Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-14
lNsTANcEs WHERE MEN WITH.
OUT MONEY HAVE MADE GOOD
ON HIGH PRICED LAND.
AVOIDING HARDsHIPs or
NEW COUNTRY WORTH MUCH
Gray and Bald Before Wealth Comes to
ssttisrs in West - Corn Huskins
Practically Finished in Vicinity Of
AIdsr-c. e. Wilson'S Rural okssr.
.vations.~
'peeial to Times Republican.

AlOcn, NOV. 1.-TWO DriSnG Ola mon
were talking the other evening about
q young farmer, a mutual acquaint-
ance. who has recently left this state
for homestead property in the north
west. One OF them argued that the
emigrant had taken the wise and
proper course, the other took an op-
pcsite view. The first used the oft
heard argument, that land is so high
now and it takes so much money to
handle deal that II he buys without
paying down a large sum his hair will
have all changed color or disappeared
altogether before the last payment Is
made and that it is better to go where
maintained that the three to ten years
necessarily spent in putting q tract of
virgin prairie on a revenue returning
basis would In these years OF high
wages give the careful and Industrious
far toward paying out on a piece OF
land in a place where 1t would be
worth something" and that in the
meantime he and his family would be
living the best years of their lives
newly settled country, might be en-
;oyed. Possibly it was because the
champion Of buying 8 farm at home
was somewhat the better talker of the
two but 1t seemed to the third party
who overheard the conversation that
he showed how the homesteader might
have done at least fully as we'll by
staying at home and the very next day
the following story Of how a good Iowa
farm was bought, improved and paid
for furnished q concrete example OF
what can be accomplished under con-
ditions in no wise extraordinary.
Some ten or twelve years ago
young married couple from an Illinois
town landed in village In southern
Iowa. Their entire property consisted,
on their arrival, Of the clothes they
wore at the time. They each found
work for q time and soon launched
into business, starting small restau-
rant. After four years the wife de-
clared she was unable to endure the
hard work that devolved upon her to
do and they sold out and invested the
proceeds Of their sale in racket store
in another town. There had been more
hard labor than profit in the restau-
rant business and $500 was all they
were able to assemble for the second
venture. This proved more profitable
than the flrst and the financial situa-
tioa frightened. One morning. how
ever, the senior member of the firm
remarked on the uncertainty of BUSH
ness life and wondered what would
happen If a fire, tornado or some other
disaster should come along and put q
sudden end to the racket store busi-
ness. Trade 1t for q farm" suggested
the wife. A daily paper lay near and
she picked it up. There were two Of
fers in want ad column for
the very thing they were talking
about-one forty" the other an
eighty" the latter in Franklin county.
The offer for the larger place was in
vestisated and trade was finally
made. Those who passed along the
road in the first two or three years af-
ter those town folks" moved to their
farm saw some fantastic little improve
ments that doubtless provoked many
smile. The land had been careless
~ farmed for years, the buildings were
almost nothing the former owner had
only q small equity in the place and
the newcomers with no farm expert
ence had assumed the incumbrance.
They had capacity for work. tho. and
ability to learn, and today there Is
good, comfortable house on that farm,
fine new barn in the stage Of COM
pletion, poultry house 15xs4 feet built
in the latest style, cement milk house.
in fact about all the improvements
that should be on an up-to-date farm
of that size. The owners can take 1925
per acre for their place at any time,
but it Is not on the market.
Any use Of a young man and wife
trying to buy a farm in Iowa and ever
hope to get it paid for before they are
ready to hand it down to the next
generation? One thing is sure. the
Millhollands, Of Alden, have done that
very thing and that without having at
the outset either one Of two very con-
venient equipments-ftnanci capital
and experiences in farm life.
Corn husking so far as the 1911 seas
on is concerned, is already over for
some Of the farmers in this locality.
One Of the first to finish was w. A.
Crabtree, who hauled in the last load
from forty acre field on Friday, Nov.
3. He simply hired a man. began
early and finished early. Byron Fish
and Ira Kinney each have a corn husk-
ing machine, and their fields will soon
be ready for the cattle Another man
near Buckeye. worked on little differ
ent plan from the three above men,
toned. Three teams were in his field one
day last week when we passed by
about sunset time. The first wagon
was surrounded by two gfriS q small
boy and q woman, evidently the mother.
Close behind was a young man with q
big load, son Of the older man per-
haps, who also had about forty bushels