Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-17
NEARLY $4,000 WORTH OF CORN
HuskEo IN WEEK ON six
RURAL ROUTES.
HARVEST IN VICINITY OF
IOWA FALLS ALMOST ENDED
The Lame, the Halt and the Blind a.
We'll az Boys and Girls Assist in
Work and Enjoy lt-corn Gathered
Under Unusually Pleasant condi-
tions-c. e. Wilson'S Observations.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Iowa Falls, Nov 1.-THE six-day
period that closed last Saturday was
the big corn husking week in this To-
cality. On a few farms the last loads
were brought in; on many Of the re-
naming ones, weather permitting, the
same thing will happen before the
lapse Of another week. If exact figures
ing to calculate the aggregate results
Of this work on the Iowa Falls mail
routes There are six Of them and
probably not far from an average of
100 farms to the route. Nearly every
field was traversed by at least two
wagons so that something like $50 bu-
shells per day have been taken from
each one. This would total 900 bu-
shells from each of the 500 farms or
$4,000 in all. Nearly 100000 worth
of corn at present prices put in the
cribs in one week on the mail routes
from one Iowa postoffice.
If as much outside help as in other
years was used in the cornfields this
fall it was in some place other than
this. The fields are unusually free
. from weeds. the corn generally stands
up well and the ground has been dry,
making 1T practicable for men, women
and children. old and young to help,
and about all these have helped. On
one farm a man Sc years old. father
of wealthy farmer, goes out with
his son regularly. Isn't contented un-
less he does A 74-year-old man on
another farm averages more than fifty
bushels daily. A 12-year-old girl and
her brother two years younger took
a team and wagon out one day and
| from o'clock until evening they
husked forty-five bushels and taxed
their father $3.50 for the job. They
| planned TO do even more the next day
but a sprained wrist defeated the
project and forty bushels was the best
they could do. On the e. r. Swart
farm little Daisy, 10 years Of age ex-
planned that papa and mamma are
picking corn while keep house and
take care Of the children"-three tots
playing In the yard. I'm washing
| these milk cans now" she continued.
| ''and get the meals. too. It's lots OF
! work. Are you the Times Republican
man? Well, papa left check for you.
I'll go in and get it, and she did go
ing carefully over the receipt handed
her in return. In one field q man
with one leg and a crutch has been
| picking two good loads day and In
another were q woman and two men,
one OF the latter totally blind, fact
| that the visitor failed to notice until
told about 1t. Everybody is husking
corn this fall.
! A fine thing was done the other day
on the McMillen farm southwest Of
town. Mr.. C. F. McMillen. an early
settler and now retired is lying serious
| ly i'll in his Iowa Falls home. His son
operates the farm. The father insists
that the son attend him but man
can't farm and nurse at the same time,
especially at points several miles apart.
The neighbors wanted to help, although
this was not case Of financial distress
| by any means, and 1t was the desire
to show their regard for the older
man that brought twenty Of the sons
morning and put 1000 bushels Of corn
into the crib before night.
NOIIlc uHc improvements a. y
being made in this community at the
present time Splendid residences built
! by Frank Sanders of Owasa and w.
F. Johnson, OF Iowa Falls, on their re-
spective farms, a barn 36x74 feet with
ten box stalls and other modern equip
ment by C. H. Smith, two fine barns
of hollow brick and wood combined put
up by G. w. Sheppard Of Owasa and
house and round barn with silo in the
center both built of hollow vitrified
brick on the G. A. Elzig farm, south
of here are noticeable structures in the
| localities mentioned.
There is an ancient saying to the
effect that you can lead horse to
water but you can't make him drink"
It isn't so. The contrary has been
proven by Mr.. William Cumming on his
| miniature horse farm in the edge Of
town. Dunning doesn't even lead the
animals to water either, he just tells
them to go and do 1t. No matter how
thirsty the animal after few swallows
have been taken, he orders all such
stunts as are to be seen in trained
animal shows and then some, and
when the performance is over he says
Ego back and take another drink on
me-" and meek submission follows.
Mr. Dunning uses murderous looking
whip with lash composed Of heavy