Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-08
EVERY FARMER DisPLEAsED AND
VETERINARIANS LOT Is
HARD ONE.
INCLINATION TO IGNORE
ORDERS SOON ABANDONED
Farmers on Border Lines Of Counties
Whore Quarantines Exist Have Share
Of ProbIems-Poweshiek county's
Corn Crop Averages Fifty-five Bush
eIs-Wilson's Rural Observations.
Special to Times Republican.

Nov. 50 to be exact, notice came 10 AS
sistant State Veterinarian Talbot, OF
Grinnell, that there was to be no mover
ment of cattle, hogs and sheep within
| the county until further notice. EVIL
IDENTIFY, however, the news was not
taken any too seriously by owners OF
and dealers in this kind of property, for
borrowing, and lending, buying and
selling, driving and hauling went on
very much as usual. Then another
order came that did produce the desired
effect and traffic in cattle, hogs ana
sheep ceased. Auctioncers were called
up over the telephone and told there
would be no more public sales until
later on. One of these is said to have
had a sale date for every day of this
month.--Friday morning men started
out with crates in their wagons intent
on bringing home hogs they had bought
for herd headers. They returned with
out the hogs. The local authority was
one of the businessmen in Iowa last
Saturday, answering questions and APP
peals for modification of the order. One
man had sold stuff q week before
Could he not deliver it now? NO to
that Another had stock ready to sell,
could he ship? Yes to one of four
Iowa points providing he held a permit
from Inspector Talbot certifying that
his stock was healthy and came from
an uncontaminated locality. The owner
of the stock would have to pay trans
portation" charges for inspection, and
this is the source of considerable indiS-
nation on the part of the farmer He
looked upon that $40 or IS or SIS charge
as nothing but pure graft and one or
him declared that if this thing Is kept
up thirty days there will be protest
that will produce change. Another
telephone call proved to be from a man
who had two yards of hogs on differ
ent sides OF q county line. Could he
sell from the free county? He could
with the restriction that any reader OF
this might imagine with readiness. An
other had turned his cattle into stalk
field and his feed was exhausted;
might he drive them across the road
into anothey field where there was feed?
YES. but the Inspector must supervise
the driving in person." More trans
portation' charges but no use to pro-
test The inspector was sorry but II
he didn't enforce the provisions of the
quarantine somebody would replace
him who could and would. Some very
hurried deals were made In the last
hours before the lid was put on tight"
and one, at least, of these was rather
futile after ALL Two farmers had
traded some hogs and each helped the
other deliver the goods" The stock
of one was driven to the new owners
place all right but three of the seven
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itively refused to cross small bridge
and had to be left behind. AS the
other farmer was returning to his home
after the aggravating trip he met half
way an old SOW that was part Of the
bunch delivered to his yard an hour or
two earlier. She was returning as fast
as she could to the old home and no.
body offered to impede her progress
In a recent issue of the Grain Deal
ers' Journal an estimate of fifty five
bushels per acre is made for the aver
this year. Such an average means
enormous yields in many fields and the
yields were there too. One of the ele-
vators of Malcolm received 107 loads
of grain, nearly. all of them corn, in a
SlIlS Ic utLy anu SIloQSh SdlHC III VIC iSAI
day to bring the two days receipts to
more than 200 loads. Many farmers
of the county have taken from 5000
to 10000 bushels from their fields.
Probably the largest body of corn in
Poweshieks is on the farm Of Philip
Heishman, who filed up great -four
lengths" crib and. then shifting his
elevator spout filed up big space
to{ P1,n@HTihSo - va y1 ca
that there Is nearly 1000 bushels in
heap. He raised something like
10, 900 bushels from field of 100 acres.
The same man has twenty bushel
lot of seed corn for next year that is
of almost twice as large ears as ordin-
ary corn. One Of them thoroughly
dried out still weighs twenty ounces.
.Fifty-six Of equal weight would make q
bushel.
Corn here is grading considerably
higher at the elevators than is the case
in ordinary years. Where the moisture
test is in use it is found that the aver.
age per cent of moisture is four or
five less than in other years and some
Corn is going thru as No J., thing
which doesn't happen very often, even
in this part of the country.
49,
This section which has been visited
repeatedly by hog cholera for the past
several years is again suffering in
places from the scourge. One farmer,
at least believes that double treat
ment vaccination has something to do
with the matter and contends that this
practice ought to be discontinued alto
gether or else made compulsory with a
provision of some kind guaranteeing
the owner from loss.
The following was overheard in a
1iyoyy bar mn tho other day and DIV.