Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-24
OODAAML1QNFA FARM
Marked improvements Being
Made and Rural Districts Give
Evidence Of Prosperity
COMBINED GRAIN sroREHousE
One Farmer Ereots Granary to Store
10000 Bushels Of Corn and Small
Grains--Peaches Successfully Grown
Ia Northern lowa-c. e. Wilson'S
Rural Observations.
spec,a, ,c. r,mes-republican.

oS"ShS n.y.
one of the fortunate sections of the
state, SO far as crop yields are con-
cerned this year. Oats, while MOI up
to the average. has nevertheless been
q profitable crop to every grower anu
corn is considered by some to be about
as good as last year produced. FOR
, neriod Of several years almost every
farmer i'm this part of the country mas
been investing money and labor IN eiis
and filing and the results are appar-
emit.
If the land owners within an area OIL
a few square miles situated to the
south and east Of Ellsworth commune
h,,i,dina operations a little while longer
as they have lately been and are yee
doing. they will soon be living IN one
of the best improved sections OF nor
thern lowe. w. II. Anderson Is nnisn-
ing q corn crib and granary ina. 40
representative of what is being lone
IN the building line. 1t Is S2x4o Zee
and 1s feet high at the corners 80 a.
the peak. The stills are 6x6 inches ana
rest on a cement foundation. the stuo-
ding are all 2xS timbers doubled d.
the corners and the joists overhead
are 2xl2,s. It will hold 5000 bushels
- corn and the oat bins overhead have
a capacity for an equal number OF
bushels; Of small grain. An eieVa.oi
will be installed in the building WINCH
will cost when completed about sA'-
200.
Hall a mile up he road is the new
barn belonging to John Sparooe' one
IF the supervisors OF Hamilton county
said to be the largest barn IN the couII
~ It ia 100 feet long, AZ feet IN W1dth
and % feet to the plates; has
for 17E, tons Of hay, 900 bushels each
~ corr, and oats, 20 horses, IL COWS
and 40 head of young cattle. A II
foot driveway runs thru the center
and hay Is unloaded on either sloe
with a reversible carrier. About three.
fonrth, Of the floor space is cementeo
and three water tanks inside the ouiIu-
ing will furnish drinking places ZOE
the stock kept there In winter. ~
harm ,cost its owner $4,000. Across
+he road and a little farther on' q
brother. Carl Sparboe, a Shoftion
earle breeder, IL contemplating Tue
erection Of a similar structure. IN con-
nection with this 1t might pc men.
tioned that the widowed motner "
these two brothers came to this u
trv from Norway almost ~penniless VIII
eo,,r ANAL children many years ago.
Tho embers of h family went u
,vorlc at ridiculously small wages d.
soon as they could earn anything ahu
the rasult to date in the case OF the
local members of the family is the pos
.ass;on Of a fine farm of 240 acres by
each, and they have only just
the period of middle age.
Tn the same ne%ighborhood that these
men are living in, O. J. Ihoresoh, q
yo,,n,y farmer owning q nne Quaf'el
sact,on. has this fall completed q
+hirteen-room residence, N a paii'
hat cost him $1,000. Less tnah wv
miles, from this place announcer Ills
bo,,s,, and barn are being erected py
Nv y Bourne, a retired farmer hvlne
IN E1,sworth. Last year he p~urchaseo
tr.,ct Of 40 acres of land that mao
novar been touched by a pillow, having
been used for grazing purposes ever
since the country vas settled. Las
fall he hid thirty-f1ve acres OF the
land broken and later planted to corn
nh result IL different, however, from
those Of early day sod-corn RAISING.
when disks were not dreamed OF anu
corn was planted "by hand" covered
with : hoe and given no further at
tantion until fall. The field in ques-
t;on gives promise of a seventy-nve
hushel weld. Mr.. Bourne paid only
s45 per acre for the land, but tne
very next item Of expense, after tns
original purchase, price was a sl,oo.
tile ditch, and into it many othel
strings of tile will be laid before the
work as contemplated by the owner
will be completed.
Mrs. F.. NJ. Inlay, at her home neal
ellsworth. has in her orchard q small
peach tree which has matured about
fifteen fine specimens of the luscious
fr,,;t this season, some of them be ie
three inches in diameter. AS peacf
growing in northern Iowa is not pop
ula1lv supposed to be at all practlc.
able. except III lIe ScesoAS
able to fruit, the case is worthy OF no
tice.
Driving along one Of the local NAL
routes one day last week l passed two
adjoining farms which presented 8
striking contrast In appearances. Nc
line fence was necessary to indicate
where the boundary was located. A
MAGNIFICENT field of corn is the result
of, the seasons work on n OF the
places and a mixed growth OF stuntec
yellow corn stalks and cookie burr are
maruring on the other. The history OF
he respective farms explains the diff
ference. One of them has been oc.
icupied for the last seventeen years BY
the same man, a good farmer, OF
course. The other has been rented FOL
he past twenty years or more for 8
period Of only one year at a time. Fol
a while, when the land was new, dlf'
fer,snt tenants die well on the farm
but for a long time 1t has not been g
source OF profit to anybody. The ad-
Joining farmer has erected = WoVeI
wire fence between the places TO pre-
vent rabbits and dogs from seeding
his farm to the weed pests that grow
on the other farm, and believes there
ought to DO a law compelling a non
resident landowner to either lease his
lard for a longer period than one veal
or else sell out TO somebody that will
c. E. WILSON.