Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-15
Observation-Disclosures
LOCKER ON In IOWA.
Observation-Disclosures.
For the Tines Republican.

| Graeting, March 15.-Seeding in
Iowa on March 18th is what passen
gers on the b., C. r. q n. saw out of
| the car windows on that date near
Emmetsburg. Several men and teams
were at work in the field, the seed
wheat in sacks standing all over the
fields, ready for the machine the next
day. The ground plowed last fall is
now dry on top, and the country has
the usual appearance of the middle
of April. The roads are good all along
| this part of the country and in the
towns dust comes with the March
winds. Spring really commenced up
here during the last week in February.
i. e., unless winter sets in again before
this gets into type.
1t will be remembered that the pro-
crastinating farmer last year came out
ahead. That is, the farmer who did
not plant his corn till after his neigh
boris corn was up and in some cases
plowed once, got a good crop, while
the early bird not only got the worm,
but had corn just right to be injured
by the hot dry spell SO these sama
men now say these early small grain
HSONeTSt VIII uOI IIldht any lliliiS, pS
sowing small grain on March 18th.
Well all know more. about this, say
July LIST.
The average Iowa farmer is n spec
ulator today as much as tho he was
dealing on the board of trade. He's
going to have cents for those hogs
or keep them. $5.95 wont buy them
And 60 cents is his selling figure for
corn. And right here some of these
farmers and well grain and stock
dealers should realize that Iowa is
big state, and the west covers good
many acres. That there are many more
hogs in Iowa and the west, and many
more bushels of corn in Iowa and tho
west than is generally supposed to
be. And here is another thing the
Iowa farmer sometimes forgetS, and
that is that in this country now, in
the south, all kinds of live stock are
now out on grass. thus saving for
their owners feed that they have been
Obliged to buy for them during some
OF the winter months. Again inside
of 60 days in this United States, har
vest of small grain commences, and
while not all of it is for animal food.
muth of it can be and will be fed
in place of high priced corn. News
paper men from Horace Greedy down
to- the present scribe. always have
been in q condition to advise the farm
ems how to run things, so what is here
given is not a new departure. But it
does look to an outsider as tho the
speculative farmer holding his hogs
for 6 cents and his corn for 60 cents.
is taking big chances. OF course there
is the possibility of a late wet spring. |
of poor seed, of a poor stand of corn, |
and of a short crop another year. III |
all OF these ifs materialize, then look I
out for dollar corn and S cent hogs |
On the other hand if all of these ifs |
are omitted in the arrangements of |
sunshine and rain, and big acreage |
of corn promises we'll in 60 days from
now. some of our speculative farmers
will have as sad feelings as King |
Phillips of corn fame.
One man wonders where the big re-
ceipts of hogs in Chicago the other
day came from From q new source.
Strange TO relate the daily paper and
the telephone are responsible for it.
Rural deliveries of papers, and tele !,
phonic communication with the farms,
puts the farmer in Iowa in a IL hour
touch with the Chicago market. In
stead of waiting till he came to town
or received fis weekly or semi weekly
paper, now rs per cent of our Iowa
farmers know what their products are
worth every day in the year. And they
know it frequently as soon as the
buyer in town.
And here is another thing worth
this for the benefit of our,
in Washington andl
Des Moines. These farmers, (and it's