Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-28
CROP IN VICINITY OF EAGLE
GROVE IN EXCELLENT coNDl.
TloN AND MATURING.
THING SWAMP LANDS
TO INSURE FUTURE YIELDS
Farmer Paine Erects Substantial Barn
Out Of Bouders Taken From Land
Prioe Of Piano in Subscription Con-
test is Hieh-Wilson's observa-
tons.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Eagle Grove, Sept 2S.--The timely
rains which fell here a short time ago
furnished the moisture necessary for
fall blowing and thousands of acres
have been turned over in the past
three weeks in this locality. This is
the preliminary work being completed
for the growing of another crop of
corn. Without taking into account the
acreage that was drowned out by the
excessively heavy rains last spring,
orally very good. At no time during
the summer did the drouthy conditions
! that threatened ruin in so many local
tiles seriously menace the prospect
here and the long dry spell is consid-
cred by all to have been the kind of
weather most needed And there will
never be so many acres of land pro-
ducing nothing but weeds on account
of early heavy rains here again, for
that contingency is being provided for
by the mud despatched ditch digger
whose head can be seen appearing at
intervals in every low place where tile
drainage only is necessary to trans
form an unsightly swamp into a pro-
ductive field. AT the present rate of
thing it surely will not be many years
uAtil all the land in this section will
be thoroughly drained.
d. ID. Paine one of the many sub
l,to kso1 Nf {1,se ns,,sf ic
erecting a barn on his farm northwest
of town, which will be entirely different
from anything else Of the kind in the
country. 1T is sixty by sixty-four fee
in size and the walls to a height OF
ten feet are constructed of boulder:
taken from the land in the vicinity
The walls are eighteen inches thicl
except the rear one, which is two feet
The stones are of different colors, the
work has been neatly and carefully
done and the structure, when the up
per frame work has been completed
will be as elegant as a city residence
while the massiveness of the building
and it's unusual size at once attrac
the attention Of the observer.
I'll Cement work on the farm is becom
8 ing so common thing that anythin,
}, new of the kind is seldom noticed, bu
= one man near here has hit upon al
= idea that nobody else seems to hav
s thought Of. Mr.. +. NJ. Mcpherson ha
5 just finished making a cement cave @
e outdoor cellar on his farm. The ex
cavation Is eight by ten feet and sew
en- feet high inside measurement, an
Everything is of cement except tn
3, door. part of its frame and the VENT
o lator, the latter being a four inc
It clay tile. Thirty-siX sacks of cemer
n were used in its construction, an
S three men did all the work in thre
a days. The cost exclusive of labor, wa
about $40.
"Come out here and see how W
II wash clothes on this farm" said
% man the other day, and he led the we
q to an outbuldng where a gasoline Ell
1t CINE was running a washing machin
1 A woman sat in a chair near the ms
ID chine but something besides the wasl
n ing was absorbing her attention to IL
"a extent that she did not notice our el
le trance. IA corn shelter was standir
y in the room and in the feed box of til
J. shelter lay a little cooling baby. TT
mother was lowering over the lit
tot and the pair were evidently havir
the best kind of a time while the ell
d CINE and washer were doing the wor
e The plan of some Yankee too ingel
8. ious to be compelled to do the work
a. the ordinary old ia shioned ways N
h indeed Mr.. John johnson, of unmi
" taxable Norwegian descent lives
that farm and the running of Il
washer by machinery is only one
the many labor saving devices he
" employing thru the use of the lit
or gasoline engine that he installed.
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