Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-12
MARsHALITowN, IOWA,

breeder in the future and there's a
little herd of pure bred Holstein cattle
on the place. Where the farm is not
too large and the herd not too big the
troublesome question OF help does not
come up, and first class stock or all
kinds requires no more feed than
scrubs or grades. Then on high priced
land it won't do to waste too much raw
material and big silo was built on the
White farm to take care OF some OK
that 81 per cent value that the farm
scientists agree ia contained in the
stalk of the corn plant as distinguish
ed from the ear The farmer who de-
votes his energies to producing corn.
pork and beef for the market Is helped
along q little by such enterprises as
this, for every farm that ceases to tur-
nish a contribution to those necessities
lessons the supply and keeps prices up.
The statement that land Is too high
and must come down is heard yet oc-
casionally but it continues to rise ana
the owners of 1t continue to prosper
which Would seem to indicate that
there Is something wrong with the pro-
position that land IL not worth the
price for which 1t sells
The silo about which so mucn mas
been said and written Is gradually
gaining in favor all over the country
The following figures were furn'shed
| by Frank Dirst who has recently buiit
one of the two silos which at present
are the only ones in this Immediate vi
cinity One acre of good corn VIII make
ten tons of ensilage. Forty pounds or
silage per day with the addition OF
a little hay Is sufficient for COW. Al
this rate one acre of corn with the nay
ration added would support one COW
j for 500 days or ten acre cornheld
would keep a herd of twenty-four tuii
| grown cattle for q period OF seven
months, about the average feeding
season here With the modern machln-
ery used there is no more labor and ex-
pense involved In putting IN ensilags
than in caring for the crop In any other
up-to-date manner A 1875 ton silo costs
a little less than $500 complete. and
cutter about 5000. All the other ma
J chinery used is necessary on the farm
anyway so that $500 represents TIT
total outlay.
!, On the farm of Peter Miller south
, west of Hampton there is a huge pin
( of lumber amounting to about lo5.oo
i, feet. as much as is necessary of whicl
r awaits the coming of the builders VIII
will use 1t in the building of a oil
r barn The owner adopted an unusui
v method of securing his building ma
+ terial He bough an eighty acr
4 tract of timber land in northern Wis
k /, consin, had 1T logged and sawed an
tho lumber shipped to his Iowa farm
When the 100000 feet of lumber Is a
removed from the forest he viii nav
I another farm in the state that Join
US ON the north and east.
W 'Is this horse afraid of anything
q inquired the lady of THE liveryman
: she drove Old Whitley out of the var
q hitched to a surry occupied by herse
n and several others, old and youn
Now it should be said that this lad
had driven the same horse from tn
q barn many times before. and that c
- ach occasion she made the same II
:, uuirv. This time the man in chars
Twas hurrying to get teams ready f.
three or four men who We're waftir
and instead of the usual, 20. no. he
perfectly safe" looking up, Yes. he
~ He is afraid he won't get enough
: eat" And the look of supreme disda
y that was bestowed on the liverymf
re and also on the bystanders who We
at so impolite as to smile probably su
rs PASSED in intensity anything of t
ne kind ever seen in Hampton, or for IN
p matter. In amy other town
lie C, T. WILSON.