Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-20
SEEDING OPERATIONS IN NORTH
IOWA COMPLETED DURING
PAST WEEK.
ANNUAL DISCUSSION OVER
EARLY AND LATE PLANTING
Novel Sight in Many Fields Is Small
Tractor Pulling Single Harrow
Handsome Rural Residence Com
pIeted in Hardin County by Clarence
Perkins-C. e. Wilson's observations.

Special to Times Republican.
Eldora, April 20.-Small grain seed
ing is practically finished in this sec
ton, about on time even tho the season
appeared a week or Two late at the out
set The first man to drive his disk
across field was probably one who
began Friday, April ,, on farm west
of town. The earlier the seeding the
better the oats crop" declared the first
to commence, while some of the best
farmers in the country didn't propose
ito put in half the time pulling tough
wet cornstalks out of the clogged
blades of the disk and wallowing the
horses thru muddy 'laces in the fields"
When threshing time comes each will
know which was better this year, early
or later seeding.
One of the novel sights to be OBJ
served in a few of the fields this year
is that of the small tractor, curious
looking three wheeled affairs looking
at distance more like a huge motor
cycle than like a piece of farm ma
chinery and pulling a single disk or
big harrow, about the same load that
a three or four horse team would
handle. A 45-year-old man who has
had some experience ''ShoVeling in
oats 'crosswise with a walking culti-
vator and in fields where the stalks
were not broken, raked and burned and
too where perhaps "foXtai'' made a
good growth the previous year, can
realize in part. the difference in farm
ing thirty years ago when $3.50 an
acre secured the best farms in the
country the same ones which rent for
IS to $40 per acre this year.
One of the finest country residences
in Hardin county has been built in the
past year by Clarence Perkins on his
farm west of Eldora. 1t is Az X3O feet
in size with basement under entire
house and ten feet n depth. The house
contains eleven rooms and bath and is
finished in oak and birch. II is heated
with hot water is wired for light with
provision for seventeen lamps. In all
the house contains forty-four windows.
About three hundred sacks Of cement
were used in construction OF basement
and foundation. Leaving out Of con-
portion the splendid building cost
about $4,000. East If town Frank
Smith has erected another rural palace
and has in consequence one of the
finest country homes in this part of the
country. He has his own electric light
plant and house and outbuildinGs are
wired and lighted.
A few years ago special in a daily
paper told how young lady in an
Iowa town dropped her handkerchief
on the walk and stopped to pick it up.
Rising she touched some object in
such way that disarrangement of
her hat pin caused her to start violent
ly striking her head against the wall
of building and fracturing her skull.
In few hours she was dead. Another
news story told how man fell more
than thirty feet inside a big smoke
stack. going down with lot of heavy
machinery and building materials, yet
today he is going about mis- business
like other busy men. An old man re-
marked what thousands have said be-
fore him. Until your time comes you
can't kill yourself" An old lady
year or two ago during an epidemic of
theory to the porkers on the place de-
claring that they had died Just be-
cause their time had come" Whether
or not there is anything to this doesn't
concern two men who had a ''close
calf one day last week when a har-
ness gave way ans the bronchos
started zigzagging down the road at
rate, it seemed. of a mile a minute,
/ har wiz eli nj
most brushing first one side then the
other of the buggy to which they were
by this time very imperfecty hitched.
Thoughts crowd in pretty fast at
such time. One Of the occupants, he
of the Times Republican, recalled that
another T.-R. solicitor ten years be-
fore had jumped from vehicle in
wild ride down a hill, seriously injur-
ing himself thereby, while driver re-
NAMED in the rig which later came to
a stop unchanged, but presidents don't
seem to count for much in such times
and voluntary spill ensued. Twenty
yards farther the buggy struck a stone
and the other man left the Ship" in
voluntarily in this case. After a de-
lay, usual in such cases, both were able
to arise and proceed under their own
power in the direction taken by the
fleeing team. Half mile away little
crowd collected from somewhere stood
around buggy in the middle of the
road. Some held very frightened
broncho by the bride bit, others were
trying to disentangle its mate which
had fallen and thus stopped the home
ward dash. Some women and children
it happened near school house and
at recess time-stood at the roadside
and watched the progress Of affairs.
Finally the PROSTATE animal arose.
some broken "polestraps' were buckled
and tied together, the little crowd scat
tered and the drive to town was re-
sumed. Later physician remarked to
one of the men that a rib might be
| fractured, better be quiet day or two
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