Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-07
MANY lNvEsroRs FAIL TO GET
RICH ~ TURNING DOWN OF.
rene THAT ARE DOUBTFUL.
FARMERS DuYlNa AUTOMOBILES,
AND MORE WILL 90 80
For Promised Reduction in
Priess-Expsrimsnt Of Furnace Heat.
ing Hog House Being Watched With
Intsrost-c. &. Wilson's Rural o.
sorvations.
Special to rimss-Republican.

Special to Times -Republican.
Swaledale, Feb. IA man bought
a farm consisting OF 100 acres located
In the north part of Franklin county.
last fall. the purchase price being $77
per acre. He sold it few days ago
even money" and thereby cleared
$3.50 in the transaction. The latest
owner was offered the farm at the
price for which it was sold a few
. months ago but he refused to buy and
in way he lost the same amount that
! the other gained. The original owner
| might have waited a little while before
he parted with his farm but he didn't
and he also was a heavy loser. So In
this deal there were two men who
doubtless remember with regret as
against one who is entitled to a feel
Ing OF qualification. When we come to
think OF it these Iowa land sales, many
of them at least. mean loss as we'll as
gain. This loss, too, tho to some ex-
tent bordering on the negative, is rath-
er more serious than was the case OF
the old travelling man who entered the
hotel one summer evening with the re-
mark. well. have lost $4,000 today"
Some one asked him how it happened
and he answered, "by not having bees
to make honey of all the clover l saw
from the car window as l rode from
town to town."
1t is a common thing these days to
hear it said that a great many farm
ers are buying automobiles. Whenever
there comes a break in auto prices,
however, the way the rural man will
go after these machines, will
surprise everybody not thoroughly ac-
quainted with the situation. All over
the country farmers are saying I'm
going to wait until those $1,000 cars
sell for about $500 or $500 and then I'll
buy one" One man with a bright
family of boys and girls who owns a
farm about five miles from good high
school town wants to own an auto so
that he can take his children to school.
Another one has figured out how much
time he can save going to and from the
creamery when he buys his machine.
Another wants one for the pleasure he
thinks he could get out of 1t. We think
there are many autos on the farms
these days. Wait until the prices are
cut In two. Then watch for the spring
ing up all over the country of thou
sands of the latest kind of farm build
ing-the garage.
An interesting experiment in hog
raising is being conducted this winter
on what is known as the Colby farm.
splendidly improved 4S0-acre place
near Rockwell. One Of the farm build
ings is a hog house 112 feet long and
twenty feet wide. Near one side and
about the middle of the building Is q
furnace and the porcine inhabitants of
the place are enjoying the luxury Of
steam heat. Fergus Gallagher Is the
n.ar ager Of the big farm and is devot-
ing q large share OF his time to the
welfare of the $50 young pigs that he
proposes shall average 200 pounds IN
weight by or before July 1. There are
twenty EIGHT pens in the house but
wherever possible partitions are re-
moved and two filters Of about the
same age are allowed to be together.
1t is said that where this is done the
mothers of the pigs invariably lie down
near each other at night and the
youngsters sleep between the two,
making it warmer for each family than
by the usual method of separation. A
gasoline engine in the building fur
nishes power to run a shelter and
grinder and the heating plant provides
for the warming of the mixture Of wa
ter, meal, shorts, etc. that forms the
ration fed. The Colby farm is an IL
Illustration OF what can be done with
land that has been producing only light
crops for years because Of lack of
drainage. The seventeen miles Of tile
drains that have been recently put in
will doubtless take care Of all future
surplus moisture and the slightly build
Jugs erected on the place make that
portion Of the Rockwell community ap-
pear very different from what it was
two years ago.
Many reasons for the loss in
rural population in Iowa have
been given but here is a case which
furnishes one that has not been adj
vanced BY any of the emigration phi
losopters, There may or may not be
any parable, instances. A Cerro Gordo
county man rented farm several
years ago, the owner a city resident
and not u frequent visitor to her rural
possessions. Tenant wanted a barn
and finally one was built. He wanted
some other outbuildings and he got
them too-but he had to furnish the
labor and material to build them.
Finally he asked for a house to replace
the rotting howell that he was ashamed
to live in among civilized people and
for this and few rods Of thing In the
low places on the farm he offered to
pay 81 per acre higher rent. The farm
is rev rented to a man that Is willing
t. fo,ego these luxuries and as good
Iowa farms for rent are considerably
harder to find this year than Is usually
the case. Mr.. Renter decided that he
would do all his moving at once ami
he went to Minnesota and bought
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