Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-03-31
SEVERAL HUNDRED ACRES OF
TREE LAND IN HARDIN
COUNTY BEING CLEARED.
TOO VALUABLE TO BE
PERMITTED TO LIE IDLE
Willow Rows Planted by Pioneers on
Prairie Farms Being Converted Into
Fire Woodstock on Rough Feed All
Winter Comes Thru in Good Condi.
tion-Wilsen's Rural Observations.

two there will be several hundred acres
more of Hardin county land furnish
ing to its owners crops Of grain and
hay or pasture than has been the case
up 20 this time. At the same time the
wooded AGRA Of the county viii
diminish TO a corresponding extent.
Travellers on trains this spring look
thru the car windows and see where
whole groves have been leveled to the
ground by the choppers, the wood ar
ranged in neat piles or in long stacks
OF fence posts, the brush all piled up or
burned and the land ready Tor the blue
grass shat VIII spring up when the
growing season arrives. II looks like
pity to chop ten trees down but
there is another side to the story. The
owner Of I20-acre farm of this kind,
only fitry-Ave acres OF ii cleared. was
offered $4,000 for his place the other
day and refused to sell. These tracts
have become too valuable 10 remain
idle any longer just the same as the
undrained portions Of the Aatter cour-
ties farther north and west, where the
tile spade has been doing what the ak
is here. On the adjoining Gcundy
county farms where nearly every
pioneer settler harened TO plant rnW
OF willows around s!s entire farm, the
row great trees are being GU. down
everywhere. much to the beEeH: OF the
roads, the strip Of farm? land inside. the
appearance Of the country AID the
summer fuel supply OF the family living
On the farm. Many Of the farmers own
wood saws and "buzzing" up the viii
lows has been the principal local farm
event OF The past two weeks.
Y paws to BE accommodating: also
some people seem to enjoy doing others
a good turn where tho reward feature
IS not apparent. The other day
stranger in countyseat town want
ed 70 Ioca-e a man he wished 70 see
Saw man coming up the street tc-
ward him carrying a wash boiler: eNi-
IDENTIFY q business man or his clerk.
Ee knew the man and where he lifed.
Come along and he would show the
way. They passed an office and 'he
guide said. Come in here
! find out = the man was a. home. Then
! man taking al this trouble f7- hin,
/ ceesful banking institution. Somebody
said, They're all that way" Il pays
to be accommodating
The following shows what a mild
winter means to the man who owns
stock cattle a local farmer. Ross
: $vpa
head Of steers coming two years old.
Last -all ne made a deal wiki man 70
| let the animals run in stalk fed.
where they had access also 10 water
They lived thru the winter without
other feed and with practically no at
ltention ami about two weeks ago
were turned into pasture. last years
growth Of blue grass. The are said to
be in first class condition and vii! need
mo feeding, probably, until next win
te-.
John H CARY. a well-known Hardin
county farmer, has l4-year -oid son
who has already proved his capacity in
one department OF modern far-nins g.
Last fall young Clary decided TO try
his hand at selecting and saving seed
corn and he went into the business on
a pretty large scale. He collected
Iseyeaty-five bushels OF two different
v.s-ieties. strung It UP in an attic IN
up date style, tested Il this spring
and advertised the goods In Local
pa Der. A. this writing Il is nearly a,
cold at a good price and. applications
Tor seed corn are still coming in.
Some Of the best improved farms and
finest farm lands in this part Of the
, state are On the mail route !iaes from
/. the town OF E!do-a- L va often re-
marked that There Is but one GrundJ
county" where practically every acre il
, tcultiystabie, the soil OF the highes
: fertility and the "lay" of the land ideal
To the west Of town are many fnel!
s improved farms. Among these are two
= men, John Granson and Henry Weir
e man, who have electric lighted houses
: MISUNDERSTANDING Clarence Perkins an
= other farmer in that locality, is build
y ing what will be one Of the finest farm
s houses in Hardin county.
J. P. Graham, local sheep man, ha
e made record as an exhibitor that u
e not often eaualled. In the past te!
n years he has captured more than go
t ribbons in contests at county and dis
I trict fairs and at the Iowa state fair.
This Is the way one farmer devised
a "a. trap that rid his place of tn
gnawing pests. He bought big gal
" vanized iron basket, took 1t home an
placed 1t in his barn: then he filled
. two thirds full of water. and put In
layer Of chaffy oats an inch in depfr
The next morning he emptied out
= mixture OF water, oats and rats an
rebaited his trap. The third mornin
he figured UP and found ne had ende
t the existence Of eighty-nine OF hi
long tailed enemies and he declare