Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-17
uNusuAL NUMBER OF NEW
BUILDINGS SEEN ON RURAL
ROUTES THIS FALL.
DIFFERENCE IN WELD
AND PRICE OF POTATOES
Good Showing Of Butler County Corn
Thrifty German Farmers Expert
enee-An Animated Milking Machine
"A Carrie Nation lnoident-vvaIter
Wilson's Notations.

Special to imes-Republican.
Dumont, Oct. 17.-An unusual num-
Der of new buildings are observed on
the rural roads this fall, nearly every
mile shows new structures Of some
kind, from corn cribs, hog houses, coal
houses, ETC., to modern farm homes.
This means the dividing up of large
farms or the father providing place
for the boy who Is starting for him
self
There is as much difference in the
price Of potatoes this fall as in the
yield, which runs from two in a hill
to 200 bushels per acre. One Butler
county town paid 40 cents while twen-
ty miles away so cents was paid One
hundred bushels was the best yield
reported in this county. A we'll posted
shipper claims there are potatoes
enough for all when distributed
B. J. Iindeman shows sample ears
Of corn from thirty acre field, that
he estimates will go seventy bushels to
the acre. One ear a foot in length,
the cor nthat stood out all last winter
will cause an early beginning of the
harvest this fall, which is made pos
sible by the good drying weather pre-
vailing. Seed corn that has been care
fully selected before the rush at regu-
lar picking time, occupies the most
favorable place for drying. and is much
in evidence about farmers premises.
The County line" road, usually the
worst roads to be found. has an ex-
ception between Butler and Franklin
counties, where it has been graded and
finished with sand and gravel
A. J. Griner has been enjoying
Strawberries and cream in October
this year.
Clous Johnson, a young German who
has made good, worked in the old coun-
try for SO year american money!,
came to this country when II years old
and has &C q uired enough to enable
him to invest in a farm and a fair
knowledge of the English language, in
which he made the best progress by
buying the Times Republican and a
dictionary. When he compares the
wages he received in the old country
with prices paid here, with "horse keep
and buggy washed" he thinks we are
surely going some in this country.
e. H. Dovery hasj a milking ma
chine on his farm in this country which
he does not think it necessary to have
patented. as there is not much danger
of infringement It consists of three
shoats, which sit up and milk one OF
his cows and don't seem to care wheth-
err it is inspected milk or npot. The
arrangement seem satisfactory to the
cow, altho she is partial to one OF the
porkers.
County superintendent who are
short OF teachers will do we'll to watch
Dumont, as at one time last winter
nineteen teachers started from this
place each Monday to their schools.
A passenger on the cas- bound c. &
n. w. train Sunday evening was Carrie
Nation who managed to make herself
known, that she might dispose Of some
of her hatchets. The boys" were dis
posed to have some fun and the con-
ductor was willing to help. so he for
bid Carrie selling on the train without
license. and the way she opened up
on him convinced those in the car that
her tongue was sharper than her
Ratchet. Business was doubled after
her tilt with the conductor, as the word
that Carrie was onp the train reached
the smoker and the hatchets went there
also, as the was soon full OF peo-
pie, all anxious to buy.
WALTER H. WILSON.