Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-05-07
FARMS ARE GAINING
MORE FARMERS ARE MOVING IN
TO IOWA THAN ARE GOING
OUT SAY RAILROADS.
TWO CLASSES LEAVING STATE

TWO CLASSES LEAVING STATE
Every Spring There Is a Large Move
ment Of the Renting Population
Out Of One Section Of Country ia
Another That 10 Misleading.
Des Moines-While statistics show
that several hundred carloads OF
household effects have been moved
out of the state, the railroads have
figures showing that Iowa has gained
more farmers than it has lost. A. w.
Ebehart, division freight agent for
the Rock Island and one OF the best
posted railroad men in the west on
this subject, said that there are three
classes of farmers. Those are the pi'
oneer who takes up land, next the
man who buys the land for from $2O
to $50 per acre for speculative pur'
poses, and third, the man who settles
down to stay.
The farmers wtD move out of the
state are of two classes, the renters
who with small sum of money car
get farm in new country at
moderate price, and the man who
finds that he can sell out to good ad'
vantage and who believes that he can
raise more crops and make more
money by buying larger tract in 8
new country.
The latter class do not farm the
land closely. They prefer to realize
from acreage rather than from more
intensive farming. They sell at an
advanced price to the man who farms
every inch of ground and gets all ne
can out of the soil Sometimes a
farmer finds a family of children
growing up whom he feels he must
give a start later in life if he hopes
to keep them interested in the farm
He sells his own farm at an advanc
ed price and buys a section in the
northwest. This is cultivated by the
family and when the children grow to
mans estate the farmer has valu.
able farm which Is cut up into small
er sections and given to the children.
There is in the spring large
movement Of renters out of one sec.
ton of the state into another. One
class of renters is always on the
move. After living a year or so on
. place they tire Of 1t and hunt up
new farm on which they hope to do
hot
ton of Iowa into another gives the
impression that there is large
movement of farmers into other sec.
tons of this country and Canada.
Iowa's Fruit Prospects.
The state horticultural department
in a statement recently issued AYERS
that the winter has affected none OF
the fruit prospects Of Iowa with the
exception of possibly peaches and
pears. AS Iowa raises minimum OF
these two brands, there is no occasion
for depression as to the yields of the
Iowa orchards.
The westerner, whose bread and
butter depend upon his fruit yields.
puts in his time from morning to
night pruning, spraying, cultivating,
irrigating, grading and packing. Oft
entimes he puts in many Of the nights
also, smudging and keeping his or
chard heaters going Did you ever
hear OF an Iowa orchardist smudging?
Yes. One Mills county fruit man
smudged two years ago. He was this
only grower who did in the entire
state The result was that mis- trees
bore him an enormous crop. Nc other
orchard in Iowa produced that year
EXCEPT in isolated instances. If every
other orchard owner had sncGged
Iowa's crop would have put the tabled
fruit growing valleys OF the western
states in the shade.
Humane Society Serves Notice.
Don't stone your neighbours chick
ems. 1t is punishable offense. The
Iowa Humane society has called the
attention of the makers of gardens
in Des Moines to this fact and may
yet bring into court these home gard
eners who took aim at chickens found
scratching in their lettuce beds ana
crippled them. 1t is also punishable
offense to leave the family cat I'M
provided for when the family goes on
its summer outing. 1t is just as much
cruelty to animals to allow cat to
60 hungry as not to feed a horse.
New Pensions for Iowans.
Pensions have been granted the fol-
lowing Iowans: Belle Spangler, Anita,
$12; VIM. Thornton, Ankeny, $15;
Daniel l.. Castle, Coggon, SIS; Sarah
A. Mayes, Dewitt, $12; Richard P.
Fitzgerald. Garwin, SIS; VIM. Nc
Beth, Keosauqua, $50; Chas; Charles
Morey, Hableton, $40; Richard N.
Hooking, Hopkinton, SIS; VIM. T.
Thompson. Macedonia, SIS; Geo. w.
NcCalley, Marion, SIS; Mary Artz,
Marshalltown, $12; Phoebe w. Miller,
$12; John B. Jarrett, Monticello, $15;
George Campbell, Panora, $40.
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