Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
DElNo VccEooFuLLv USED ON
sMALLER TRACTS IN NOR.
THEM IOWA
ECONOMY IN TIME ANo
EXPENSE AND CARE OF HORSES
Land Being Plowsd with Engines a.
Power When Too Dry For older
Msthods-Psat Manufacturing Plant
Near Fertile Going 70 Dscay-WH.
sons Rural Observations.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Hanlontown, Sept. 2.-"Every farm
er on farm as large as quarter sec
ton can make profitable use of trac-
ton engine of his own, providing the
land he cultivates is reasonably level"
declares farmer of this locality.
Thomas Rye. who occupies the Rye
brothers farm near here is using q
1925 tractor on the place, which COM
prises some 240 acres of cropper land,
going back to the odd fashioned"
method of using horses only. He is
blowing eight to ten acres a day in
ground that at the time this is writ
ten is almost too dry to plow in the
ordinary way, blowing it deep, too, six
or seven inches. and doing an unusual
~ good job as we'll. He figures that
with his engine he is doing the work
or ten horses and two men without
resting one-third the time on the cor
ners of the fields to cool off the over
heated animals. Last spring he put in
his small grain crop hitching two disks
to the engine and disking forty acres
day. Only five work horses are kept
on the farm. about 300 acres Of land in
all. The modern farm is becoming more
and more like great factory and the
daily uses to which the traction engine
may be put seem to Justify this mans
contention as noted above.
The obiiS:HS and courteous banker
is appreciated more. perhaps, than he
is aware. by his farmer patrons. The
newspaper collector finds frequent in
stances which convince him that such
is the case. Two years ago Wright
county farmer moved several miles,
making it necessary to change his
trading point, but the checks were
still written on the bank where he for
merly did business. "Those people used
us so we'll when we came up here that
we couldn't think Of changing" ex.
planned the farmers wife. Last week
a Worth county man who has lived
there three years and evidently regards
his present home as permanent. wrote
check on a bank almost $50 miles
away. These are two of dozens Of IL
Illustrations. The farmer and the bank
er In rural Iowa at least appear to find
each others friendship and good will
very necessary assets.
An unusual transaction was about
to be closed one day near here last
week and doubtless has since been
concluded. An old farmer and his wife
decided TO sell out and leave the farm.
A buyer was found who wanted not
only the farm but the crops. stock and
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but pack up the furniture like the ten
ants in city dwelling and move to
another home.
In the year 1870 Mr.. S. L. Rood
bought Of Virginia land Spectator a
$40 acre farm near the little town OF
Fertile. Paid $3.50 per acre for 1t.
About 100 acres was low and nat, but
he broke 1t up and for ten or q dozen
years cropped it with good results.
Then came series Of wet seasons ana
the hundred acres went back to sod
and slough grass. This year it is again
being broken and $1,000 worth OF tile
put in. Nobody seeing the freshly
turned sod would ever suspect that the
land. had been cultivated in former
day. The $3.50 farm Of forty three
years ago, it might be added, is $i25
farm today.
AS is the case in so many other
parts Of this state many farmers here
are losing their hogs. Hundreds of the
animals have died within the past few
weeks and the disease is spreading
One man finding couple Of sick ones
in his herd at once stopped all feed
except grass and water. disinfected his
hog house. mixed some coal and ashes
and put it where the hogs could get
it and for more than week has found
no more ailing ones. Others have lost
their entire herds.
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Here is an illustration of what is
taking place in this section OF Iowa
these days in the line of farm buying
and selling. Five years ago ]. w.
Boggs came into the vicinity of Ven
tura and paid s57 per acre for quar-
ter section farm. He spent something
like IS per acre in Improvements dur
ing the time he owned the place which
he sold last September at 500 an acre.
About a month later 1t was sold again
and didn't change hands any more I'M
I'll spring. The next purchaser hadn't
owned the farm more than few weeks
when lady capitalist came alcng and
bought 1t and soon afterward she sold
to q man who in turn has put price
on the place. Every one of these num-
erous transactions has meant an adj
vance in price and the tenant sees
somebody sauntering around looking
the farm over almost every time he
~iances ncroSs the fields.
At the foot Of hill near the road
side, few miles west from Hanlon-
town, there stands great shed struc-
ture perhaps fifty feet in widtn anu
200 feet long. Back of this are two
sheds which extend another
200 feet to q roof beneath which some
expensive machinery stands Redeemed
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