Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-08
Drainage Laws Of State Have Been
Means Of Converting Much Waste
Land 20 Valuable Farmers and Made
Owners Prospsrous-Many Uses Of
Auto-WiIson's Rural ohssrvations.
special to Times Republican.


ner and answered.: Certainly, we must
help one another in cases like this. Of
course you can go thru" The farmer
, hauled out the tile but before he began
\ diggips he took the precaution to ask
j the banker on just what terms he might
go thru and ever afterward was thank
full that he did. for the answer he re-
ceived was: 'You furnish the tile and
put them in and pay mo 500 for going
across" The farmer didn't care to be
helped in Just this manner. the thing
was postponed Indefinitely but later
another way was found and still later
the banker drained his farm at consid-
cradle expense for an outlet.
For some reason it Is very, very dif-
ficuit fer men to get together on a
drainage proposition and generally it's
as difficult or even more SO. for two
adjoining farmers than for farmer
and a banker. doctor or any other kind
of man. II the present drainage laws
or others Of an effective nature had
. not been passed very few OF the count
! less farms OF northern Iowa would be
under the high state OF cultivation
that they are today. There Is much
added expense involved in this compul-
sorry drainage idea but nothing else
would do the work.
Nearly all rules have their excep-
tons Five farmers. Messrs. Ander-
son. Holt, Morrissey. Strohmer and
Swanay, farmers living in q neighbour
hood between Ventura and Garner
have drained their farms without re-
sorting TO anything stronger than
friendly discussion at an estimated ex-
pense Of about half what others with
similar undertakings have paid under
usual circumstances. The five own
about 100 acres OF land that required
draining. They simply apportioned
the expense according to the number
Of acres drained and let the contract
10 a competent man to do the work.
he cost was $1,000 and those who
aid the bill have the satisfaction OF
knowing that for this sum they have
secured thing that would have
sibly TO $4,000. OF course somebody
missed getting the other $4,000 but
that Is part OF another story"
A farmer living in Iowa, near the
Minnesota line needed help in the oats
field. A brother owning q farm fifty
. four miles away, thought he could
spare a day and he climbed into his
automobile one morning at s o'clock
and started out. At o'clock he was
setting up his first shock. He helped
until $3.50 D. M and at he was back
home. That's one thing a farmer can
do with an automobile; there are
others.
one day last week a barn in Han
Iontown caught fire and burned ana
with it nearby building containing
living rooms The efforts OF the crowd
ma, assembled saved the adjacent
buildings and the one across the street
IN the direction toward which strong
wind was blowing. A little later. when
II was thought the danger was over an
,ther dwelling eighty rods away was
seen to be enveloped in flames a cinder
having travelled to 1t over dozen
buildings to that particular house.
some time ago freakish thing oc-
e1rred at fire on the farm Of H. q.
Burtness north of town. A strawstack
stood near his big barn, the distance
between them being not more than
three rods. In Burtness absence the
stack burned and altho the wind car
ried the fire in the direction OF the
barn the latter was saved despite the
act that the windows and doors were
,pen and the NOV was filled with hay.
The rnlmber of thriving young CO.
lucrative creameries doing business in
this part Of the state is noticeable at
This time Nearly every little town has
it's creamery and cream day" brings
somebody to town from nearly every
i.rm for miles around. The town OF
e.lemme. for instance contains a 2
year-oid cooperative concern that
Yill manufacture nearly $4,000 worth |
If butter this year.
clover seed has not been an inn
rortant article Of export in this sec
t,on but an increasing number OF
clover fields are to be observed as COM
pared with other years. H. B. Wilson.
Hanlontown farmer. has field of
-wenty acres that should thresh out .
.aod crop IL count made the other
day is any indication OF results. In
one head sixty-six seeds were found
and in another sixty four. 1t Is said
thar the publisher Of popular farm
oaper estimates twenty seed yield
ean be threshed with profit so that this
one ought to be good one.
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