Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-25
AOK|NG N PROGRESS
MUCH IOWA SOIL BEING TURNED
UNDER IN LATE NOVEMBER,
1918.
MOST OF CORN CROP
ALREADY IN THE CRIB
Some Who Have Not Finished Harvest
Postpone Huskine In Order 70 Pre-.
pare Soil For Spring WORTHWHILE
Families Seen in FisIds-c. e. viii.
sons Rural Observations,

sons Rural Observations.
Special to Times-Republican.
Baskerville. Nov. 25.-An unusual
situation prevailed ON the farms Of
this section last week. Acres and acres
of meadow land. pasture. stubble and
even cornstalk land ground were
turned over. subtracting that much
from the field work Of next spring.
Some few finished husking corn and
started again to pillow simply because
there was no other field work to do.
Some quit husking preferring the risk
Of rough weather for corn picking to
that Of q wet spring for plowing up
low ground. Very little Of the corn
Is on the ground here this fall and
there Is little fear that there will not
be plenty of opportunity to get the
crop into the crib. One man said, II
have Just been to town with a load
Of corn and hauled home load Of
hard COAL" In reply to the question.
Did the corn pay for tho coal?" he
answered. Yes. and then some"
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There are plenty Of instances, too,
of utmost haste to get the corn pick
ing finished. In one case the wife Of
a wealthy farmer, the mother OF half
a dozen or more children, went into
the cornfield with the rest Of the fam
lily 80 the children wouldn't have to
miss any more school than is absolute
ly necessary" At the house on an
other farm a little 8-year-old girl with
a broken arm in q sling was the only
occupant, the father and mother were
in field half a mile away. Another
young couple, the parents of a child
only about two months old, were
husking corn while the little one was
being cared for by it's grandparents
miles away. In field near Iowa Falls
the whole family was grouped round
the two wagons, father, mother and
five children, the latter ranging in age
from to IL years, and every one was
husking corn.
Ten years ago Mr.. Charles Logue
came up from Washington county and
paid $65 per acre for a quarter Sec
ton OF Emmet county land near the
little town Of Huntington. There were
two sets OF improvements on the place.
He occupied one Of these and from
time to time has taken some Of the
from the other and added to
where he lives. The other day he
sold the eighty from which he took
part of the improvements for the sum
Of $4,000. That's the way land values
have risen here in the past ten years.
Mr.. Logue is q sugar beet raiser
and he makes the business pay. This
year he had twenty acres that cleared
him $1,000. not calculating his own
labor. He got an average of more
than fifteen tons per acre. Thus far.
however, there has been no contracting
for beets in this locality, the change
in tariff schedules being given as tho
reason for the absence Of the beet
solicitor.
Those Of US whose business takes US
among strange people continually, soon
learn that not everybody we meet will
see fit to pat US on the back and call
US good fellows no matter how good
we are or try to appear to be. and
some Of US learn after awhile that Oft
en- when we fail to make good" with
a man It IL because Of something that
has happened before we met him and
over which We had not the least con-
troll. After the lapse Of years Of ex-
perience we cease to consider the oc-
casional rebuff that Is bound to come
as being 80 personal as It seemed
in earlier years and console ourselves
with the idea that misfortune or some
other mans misdeeds caused all the
we being in no wise blamable
and therefore with nothing to regret.
Here is case in point tho unattended
by anything verging on the spectacu-
lar.
According to the farmers story a
fellow came to his house to deliver an
enlarged picture" and Of course he
wanted to sell a frame for 1t. The
wife sent him to the cornfleld to show
the frames to the husband and let him
decide on the style to be taken. The
agent returned to tho house and re-
ported that the highest priced kind
had been selected and that the wife
was to write q check for the frame.
She did and the figure was pretty
high, too, for picture frame for peo-
pie in ordinary circumstances. When
the farmer came in and learned the
facts he was mad, simply mad. He
hitched up and drove to town to try
to md that picture man. He found
him.. He got part or all his money
back and returned to- the cornfleld but
before he went he told his wife what
he would do to the next agent that
came on his place. OF course one soon
came along and asked where Mr.. x.
was and If he took any daily paper.
No use to see him for he had tried the
paper q while last year and didn't like
It. Thought there wasn't enough news
In Il for him. Now the reason why"
didn't sound Just right to the agent
and he said he thought he'd 80 out to
the field anyway Notwithstanding the
rather vigorous protest that It would
do no good. Some agents can husk
corn after fashion. and to shorten
The story the farmer finished with.
Eve lost 107 hogs, two cows, good
] Give Thanks" !
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