Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-26
OWNERS OF LANDS IN NORTH.
ERN IOWA FIND INCREASE
NECESSARY.
CONDITIONS TO CAUSE
sHAkE-UP NEXT SPRING
Many Tenants fastening to Become
Owners and Others Declare They Can
Not Pay Higher Rentals Expert
mont With Feeders-Wiison's Rural
Observations.
Special to Times-Republican.

I Gait, Sept. 26:-'T did the right thing
| for once" eXultantly exclaimed a far
rer near the town Of Eagle. Grove the
other day. when l leased this farm
| for three years for two-fifths of the
grain and 1925 for pasture and hay
i land Owners of rented farms are
/ demanding half the grain and s4.25 to
| $3.50 for pasture for the coming year
and the terms are being accepted. The
! increase asked. however, is one of the
main causes of a very general shakeup
that is to come next spring at now
| ing time. Many have come to the con-
4; clusion that it is now or never for
them to own farms and have bought
places to which they will move, others
declare that the rent rate is impos-
sible to pay and have no definite plans
for next year. 1t is to be. observed that
with the passing of the years an in
creasing number of the rented farms
are occupied by sons or sons in law of
the owners. In these cases somewhat
better terms are usually given than
where strangers operate the farms. OF
course it is easy for the owner of the
!
and taxes double up he must have a
greater income from his land than
when it was cheaper and the cost of
repairs was so much less than in re-
cent years.
J. D. Porterfeld. a local stockman.
made an interesting experiment with a
bunch of eighteen feeders this season
~ l,o toll {,, o;v,S$x los
February They We're mixture OF
Short Horn and black polled grades Of
good quality and were bought at an
average cost of SGT. Their average
weight was TAO pounds At the be-
ginning OF the pasture season they
were turned in on grass which was
their only ration until about six weeks
ago when the owner began to supple
ment the pasture feed with green corn.
He began with one hill OF cut corn
each and fed and pastured them until
one day last week when feeder want
ed them badly enough to pay s57 apiece
for them. At the time they We're sold
they weighed lilo pounds each, maxi
ing an average gain Of 80 pounds in
the six months, or about two pounds
each per day for the entire period. Mr..
l
these cattle were pastured for $50 per
acre two years ago. fenced 1t and put
! on few minor Improvements and sold
1t recently at Just double the purchase
| price. Land is rising in price here.
Out among the hills between the
towns of Bows and Gait lives a man
known as "Jfm" W1nslow. Besides pos
sessing the reputation of good far
ner and stock raiser Winslow is known
to entertain positive opinions on many
subjects of current thought and to be
endowed to generous degree with the
ability to convey his ideas to others.
A boy in that community says that
when country school house debaters
are to have ~. s." as an opponent
they often conspire to prevent him
from learning Of the fact until at least
after milking time and that even with
such short preparation he comes to the
contest armed with facts and figures
sufficient both in quantity and quality
to decide the issue. But that wasn't
what this article was intended to tell
at all About four years ago Mr..
Winslow concluded to build new
house on his farm and he went about
the job In an original manner. He
bought a small cement block mould.
hauled home lot of cement and sand
and soon had a big pile Of blocks mixed
five to one" Then a mason was called
in and afterward a carpenter and the
result is fine eight-room house fin
ished in oak below and in cypress
above: the kind that in the city
costs upwards Of $4,000. Winslow,
however, got thru on about $3.50. AZ
ter standing four years there isn't the
slightest crack or crevice to be found
in the cement work OF the house and
the probabilities are that these condi-
tions will obtain Indefinitely. Mr..
| Winslow also has splendid hog house
built on original lines. It is 24x4S feet
! in size with ba sement. The basement
wall is Of "niggerheads" and is two
feet thick and eight feet high. The
| lower story is dived by the usual alley
way and subdivided into pens. The
/ upper part has the alley with pens on
one side and feed room on the other.
A chute leads around on the outside
from the lower part to the upper and
when hogs are to be loaded the wagon
Is backed up to the door Of the upper
story and the porkers are driven thru
the chute and down the upper alley in
to the wagon. The floor Of the lower
part is of srick blocks eight inches
square and is always dry. Anyone