Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-19
ONLY 20 Pen CENT OF STOCK
NOW ~ LOTS IN PoWE.
sH,Ek COUNTY.
FARMERS GOT BUMPED
ON LAST YEARS VENTURES
Result Will % High Prices for Cattle
and Some One viii Make Money
MiIist 40 Profitable Emergency Crop
Difference in Nsishborins Com
nunitiss-Wilsen's Observations.
'ecial to .rimes-Republican.

Montezuma, Dec. 19.--In q section or
country lying east from Grinnell and
north from the town Of Malcolm there
are perhaps as many professional cat
tie feeders rs in any other like area in
this state. Hundreds of cattle have
been brought in each fall from the
western range markets. kept for time
In the local feed lots and sent on rs
finished product to the eastern markets
for slaughter or export. But this year
many Of the yards are empty; in others
only about half as many animals as US
ual are there. Some stockmen say only
about 40 per cent of the usual number
Of cattle will be fed here this winter.
The reasons given for this state of af-
fairs are. first. the experience of last
year when feeders were advised by
those to whom they were wont to give
heed to I'LL UP the pens and feed to
finish regardless Of the cost Of the
cattle or the price Of the feed" The
result was extensive buying of high
priced cattle and OF expensive grain to
feed to them. Some had enough ex-
perience to suit them early In the sea-
son and shipped their cattle, accepting
a price that did not greatly enrich the
shipper. while others held on awhile
and then sold, regretting their delay.
This year with feeders priced about
the same as year ago and. with corn
selling at the local elevators at
"a cents. said to be an un-
heard Of thing for November,
together with s1S. hay and low
grade quality of corn fodder, many
feeders nave quit the game all together
or are feeding only small number as
compared with former years. Said one
of these the other day: when / pay
cents or more for feeding stock in the
fall, then buy grain and roughage at
present prices. and then wait awhile
and pay possibly Is cents for corn, I
must have somewhere around cents
for my cattle and I don't care to take
the risk Of being compelled to sell for
s. That is why l am not feeding this
winter as usual" It Is admitted by all
that sooner or later with these condi-
tremely high figures for his stock. The
uncertainty Of the exact date is what
troubles the man who endeavors to see
his way thru feeding venture.
cause of wholesale nillet growing
venture on the part of three farmers
near Lynnville this season. A few days
before July 4. a small section Of coun-
try north of the little Jasper county
town was almost completely stripped
of Its growing crops by a storm that
will be long remembered by those at
.ected. 1t was too late in the season
to replant the crop destroyed and Ii
evidently was millet or nothing.
Thresling Of the stuff was completed
recently and a yield of about twenty
five bushels per acre was secured. It
cost the growers 10 cents a bushel for
the threshing and at present quotations
of millet seed there is no great profit
in raising it, tho in such emergencies
as the one which induced these men to
try the plan this year. II seems to be
about the onlJ- thing possible.
It is often difficult thing to ac-
count for differences that exist in adj
joining communities inhabited appar-
emily by the same class Of people.
Near little town in this county there
is very neat modern rural school
house. 1t is kept in perfect repair. has
been freshly painted and the surround
ings are in keeping with the building.
In another direction from the town and
only very, few miles from the other
is one that reflects no credit on those
responsible for Its condition. Window
panes gone. outside door with one
hinge, crumpled chimney. well-worn
roadway running diagonally across the
grounds and to within a rod of the old
implanted shack, this is what the out
side observer sees and 1t is said that
the interior presents still more de-
rlorable view than the outside. At
8 o'clock on a recent stormy morning
the teacher Of that school waited in the
fotel for livery horse to be Mitchell
that he might drive the four miles to
school. Nobody within. a reasonable
distance of the school house would
board teacher, so he had to board
in town. A lady teacher had taught
one day and given up the job. Thirteen
children depended upon such condi-
items for an education. The newspa-
per man doesn't know much about
that section except what he hears and
can see from the road. The Times Re
publican doesn't go there. The solicit
tor can not get look In in that COM
munity. Same kind Of land. Same ma
tionality Of peoples It's difficult to un-
derstand.
.;s
With the help of his three sons. Mr..
Charles Sutphin, local farmer, sue
ceeded this year in raising 10000 BUSH
els Of corn from al40 acres Of land.
Asked how he did Il he replied: by
deep blowing and deep cultivation"
When the ground was plowed the
plows were set to run six inches or
more in depth. When the corn was
cultivated the cultivator shovels went
way down even tho some people say
that deep cultivation in hot, dry wealth
err ruins corn. Some men seem to get
good results from shallow cultivation