Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-05
MANY FARMERS FROM OTHER
STATES PURCHASE LANDS IN
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
COMING OF NEW OWNERS
MEANS NEW IMPROVEMENTS
One Farmer Converts 24o Acre Swamp
Into 500 Per Acre Farm-F sht
Service on Branch Lines Subject Of
Adverse cr;t;cs:a-H..sons Rural
observations.
Special to Times Republican.


Alexander, March o.-Anothei annua
Iearran cement OF farmers homes was
effected al! over the country last week
For three Successive days the ROADS
We're alive with strings OF teams tAai
! slowly piodded alous aadliug loads q
I household goods, farm implements
grain, livestock. everything that goes
TO make up the farm uu,tit. This Wees
the traveller finds himself in an I'M
known region far as the inhaoi-
tants are concerned 10 matter how
! well acquainted ne WAS last HeIr. y
lew old timers are leaving ihe faInl
Tor a home in town. some nave sold
| out and bought farms IL cheaper re
sions than Iowa and their places are
occupied by people from other states
or from parts OF Iowa where Land is
still higher in price than here. The
( larger part of the changes, however,
I are due to the eNpirationS OF leases
/ and their renewal with a change of sig
I nature on the part Of the renter II
/ the cost Of moving week in Franklin
/ county this year could be accurately
determined it would be surprisinsly
great to those who never gave the
subject particular thought or who
! really do not know what il means 70
J transfer a farm outfit from TWO 70
twenty miles across the country or
roads in the usual condition at this
/ time OF the year.
| In this particular locality there is
an unusually large number of new
Corners from outside this state and
from Iowa counties farther to the
south and east. These gre in most
! part men who have bought the places
which they have come to occupy. This
kind OF transaction generally means
/ a set of new buildings or extensive
thing operations or both. One man
! bought 2+0 acre tract of marsh and
pond the most desolate looking spot
! ir this community. ran q seventeen
! inch tile across it to which he con-
nected the necessary laterals, eighteen
/ carloads in all. built q house. barn and
other outbuildings that cost him $4,000
and now ne has a farm worth 300 per
acre. The cost of the land was s45 per
acre. Five years ago ]. II. Tobias
! hou ght a quarter section between here
/ and Latirner. trim med up the grove,
! cleaned out the cookie burs. built a
| small corn crib and then waited for
! {. purchaser 10 come along. He waited
until short time ago. when one came
who bought him out at S10I. an advance
Of just $50 per acre. Rents are ad-
vancing in this section too. What Is
known as the Bohlen farm near Alex
ander. 200-acre place. vas rented this
year for s. per acre in a neighborhood
where So to $3.50 has been the top
price paid for rent heretofore.
| These are the times when railway
! mana cement on branch lines is talked
over in the stores and on the streets
! by business men in town and shippers
and feeders on the farm. One road lost
twelve cars of stock because some
| body thought the management was not
making sufficient effort 10 furnish
cars.
From another town a car load Of
butter was hauIed overland to nearby
station on a main line and shipped TO
an eastern market because the branch
road failed TO notify the shipper when
q refrigerator car would be run thru
the town. MANY are expressing their
oninior Of the system Of running all
the cripnled OLD engines on the
ira NCneS on NI1f'l even more I'fStp'h
than in places elong the main line is
often picked up for shipment. One dar
last week as a train pulled into 2
| station a n en- her Of the crew is said
TO have announced "Nn switching to-
dav. the engine is leaking and We'll
/ ne out Of water before we get to the
| main line IF we do any work as Ie 60
along"
| SAID a farmer the other Iay. IT he
lieve II would pay men to put ND Silos
I FOR making clover silaee for feeding
! hogs in Writer" Then he told - an
| evpc-ierce Of wears go 70 illustrate
/ the feeding value of clover when pre-
I served under favorable conditions.
! Some heavv clover was cut and refused
10 cure" in The usual tine. Il was
then rut into 2 stack regardless ~
condition within = Few DAYS the stack
| shapeless mass and WIS given no more
attention until the next rea- when one
! 5ay IN fall the opnar decided to haul
IN scr7e Of the STIFF for bedding. He
found that underneath the surface the
clover had become so solid that II
could not be cut with 2 hay knife and
was almost as green as the day Il va
stacked Ped blossoms we're packed in
ire solid mass and when he finally
succeeded in getting a load Of Il to the
barn ward the cattle refused al other
particle was used for feed Accident