Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-28
L00KER.0N IN IOWA:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Melbourne. July 27.-.This year at
Steamboat Rock the writer saw in a
store a strawberry that measured 4
little over four inches in circumference
ard beside ii half dozen more that
were three and one-half inches around
One man there has little bit of a gar
den patch adjoining his dwelling house
that brought him over $50 this year.
this figured at 10 and 123a cents per
quart
| And here Is another sad fact. The 81
day hotel at Montez.ma had such
/ big Strawberries this year that they
served them sliced! No doubt about
this story. for the writer was there and
for the first time in his life ate sliced
| strawberries.
A few years ago a nurseryman ped
ding fruit trees arriving In Monte
yuma "got stuck" with some peach
trees on hand. Finally he sold them
cheap to progressive farmer, said
farmer getting the .horse laugh" from
| all of the other fruit raisers in that vi
cinity. Raise peaches in Poweshiek
county, Iowa? Nonsense! Now the
laugh is on the other fellows. TWO
years ago this mans peach crop was
$50 bushels. which sold readily for "
q bushel. Last year the peach crop
was failure. This year the proba-
bility is that this peach crop in Powe-
shiek county will net the owner S'50.
This man and others around Monte
yuma will set out more peach trees this
year.
The other day while the train was
waiting for time" at a little Iowa town
the writer heard, why the boy leaves
the farm" only the boy didn't know he
was telling a story for the newspaper
man to get copy" out OF. He put his
head into the car window and told the
man on the front seat how he happened
| to he at the depot at $50 a. IN. Yes,
get up every morning at $3.50. MILK
| fourteen cows and haul the milk over
| to this $3.50 train every morning. our
place is only three miles from here, so
'tisn,t much of drive. Yes. pretty long
day during haying and harvest time, as
we don't get the chores done before 3
o'clock. and I hunt the bed soon after
We keep Saturday nights and Sunday
mornings. milk and make butter
enough for the family and sell some
| too. Kinder spoils Sunday. but In the
winter about all do is to feed and
milk and haul 1t to the depot And
after the train started the man on the
front seat said. 'How's that for boy
whose father is worth 100000? The old
man made it Just that way. and the
Il T. ri off IA
The writer has. recently returned
| from a trip into northern Wisconsin
and wants to say right here, the farm
ling methods in that country are enough
to make one tired. In the first place
they raise little, short, smail-eared
corn whose big yield is thirty bushels
to an acre. Worse than. all, they plant
and "cultivate it one way" thus all OF
the fields having an appearance OF be-
! ing drilled in. The result is the grass
and weeds between the hills grow as
] fast as the corn. the whole outfit being
about foot high on the Fourth of July
out of the car windows during $50
mile ride not single bunch OF cattle
was seen. On the cleared farms tame
grass makes a big yield. but If there
are any cattle outside of stray COW
or two TO eat 1t they were In the woods
and not in the pastures.
Having was going on and the scene
took the writer's memory back to his
Ifarm-life experience in old Connecu-
cut. In a hay field of say twenty acres
the moving machine was going. One
man with Il scythe over his shoulder
| walked ahead. Here's another!" he
yelled out. The writer thought of
snakes 1t wasn't. 1t was a stump
THE moving machine was carefully
driven around It. while another man
stopped and moved the uncut Grass.
And so on during the forenoon. the
stump advance agent being as neces-
sary as pilot on Mississippi river
steamboat. Any one anxious for cheap
Hand can get all he can pay for, or per-
hans get 1t on hundred years time at
IS to $40 an acre. And fine growth OF
timber on every foot OF It. Since the
pine trees were cut Oft several years
ago scrub oak, white and black birch
and many other varieties have grown
up. If you want to clear off" one of
these farms contracts can be made at
S35 to $40 an acre, the contractor also
getting the wood, which is worth 81 a
cord when it's worth anything. And 1t
liz fact that these cleared-up farms
are good ones for small grain and hay.
lint corn--when corn makes a crop IL
northern Wisconsin the frost holds off
till Thanksgiving. And the old story is
Hold. mo, it's no colder here than in
Iowa. The air is SO dry you don't feel
liz" Just the same the writer found
lbedclothes comfortable up there every
night from July to July IL, 1903.
Coming down thru Minnesota was
like coming into Gods country" again
lGats and wheat and corn and cattle
were In evidence much as on the Iowa
farm. Perhaps the greatest difference
lis that small grain is better and corn
mot SO good. this comparing with Iowa
lone thing the Minnesota farmers do
4 better than we do: they all have big
harms and are all painted the proverbial
lred. furthermore. they keep things
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