Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-21
IOWA NEED NOT GO AWAY FROM
HOME FOR SPLENDID SAMPLES
OF SMALL GRAIN.
ALBION FARMER POSSESSES
REMARKABLE SPECIMEN
Another Farmer Makes Record From
Acre Of Strawberry Plants-cotton-
Where High Prices For Farm Lands
Prevaii-c. E. Wilson's Observations.
Special to Timss-Republ,can.

Special to Timss-Repubncan.
Albion. April 2l-No real estate Of
flee is complete without an equipment
OF exhibits. PREDICTS grown on the land
dealt in by the concern occupying the
Office. Everybody is familiar with the
long punches OF wheat, oats, rye, grass
etc. A few great big ears Of corn,
perhaps. Il the land to be sold happens
TO be situated pretty we'll toward the
Canada line. So accustomed 10 this
have We become that We almost be-
lieve we have TO look to the products
OF remote regions to ind anything cut
of the ordinary. The tall grass ali
comes from Minnesota land and Wis
consin, the big oats and wheat from
Canada, Argentine produces the corn
now and other crops grow big in Col
orado, California and certain southern
sections. Some have suggested that
Iowa Is a great corn state and there
never has been any very successful
contradiction to this.
II is possible, however, that some
body has failed TO search closely for
big specimens Of Iowa small grain and
grass, or having found them have been
negligent in making known the results
OF his researches. One instance of this
Kind came &c light one day last week.
In an old machine shed belonging to
an Albion farmer there is a bunch o.
winter wheat stretched along stick
a great long stick OF wood, and unless
the measure used was short Of stand
ard that wheat was six feet two a
length equal to the stature Of very
tall man. And it was grown FIVE years
ago, too and nothing said about II I'M
I'll this late day. Hidden away in an
old machine shed all these years in
stead Of standing in the show window
OF a real estate office but grown In
Marshall county, Iowa, and six feet two
nevertheless.
And then there is a record OF what
Mr.. F. NJ. Kinsey did last year with an
acre OF Iowa land and a few straw
berry plants He coaxed yield Of
about $500 quarts Of fruit from that
acre or at least he sold $40 worth from
the patch" and the price averaged 10
cents per quart. It's great aTgun emf
this thing Of being able to pay for the
land with the proceeds Of a single crop.
They do this sometimes in North Da-
kota, and Oregon and Colorado and
lKinsey did It right here in Iowa He
more than did it.
Then there is a cottonwood tree or
the farm Of D. A. Williams mile OF
two east Of Albion. One day in the
year 1857 one David Randolph went &c
the Iowa river and pulled some small
co,ronwoods out Of the sandy land near
by. One Of his grandchildren, little
fellow still wearing dresses then, an
elderly man now. remembers how
grandpa" allowed the children TO run
ahead Of the plow and put cotton
wood in the bottom Of the furrow
holding to the top Of the tree the while
and greatly enjoy seeing the little
sprout standing erect after the pho"
had passed on. Well one of those trees
planted at the time now measures
something more than fourteen feet IN
circumference, eight or ten feet above
the ground. For years and years
threshing gangs" have gathered there
TO wash" for dinner. Most of the out
buildings on the farm can be reached
in the shade Of that tree, a fine thine
for hot summer afternoon. Some
kinds Of trees grow TO a large size II
this state. That's three, grain. frut
and trees. besides corn. There ars
others too that might be mentioned.
Farm land brings high price II
this locality. Some claim there ism
anything better in this state. Ont
farm, 40 acres, about three miles from
town and well improved, sold recent!
for $4,000 and another. an eighty witt
little in the way Of buildings, littl'
nearer town, changed hands at S2i;
this spring
Ono Of the notieeably good pros
pec.s for a crop in this locality thi
year is that Of the average field o
winter wheat. A considerable acreag
OF this was sown here last fall an
the stands are generally full and al
most as even az a spring sown field
Clover, too, is showing up IN crafty
ing manner in the meadows and pas
lures.
"One would suppose" SAID a far7ne
the other day. that with all the mil
weather of the past winter whic
made possible the utilization Of a
feed left in the stalk fields, meadow
and pastures and with the necessit
for much less feed than would hav
been required II the weather had bee
severe, that hay and other rough Zee
would be cheaper than It is. Had tn
stalk fields lain under . covering
snow and ice all winter as has some
times been the case and excessive col
weather and long stormy periods pre-
vailed where would the feed have com
from to keep the stock in conditio
and what profit would there have bee
in feeding at the prices caused b
such a scarcity as this situation woul
have created?"
c. z. WILSON.