Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-27
FRANKLIN COUNTY HAS VEAL.
THY LAND OWNER WHO is
PIONEER PEpAooo.
CAN'T QUIT THE HABIT
OF lNsTRucrlNe THE YOUNG
Rockwell Farmer Succeeds in Rails.
ing Cattle at Profit With Lit.
Ito Work - siIase as Winter
Feed ~ c. e. Wilson's Rural Oh.
ssrvations.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Belmond, Feb. 27.-Some time ago a
Franklin county farmer. following the
example Of innumerable other farmers,
prepared to hold public sale of his
property. On the appointed day the
crowd" gathered and the auctioneer,
O. successful farmer as we'll. started in
on his preliminary remarks, which were
entirely original, as the following will
show. He began by saying that he
wanted to place little credit where
credit belonged, and calling another
man to his side he said: years ago a
party Of lads, of which I am one, be-
came involved in little mischief, not
very serious in nature, but it was
enough to stir the ire Of the farmer
upon whom it was perpetrated and he
threatened prosecution. We were
frightened and as solution of the DIFF
ficulty we decided to run away, every
one Of US. This man, boy with us
then, was about to begin a term of
school as teacher and he persuaded
me to stay at home, buy some books,
and start to school. If it had not been
that Lee Aldrich got hold Of me just
as he did, I probably would not have
had the pleasure of conducting this
sale today" The man who told the
story said the veteran school teacher
managed to say q few words in reply,
but he excused the matter by stating
that no mere teacher of country
schools could be expected to do much
under the circumstances. There was
pretty big crowd at that sale.
Mr. Aldrich began teaching school
about twenty-six years ago and he has
taught winter term every year since
with three exceptions. Sixteen of these
terms were taught in the home dis
trict. His wife, his children and the
school director Of the district in which
he is teaching at present were his pu-
pills at different times in days gone by.
One or two Of the boys and girls that
he has taught are grandparents now.
Now comes the part Of the story that
places Lee Aldrich as a pedagog in a
class composed of very limited num-
Der of members. He hadn't been
teaching very long before he got hold
of enough money to make payment
on an eighty acre farm. It cost only
SO per acre, but then $640 was not
so small a sum in some respects, even
so recently as 1892, as 1t is today. In
the summer time Aldrich was farmer
and when winter came he was back to
the schoolhouse. After awhile an ad-
Joining eighty was offered for sale and
was ANNEXED to the other half Of the
quarter. Land was getting high now.
the second farm costing $4,000. After
a time another neighbor wanted $3.50
an acre for his eighty and the farmer
teacher possessed both the desire for
the land and the money to make
payment. Two more additions have
since been made and there are 400
acres in the farm now, also a lot Of
improvements that have brought the
place to a high valuation. Every Win
ter the man teaches his ,''last term
and when fall comes he explains why
he can't afford to leave his work to
teach school at $50 per month, and
then proceeds to teach another winter
term. Seems to have got the habit, as
the writer Of advertising would put 1t.
Charlie Behr, a Rockwell farmer, has
some figures to show that beef cattle
can be raised at a profit, even on
high priced Iowa land. A year ago
last summer he started in on an ex-
leriment with eleven head of good
grade heifers fresh in the spring. He
made deal with a dairyman whereby
he took the milkman's calves and two
calves were given to each of the
heifers. They were not allowed to run
together but the cows were turned into
the calf yard twice a day. Along in
the summer these calves were Weaned
and younger ones were given the cows.
this time only one calf to COW.
Thirty three good calves were thus
raised from the milk of the eleven
cows and in the following winter they
were worth on an average of $50
SSpiece. Last sumner the same plan was
followed with practically the same re-
suits, fourteen cows having supported
thirty-six calves. 1t is claimed that
this method not only affords good
profit but possesses the additional ad-
vantage of requiring very little care
on the part of the owner during the
busiest season of the year.
$50
James Keneflck, OF Belmond, had a
cement block silo built on his farm
near Belmond last. summer. 1t has a
capacity Of $50 tons and cost $500. He
has some fifty head Of cattle and
horses on the place. Out in a field of
that farm stands haystack and cut
ting Of about eight or ten feet
about half way to the ground has been
taken off, hauled to the barn and fed.
This with small amount of straw is
an the roughage other than ensilage
thus far consumed this winter on the
Kenefick farm. Horses and cattle get
nothing else and remain in good con-
dition. The cattle, or nearly all Of
them, are kept in an open shed and
the owner takes no stock in the as
sertion that silage is not fit winter
ration for horses nor in the other one
occasionally heard that the feed is not
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