Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-25
HANCOCK COUNTY FARMER RE-
CALLS DAY WHEN HE COULD
NOT AFFORD POSTAGE.
NOW OWNS $500 ACRES
OF SPLENDID IOWA LAND
Successful Plan of Raising and Matur-
ing Hoes-Bank Signs Adorn Hog
House and is Considered Entirely
Approprate-C. z. Wilson's Rural
Observations.
Special 10 Times Republican.

Special 10 Times Republican.
Garner. Feb. 25.--Nearly thirty five
years age two men, brothers. came to
this locality from Clayton county,
Iowa, and bought a quarter section of
land. They paid Sl5 per acre for it, a
high price for those days, because il
was close To a little town and because
forty acres of it was under cultivation
al the time. After few months an
other brother came ''to see what the
boys We're doing out west and after
he had looked around a little they
asked him what he thought of the
country. He replied that if one had his
land paid for he might, by hard work
ana careful management, make a Nv
ing. So thought one Of the two who
came first and he stayed. He is here yet
ana scattered around over a township
or TWO are numerous sons and dauGh-
tiers on farms of their own which they
We're helped to secure by the father
who still owns something more tnaH
two sections Of highly improved Han
cock county land besides large tracts
located elsewhere. Hard times? Well,
Wat WDu q lIifN We tsti!tb " ilCAi Nii>
didn't write a letter 10 the folks back
nome" for six months because IL re-
quired q 3-cent stamp TO pay trans
pOrtation charges? Wheat dropped TO
% cents q bushel once and had to be
hauled 10 Clear Lake, sixteen miles
away. at thai. AS late as 1886 corn had
TO 90 at cents Il bushel unless one
happened to have stock TO which it
ilv
there was little thought of advance in
land, the main theme being the making
of a living" The father and mother
in this case stacked the wheat several
seasons W lille the little tots played
round in the field. VIII any young
farmer of this day find it possible to
possess himself Of 1900 acres of lana
the greater part in as fruitful a portion
of Iowa at tfis, within the next thirty
, five wears. building it all up from only
enough capital 10 buy a quarter sec
tom NO" says Fred Greimann, the
Clayton county immigrant who back IN
the early eighties found it diitic ut to
buy a stamp with which TO send let
ter back home.
! Mr.. Frank Meter. farmer of Ell
Tow MP. hl!cN iioN ~ i'''-7N '-'~'''-'
the following will show About Jan. Ia
| Of this year he sold six head that were
! Nav pigs, which averaged 33S pounds
! IN weight and a carload marketed just
afteryard averaging 315 pounds. Inc
pigs had the run of a clover field thru
the summer. In the fall they were
turned into a field of peas and sweet
corn and later they hogged down a if
+gJ,, f.,IY11 4 n II.
Every morning before leaving the YARD
they were given all the dry oats they
would ea- and three times day they
we're stopped with mixture Of water
and OF! meal or ground "succotash.
While being finished the animals were
fed in a separate place each day and
at some distance from their sleeping
quarters. the objects being to compel
exercise and insure cleanliness the
tourney 70 the feeding grounds AFFORD
ing the former and the constant change
the laueC.
That this is something Of an oats
growing country is 10 be inferred from
the records of last years crop, one
OF the most conspicuous being that
on the farm of w S. sheldon. south
east of Garner Mr.. Sheldon had 140
acres of oats that weighed out ap-
uroximately 10000 bushels or about
seventy bushels per acre. an enormous
average for so large an acreage.
One Of the most successful farm
ers' co-operative creameries in north
ern Iowa is located at Garner and the
latest report of it's secretary shows
what such an institution does for the
man who milks cows. During the year
the concern received almost one and
a half million pounds Of cream from !
it's $50 patrons, who received an aver
age of ::o.t cents per pound for butter
fat or total of more than $4,000. |
About {, 900 pounds of butter was sold |
10 the patrons themselves and the total
receipts for butter sold at home were |
Sc 456, the greater part being shipped
to eastern markets. That a creamery
spends money at home besides that
paid for cream is shown by the state
ment OF running expenses. the figures
reaching nearly $4,000. A resident OF |
the town who earns his living by the
sweat of his brow" remarked, however,
THE creamery is too good for my well
fare. such a concern keeps the local
price Of butter so high that some of
us find it necessary to forego its use
and resort to oleomargarine.'
About mile from Garner is what
is left Of the village of Concord, once
the county seat of Hancock county.
Most of the remaining buildings are
now either farm residences or out
buildings, barns. granaries and the
like On the end of one of these, hog
house on the w. NJ. Maley farm in
large wooden letters is the one word.
Bank" This building is said to have