Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-01
A BIG LAND DEAL.

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this city it is learned that monster
land deal is announced in the purchase
of 2l.700 acres of Mercer county, North
Dakota. real estate. The buyers are
DR.. f. E. Dunkleberg, Henry Grout and
others of Waterloo and DIR. d. p. Rede-
man of Tripo.i The deal will be closed
today and has already gone past the
backout stage, even tho there was such
an inclination.
For several weeks these men have
had their eyes, metaphorically speak
ing, on this property in Mercer county.
The land is farm land and grazing soil
and is yielding nicely wherever culti-
waited. They bought the acreage COM
paratively cheap per acre hut the great
ness of the transaction calls for large
sum of money.
DIR. E. e. Dunkleberg, Harry Steely
and Will Hafar returned yesterday
from that vicinity and all say the pros
pect is very good for the property pur-
chased There is coal on the land in
great quantities and this is being mined
near New Salem, the nearest town
New Salem has 1900 inhabitants-and
is being shipped to the eastern part of
North Dakota. There are three cream
cries near New Salem and one of these
is using $4,000 pounds of milk per day.
Millet crops this year were something
enormous. ~
CORN MACHINERY.
[Iowa homestead
Any Retrospective view Of the agricul-
ture of this country that covers the last
fifty years can not fail to impress one
with the vast amount of ingenuity that
has been expended in devising machin-
cry for the cultivation of the soil and the
gathering of it's crops. To this general
statement the corn crop is no exception
SO far as some of its processes are con-
cerned. For blowing, planting and cult
waiting many ingenious implements have
been provided. 1t is only within recent
years. however. that any attempt has
been made to furnish the farmer with
corn harvesting machinery that is at all
comparable with that long ago invented
for harvesting small grain. The immense
waste OF slower [fodderl continued for
years all over the corn belt, and the fg-
ures representing the waste, IL they
could be even conservatively estimated,
would be startling indeed. There isl
every reason to believe, however, that
better conditions will prevail in the flu
ture. The corn harvester appeared in
1895, and, altho it's introduction was
slow, as is the case with ALI
new ideas, the machine trade papers re-
port that about $4,000 harvesters We're
sold during the present year, and the
demand was so great that 1T could not
be supplied. 1t is estimated that within
a very few years the annual sales of the
corn harvester will amount to 10000.
The corn harvester and shredder made
their appearance at about the same time,
and apparently to stay. The best shred
ders on the market now husk the corn
ard shred the slower in one operation. |
From 5000 to 10000 of these machines
have been sold this season, which is
nearly as many as the number of
machines that are annually
sold. A single shredder, like thresh-
err, does duty on many farms, so that
the figures representing the sales of
shredders must be read with this fact In
View In order to appreciate the extent to
which they are being avaied of. To a
much larger extent, therefore, than ever
before the corn crop with in the future
be machine crop, and the terrible
wastes connected with it In the past.
which made the economist shudder. viii
cease. The results. how /
ever, have not been reached without the
of great deal of time and
money. Two implement houses alone are
reported to have expended very close to
si,000,00O in the experimental work nee
sssary to make practical corn harvest
sr. They will, of course, get their money
lack. as they always do when an EFFORT
II this kind is successful, but it never
-heless required some nerve at the out
set to determine upon such an expendi-
.ure In behalf OF an idea that was still
IN the air.