Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-20
Corn in the Field Selling fol-
$50 Per Acre in Vicinity
of Chaplin
so PER ACRE FROM POTATOES
Good Reasons for Advance in Land
values-Hsh Prices Make 1t More
Difficult for Poor Man to Own Farm
-Huskins Machines at Work-WiI-
sons Rural Observations.
Special to Times Republican.

Chaplin, oct. 2U.-A1 meeting Oh
travelling men held not long ago in
this state. one of the speakers began
his address with the question, What
is the best part of Illinois," and then
answered The part that borders on
regarding Wisconsin, Minnesota, South
Dakota and the other commemorative
adjacent to the Hawkeye state and
each in turn answered by the asser-
tion, 1T is the part that borders on
Iowa" Iowa is the best state IN the
union" he continued, land the farther
you travel from the boundary lines to-
ward the center the better it becomes.
The returns that are coming to
farmers in this locality at the present
time bear out the somewhat eXtraNa-
giant statements of the travelling man
orator Thirty-tiv dollars per acre for
great fields of corn: $50 net income
from each acre of large tracts devoted
to potatoes, an occasional field OF sugar
beets that will put around $40 an acre
clear money into the pockets OF lhe
owner, and meadows from which Two
big crops Of hay We're taken, afford
Illustrations of the possibilities open
to the ordinary farmer in this part OF
Iowa. With such results apparent, it
is no wonder that land has advanced in
value within the last twelve months
and that some landowners who wanted
to sell out a year ago have had to raise
their price twice since that time in Or
der to retain their homes.
One would hardly expect to find any
considerable emigration this year from
a place so prosperous as this, yet 1t is
a fact that last week there We're men
from one small neighborhood here
searching in three different states for
farms, and all over this section there
is an unusual investigation i'm this
line ON the part of men who say that
while this is most desirable country
in which to live. yet the chance for a
poor man to get farm of his own
lessons from year to year and they are
going to the Dakotas. Texas, Montana,
Wyoming and Canada, where they buy
cheap farms, hoping to see them rise
in value as they have done here.
Whether to feed their corn to hogs
and cattle or to sell off the stock and
market the corn, is the problem that
here as in other adjacent communi-
ties is claiming the attention of the
farmers who see in this subject even
more engrossing than anything In the
current political situation. The small
amount of early feeding that will be
done here will be by the bigger feed
ers, the small feeders having practic-
ally all decided to wait until the rela-
tive prices of corn and beef are more
discernible. Those who have bought
cattle for feeding say that they were
easy to find this year. and many who
had a few two and three-year-olds to
sell say that if corn doesn't go too
high later on, they will buy yearlings
and two-year- olds. some of which
they may feed later in the season, and
the others next year. 1t is surprising
to learn of the large number of hogs
and pigs over the country that had no
corn whatever from about June 1 I'M
til the new crop was ready Some
some Of those most successful in this
line declare they will never try again
to grow pigs or summer over old stock
without some corn. One man said his
soWs became as lean as hounds and
could and did jump woven wire fences
with the same facility as the canine
species which in form they so closely
resembled. Yet as soon as corn was
obtained they began to put on fat rap
idly and are even now in good condi-
ton.
One day last week a corn-husking
machine was taken to a field a short
distance from Hampton, and demon
stration of its capabilities was made to
a gathering of about 800 people. One
of the stunts that it performed was to
husk thirty-six bushels in half an
hours time. AS a result of the trial
seven machines have already been sold
and are now at work In the fields. In
most cases two men bought machine
in partnership. It is argued that while
four men might husk almost as much
corn in a day as a, machine is capable
of doing, it requiring four people to
operate husker, yet a 12-year-old boy
can easily do the work that by the
old method would require the services
of a high priced man that in frequent
instances could not be obtained even ut
the high wages that this class of farm
help has in recent years commanded.
IN,