The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-29
THE IOWA COLONY

state, consisting of ten families
locating, six of them, near La Harpe,
three near Moran and one. Mr.
WhitsOn, on the Watkins farm, east
of lola. There were probably fifty
people i'm the company and made q
train of Is cars of stock, implements,
ETC., besides a coach for the families.
j. L.. Skinner the leading spirit of
this colony bought go acres OF the Ed
Cavanaugh farm and is adding i'm
prOvements as he needs them. He
appears to be great rustler but not
one who thinks he knows it all in a
new country and likely to jump i'm
before he measures the pool He
owns his own mill for grinding corn
and has the only "husker and fodder
cutter" we have seen. 1t husks the
corn off the fodder and shreds and
cuts the whole of the remainder into
such condition that all stock eat it
clean, which to one who has handled
his fodder over six times and then
found that his stock left one half of
the weight handled untouched, seems
TO explain where one leak on the farm
is and a remedy for it. Twenty-three
acres of good fodder were stored in q
bin 10x64x10 feet and it fed 25 head of
stock consisting of cattle and horses
from December until grass came next
spring in Iowa. And dairymen of
his acquaintance prefer the feed thus
prepared to any other rOughness for
their milk stock.
Two more of this colony. Harvey
and Arthur Stevenson, brothers, are
building a neat house ON a part of the
Mcdonald land and seem to be pleas
ant and wide awake men who will be
valuable citizens. @ r McVey of the
Iowa company bought 280 acres of
new prairie two miles north of La
Harpe, last spring, and has broken
out ninety acres and raised millet,
fax and corn the first year. built q
neat five room house furnished in
and small fruit. He likes the climate
and we found him helping his neigh
Dor
r. A. HARDY
Who has for sixteen years farmed
Kansas farm. Nine years ago he
commenced here on a new 16O acers
of land owned by w. l.. Allison, of
lola, and here is another example OF
how mutual interest of renter and
proprietor work well for both parties.
Mr.. Allison twenty or more years ago
believed in Kansas and bought this
land and held on to it until he and
Mr. Hardy commenced to improve it.
He rents on the shares and has made
good improvements, built cOmfOrta-
BILE house and u large barn to house all
grain and stock and Mr.. Hardy has
1875 head of young steers and no kick
coming" he says.
HARVEY LONGSHORE
Came from Ohio twenty y-eight years
ago this spring and while looking
around went to work on the stone
Leland Stables then being put up at
lola and worked for 81 per day. He
liked the outlook, had little money,
came out to Carlyle and made his
home with J. w. Christians and
handled cattle for couple of years
and then put nearly all his money in
to 80 acres Of land, where we found
him as the evening shades warned US
that we were in danger Of being left
out in the cold. He has 8 two hun
dred acre farm well improved with
a good house and barn, a wind mill
at his well pumps all the water for all
purposes and it is carried to every
locality through pipes. After fully
satisfying himself that Kansas was
good enough for him, which he still
thinks, he went back for Mrs. l. and
they have during these years seen
the worst and the best of Kansas and
are reaping the reward for their
courage and faithfullness and with
their four bright children are a typi-
cal Kansas family. Mr.. l. is not an
enthusiast but proves his theories by
practice. He thinks judiciOus rota-
tion of crops is absolutely necessary
on the upland and keeps part of his
farm in tame grasses and also thinks
stock is the surest crop to assure a
profit. He has handled sheep and
still keeps a small flock at profit.
His horses are all standard bred and
he has sold a number of good road
sters at good prices. He and his son
Arthur, now grown, and who prefers
the farm to any other business, have so
head of cattle and 100 hogs fattening
for market, which will be fed prin-
cipally from the crop they have raised.
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