Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-23
MANY CONTRIBUTING CAUSES
FOR UNUSUAL CONDITIONS
Some Farmers Retiring, Others Going
to Cheaper Handsome Man Who is
Going to Ohio to Get Low-Priced
Farm-c. E. Wilson'S Rural obser.
vations.
Special to Tjmes-Republican<
vations.

of all other portions as WE'LL is that
more changes among the farm resi-
dents are scheduled to take place be-
tween this time and spring than have
ever occurred in single year before.
In some places 1T is perfectly safe to
say that not half the people now oc-
cupying the farm homes will be found
in those same homes year hence
There is one neighborhood near the
town of Alden where it is said that
only two families are to remain where
they now are; next year so far as
population is concerned, it will be q
different place. Here is a man who,
Disguised with the common experience
of those who have to depend on hired
help. is leaving for a smaller farm.
Next is one who drew lucky number
in one of Uncle Sans land lotteries
He won't be i'm Iowa after March l..
Another farmer set a price on his
farm, "backed OUT when buyer came
along, tackled another S. per acre on
the land and let it go, reluctantly per-
haps, but anyway 1T is sold and he is
seeking aother location. About the us
ua number of farmers are retiring
and when all the changes are COM
pleted Iowa will be like the Irishman's
knife that had had four or five new
blades and at least one new handle, but
was still the same good old knife.
One man in this vicinity has lately
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and expects to invest in cheaper land
but he isn't going in the same direction
that Others do when they emigrate. He
is going back to Ohio where he lived
as a boy, knows of a 200 acre farm,
half too hilly to cultivate, 100 acres
can be farmed, some natural timber,
good improvem ents, plenty of fruit
mild winters, can be bought for $40
per acre, worth much more years ago.
Easy to make a living there. Soil
doesn't look just right to one used to
the black dirt of Iowa but crops grow
there Notwithstanding the. difference
He has been there visiting a time or
two in recent years and is certain
that he Won't have his household goods
shipped back without unloading them
as some have been known to do in
cases to some extent similar. A re-
| versal of the conditions that prompted
the famous remark, Go west, young
man." would doubtless startle some Of
the old timers could they be returned
to the scene of former activities, YET
some believe that in the future years
| a. considerable movement of this kline
from west to east will be developed
and land values to a certain degree
equalized.
1t is to be observed that a large per
centage of the number of farm sale:
are soon followed by a second trans.
fer at another advance in price. II
such cases it will be found that tn,
first purchase was made with a view
of re-selling at Profit. The scheme il
a winner for the man who has goot
judgment in this line and the contro
of few thousands of dollars. Their,
seems to be some truth in the state
ment that the way to sell a farm is t.
raise the price, and many a man ha
been surprised to learn how soon tn
farm he tried so long to sell at Ger
tain figure, was again disposed of at /.
substantial raise, after it had passet
out of his possession.
If the counties of north central low
are at all representative of tn
Swine belt in respect to supply it i
not difficult to arrive at a conclusion
as to prices that this kind of meat viii
command during the next twelv
months. The prospect of crib o
corn that will not keep after warn
weather begins next spring has in
spired the desire for more hogs to ca
the grain before it spoils but nobod
seems to have any to sell. To max
matters worse cholera has appeared il
many localities and is rapidly reduc
ing the limited supply that woul
otherwise soon be ready for market
There may be plenty of hogs in tn
country, but if so, they are in othe
Isections than this.
i Here are some phenomena that illus
trate the rapid changes in weather a
this season of the year in these lati
tudes. On Thursday, Nov. IL at ahou
the noon hour many people noticed
luminous rainbow in the norther
jclouds. During the following Sunda
the upper part of the Iowa river wa
at high water mark. Tuesday, No,
16 a regular blizzard drifted the road
in some places so that teams were driv
EN- thru with difficulty and by the fol
lowing Friday, most of the snow ha
melted and overcoats had become
nuisance, and in all these sudde
changes the farmer with his corn eithe
in the held or in the crib found n
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