Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-09

lContdSe Oh Lnem return 0Itor q longer
or shorter residence in Iowa to their
native heath. One man who claimed
to know says the prevailing wages are
about $40 per month, with free house
rent. garden spot, use Of two cows.
privilege Of raising chickens. and with
q further concession in the way Of 400
pounds of pork each year. 1t Is said
that the higher wages paid here as
compared with what 10 paid in the
state to the south makes 1t easy to
get help Of this kind. some Of it be-
ing entirely satisfactory and some Of
course entirely otherwise.
Of opportunity for the "never-saw-th the
nke-before" man to get in his work.
One Of these said: II saw something
this morning that would not have
dreamed possible and am almost Sc
years old; 1t was a clover plant down
in the meadow In full bloom. Another
to show signs Of activity In the bud
q grass plot that was making steady
growth. The driver of the team kept
killing flies on his team with his
Of other farmers were not at their
houses, they were out In the field
blowing up some sod while the plow-
ing was good and Friday evening. Dec.
S, the last thing we noticed at q
farm home passed Just before dark,
was q little girl skipping, barefoot,
from the house to the barn thru the
mud. And all this happening in Iowa
less than three weeks before Christ
mas.
1T takes all kinds Of people to make
q world" said the observer Of olden
days, and certainly he was right about
1t. Years ago there came to Powe-
shiek county from New England
state two brothers. who bought up q
tract Of the then cheap land. The
man who told the story says that
everything they undertook proved
financially successful and that they
never undertook anything unless 1t
promised financial returns. They are
aged men now and they still live to-
gether and alone and every little while
they buy another farm until now they
have what Is estimated to be worth
perhaps a quarter OF a million dollars
worth of property. They live in an
old house, the yard around which is
fenced hog tight and the fence was
made to keep hogs inside and not out
side the yard. At one7time 1t Is said
there were more than a thousand hogs
on the farm.
While on the subject Of hog raising
there is one man In this locality who
can point to remarkable record in
this line. Philip Heishman has farmed
continuously since the close OF the
civil war, has always been heavy
hog raiser and has never yet lost a
hog by cholera unless this has hap
pened since the close OF last week. At
that date he had something more than
800 Of the animals on his place. On
different occasions his nearest neigh
bors lost their hogs. while his have
always escaped disease. He never
"dopes" his stock further than with
the old fashioned remedies salt. ashes.
ETC., but sees that they have clean
and comfortable quarters and regular
feed.
Every year from this time in the
season to the following March the
man working thru. the country Is oc-
casionally visiting farmers who haven't
the slightest idea 20 to where they
will be, located next. They know they
must make way in the spring for an
other man and that AZ ali. This year
there are many more cases OF the
kind than usual. The owner intends
..raising the rent" and the farmer
often replies that be can not pay
more than the sum specified in his
present lease. The landlord takes him
at his word. and the next thing that
happens Is the coming in Of man
from some part Of the country where
land sand rent are still higher and he
signs q lease before the occupant Of
the farm knows anythins shout it and