Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-11
BUILDINGS OF VARIOUS DESIGNS
BEING ERECTED TO CARE FOR
CORN STALKS.
sNoW.eoUND HIGHWAYS
DUE TO NEGLIGENCE
Ono Rural Route Patron Justified in
His Refusal to Shovel Track Thru
Uttered Stretch Of Road-Farmers
Find Jury Duty Burden-WiIsons
Rural Observations.
,ecial to Times-Republlcan.

Special to Times-Republican.
Hampton, Oct. 11.-One day last
week two farmers in a neighborhood
west of this town finished the work
Of filing their silos. One Of them had
built cement block structure forty
feet high and eighteen feet in diam let err
A force Of fifteen men worked two
days to put in about It's tons Of sill
age. There were seven wagons haul
ing from the field. about half mile
distant, three men who helped the
haulers load up. one to help them un-
load, two men at the cutting machine
and two in the silo.
The other farmer having lot of
lumber that he had manufactured him
self. taken from some Wisconsin land
which he owns, employed a common
carpenter to build his silo in a rather
original fashion. First he set up stud
paper was placed. then siding put on,
the thin boards being laid horizonta lily.
Inside another course of paper was
used. and at last quarterback elm
boards about six inches in width were
nailed on the same as the outside wall.
This man watered his Stage as he
went along and at the finish used a
covering Of straw into which he scat
tered five or six bushels OF barley
Barley sprouts quickly and his purpose
was to seal up his silage with some
green growth that could take place
before enough heat would develop to
kill the sprouts. George Dohrnan, an
extensive stock raiser and feeder, is the
owner of the cement silo and Peter
Miller. who owns one of the best i'm
proved farms in this part of the coun-
try, has the other one. Several others
have been put up in this vicinity this
season and if they continue to gain in
popularity a few years longer there will
be less occasion for comment on the
waste of cornstallls on the part Of the
Iowa farmer.
On the east side of north and south
road on a rural mail route in this
county lives a farmer who has a griev-
ance that ought not to exist. Across
the road lies farm owned by a nom
resident. Last year a row of willows
along the line was cut down, much OF
the timber being left on the side of the
highway. From this a vigorous growth
has shot up and with it a luxuriant
crop of burdock and quack grass, the
inevitable accompaniment Of the prac-
tice of leasing a run down farm for
one year periods and to a different ten
ant each year, an ideal place for con-
tinuous snow bank a a half milo in
length has been formed, with the re-
suit that every time a snowstorm oc-
ours the mail carrier finds himself wal
lowing around in an impossible road
the farmer doesn't receive his mail
threatens to take down his box and
discontinue his daily and bad feeline
prevails as a natural consequence. The
carrier says, Keep the road open and
I'll deliver your mall" and the irate
patron replies. TT isn't my fault that
the road is blocked up this way and
won't shovel out half mile OF snow
every week all winter II nobody gets
any mail on the route" All this brings
up another question, viz: Is 1t not the
duty Of somebody somewhere within
the township to see that certain road
laws are enforced, the enforcement of
which would do away with all such
troubles as these?
District court has been in session
here for the past ten days and each
morning a little bunch of anxious look
ing men may be noticed on the street
corners where they gather before en-
tering on the work for the day. They
are farmers who have fallen victims
to jury selection. One Of them explains
how he draws his $3.50 per day and
pays 1925 Of it to a hired man to halt
do the work at home. Pays his board
In town, sits most OF the day in an
uncomfortable seat, and not being ac-
customed to such business. feels all
played out" from morning till night.
for which privilege he pays something
like dollar day. Another one in
forms his sympathetic listeners that he
left twenty acres Of corn fodder in the
field and had the pleasure Of seeing his
wife and son on their way to shock
it up when he started away. Then
somebody says, '"Three-fourths Of all
this lawsuit business is all nonsense,
anyway" and il compulsory arbftra-
ton proposition could be submitted to
that crowd it would carry by unani-
nous vote.