Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-20
IOWA REAL EsrATE MAN SHOWS
sAMPLEs or ARGENTINA
CORN.
INFERIOR IN QUALITY,
SHOWS CLIMATE LACKING
Argues iswa Farmers Have Ne Reason
q Fear Competition From Southern
Rspublio-livsstssk Passes Glover
Dy When Feed Of Alfalfa 10 Available
&C. e. wilson's Rural Observations.
pecial to Times-R Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Garner, Jan. 20.-The real estate
man who had the sample isn't selling
Argentina land nor trying to sell it but
he had q few grains Of corn in an en-
velope, corn that Is said to have come
from the South American country
which some men are beginning to con-
slider danger point to the Iowa farmer
who makes a business Of growing corn
for market. II the sample is true to
type Argentina corn looks a good deal
like what one would expect man to
bring from the extreme north parts Of
this country; little finty stuff that
makes a sorry showing beside what
comes in on the wagon Of the Hancock
county farmer. All real estate agents
are presumed to be able to talk and
this with very much elimination is what
this one said about the Argentine corn
scare:
Look at this corn 1t was grown in
a place farther south than this is north
and by some Spanish half breed that
can't write his name. He hasn't any
home market for his produce and
therefore must sell it to some one to
ship to a distant country. This year
corn happens to be unusually high in
this country SO lot of it was started
to New York on ships. In the mean
time big corn crop was husked In this
country and about half the hogs in the
country being dead and consequently
unable to eat a large part of the sur
plus 1t was piled on the ground or put
in temporary cribs to be shelled and
marketed as soon as possible. Then
came the foggy, open weather and
everybody was anxious to market the
corn before it should mold and spoil.
Tho splendid condition Of the roads ia
vored hauling and millions of bushels
more than usual were thrown on the
market. There was a lot of moisture
in the marketed product and that didn't
help prices any. Is 1t any wonder 1t
dropped q few cents? What did tariff
reduction have to do with all this?
Why, next to nothing. Providence never
did favor the democrats as q party ex-
cept just at election time in a few
cases and this Is no exception to the
usual rule. There is no reason In the
Iowa corn raiser becoming frightened
over foreign corn imports; nothing at
all except the old story Of supply and
demand"
"A. w. Anderson has on his farm q
sopeaacre plot Of alfalfa that the Ames
authorities helped him to get started.
He plowed the land in the fall and be-
gan disking in the spring, going over
the piece with this implement at short
intervals until the following August.
This was done for the double purpose
of destroying weeds and making .
proper seed bed. one that would hold
moisture. In August the seed was sown
and last season three one-ton cuttings
were made. To test the desire Of his
stock for this kind Of feed Anderson
placed a four-inch layer of alfalfa in
the bottom Of his feed rack and covered
1t with two feet of first quality clover
hay. The next morning he went out
and found a large part Of the clover
left but the alfalfa was gone. He esti-
mates the present feeding value Of this
crop at $40 per ton which certainly
makes 1t one OF the most valuable
crops that can be grown on farm.
sa
Mr.. Ed Quintus, who has one of the
best improved small farms in northern
Iowa, is building hog house. In shape
it Is the usual modern high and low
double roof with upper and lower south
In size 24x60 feet. The walls
are three feet Of concrete upon which
is placed three feet Of wood. The
wooden part is all covered with one
ply roofing and this In turn Is covered
with galvanized iron sheeting. The
twenty pens inside are ext and 6xS
feet. The building cost about $500.
Down the road half mile from this
place Fred Greiman has just finished
a building Of the same shape and NAM
moth proportions. This one is twenty
eight feet wide and 112 feet long and
to the south of it is cement feeding
LIP feet long and to the south of it is
cement feeding floor 112x1S feet. There
are at present more than 200 hogs on
this farm. 1t is estimated that some-
thing like half the hogs in this section
of the country died of disease. Very
little vaccination was done due in large
part to distrust of the quality of serum
On the farm operated by D. H. Ham
mon there is double corn crib Of un-
usual construction that is giving good
The rafters are Of wood,
the roof sheeting and studding Of iron.
the walls of woven wire and the foun-
dalton parts Of concrete. 1t was ship
ped knocked down" and had only to
be put together on the foundations to
be ready for use. The material cost
slightly more than that of the ordinary
crib.
George Greiman has contrived for
himself new kind Of tile ditching ma
chine which works so well that he has
applied for a patent on his invention.
At the rear of long low truck is a