Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-12
Conspicuous Difference in Sue
cess Attending Operation Of
Tiled and Untitled Farms
BIG CROPS OFF DRAINED LANDS
One Owner Who Shares Crops With
Tenant Clears $40 Per Acre Per
Year - Another Owner Who Re-
fuses TO Tile Coos Without His Rent
--Muskrats Plentiful.
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Goldfield, Nov. 12-For the past tour
or five years a young farmer mas oeen
irving to pay rent and make a living
ON a farm in the north part of Wright
county. The place is low, fat and I'M
drained. Discouraged with the results
OF his efforts and observing the effect
Of drainage lon similar farms near him.
he decided one day last winter to jour-
ney to the distant town where the own
er Of the land lived and try to interest
him in the idea Of thing the place. !
visited that locality few weeks ago
and found the former occupant stiii
there. Four small stacks OF oats stood
in his barnyard. Half a dozen hum
cry looking pigs were thrusting their
noses thru the cracks of a board fence
that enclosed an area of a few square
rods. Three or four cows were in a
pasture surrounded by two-barbed-
wire fence, and q few chickens were in
the yard. Out in the field the man was
urging tired team along trying to
ploW a rain packed field with a view of
raising a corn crop next year. The
stalks Of the present crop did not
average four feet In height. He will
not husk a single load of corn from
the entire field for it never cared out.
The wealthy landlord turned deaf ear
to the mans request last winter.
can not pay cent Of rent this year,
said the tenant, and didn't pay but
small portion of my rent last year.
can't get away except l run away. for
I've rented this place for five years
There are good many such cases
as this in some parts Of northern
Iowa, and 1t is hard to see why the
owners who are generally perfectly
able to do so, do not have these farms
drained. Resident owners all around
them are thing their farms, often Dor
rowing the means to do so, and the
result in every case Is gratifying. In
one locality in the west part OF Hardin
county in the midst of wealthy farm
ers where land is selling near the
hundred-dolla mark there is a quarter
section as good as any surrounding 1t,
but UNFRAMED, that has not been cul-
tivated this year. Tall weeds have
grown up all over the place, almost
hiding from view the old corn stalks,
still standing from last year-an eye
sore to the neighborhood. IT. seems
strange that such places are not I'M
proved when the method of doing so is
so well known and the effect SO GER
tain.
A well known farmer living near
the town Of Owasa, one who believes
in. farm drainage, last year rented one
of his farms for half of the grain de-
livered at the crib on the place. He
is hauling it to the farm on which he
lives as fast as it is husked. On one
of these trips the other day he stopped,
picked up a couple of fine ears OF
calico" corn and holding them up
remarked: 'The land these were
raised on is giving me return of
ten dollars per acre in rent this year.
i paid twenty dollars for the land and
afterward tiled It."
One morning last week a farmer came
walking across field from little
pond with pitchfork on his shoulder.
on each Of the four tines of the fork
he was carrying q dead muskrat.
Never was much Of q trapper," he
remarked, "but here is sixty cents
worth Of stuff that It only took a few
minutes to secure and thought
might as well go after it." travel
ing man driving past the two little
lakes between here and KanaWha
said he saw on the way a bunch of
muskrat hides, perhaps $50 in all,
hung up in tree. the trapper having
put up small shanty along the bank
of one Of the lakes. Noticing In sew
eral places along the road small
stakes with piece Of cloth tied at
the top set in the houses Of the rats
he asked the driver what that meant
and was told that these flags signified
Ownership by a previous visitor and
s"hands Off so far as other trappers
were concerned.
4 J. E. Rathbun, the big apple man
OF Hancock county, is demonstrating
this year that apples can be grown at
profit In his part OF the state. He
has about twelve acres in orchard at
present, only part of which is yet
old enough to bear fruit. This fall
he shipped five car loads to northern
market His orchard is by far the
most profitable portion of his farm,
which is q good one. On a train the
other day an apple raiser and ship
per from county in the south part
of the state was returning from
trip to a part of Iowa where but a
few years ago 1t was that fruit could
not be probably raised, having bought
apples that he admitted were better
than any grown this year in the
southern part of the state. d
c.. w. WILSON.
MORTGAGES FOR OPERATION.
Sioux City Woman Deserted by Illus.