The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-07-29
ALONG RURAL ROUTES
Herald Representative Tells Of What
He Sees and Hears.

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During the past week the farmers
have been busy putting UP hay and
cutting their small grain. Some are
unfortunate enough not to have their
corn laid by, while Others have plow-
ed their corn for the last time about
two weeks ago. Some of the corn
fields are so weedy and the corn so
large that it Is necessary to use one
horse cultivators to pillow it. Pros
poets for a fairly good crop of corn
are excellent.
Geo. Ruby has purchased one hun
dred acres of unimproved land east
of Lacey and has built an eight-room
aouse, barn, granary and other build
ings on the place and taken up his
residence there. ... -,.. -
Fred Davis has added value to his
place by putting in four thousand tile.
"A. o tEs
Mrs. A.. McLandsborough who lives
east of Lacey, came to Iowa over fifty
years ago. She came as far as Keo-
kuk, where they started out on an OK
cart. After they had driven nine
miles from their friends home, the
oxen gave out and she had to carry
her small baby while her husband
carried the baggage the rest of the
way, She says when she arrived at
their stopping place she was so ex-
aausted that she was unconscious for
iome time Her husband purchased
he ground where she lives for eight
dollars an acre, and she says that in
hose times it amounted to as much
Is fifty dollars does now. =
Henry Dykstra moved from near
New Sharon to the farm Just north
Of Chas. AlIgood. 49,. 49, ... y. "
Chas. Allgood has had enough of
the wet ground this year and he is
planning on doing some thing in the
all. He has in some tile now, but he
says he has not enough, as they pay
sor themselves in little while. :
Is a strawberry patch profitable?
This question can be answered very
easily by example. A man who lives
in Oskaloosa has small patch in his
back yard and this year he realized
the neat little sum of ten dollars and
ae had all he wanted himself and was
very liberal with the neighbors. In
every two or three years he trims the
every two or three years hetrims the
ops off about this time every year.
which causes them to yield very heay.
ly the next year ................... ~,
G., A. Leanhart has put in 100
1ods of tile which makes the land
much more valuable. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ieanhart and daughter had little
accident with an automobile recently.
They were driving from New Sharon
when they espied an automobile COM
ng towards them. Mr., Leanhart had
lis wife and daughter get out of the
zig and when the machine came near
turn around they smashed one Of
he front wheels and broke the tongue
n the buggy. .,r
Jno Masteller has tiled his place.
which is occupied by Chas. Blom.
w. d. Poe, who came to this state
n 1852 from North Carolina, has been
IN the farm he now occupies for the
asst fifty years. The place cost him
i've dollars an acre. He and his wife
ire very feeble now and his son, W.
J., is doing the farming. ..sF =.
Dan Whalen has improved his farm
With a new barn 36x40 feet and IS
'eet to the square. The building has
2een nicely painted. ..,-
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+ w. W.. Sefrit says that there will
ot be any peaches this year in this
,art of the state, Mr.. S.. Is an old
older, having enlisted in the 14th
indiana Regiment. He says he was
compelled to, suffer many hardships
n the army and many time he
would have been glad to drink out of
| slough. He says his company had
to take everything they could get
their hands on to keep from starving
When a farmer who lives northwest
VI Oskaloosa was told that the time