Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-12
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L0oker-On In Iona

Clarion. Nay tilt 10 evident <here
p Increased Interest In fruit culture IN
Iowa The aEpseimsnts Of the Ames
collage authorities ct Council BLUFFS are
spoken Of ana the results will be
waeched with much interest. More
spraytng Of fruit tress 10 being done
than ever before and the need Of Il y
evident to al farmers ana fr,lit trow-
ers IN iowa. One fruit grower In Iowa.
II he Sets Z good crop this year. - 60
ing to pack his fruit In boxes. each APP
PIE wrapped In paper, and see Il he
can not get ~ good prices as dealers
are paying for inferior western apples"
II we arc fortunate enough to have the
reciprocity treaty with Canada, and
the pressnt duty OF, say 80 cents per
bushel taken on, II will open big
market for our small fruit two or three
weeks before :Minnesota fruit Is ripe
and ready for the northern market. The
same will be true Of fall apples.
The following 10 from the Green
Isle Record" Of Minnesota:
On one acre OF meadow land. newly
plowed. a Massachusetts man produced
123 bushels Of dry sheIled corn. To
do this he spread upon the acre TWEEN
y-fye tons Of stable manure and ESQ
pounds OF commercial fertilizer. 1t has
not been shown that the soil and eli
mate Of Massachusetts are one bit bet
ter adapted to corn than those Of Min
resota- From rock-ribbed New Hamp-
shire comes the report Of farmer
named Cram. who has harvested eighty
bushels Of shelled corn per. acre at q
cost per bushel Of % cents. Against
this Is placed the statement OF IAN ex-
tensive Iowa corn grower" that his
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES crop cost him
little more than 40 cents per bushel
Evidently those Yankees are setting a
pace in corn growing-now that they
have awakened to the value OF scienti-
ic farming-which the Kings Of the
Corn Belt can attain only by adopting
similar methods.
The man that recently paid $4,000
FOR Iowa farms in Ida county. paying
IS high as $3.50 an acre for some Of It,
has got TO raise corn at less cost than
40 cents per bushel if he gets per
cent interest on his investment. The
average Iowa farmer would think it
rank extrava gance to pay out good
money for $3.50 pounds Of commercial
fertilizer" but sure as preaching" If
it paid in New Hampshire II will pay
in Iowa. Several, years ago a town man
IN Grtnneli raised 112 bushels OF corn
TO the acre by manurIng the land
heavily, while across the fence. a far
mer In "the old -Hashioned way" only
forty bushels to the acre.
When ore wants to mention hosni-
tally. he usually predxes the word
southern as the most noticeable. A
travelling man tells Of his experience
here in Iowa. He had business with Q
farmer half q mile out OF town. He
figured II he got out there a little be-
fore noon he would see the farmer at
the house. Arrived too soon Mr..
Jones would b in In q few minutes to
dinner" said the farmers wife. Won't
you step in and watt Tor him. He did.
Then having ITO mako q train" con-
cluded not to wait longer. Wont you
stay for dinner7 Then you viii b
sure to ses him.. aald Mrs. Jones. The
travelling man THANKED her. but had 70
go. Just ~ he was leaving the plsee.
Mr. Jones drove in. The business was
transacted in hve minutes, and taaen
Mr.. Jones spoke mp. Whats your
hurry Stop ana get dinner" Now the
travelling man was q stranger to both
Mr.. and 0frs. Jones. but he went away
from that farm thinking about south
ern ho1pftality.s and how some Of Il