Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-21
FEED PROBEk BIG
VIAL be SHORTAGE UNLESS
FARMERS ARE ABLE TO GET
INTO FIELDS.
OF CROP
uNekTHEREo IN PowEsHlEk
. Rssult Rough Feed !. Being Used
Before Time contempiatsd-At Least
Ono Mile Of Good Road in Iowa
Where Drag Was u.ed-c. E. Will
sons Rural Observations.
;pecial to Times-Republtcan.

man in this vicinity who perhaps knows
as much about the matter as anybody,
estimated the ungathered corn acreage
at one-fourth the entire crop, so far
as this part Of the country is con-
cerned. Some feeders who raised a
large part Of the corn they expected
to feed to their cattle are beginning to
be anxious about the possibility of get
ting it out Of the fields in time to pre-
vent buying grain or marketing their
stock prematurely, while everybody
with corn out is feeding UP the hay,
straw and fodder that was intended for
use later on in the winter. The effect
OF this is noticed in the constant rise
in price Of the feed thus affected. AT
a public sale a few days ago. some
hay In barn brought SIS per ton. and
tho the purchaser was the man moving
to the farm where the sale was held,
there Yves another bidder in the crowd
who wanted It at almost that high
a price, expecting to haul it away. One
man answered the Got your corn out"
question by saying: ~ have sixty
acres In the field yet but big drove of
hogs are finishing the job with no APP
parent objections to ice or cold
weather" When this was repeated to
another farmer he admitted that the
plan was a good one providing the
feeder had no cattle for the hogs to
follow. If he had, waste would re-
suit that would be sufficient to insure
a loss in the feeding transaction instead
of profit.
! If 1t were possible to figure out with
any degree Of accuracy the total loss
to everybody concerned, occasioned by
the recent dad roads SPELL" it would
be interesting to know how many miles
of smooth, permanent road the money
would pay for. Inconvenience and de-
lay in hauling, loss of time where any
thing Of the kind was attempted,
breakage of vehicles and injury to
horses would total an amount that
would be surprising il it could be
known, and then to reflect that two or
three warm days followed by another
sudden freeze would produce the same
result as before seems to furnish the
good roads man with all the argument
that he needs.
If every farmer, however, had ini-
tated the example OF Cole vantreese,
a man living few miles southwest of
here, the whole outfit would have been
entitled to some sort of a magnificent
Christmas present at the very least.
Just before, the freeze he dragged the
road past his place, nearly mile of it,
and temporary paved road in that
part of the country resulted.
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Here is something for the ardent ad-
vocate of rural school consolidation
and county high schools; for one who
has never heard any objections to the
plan except those arising from finan-
cial considerations or because of the
conservative" tendencies of those
opposed. 1t was the intelligent wife of
la German farmer who expressed her
ideas on the subject in substance about
as follows: you folks that want to
see school consolidation are wrong,
You think you could make the country
school equal the town or city school,
but vow couldn't do it with three times
the money you propose to use in the
project. You could erect the buildings
and provide the equipment but you
couldn't get the teachers for there is
and always will be an isolation in the
rural communities that they simply
wouldn't endure. They would prefer
to teach ip the towns even at lower
wages. You talk Of keeping the limo
cent lambs in the country away from
|; pernicious Influences and 4 say thai
such course makes them subject to
easy fleeing latter In life. We send
our children to the town and city
schools not altogether for the instruc.
ton they receive during school hours
They ought to be allowed to associate
with children Of people in other oc-
cupattons as we'll as with those Of
farmers. 70 have the privilege of at.
tending lecture courses such as can mo-
be obtained In the country, and they
are entitled TO something more In the
way Of the many social advantages
that everyone knows are within the
easy reach Of the town dweller and tina,
are secured only by extraordinary eff.
forts in the country What we want 1,
the opportunity to send our children
for a time, to the town schools. Not be.
cause IT'S the cheaper way but becaus,
It's tiile botstso1 ole. S11 Il schools con.
Quoted on the town plan simply NEAR
a greater degree OF isolation for tn,
country: step backward instead o
forward"
G. e. WILSON.
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Brown for Representative.
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