Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-05
Ho1u a Woman Led a Colony to Tu1]0ck-De11air
L. vanaeg1 in II Earth.

acres of sweet potatoes and three OF
cantaloupes in the midst of the grapes.
selling the crop of sweet potatoes for
$3.50. and the cantaloupes for $500. His
alfalfa (third Year, yielded thirty nine
tons, worth $500.
Mrs. Anna Price. formerly of Gearing.
Story County, Iowa, bought twenty
acres a year ago, paying $500 per acre.
! The place was improved little when
she bought it. but in year she has
added much. making fine farm of it.
She gets her mail by rural delivery
from Denair postoffice.
Paid $50; Sells for $500.
o. a. Mobly, formerly Of Oskaloosa.
Mahaska county. Iowa, bought forty
one acres within the Denair free deliv-
cry route four years ago. He planted
the land and built a house and barn
on it, and recently sold the place for
$500 per acre. He paid $50 per acre.
The crops of four years paid for the
land and for the house and barn, and
made some money in addition
n. A. Stinson, formerly of Gearing.
Story county, iowa, came to the De-
nair neighborhood year ago, buying
twelve and a nalf acre of improved
land for s225 per acre. He holds it now
for $500 per acre.
Other farmers of Mrs Simon's Iowa
colony are Gust Olson, twenty acres;
Henry Thake, twenty acres; and David
Holvick, forty acres. They paid 300
per acre for the raw land two years
ago. Their land now is worth SITS to
$500 per acre.
Young men who have joined the Iowa
colony are Will and Fred Mobly. for
merly of Oskaloosa; Harley Price, for
merly of Gearing; James Brown and
| Otto Abbottrormerly of St.Anthony. An
other of the colonists is Lewis Holvick.
formerly of ST. Anthony. who lives in
town and rents his place. Another is
Miss Rose Fleming, formerly of st.
Anthony. who is employed In town.
Otto Abbott has a fine ranch. He plant
! ed fifteen acres of it with eucalyptus
+, trees in the spring of 1909, and now
| the trees are fifteen feet tall Roy
Slough and family came from st.
Anthony on a visit last spring, and
| have decided to buy land and remain.
/ James E. Arthur, who gets his mail
i by rural delivery from Turlock. is 9
! native of Ryegate, Caledonia county,
| Vermont. He has lived in California
since 1876 Four years ago be bought
forty acres south of Turlock, paying
s47.50 per acre. He grows alfalfa and
COWS, selling cream to the Turlock
creamery. In 1909, he had twenty-one
cows, milking fifteen. In October, he
MIXED sixteen cows, selling $3.50 OF
| buttterfat. Altogether, the land fed
forty-five head Of stock. He cut the
alfalfa five times, pasturing the mead
ows after early September. The mead
ows will pasture one COW per acre. By
1 manuring the land, two acres would
pasture three cows. In 1910, he expects
Z to milk thirty cows. In two years, the
I alfalfa has made 800 per acre net
profit from the sales to the dairy alone.
Farms on Shares.
I L. c. Cooper who owns Isl acres
north of Turlock, was born and reared
in Bellfountaine, Tracy county, Iowa
He came to Turlock from Enterprise
Ore, three years ago. The land was IN
its natice state when he bought it The
original purchase was ninety acres at
$50. 80 per acre. Within eighteen
| months, he has added sixty-one acres
| paying 800 per acre for forty OF it
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greater part of the farm for one-third
| of the crop, and his returns are from
s33 to $40 per acre, annually BY
! three crops, the original farm of ninety
acres has paid for itself twice, and
some TO spare. He could rent it all for
| $50 per acre, cash, but he prefers to
farm it the other way. In 1907, five
acres OF alfalfa produced ten tons pei
acre. The crop kept three head OF
cows and three of horses, and he solo
5000 worth of hay besides. In 1909
he fed the same animals by TINS
meadow and he has thirty tons OF nay
! on hand for the market. He pays the
/ water tax, annually, but he farm;
mostly by SUBJ irrigation. The SOIL Is
SO moist by sub irrigation that willow
sticks. originally set for posts, have
! .-o1rn to be large trees. He has nne
plantation Of eucalyptus, cypress
| orange. and almond trees surrounding
his house, and between the rows ne
grows tomatoes, pumpkins. beans, ane
and other garden vegetables. He wa
1 tiers the orange trees with garden nose
but the other plants are nourished sur
fciently by b-irrfgation from tht
bitches. His tenants grow alfalfa
/ corn. pumpkins squashes, watermelons
sweet potatoes, grapes, berries, etc. Ii
1908. eighteen acres of sweet potatoes
produced crop which sold for $2,2S5
/ Mr.. Cooper receiving one-third, net II
4 1909. the same land did even better
/ The crop of one acre of watermelon:
i sold for $125, and one acre OF corn fo'
$50; all grown by sub rrlgation
Toward the end of a season grapes, To-
4 matoes, pumpkins, and watermeion'
| become so prolific that much OF TN
crop goes to waste. MIR. Coopers ten
ants mostly are Portuguese. and the.
are Industrious and useful citizens. F1n'
/ water lies at depth OF fifty feet, ant
eient-foot lift windmiiis running al
! the time can not pump it down Mr.
4 Cooper obtains his fuel (wooO from
the river bottom, paying 60 cents pei
i cord. Mr.. Cooper holds his land at $500
per acre.
). A Group Of seandinavians.
s Mr.. Coopers near neighbor. c. NJ
wejman, awede. came from THE
River Falls, Minnesota, two years ago
and bought twenty acres, paying So