covered the period, Nov. 27, 1899, to March 6, 1900. This was in the old halcy on days that "Old Man Corwin" tells about before the "committee of fif teen” was ever beard of, when the farmer had no chance. This com petitor shipped 137 loads of cattie, hogs and sheep in the 96 days. He paid out $89,393.83; he got back $91,344.42, leaving a balance of $1,950.59, which amqunts to $14.23 per car. Now, this had to cover profit, ov erhead, labor, and everything else, and this is less than the average charge by the average manage- for loading the stuff. Again it costs more to handle the co-operative stuff on the market. The government set the additional charge that the commission man should charge for co-operative stock at from $2 to $3 per car for addi tional Porting, weighing and pro rating bills, and I have seen loads containing mostly veal calves that had 60 to 70 owners, requiring the commission man to make 60 to 70 bills, and the extra pay does not pay him for the extra work. I think in Chicago at present it would be impossible to get all co operative hogs weighed each day if they were al) sorted and weighed separately, and where they are weighed together and the shrinkage prorated the fellow with the good, solid corn-fed hogs, weighed up empty at home has to divide the shrinkage with “Old Man Corwin’s” grass and buttermilk hogs that are stuffed full before weighing. Mr. Blythe says that the most striking thing about co-operative shipping in the absence of overhead. He says the farmers’ shipping asso ciation of Lake City, Mich., shipped 164 cars of live stock with only $26.25 overhead. I wonder where he gets that stuff, r would call all expense at home, such as manager's fees, corm put In the car, and all oth er items as overhead, and it would seem Mr. Blythe purposely misrep resents when he states $26.25 rep resents all overhead on 164 cars. Mr. Blythe speaks of the Post ville (la.) Shipping Association’s success. I will take off my hat to them. They have made a splendid success. But, as I understand it. this is a private organization just themselves and does not have to pay tribute to a lot of county and state organizations. They handle their own business in their own way and are not doing a lot of duplicate work, which does no one any good. I am personally acquainted with one of their managers who was with them some 10 or 12 years, John Waters, who, by the way, did all his own pro-rating and wbrked on a salary Instead of so much per car. He certainly contributed largely to their success. I cannot refrain from faking ex ceptions to this article written for the public by Mr. Blythe when it is so far from the facts as I see them, and real facts are what most people want. When they killed off the stock buyer and shipper they destroyed the best competition they have ever had, and I honestly believe the ben efits of co-operative shipping of live stock have been very greatly over sold in this country, and that for every 75 cents that the local buyer ever made in the past the producer Is now paying at least $1 to get the same stock marketed through co operation. I have never known any set of business men that have invested as much money and taken as great an amount of risk and done as much hard work for as little profit as the live stock buyer and shippers have done, and gotten as little thanks for It.—J. C. Hill, Dallas County, lowa. Membership Agreement This agreement made and enter ed into this day of , A. D. 192 ... between the Co-operative Livestock Ship pers’ Association, having its prin cipal place of business at lowa, hereinafter called the Associ ation, and of ed the Member, . Witnesseth: (1) The Association shall engage a suitable manager for the handling of livestock shipments, and provide care for shipment, secure a market outlet and attend to the shipping of stock, the collection of claims, and the disbursement of receipts. (2) The member shall list with and deliver to the Association for the purpose of selling all livestock produced or acquired by him, except (a) livestock butchered on the farm or sold to local butchers or other local private customers, (b) Stock er or feeder animals sold locally, (c) .pure bred or other animals sold for breeding purposes. (3) The member shall notify the manager of the number, kind and * A Word of Appreciation To Our Customers and Friends: Surveying the many courtesies of business and friendship enjoyed in the past, our thoughts naturally revert to you with a fee ng of sincere appreciation. It is our earnest wish that you and yours be blessed with Contentment, Health and Prosper ity, not only for the New Year, but for many years to come. • • » * Arnold & Rasmussen > Audubon, lowa approximate weight of animals which he has to ship from time to time. Upon notification by the man ager of the date upon which ship ment 'will be made, the member shall deliver his stock as listed to the designated shipping station. No unhealthy stock shall be received, and such animals as show evidence of being over-heated, over-fed, or