Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-13
! LOOKER.ON in IOWA
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Brooklyn, April 13.-Horses fattened
for market, like cattle. sheep and hogs,
is now a recognized industry in Iowa.
Messrs. Newkirk and Barclay have now
in their big barn here thrty-five head
of horses that are under full feed"
Hay at $11 ton, and corn at 30 TO 80
cents bushel, is offered these horses
in any quantity they will eat They
are kept tied up in stalls and only just
enough exercise is given them to keep
up an appetite. Nearly all of them
men talk of putting on $50 pounds
more OH that roam or feeding that
black up to 1900 as though the horse
eaters of Paris were to get these fat
horses when they go to market There
was time when the buyers in the
east got these horses ready for SALE
when the rnen that made them city
broke also fed them for fat but now
the feeding business is nearly all done
In the west, where grain and hay are
cheaper.
Some realize it, but the majority
seem to neither know nor care that
the young man is leaving Iowa. In fact
il everybody knew it, there is no rem
edy known. The graduates Of our state
institutions find better positions. bet-
ter pay and more chances for promo
ton outside of Iowa. Graduates of our
colleges doctors, lawyers, merchants,
and priests" all look to the
east and look to the west before set
ting in Iowa. And when it comes to
the farmers sons, goodbye john.
The hundred dollar an acre is too
rich for their blood And these very
farmers help their boys to get out of
Iowa, by buying land In the Dakotas,
Canada, Minnesota, Oklahoma and
Texas. Iowa Is now colonizing all OF
these states as fifty years ago, New
England and New York began to fill
up Ohio, Illinois and Iowa. New Eng
land is still on the map, and Iowa will
be for some years yet, but there is a
great change in the make up of our
population near at hand. Iowa farm
ers are changing the kind of farming
they do, for the reason it doesn't pay to
hire help at $40 per month and raise
corn, oats and small grain on 500, an
acre land Potato raising on a large
scale in Gl'undy county is an illustra-
ton of this theory So Is the cabbage
industry III and around Dumont, But :.
Ter county. In this town are three
cream stations This business has
reached the proportions where thres
firms make it pay to buy cream. In
Malcolm a barber finds it profitable to
buy eggs and ship them, this in addi-
ton to his regular business. In this
town the meat markets pay cash for
eggs, all of which shows that the pro-
duce OF our Iowa farms is working to-
wards something besides corn ans
oats. And here in Iowa, we only need
cheap labor from somewhere to make
the state over one big garden, all
fenced in with woven wire fence, so
that we can raise chickens, ducks and
turkeys to supply the markets of the
world. Meanwhile we will seed down
many acres, cut three tons of hay to
the acre by the use of fertilizers bale
it. and get $40 to $12 ton for it. In
;cidentally we will put in thousands of
acres of small fruits. plant millions OF
apple cherryq, pear and plum trees,
and thus live on the fat of the land,
while the young men continue to fol-
low Greely's advice. to go west, and
rough it,