Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-29
MAN: WHO DOESN'T OWN IT DE.
cLAREs LAND is NOT WORTH
5000 PER ACRE.
FELLOW WHO GROWS CROPS
HAS ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW
Veteran Horse Buyer Admits Automo.
bile is Eneroaehing Rapidly on
Business and Day 10 Near When
Farm Animals Will 30 Of Less Value
&C. e. Wilson's Rural Observations.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Liscomb, April GAS. the train was
speeding past the level farms between
| the towns of Albion and Liscomb the
other day a man looked out the car
window and said: This is good coun-
| try thru here but they are holding
| land too high. Nothing short Of 5000
| per acre goes here and there's hardly
any of it for sale at that or any other
figure. It's too high; land isn't worth
that much" Well, that day the
assessor Of Liscomb township said he
had been figuring up crop yields in
his territory. He found that an aver
/ age Of fifty-six bushels of corn grew
! last year on every acre of corn ground
| in the township: that a little more than
| fifty bushels of oats was harveste d
! from the average acre of that cereal;
| that the men who grew timothy seed
sacked up an average of nine bushels
! per acre from every acre threshed; that
! one ten acre piece of clover hulled out
sixty-three bushels of seed. The prize
! field Of corn yielded III bushels to the
acre Farms in this;sectien' are gem
orally high, level land, tiled where
/ necessary, the soil is deep and rich, the
! Improvements are away above the av-
! erage. The man who said $500 is too
much for an acre of such land finds
! subject on which he and the owners of
| it differ very materially.
On the same train was veteran
horse dealer and he made a few re-
marks about matters in his line of bus
| mess. Said that the auto has put the
horse out of commission partially and
will certainly finish the job in the near
future. A few years ago when he
entered big express office and pre-
sented his card the manager was al
ways at leisure and in reply to the an
nouncement, Il have bunch of ex-
pressers down at the barn." he an
swered cheerfully, "All right, I'll have
man out this afternoon to look them
over" In these days the card goes
in and the bearer returns with the in
| formation that the manager is busy
and can not see any one just now.
Then as likely as not an auto truck
salesman comes along and the man
ager Immediately changes his mind
about being busy The auto man comes
out Of the office wearing smile that
anybody could interpretive order
smile. The farmer himself is all that
holds up the price of horses today,
| continued the old man and when this
good roads talk shall have resulted in
the establishment of hard surface roads,
as it will in due time, you will see the
/ ., al oh vno ItS
hauling hundred bushels loads of grain
and three or four ton loads of hogs to
market returning with half winters
supply of coal or great heavy load OF
lumber and he won't be doing It with
big heavy team of draft horses either
He will own an auto truck himself as
well as passenger car, and when that
day comes where will the horse busi-
ness be, Id like to know"
.-..f
Some years ago in the north part of
Iowa there lived a man who worked as
a clerk in store. He had a family
to support and the job kept him busy.
After awhile he drifted into the sewing
machine business and as an agent he
drove over the country trying to fight
off rheumatism and the proverbial
wolf and at times it seemed as tho
one or the other or both would whip
him out. in spite of his best efforts.
Then a rural mail route vacancy oc-
Cured and he got the place. Eleven
years Of carrying mail never made
a man rich either, that is under the
present system. By the time this JOB
was completed the man was beginning
to be what might be called "old." Then
he decided to take a flyer in real es-
tate With relative he invested
few hundred dollars, the savings of
years in a tract Of land. few months
later it was sold and the subject of this
paragraph was $1,000 ahead. He took
the money and made payment on an
other farm. kept the place two years,
raised good crops on it and sold it at
a good big advance. Then he went
into another county, bought a fine
quarter section which is advancing in
price all the time and with reasonable
success he will have the farm clear or
debt within very few years. The
struggling clerk and sewing machine
agent that seemingly stood no chance
of ever getting ahead in the world is
one of the prosperous land owners in
a region of high priced farms.
1t is told on the old liveryman in an
Iowa town that some three or four
years ago he decided to put in an auto
mobile and shortly after purchasing
the machine he started on trip with
some lady passengers. The steering
apparatus didn't work just right, the
driver wasn't used to the business and
the car started for a tree despite the
mans efforts to keep it in the road.
He shut off the oil but couldn't think
about the brake. Just as the machine,
now almost stopped went into the tree
the despairing driver is said to have
grabbed one of the tires with his hands
and shouted Whoa, gosh dang ye!"
Another man brought the car In but
that was three or four years ago and
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