Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-11

for inspection and trial. Mr.. Clark is
ROW digging them and says they viii
\ yield not less than 400 bushels per acre
and show no signs of rot. as do most
other varieties in this section. Call ut
the bank and see them and try u mess.
Toledo.
j. II. Canty returned Tuesday from
Minnesota, where he sold the farm he
| purchased recently near Fulda, Murray
county. for $50 per acre. He bought the
| aajoinng form for 500 per acre. In lh'
deal he cleared between $1,000 and So
600. He has rented the present farm
for $500 cash rent and reserved from
1.-THE farm house barn and ten acres OF
I land
keosauqua.
over on Isiank Hale's farm. few
miles south of Neos;.uqua. II. q, Merrill
has sunk a we'll to the depth OF 525 feet
and the desired amount of water has
not Yet been secured. The Well will be
sunk lower and may so two or three
hundred feet deeper. dependent on the
water supply developed. AT present the
drill is going thru stratum of tine
white marble.
Cermania.
Despite the vet weather and wind
storms the work of harvesting is COM
letcd in this vicinity and there was
hut Very little grain but what WAS
saved Some few small patches on the
lowest land had to be left. or cut with
the mower. bu, the bulk of a very heavy
coop WAS saved. The oats crop is esti
mated to make about SIXTY bushels to
the acre in this vicinity.
Spencer.
ID. +. o. Cuttell left at the News Office
= sample stalk OF corn raised on his
farm south of town by Dairyman Sar-
gent. The stalk is not above the aver
age height, but is very heavy and
STRONG and contains six ear shoots.
three of which are silked out and show
proportions indicating large ears. In
fact corn never gave better promise.
than now OF being fruitful: almost
every stalk that is far enough advanced
contains two or more embryo ears.
Spirit Lake.
NJ its adjourned annual meeting last
Week the Dickinson County Bank in
creased Its capital stock from $4,000 to
$4,000. with surplus of $4,000.
Another week of sunshine has been of
great value to the farmers i'm this Sec
ton. Grain and hay have gone into the
stack with rush. and corn has made a
record that is exceedingly pleasing
Much of the barley crop is be-
ing threshed out of the shock. and an
amount is being marketed for
this time of the year.
Denison.
A very heavy yield of oats is re-
ported as having grown within our
city limits. An enterprsing citizen Sc
cured thru an agent twenty adjoining
lots IN the college addition and afte:.
following the instructions of the pres |
ident of Ames college of thorough and |
tillage has secured a crop
that has become the pride of many of |
citizens. A conservative estimate places |
the entire crop ut 50 to 80 bushels to |
the acre. Amos Rouze has not usually /
been considered a farmer but the Re
view states he has crop that speaks |
for itself.
Abba.
A representative of the Abba Elec-
-ric Light Company has told the Union
that their principal stockholders had
-alked the mater over and had decided
hat If they could get some help from
Albia capitalists they would reincor-
ooiate as the Abba Electric Light,
Rower and Water Company and under
AXE at once to get for the people of
his city the great boon they had so
ong wished for and needed, power
md water. The plan as thought of
would be to increase the present stock
falue. say $4,000, then bond the COM
'any in sufficient amount to put in
perfect plant.
II Verne.
\ severe storm swept the country .
to Lu Verne on Saturday
morning (2d) at 2:15 o'clock. de-
troying thousands of dollars worth of s
property. The News says: "Destruc-
ion and ruin on every hand is what {
net the gaze of all who went to see {
he path and havoc wrought by the t
torn. 1t is impossible to estimate I
he damage done to buildings and all 6
inds OF crops are demoralizing es- q
ecially in the path of the wind storm /
thich seems to have been about mile I
'ide and five miles long commencing n
little north of Hanna station and 5
DING southeast to Humboldt county II
lere is where the buildings were laid Il
at and crops scattered and ruined t
he entire storm area was about 9
niles in width. In this area the hail In
id incalculable damage to crops, es- il
ecially corn. Where the tassel and n
Tx has been destroyed there will be b
small crop but where these were e
nocked off by the hail there is little Q
opes of crop even tho the ears
amain. Small grain was badly threshed o
ut by the hail and wind and in many Il
laces farmers found their bundles in Ii
le road and in their neighbours b
eld." @
Just Look at Her.