Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-10
A. SEED CORN FARM.


Reing at Persia last week we visited
the farm Of T. H. Platter who is de-
voting considerable attention to the
seed corn business. He has large
amount of carefully selected corn
strung up or in racks where 1t VIII pc
thoroughly dried. The ventilation OF
the drying spaces is excellent. He
has three varieties Of corn. REID 8
Yellow dent, fine white corn. that he
has raised carefully selecting his seed
for many years. and an early variety.
The arrangement Of his field is such
that the purity of each kind is secured
perfectly. He informed US that
his corn was yielding at the rate OF
sixty bushels per acre. He knows, for IL
all passes over the scales on Its way %
the cribs The average for the coun-
try at large is given by Secretary
Wilson as less than twenty-seven
bushels per acre If Mr.. Platters
methods were followed by all, the gen.
eral average might be doubled at least
thus making a great difference in the
farmers favorable balance.
Mr.. Platter has a very simple but
complete outfit for making thorough
test of the vitality of his seed corn.
This work he will commence soon Tor
the first test. He has about 2oo acres
of corn on his farm Of 400 acres. he
gets one-half delivered for rent. thus
getting about $15 per acre FOR MS
share He practices rotation OF
clover and pasture with corn. rms
accounts for the high average yleiu
per acre. in part at least, ana also LOT
his success in getting good farmers as
tenants.
WHAT'S HOME WITHOUIA BAb1
(Britt Tribune.)
Again the midnight cry was heard
and again for the fourteenth tune the
pangs of grandfatherhood have IN
yaded this home. Red and wrlnklea'
fat and good lungs, and parents cheer-
full, is the glad tidings. Those httle
mites of humanity that are coddled,
and swathed in blankets innumerable'
they don't look as tho they were worth
raising. but there is always one Wom-
an who thinks 1T the most wonderful
baby in the world. What is a nome
good for without baby in 1t any
how? We always like to see a clothes-
line bedecked with the varicolored
flags of our union" 1t is the only real
outward insignia of home. There
are houses and houses, but the real.
true home has sound of revelry that
makes the old rafters ring at the noon
intermission of school or after II
closes, and the Monday clothes line
proclaims to the world that there is
home inside of the house. It has been
many years since there was sure
enough "our'' baby in our house, but 1t
is seldom day but the patter OF little
feet are heard and some little chap
crawls up in our lap for consolation
or sympathy in it's childish grief, and
lust such little chaps are the enjoy
ment Of real life. An old man will new
err feel said with the babies in the
house, for they make him young be-
fore he has time to feel sad or old.
God bless the babies The old maid
who don't like 'em ought to live on top
of a mountain in a perpetual blizzard,
and the old bach who don't like 'em
ought never to have anything to eat
but bean soup and eat that with
gimlet out of jug, and married peo-
pie who like them and don't have any
Of truth in the old adage that "a hen
once in two years so long as they are
able to care for them. There is "a world
of truth in the old adage that "a helm