Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-19
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Radclif, Nov. 19.-The other day In
Bristow the writer heard some inter.
esting things concerning the suga,.
beet business, which quite number
Of farmers In that vicinity entered
into contracts with the Waverly Suga;r
Beet Mandatory. Many car loads ar,
now being shipped to Waverly from
Hampton and Bristow. 1t has been IL
bad year for the beet output as we'll as
corn in this vicinity, but the contract
price, the yield. and the net price will
even this year give as good returns
for the raiser as tho the same num-
Der of acres were planted to corr.
Knowing that the Iowa farmer objects
very much to doing any kind OF farm
ing that can not be done by machinery,
and beet raising is hand work, the
Waverly company In their contracts
offered to do all of the cultivating OF
the crop for $40 an acre. the farmer
to plant, harvest and deliver the beets
on cars at the railroad station. When
the farmer accepts this part of the
deal, the company sends a family CT
man, wife and children that bring a
tent and camp out on the farm till the
beets are grown and need no further
cars. And right here Is the possible
solution Of the sugar beet industry in
Iowa. It's labor, cheap labor that must
be had. for after planting the beets
all that follows is hand labor. We've
got the soil, the yield per acre is SUIT
ficient to bring big return, and the
beets are rich in sugar percentage bit
the Iowa farmer will not do the work,
1t$ ,z,{1l to oh AZ oh;
ren's children. 'They don't have to-
For several years Bristow has raised
hundreds Of acres of cabbage. This
year this crop, like the best and corn
crop. Is not up to standard. But the
raising Of cabbage is now all machine
work. excepting the harvest, which
consists Of cutting the head by hand
labor. This cabbage industry around
Bristow has come to stay, it's no long
er an experiment. This is proven by
the fact that at least three extensive
cabbage raisers are building this year
cement storage houses, capable Of
holding from three to eleven car loads
in each building. These buildings are
only, say half. above the ground, ard
arranged so that the cabbage heads can
be held on the farm till a good mar
ket price is contracted, of course being
frost proof. Heretofore the sauer-
kraut manufacturers have paid about
what they pleased when the cabbage
crop was ready for market, but here
after the Bristow cabbage raiser will
put his cabbages in his own cold stor-
age house unless paying price is Of
fered when the crop is ready for mar
ket.
Grain dealers in some localities
where the banks are only paying SO
day to depositors, say its killing their
business That other towns are sup
plying their grain men with cash or
cashing in full their checks for the
grain they buy. That the farmers
have Caught ON" and are hauling their
grain where they can get the actual
cash. Another interesting thing Of this
$40 a day business is that some men
claim they have succeeded in getting
much more, evidently standing in
with the bank" Bankers themselves
tell the writer it is no longer an IRON
clad rule, and that If John Jones really
needs the money he gets it. In other
words the banks are not like the Dutch
in sticking together. To an outsider
it would seem that a once famous say
ing could not probably be repeated.
"The way to resume is to resume"