Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-19
GROWING DEMAND ron LIVERY
TEAMS PUT OUT OF suslNEss
~ AUTOS.
MACHINES TOO EXPENSIVE
FOR COUNTRY DRIVING
Livsrymsn Who Sold OF Many HORSE.
Now Compelled to Rssteek to Meet
+ psmands-corn alfred" Along Tile
Drsins-c. z. Wilson's Rural Oh.
ssrvations.
Special to Times-Republican.

Goldfield, Sept. 19.-One day last
week man called at the office of
livery barn in an Iowa town of about
5000 inhabitants He wanted q team
with which to do some driving in that
locality. The liveryman was willing to
supply the want but his teams were
all out. One other barn in the town
but with every stall empty. A big
automobile stood In shed and that
was offered as the only substitute
available but circumstances made it's
use Impractical BILE and half day Of
time was lost The liveryman explain
ed the situation. He said. Years ago
kept a large number Of horses in this
barn and found use for all had. Then
came the automobile. Doctors. law
yers and real estate men bought cars
and hired livery rigs only when COM
PEELED to do SO because Of the condi-
ton Of the roads. l put in a car and
used it while the horses stood in the
barn eating feed that constantly grew
higher in price. Then concluded that
the auto had permanently put horse
livery out of business and sold off the
greater number of my horses. This
thing continued until last fall. Since
that time the demand for the auto has
fallen off and the call for teams has
correspondingly increased. Travelling.
ihen come to my barn and ask for a
team and buggy. tell them my horses
are all out but there is the car. They
declare 1t is too expensive and go
away. The situation is altogether diff
ferent from what it was so far as my
g..
it was all over with the old time liv-
eryman but it looks now as tho he is
to come back after an absence for
which he was not at all responsible
Jewell In Hamilton county was one
Of the first towns in central Iowa to
discard the livery horse for the auto
and this year there is a big livery sign
on one of the side streets Judging
from present indications it is due to
reach q main street in a year or two
more.
While on the subject of automobiles
1t might be said that one farmer near
here has been seen to hitch to a disc.
harrow and other farm implements and
take them to the field or to the repair
shop in this manner In short order.
Frequently he drives his car out into
the pasture and rounds up the mich
cows: some farmers haul their milk
and cream to their creamery in the
same way. It is told of one farmer,
or rather of his boys, that returning
one day in an auto to their home from
chautauqua gathering they found the
pasture fence broken down and the
cattle roaming around thru a field of
corn. They hesitated not an instant,
1t Is said. but plunged into the heavy
growth OF stalks and after those
"breachy" cattle. All might have ended
well II IL hadn't been that a small
favine was washed out in the field bv
one Of the very few rains that fell here
last summer and the boys tried to span
the ditch with a machine that was
never warranted to do such things.
They got the tire patched up and four
or five other damaged parts repaired
but the top was injured past redemp.
ton; nobody was hurt.
Nobody having ordinary horse sense
Is supposed in these days to dispute
the theory that tiled ground resists
drouth better than undrained land.
There was cry turnout certin parts
OF the country few years ago that
the draining Of the innumerable ponds
and marshy places would result in d.
minished rainfall and q gradual drying
UP Of the country affected Then came
some wet seasons and change Of SEN
tinent with the general conclusion that
tiled land best 'withstands both wet and
dry extremes. One Of the best farm
ers in his community, one who has
more than $1,000 invested In thing.
points to his corn fieid where lines of
fired" corn indicate distinctly the To-
cation Of the tile. Wtthin q space Of
about one rod in width on each side OF
the tile the corn is not nearly so good
as farther from the drains. Another
Of the best farmers IN the neighbor-
hood noticed the same thing on his
farm. The matter was mentioned to
a man few miles away who derided
the idea Of tiled land firing corn, using
as an argument the fact that the roots
Of the corn plant extend into the earth
to a lower level than that in which tile
Is leid. He insisted that the tile drains
were entirely innocent Of any damage
to the crops of those or, any other
farmers.
In the outskirts Of the town Of Story