Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15
Looker-On In Iona

we've met hin, fact to face. We've read
of him, heard of him, but today have
seen him and talked with him. He still
main tains his position. Hear HIM.
Yes sir, am going to plant corn this
spring from ears taken from my own
corn crib I've heard this newspaper
talk for years about testing seed
corn. ITS just scheme Of a
lot of men 20 sell corn at $3.50 a
bushel. The newspapers encourage 1t
because they get lot of advertising
out of it, SO these men can sell testing
boxes. Why I won't trade here in
Montezuma with a store that adver-
tises I deal cheaper with store that
doesn't pay the newspapers lot OF
money. i have always planted corn
from seed taken out of the crib and
raise as much as these fellows that fool
around with testers. Didn't miss a hill
last year"
This farmer touched on one thing
some others Will do well to notice. It's
this. do not assume because seed corn
at $3.50 per bushel is shipped in from
Dakota. Minnesota or any other place.
that is sure to grow. Our Montezuma
farmer, of course, does not agree with
what follows, but this shipped in seed
corn should be tested as thoroughly as
any other seed corn. Some Of IT in
some places has been tested and found
worthless Another thing don't figure
on the crop Of 1905 being good seed
corn. One farmer near here tested
some he had left over and the result
showed go per cent worthless for seed
The earliest husking on record is now
in progress around here. The first ten
days of March. 1910 were remarkably
favora BILE for picking corn. One farmer
who is now gathering twenty acres.
says it is in better condition than that
he put in the crib last October and Mo-
vember. Where the stalk has kept 1t
off the ground 1t is dry as a bone, and
not near as much mould as that in the
crib. What's on the ground he Is sep
ara ting and feeding as fast as possible.
Montezuma is going to try the ex-
pertinent of paving the streets in the
residence portion of town. twenty-four
feet in width, and on each side of the
lot, owners can park between the
curbing and the sidewalks, ''sodding"
it or putting in flower beds just as
fancy strikes them. Around the court
house the paving will be sixty feet
wide, and in other business streets,
forty feet wide. Some of the citizens
are worrying over what will hap
pen when an automobile going forty
miles an hour meets farmer team on
twenty-four foot wide street. They
can just as well worry over farmers
automobile meeting town team on
twenty-four foot street. Quite likely
to happen around here.
Searsboro, a thriving small town
near here, is the home of two women
preachers oRe woman doctor. women
/ school teachers and store clerks galore.
II there's anything in the doctrine of
Termination" it'll show in Searsboro
in a few years. In fact it's showing
now, for, universal politenesc and civil
( ~ is the rule shown visitors and
strangers. A school boy when asked
where the post Office was, by a travel
! ing man, walked half a block with the
! travelling man, to be sure he didn't go
wrong. Some other towns could adopt
these Termination" practices to adj
vantage to both town jewellers and Wis
! itorS.
I Last fall there was discussion over
the farmers wives feeding the thresher
machines outfit. It was claimed own
/ ers of threshing machines would do
we'll to take along a dining car and feed
/ their own men instead OF turning the
farm homes into boarding houses for
a. lot Of hungry men when the machine
| came around. Now, there's talk of do
ing away with the free lunch at the
public sales. Such free lunches at
noon" frequently cost $50 to $50 for a
big sale for a big crowd. And there
are men mean enough to say that these
free lunches bring out to such sales
big crowd OF town ioAfers that were
never known to buy yellow dog even
if they could buy said dog for 80 cents
! on a years time. Such 'carping crit
| ics', would even object to some town
men going to church sociable and
eating IS cents worth at 9 y cent
supper.
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