Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-02
FARMERS OF IOWA SPEND y, oo.ooo
ANNUALLY FOR MA.
cAiNERY.
lMMENsirv OF BUSINESS /
DISCUSSED AT MEETING
Long Time Credit System OF lrnpls-
ment Dealers Held 70 Be Cause Of
Increasing Cost Of Food Products TO
Censumers--Western Grain Dealers
Meet in Convention.

Special TO Times Republican.
I Cedar Rapids. Dec. 1.-THE farmers
OF Iowa buy in a single year SzvVsuV1,-
600 worth OF farm implements" de-
clared Mr.. J. A. Craig, of GAINESVILLE.
/ Wis, in his address on The New Era
] in the Implement Business. before the
! largely attended conference with the
Sales Managers Association. National
Implement and Vehicle Association.
There is now from most careful es-
! Inmates 81 ,5N0. 000, 900 worth of farm
: implements now on the farm. The
| problem is to finance the implement
! business. The present methods are the
/ outgrowth not only of the last nifty
! years, but especially Of the last ten
years. ,'....~. 3.
1.-TWO hundred and fifty million doll
/ lars have been invested in automobiles
; this past year. Sixty hundred and
eighty thousand autos were sold last
year in Iowa and on June first the
farmers OF Iowa owned $4,000 autos.
or one for every fifteen farmers.
How many men know that the
, banks are owned outright or controlled
by the farmers in 1owa:" asked Mr..
Craig. ..-.
The long time credit system has
increased the cost to the consumer,
The average retail dealer is getting
less than IL per cent and that viii not
carry the business. He should turn
over his capital at least once a year.
We have witnessed the largest increase
in prices Of raw materials the past five
months. that many of US can remem-
Der. Prices when the manufacturers
contracted raw materials 10 used up
will have to advance at least Is cents"
The big exhibit of farm implements.
and especially the varied applications
Of the electric and gasoline engines at
tract much attention. Not only the
farmer but his wife. his son and daugh-
ter as we'll as old Dobbin would re-
joice in the new era In farm life. No
longer will valuable time be wasted
resting teams In the field but the big
light tractors will move steadily back
and forth. IL .s..fs. -. 1885, #s-r.:s#
Everything seems to be on exhibit
ton except a wireless attachment that
the farmer may receive the war news
while he plows.
Grain Dalsrs Meet.
The Western Grain Dealers met IN
the Montrose Hotel 2we dnesdaY (sfter
noon. Mr.. q. W.. Wells, presida6a The
reports showed that~tbe old corn 10
being hSid back by farmers. SOME
expecting to receive a. dollar bushel.
Deep River reported $4,000 bushels In
that vicinity. Downey and calamus as
much each. The new crop is largely
unfit for cribbing and marketing. The
dealers felt that It would be a risk to
attempt to ship later with the weather
go uncertain, but one man suggested
that refrigerator cars be used.
In the Dysart district 1000 hogs have
been shipped in. Some farmers had
gotten cholera in their herds. 1-st
Chairman Wells called attention to
the state law requiring seventy pounds
! to the bushel unless written contract
was made otherwise. =
Some had bought corn at 40 cents a
hundred pounds.
Corn will have to be shipped into
many localities during the winter.
Last night conference on tractors
| was held "Workmen's Compensation
Insurance was discussed in paper by
George Wrightman, Of Des Motnes.
| treasurer of Employer Mutual Cas-
| ualty Association.