Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-16
Farms With Names Almost In
variably Found to Be Well
Kept Up
SOME FARM PHILOSOPHY
Rural Route Patrons on Two Lines De-
eide to Depart From the Usual Man
ner of Showing Appreciation of the
service-one Farmers Opinion of
the Political Situation.
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! Toledo, Oct. le-When / see a nice
big barn with the name of the farm
upon IT, wonder If there is anything
| in a name. Does the name make any
| difference in the appearance of the
place, or is it the people VINO have a
nice place that seek for suitable
name. / have never seen a place with
a name, which was not kept up. 1t
may be when the place begins to run
down they take down the sign.
There is located two and a half miles
| the last thirty years as the "Lyth
wood Farm" Here Mr.. Bruner raised
I his family and as the sons grew older
! they sought farms of their own. One of
| the sons bought farm just across the
road and named it the Elm Lawn
Farm" This place was somewhat run
down but 1t had name. So either
| to tit the name or from choice he be-
gan to tit up the farm. About the first
thing he did was to build big red
barn The lumber which he used is
from q building al Buffalo Exposition.
This barn is 112x64, "a foot posts, with
a capacity Of $50 tons of hay, twenty
tons of straw and thirty tons of corn
fodder He has one side for use of
horses, the other for cattle. He has
put in cement floors all over on the
side for the horses so that 1t can be
swept out clean as house. Then again
| here you will find nothing but pure
bloods. His cattle Are Aberdeen An
gus. His hogs are fine Durocs. and even
his chickens are full blood Plymouth
| Rocks Again comes the queery, is it
the man or is 1t his aim TO live up to q
name. His cattle are registered and
go away back TO the foundation of the
Angus herd, likewise his hogs and
| chickens are registered.
a little farther UP the road is another
farm called the Midway Farm" AS
usual thing where you see farm with
q name it is the home of the owner
living there. not of a tenant: the home
| of a man who has 4 pride In himself
and in the community where he lives.
| 1t is not a necessity to raise full bloods
to have a name on your farm. but there
seems to be something about one which
calls for the other.
on some of the rural routes over the
state the patrons are trying to show
their appreciation of the service by
helping the carrier. Some places it is
fur coats, mittens, oats. corn, hay.
chickens, etc, but one of the most
sensible things I have seen yet is the
action taken by the patrons of one of
the routes from Gladbrook (also at
Hampton) of buying a wagon, not for
the carrier, but for the route. These
wa CONS stay on the route for the use
of the carrier as long as he stays. When
he goes the wagon goes to his success
or. / have been told that just as soon
as YOU can get carrier fixed out with
an overcoat, cap, mittens, ETC.. he hunts
a new place, and then it is fix up the
new man.
/ have begun to wonder whether
there was going to be an election this
fall. In some places 1t may be that
they are warming up and taking some
interest, but in Tama county | have
yet to find any politics outside OF what
was seen at the fair. The two candi-
ground with smiles and cigars. asked
two or three which was the best man
and all said that either one would 90.
This was the only satisfaction could
get. A few days later | found a FAR
ner sitting by the fire reading an al
manac. tried to draw MN
cut about the political sltua-
ton. He said one candidate was
q farmer. the other a business man
..1vha farmers will vote for the business
man and so will the business men, 50
our farmer will get left, no matter now
capable he is Then they Will MAKE
MS some road laws, raise our taxes ane
then come home and tell US what thes
have done for the poor farmer. rs
then continued reading his Almanac
while | quietly slipped away-at least
safisaed-having found one who knew.
GEORGE +. THAYER.