Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26
Mahaska Man Who Sold and
Went to Canada Pays Fancy
Price For Old Farm
MADE MONEY FROM ORCHARDS.
Farmers In Vicinity of New Sharon
Find Profit in Fruit as Side Issue
Selling Poor Oats to Build Gran
cries for Storage Of Valuable Corn
Crop.
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Special to Times-Repupilcah.
New sharon. Oct. 26.-The farmer Is
now taking his rest preparatory 70
picking his corn, and as pastime ne
Ia attending one or two sales DAY
Tn and around here there have been
ton sales in q week. Many closing
out sales mean retired farmers ioi
some town, or settlers for some new
country. The prices are genera4ls
hirh. horses especially so. Altho gooo
cows are bringing from $45 to Soo' noss
are slow sales-so much sickness tha'
the farmers are afraid to buy.
HAY is selling in the stack for % 10
90 per ton and the clerks tell me that
hut few notes are being given.
The corn thru here, the farmers say
AZ az rood as last year, and one 1eeuer
told ma he had contracted 1000 busheis
AT 40 cents, which would indicate
continued high price for announcer
twelve months, or until another crop
could be raised.
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Land is higher in price IN TINS mn
mediate vicinity than any loca4aty tnat
I know Of An eighty acre farm TOUR
miles from town without good I'M
nroyements, is held at $ll,O0O, a Sixty
acre farm seven miles from town was
bought at $110 per acre by real estate
men as a speculation. And so IL is
all around here. But they do not 1arm
as thew do in some localities. Nearly
every farm has q good orchard ana
thew keep it up, too. They raise cattle
and hogs, and nearly every man has
sheep. They raise grain simply TO
feed. The class of stock is particu-
larly high grade, and they say 1t
pays.
William L. Way, few miles east Of
town, had his herd at the Iowa state
fair and took fourteen first premiums
which would indicate quality. He mas
them now at the live stock show at
Kansas City, where he no doubt Will
land many f1rsts.
One farmer here had his mind filled
by the agent Of Canada land, sold his
farm here and went there to live, and
staid two years, sold out at a good
price above what 1t cost him, and came
back, and wanted to buy back the old
home place. He found that his own
farm in Iowa had increased In value
faster than his Canada land, and he
could buy with what he had sold Tor,
plus his profit on Canada land, all but
twenty acres of what he had sold.
Many profiting by his experience are
STAYING in Iowa, and adding little
more land each year to the home place.
That is what makes land high.
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Mr.. Beaver Is building him a new
double corn crib, with capacity of
5000 bushels, with a wide driveway
sufficient to hold his farm implements.
I asked him If he was not extravagant
with lumber selling so high. He
laughed, and remarked that he was
selling oats at Is cents a bushel that
was not fit to feed and he guessed he
could stand it if the other fellow
could. But corn-that was different
With a big crop last year, and selling
at So cents, and short crop this year
corn was going to be worth something
and he proposed to have a good place
to keep it. Farmer logic for you. He
had ten or twelve big horses running In
lot close to the house, and sug-
gested with everything he fed them
costing so much that he ought to sell
some of them and save the feed. He
said they make more money than so
many head of cattle and it takes less
feed to fatten and keep fat than cat
tie. What Mr.. Beaver does is not true
Of him particularly, but is a common
practice among all farmers thru here
All have big teams, altho many are
raising mules also. Five hundred teams
are doing the work in the fields, and
on the streets of New Sharon Saturday
were tied more good horses than I
have seen in many day.
It Is a question when you pay 800
to $125 per acre to make interest on
the investment, and they have solved
the problem here, many making more
off the orchard than some farmers do
off 100 acres in grain. They do not
barrel their apples, but put them up in
crates. They pick by hand and sort
carefully and put in cool. dry cellars
and get good prices. ,All are picked up
that blow down and are sold at once,
and not wasted, as is the case with
some.
New Sharon has coal bank in fact
several Of them, and farmers drive here
for miles around to get their winters
supply. was at the bank about dusk
and every bit Of coal was gone, with
teams waiting A four horse team drove
up that had come twenty-five miles.
He put his horses in large shed
built for that purpose and would stay
all night, so as to get loaded the first
thing in the morning, and get back
home. Coal sells for about half what
it can be bought for of local mer-
chants. They save loading on cars,
freight, and merchants profit.
GEORGE F. THAYER.
AFFECTS WEBER CASE.