Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-21
GROUP OF PIONEERS AT EWART
TELL OF EARLY LAND
VALUES.
PILFERER FROM WOOD LOT
COMPELLED TO UNLOAD
Customary to Replenish Material and
Fuel Supplies From Tracts Of Non.
Resident Owners - Old Corn Brings
Fancy Price at Farm Sale Sharp
Competition Among Bidders.

Ewart, Dec 2l.--Two early settlers
sat by the fire and lived over some
OF the events of days Ions gone They
told about Joe" kirkland, who bought
an eighty along in 1870 or thereanouts
having $50 per acre. The farm is
near E.wart and Kirkland has been
living on the place ever since he &C
ouired possession. Has been offered
5000 an acre twice but wouldn't sell
As an old settler. tho, he is ante GATED
by Vim. C!eland. who lives on quar-
ter section he purchased in IS, he
maid SIS for his land and probably
wouldn't sell for any amount THAI
might he offered. Isn't the kind OF man
that sells Pretty big jump in price.
$50 70 $500. and tina, in one ordinary
Lifetime.
rThe-, one OF the old men in the de-
pot told about the grove tina, used TO
contain the hickory trees. The timber
was held in tracts by the speculat tors
and Il wasn't wrong to steal il because
the speCulator was often a Spectator
in prairie land, too. and the pilterer OF
fuel and building material was helping
20 boost his nonresident neiShbors
prospects along with his own. so why
shouldn't he help himself 10 a little
timber occasionally 1t was told c.
one Of these settlers of high purposes
and sterling character" that as he VAS
arriving al the grove one morning Tor
the purpose OF securing material to
replenish his :uel supply, he met an
other man starting home with big
load of choice logs that he had secured
at rather unusual time OF day. The
latest arrival halted the other and in
formed him that he had been watching
him a long time and had caught him
al last. The man with the load begged
for mercy and was permitted 20 go on
condition that ne transfer his stolen
wood 10 the wagon of the lawful 90
owner. which ne was glad to do.
I've got history of Poweshiek
county said one OF the old men. and
the first time / think of il I'm going
to see when Mcintyre built that mill
in Montezuma l thought Mcintyre
was the finest man l had ever seen
when father sent ME with a load o.
grain to the mill, my first trip Of the
kind. When l got there the old miller
told me where TO put my horses and
after ! had eaten my supper he said l
could sleep in the mill. Next morning
ne ground the grist, loaded ii himself
and started me for home. 1t was the
first time / had ever been treated that
way and my trip was a great event
There comes the train now" continued
the old fellow. Pm going home and get
that book, / think I can find out just
about when Mcintyre built that mill
A Grinnell farmer learned from a
sale bill thai a crib OF old corn was to
be sold and he decided 10 attend the
gathering and put in his bid on the
grain. Thought he would go as high
as Is cents il necessary. When he got
there ne found men aroung that crib
las thick as flies around z sugar
bowl" and heard one man say he'd
pay So cents before he would give up.
The &. (. thereUpon went home and
heard later that the corn sold for a lit
tie more than So cents per bushel. At
Ewart last Friday the grain dealer
there received a letter from a firm at
Lincoln, Nen.. altering &c furnish No.
corn at 791s cents 1t is said that the
little town OF Cascade in Dubuque
county has already received seventeen
carloads of corn this fall shipped from
the vicinity OF Topeka, Kan.
The following, clipped from an Eng
lish newspaper, is given as curiosity
in corn-ra raising advice. The questions
were signed wexford Farmer" anu
were addressed TO The Irish Farming
World which publication furnished
the answers:
% Is II a profitable crop to grow
for stock feeding? When ought it to
be sown, and what kind Of land Is the
most suitable too grow it? CD l have
an old garden very prone to run to
weeds from long cropping of cabbages,
| ETC. Would it be proper place to sow
| it? How much seed would grow
! 4 Irish acre. and where could / pro-
| cure the seed? Would an application
| OF lime be beneficial to grow maize?
Information on these points would be
| thankfully received.
| answer:
! II the garden is a large one the crop
should do all right, but it occupies a
good deal Of space and the soil would
require to be well MANFRED after so
much cropping with cabbage. Maize
is quick grower and yields a large
Ou!k OF green 1000 WNlch IS well liked
by cattle II can either be fed TO them
indoors or carted 10 them in the fields,
or even made into ensilage. IL does
best on a deep loan, but will do any
where provided the soil is warm en-
ough for IT. AS this crop will not grow
In cold It should not be drilled until
about the beginning of June, and can
therefore Be- :s.a= after vetches or rye.
1t should be drilled about three bushels
per acre, in rows Of IL 10 IS inches
apart, and should be well MANFRED. A
dressing Of farmyard manure should
be put on the land and plougl1ed In,
while nitrate of soda at the rate of to
11s cwt. per acre should be put on
when the crop Is nicely thru the
ground, and a second similar about a
month later. If there Is no farmyard
{! manure to spare Y cwt. of superphos-
phate and y ewt. of kainit should be
/ worked into the soil before drilling the
seed. followed BY the two topdTsssings
of nitrate before. With liberal treat
ment a crop drilled the first week In
June should give 30 or 40 tons per acre
of good green fodder about September
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