otherwise in bad condition, will be received only at the risk of the member. Animals in excess of the number or weight listed may be re ceived or rejected at the manager's discretion. Should the member fail to deliv er stock as listed and when notified and as a result thereof a car or cars are shipped to market with less than the minimum weight charged, in ac cordance with the railroad’s tariffs, the member shall pay the freight chrrges upon such unused capacity. (4) If the manager is unable to make up a load of stock for ship ment the member may, after ten (10) days from date of listing, withdraw his stock by notifying the manager in writing and dispose of it other than through the associa tion. (5) The member shall pay the association his pro-rata share of the expense incurred in making ship ments and such other assessments, charges and damages as are or may be hereafter provided in the by-laws which said by-laws are by this ref erence made a part of this argee ment. (6) It is further expressly agreed in consideration of the undertak ings of the association and other similar agreements entered into by members thereof, and in view of the difficulty of ascertainment of dam ages caused by breach of this agree ment that in the event of the mem ber failing to list and deliver his stock as provided herein, he shall pay to the association such sum or sums as may be provided by the by laws for each hundred-wpight of livestock which he fails to list and deliver which shall be considered as liquidated damages, and the manag er is hereby authorized to deduct such damages from any moneys then or thereafter in his hands* belong ing to the member. (7) Either party may terminate this contract by giving written not ice to the other party not more than thirty nor lees than five days prior to December 31st, of any year dur ing which it runs. In witness whereof we have set our hands the. day and date first above written. Co-operative Live Stock Shippers’ Association. By Sec-Treas. Member. (Advertisement.) Largest Known Nugget. The National museum says that, ac cording to its records the largest Cal ifornia gold nugget wax found in Mon umental claim in Sierra county and weighed 1503 troy ounces Horses Wanted! Have an order for 40 head of chunks, weighing from 1200 to 1500 pounds, from 4 to 10 years old. Must be fat and well broke. Don’t be afraid to bring in your good horses and get highest cash market price. Will be at CHRISTENSEN FEED BARN, Audubon, Tuesday, January 3rd F. 0. NIKLASON SHERIFF’S SALE State of lowa. Audubon County, ss. In the District Court of Audubon County, State of Iowa: By virtue of a general execution on Landlord’s Attachment from the of fice of the Clerk of The District Court of Audubon County. State of lowa, in favor of Fred Miller and against Frank Welti, dated Decem ber 6th. 1921, and to ine directed, commanding me that the personal propertv hereinafter described of the said Frank Weitl I make or cause to be made the sum of $277.- 75 debt, and $10.60 costs, with in terest and costs and accruing costs, I have levied upon the following described personal property, situat ed in Audubon county, and the State of lowas vix: One iron-gray mare. 3 years old,' one iron-gray mare. 5 years old: one roan mare. 5 years old; one iron-gray colt, two bay horses, three hay mares, one brown horse 3years old; one old gray horse and I here by give notice that I shall offer for sale at public outcry at the Fred Miller farm on Section 20, Viola township, Audubon county, state of lowa, on the 16th day of January,. 1922 v between the hours of 9:00 a. m. and 4:00 p. m. of said date, sale to commence at the hour of 2:00 o'clock p. m. of said day, and I will sell to the highest and best bidder therefor In cash the above describ ed! property or sufficient thereof to satisfy the above debt, with interest and costs and accruing costs. Dated at Audubon, lowa, this 22d day of December, A. D. 1921. A. Jorgensen, Sheriff Audubon County, E. A. Wissler, State «f lowa. Atty, for Plaintiff. 51-2' NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received at the office of the County Auditor of Au dubon County, lowa, until 3:00 P. M., January sth, 1922, for furnish ing approximately 212.500 feet of lumber and 11.800 feet of piling. Bidding’blanks and additional in formation may be secured from Harry M. Clark. County Engineer, Audubon, lowa. 52-2 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received at the office of the County Auditor of Au dubon County. lowa, until 10:00 A. M., January sth, 1922, for furnish ing miscellaneous bridge hardware for the year 1922. Bidding blanks and additional in formation may be secured from Harry M. Clark, County Engineer, Audubon, lowa. 52-2 TO HIRE CiREAM HAI LERS The Audubon Creamery Co. will receive bids for the purpose of hir ing cream haulers for the year 1922 at a meeting to De held at the creamery in Audubon on Wednes day, Jan. 11th, at 1:00 o’clock p. m. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. -52-2 John Jensen, Sec. ■ I I B 1 !