Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-04-21
IOWA LAND IS CHEAP
AS ANY TO Be FOUND
Despite High Prices, But There Are
No Cheap Lands i'm Country
Today.
IOWA LAND, ACRE FOR ACRE
BEST IN THE COUNTRY
Advertised Cheap Lands are Cheap
in Nalue-IOwa Land Equals
in Value Prices Quoted
Authority Says Iowa
Land Most Pro-
ductive i'm
Country.

Big crop yields come from h !
priced, yet very rich land, and the
proportionate return is all in favor
OF the high priced land. Big money
in farming comes from land that has
; a good rich black soil, free from
3 gravel and sand" declares a prom
fnent Iowan who knows the value of
land in this and a number of other
states. Edward Timmons, said to be
one or the best authorities on land
values in the country, gives it as his
opinion that Iowa land, acre for acre
possesses more real productive value
than any other in the United States.
Ihat the present day prosperous
Iowa farmer has a portion of his
money in the rise in the price of
land, there is no doubt, but the time
is mere when attention is being turn
ed to the productivity of the land
and the prosperous farmer of the fu-
ture is the one who has scientifically
farmed his land, and who has pre-
served its fertility. Land, no matter
how rich or fertile, will not continue
TO produce profitably year after year
unless care is taken to preserve the
plant life giving qualities of the
SOIL. 1t has been said of Iowa land
owners that they have improved
their farms for speculation and tha.
they have brought about the high
price OF land in defiance of value.
mis- may be true in a few cases, but
the gradual march toward the inten-
'slye farming methods is rapidly es-
tablishing value received, and this
value of Iowa farms it is believed
will in few years. force still higher
prices.
The increase in Iowa land during
the past years has been enormous.
Statistlans say that the increase in
lowa's farm land value for a decade
is greater than the total average per
acre OF every state in the Union ex-
cept five. With this remarkable Jump
In the price of Iowa land, the value
OF which, from business standpoint.
must substantiate the raise. it is
practically certain that prices will
continue to raise the only guess is
the ultimate acre.
a Grundy county farmer after SER
iously considering buying a large
tract of land in southern Minnesota,
considers that Iowa is the garden
spot of the world. His object of buy.
ing the Minnesota farm was TO pro-
vide for his four sons. However, af-
ter thinking over the plan, he came
to the conclusion that his sons could
make more money off of 1925 Iowa
land than 1925 Minnesota land. This
Grundy county farmer is sure Of
crops each year and certain that he
VIII have good market for them.
His corn crop for a number of years
has averaged 20 bushels an acre and
his other crops have turned out pro-
as well.
A farmer near Agency cleared up
$l1OO on twelve acres of melons and
potatoes. This farmer carefully
planned his crops and took care OF
them, with results far beyond his an
ticipations. This particular twelve
acre tract is not typical Iowa soil.
1t is sandy and ordinarily poor land.
This farmer says that there is not
IN acre in Iowa that is not worth
$500.
Near Paris lies a sixty-acre tract
'f land, sandy and apparently worth
ess. A thrifty German has farmed
his sixty acres for twenty-five years.
lie has sons in college, a beautiful
lome on this farm, an automobile,
md money in the bank. This land
Will not raise weeds, but it will raise
,orn, oats, potatoes, fruit and any
'ther crop that is planted on it.
owa soil, if given the proper care,
the most productive of any in the
ountry, and being the most produc-
i've must necessarily be the highest
'riced.