Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-28
Special to rimes-Repuhlican.


be somewhere among the court house
records here a report Of some early day
authority, perhaps surveyor or board
Of supervisors, in which it is stated
that a large tract of land lying to the
west of the town is worthless for agri-
cultural purposes and can never be
utilized except possibly for pasturage
for cattle or sheep. The observer Of
conditions out that way after lapse
OF thirty-five Or forty years, however,
is impressed with the notion that who
ever made the above mentioned report
had either forgotten for a moment or
else had never learned the capacity of
the Danish farmers to develop a farm
ing community and highly prosperous
one at that from land that nobody
else would think of using except for
grazing purposes. At least 80 per cent
Of the number of Inhabitants in the
district to which reference is here made
are former residents of the little Euro
pean kingdom or their descendants.
They have been and are still emigrat-
ing to this locality and occupying the
farms. Most of the early settlers here
from the eastern states sold out and
sought other homes years ago. Even
the Germans are taking advantage Of
the seemingly high prices now obtain
able for their farms and are seeking
the regions Of cheaper land, but what
the Dane buys he keeps The other
day man said, There's a 400 acre
farm that has just been sold for $50 ,OOO
The man who bought it will have to
farm it with hired help He went in
debt for it but he'll pay for it for he is
Dane. Do you want to see some of
the finest article of corn blowing that
is to be found anywhere? he went on
If you do just watch one of these men
with his walking cultivator and slow
moving team. No six inch strip of
green in corn row after he has gone
thru" One Of the rural school ma'ams
OF Audubon is authority for the state
ment that the township where the
nlghest wages are paid the teachers
and where the school houses are the
best and most nearly up-to-date is
one of these Danish communities. In
little inland village not far away from
mere big broad shouldered six foot
son OF Denmark has established him
SER In the blacksmith business. He
came over three years ago. Thirty
one years old now. Didn't know word
OF English when he came but he order
ed one OF the best Iowa dailies one day
last week and he can read it too. That's
an example of the way they "catch on
When they get here. OF course there
are other kinds of desirable Immigrants
coming to this country but if all kinds
were the equal In desirabilitv of those
ABOUT whom this paragraph is written
immigration restrictions would need To
occupy very little attention of the leg
1siatlve bodies Of this country at the
present time
occasionally last week I found a
FARMER who declared his intention of
dlscontinuing corn cultivation until af-
Ter a rain. Said he didn't propose to
dig up what little moisture was left
IN the ground and recalled an expert
ence back In '94 when he kept on blow
ing with disastrous results. One Of
tnese men remembered observing at
tnat time that about the only corn |
raised in some fields was in the "turn- |
ing row." where the least Of the plow-
ing was done. Another farmer, one
who had no thought Of stopping for dry
declared that the way to re- |
TAIN the moisture was to keep stirring
the top three or four inches Of earth |
as oAtSii DIS posSiDle. his theory is |
that the loosening of the surface soil |
separates the particles of earth maxi
ing them poorer conductors of the |
moisture, that is always being drawn
up by capillary attraction. He insisted
that lis deep blowing in dry weather |
that results in harm to the corn. not !
surface cultivation which is far more |
necessary, he thinks, in dry than in
wet weather.
A rather strange state Of affairs was
noticed by farmer in one Of his
neighbors' fields here recently. The
stand at first appeared to be a very
poor one. not much better than
single stalk average, but few days
ago 1t apparently began to improve and
the owner of the field concluded that
It was plenty thick after ali. The Wis
ting farmer. however, who passed thru
the field noticed that in almost every
hill two or three suckers" had sprung
up. making it look at first glance like
! perfect stand. Of course these
Suckers are worse than worthless so
FAR as ear production is concerned and
Why they should have appeared in so
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