Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17

field all day looking for the best
ears they could find and by night they
had gathered plenty to plant for the
next crop. Bwo or three ncighbors
came along and offered the information
that it would be just as we'll to wait
few days and select the seed at husking
time, just as well let that hired man
husk seventy-five bushels as the five or
six that he brought in. A few days
later, however, that mid-Octooer freeze
occurred, and when in the early days
of spring those nelghbors and many
another mans neighbors were dis
covering to their dismay that their seed
corn was not what they had believed It
to be, Adams was selecting three
grains from each OF eco ears of mis-
Silver Mine that he had been so over
particular" about saving and planting
it In the testing box that he had con-
structed on the latest approved plans.
One week later he noted the result.
Two grains of the $50 planted had
failed to grow, one other had put out
a weak sprout and the rest We're doing
nicely" To state the result of the test
with approximate eXactness SO clio
per cent of the seed was good. The
profit on the days work or selecting the
seed is not so easily figured out
On each Of about hundred farms In
the western part of Cerro Gordo coun-
ty is located small she'd like struc-
ture resembling In size and appearance
modern farm poultry house \ Sec
ond glance at these buildings, however,
is generally sufficient to show the OBJ
server that not chickens but people are
housed there and that the dimensions
or the house are not always a true in
dication of the number OF the inhabi-
tants either. for a surprisingly large
number of little folks may often be
seen around these temporary homes of
the beet wedding families that have
been imported to do the work that Iowa
farmers refuse to perform, notwith-
standing promises of large profits and
sure returns About 900 acres OF land
in this immediate vicinity are being
planted to sugar beets at this time. \
beet wedding family is furnished every
man who has contracted to grow more
than two acres of ,beets. \ number of
land owners here have signed contracts
for as much as thirty acres. OF course
opinions differ in regard to the future
of sugar beet culture in this part OF the
country. Many are enthusiastic on the
one of the important branches of ag-
rlcultural activity and others assert
with equal positiveness that the raising
OF beets is only a novel undertaking
that will soon die out and be forgotten.
1t may be said. however. that this kind
OF work means garden-like cultivation
of large fields. more intensive farming,
step toward condition that Is de-
clared by high authorities to be abso-
lutely necessary TO the maintenance of
the food supply of growing popula-
ton of consumers. and it may after all
be no argument against beet raising
to cite the fact that the farmers of the
middle west as class refuse to go thru
their fields on all tours when they can
grow corn to feed to $40 hogs. IS steers.
and so cent chickens
In the territory Of the six loading
stations. of Clear Lake. Ventura.
Burchinal. Swaledale. Emery and
Thornton $500 acres of beets are be-
ing planted with the two carloads of
seed that has been distributed by those
in charge of the work. The weeders
are paid SIG per acre for the hand
work. The farmer furnishes the land,
buy and plants the seed. cultivates the
growing crop and hauls 1t to the load
ing station when matured.
c. E. WILSON.