Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-01
SUCCESSFUL FARMERS USUALLY
DISSATISFIED WITH LIFE IN
CITY OR TOWN.
MANY GO BACK TO LANDS
THEY TRIED TO DESERT
c. e. Wilson Finds Proof Of Claim in
Two Instances in Powesniek County
Iowa Farmers Growing Crops in
North Dakota BY Proxy-New Deal
in Cattle Feeding.
Special to Times Republican.

Grinnell, Jan. 1.-Thrce brothers
came to this county a good many years
ago and with their families settled on
land that they bought all in the same
neighborhood. They worked and man
aged and prospered. One by one, as
they became old they sold off their
personal property, rented their farms
and moved to one of the good towns
where they We're wont to trade and
where they were in consequence ac-
quainted. Two Of them possibly the
third also, built homes ana made every
preparati ton to spend life's evening in
Well-earned ease. That was several
years ago. This fall one of these men
now 70 years of age, husked sixty loads
of corn, somewhere between 1900 and
1000 bushels, that grew on mis- farm
He moved back soon after he went to
town because he didn't like it in town
at ALL Nothing like farm life for him.
Another of the brothers has recently
finished neat cottage close to the
old farmhouse where a married daugh-
ter lives. His wife wasn't contented
day during the brief period of retire
ment in town. but judging from the
= y
gentleman was putting into the work
Of helping a son build hunks for feeding
cattle on one Of the farms the other
day it isn't mother alone who is
glad they are back to the farm. The
third of the brothers still lives in town
Has been there two years How does
he like town life? go, not very we'll"
1t is great to be able to sell off the
hn n and
take life easy. but as for actually doing
it, that is another thing entirely. as
such examples as the above which is
not overdrawn in any particular, il
| lustrate.
Here is another way of handling an
| outside land investment Six Powe-
shiek county farmers bought in COM
pany 5000 acre tract of land in South
Dakota. One of their number, Mr..
George Schiller, superintends the cul-
tivation Of the 1,4OO acres that are de-
voted to grain raising and the handling
Of the 500 head Of cattle, about the
average number kept on the big farm.
For the protection Of the latter there
| is a 400-foot shed built on the place.
| The farming outfit consists of 40
| horsepower tractor which pulls sixteen
fourteen-inch plows followed by a big
harrow back and forth thru the i'm
mense fields. When seeding is to be
done contrivance consisting of four
| ten-fott disks behind which come three
| eleven-foot drills and this in turn
| trailed by seven fve-fOot sections Of
harrow is hitched to the monster en-
| CINE and steam is turned on. When
| harvest time comes instead of an Ordi-
nary grain binder it is a tWelve-foOr
| header attended by several teams haul
| ing the big header boxes that takes the
grain from the ground where it grew.
| At threshing time a big 40NG0 separ-
ator completes the small grain business.
| From eight to twenty men are en-
ployed to handle this machinery thru
out the farming season About twenty
horses are kept on the farm. The water
supply comes from an arteSian well.
| ***
! Two local farmers made a deal in
cattle feeding, the conditions being as
| follows: One brought in the cattle
| from an outside market. selling them to
the second. who feeds them until March
! l. next. Then the first man is to have
them for shipment at q price 81 per
hundred higher than the feeder paid
for them. Needless to remark who may
get the lions share of the profits
if there are any, and he also runs the
risk Of having to shoulder the entire
loss if there be no gain. 1t is said. how
ever, that he has ventured out in this
line a good many times before this
and usually with gratifying results.
There is one old farmer. now in the
stage Of retirement but highly success
full during his days of activity. who
stoutly maintains that there is little OF
no profit in extensive stock feeding
that is. in buying feeders hogs and
grain. at is all right" he says. ''tc
finish few cattle and some hogs with
the corn grown on the farm and tc
finish them right. but one thing hare
to understand is why it is rat the per-
sistent feeder, the professional if there
is such big money feeding. finds II
necessary in almost every case to Dor
row the funds necessary to carry or
the business"
Some time ago a farmers wife pro-
posed that a small gasoline engine DC
installed to furnish power to do Tx
family washing The husband anc
father didn't know as he could afford
the expense and the wife and mother
figured out plan whereby the expendi-
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