Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-25
GOOD WAY TO RETIRE.

| An old Illinois farmer coming to the
| age of retirement spoke wisely to his
nephew some years ago. Said he:
I'm not going to move to town and
wander around with nothing to do.
want to live. I've been watching my
farm and simply quit everything. Old
man Downs died of paralysis in three
years. Spealman quit everything two
years ago and sat round eating like
harvest hand and doing nothing and
he's got diabetes. And so on. Now
I'm going to keep bossing this farm
somehow He did. He builded a
house in the nearby village and drove
odd Luce tc the buggy to the farm
daily until he reached IS. And when
he couldn't keep up interest in the farm
and the activities he had always IA
vored he lay down and died.
Fact is that he kept too busy and
worried little too much The three
mile drive once or twice day in all
kinds of weather was little too
strenuous for an old man like him. OF
course when a man lives TO be So on
all that is coming to man in the way
of heightened years: but Uncle Charley
might have lived to be 90 or over per-
haps had he taken another tack. But
ii is equally as certain that he wouldn't
have lived four years of idleness.
Now here's scheme for retirement
to profit and without loss of real activ-
ity in the work of the world An
orchard \ real orchard supervised and
overlooked as a profitable and Interest
ing activity for old age and retirement
Frank Q. Harrington, of Williamsburg
Iowa, has made good money raising
apples for the last twenty years be-
cause he made business OF il and he
says:
The same work on an orchard in
this state will produce apples that are
better both in quantity and in quality
than can be raised anywhere in the
west. ] am not making wild asser-
ton here, but know from my forty
years experience with apple growing In
this state and from what l know OF
fruit conditions In western siateS y"
apples in the world can come UP to
Iowa apples for quality, when Iowa APP
Piles are handled right: that was proven
a few years ago at the national horti-
cultural congress when Iowa apples
won over some of the best apples that
ever came from Colorado and Oregon.
The land is cheaper here than 1t is in
the west, even with all Of our high
prived Iowa land. Orchard land in
Colorado sells for $500 to $500 per
acre; we haven't reached that point yet,
and then we can grow our best apples
on land that is worth about $50 an
acre.
We have less spraying to do than
they have to do in the west. and we
nave less trouble ii getting moisture
for the crop. In the west where they
don't have to irrigate they have to
practice clean cultivation in order to
conserve moisture, and we don't have
to do either here. There Is consid-
erably less frost here. and we are
hundreds of miles nearer the eastern
markets than they are IN the west. II
costs 80 cents more per box to put
Oregon apples on an eastern market
than it does Iowa apples.
Now listen uncle: what's the matter
with this scheme. Start an orchard
of say twenty to thirty acres ten years
before you figure that you'll quit the
farm and move to town. Have 1t ready
; FOR h;:S::cs- rher Won quit the hard
work. See TO it. It's snap as, far as
hard work is concerned. You can boss
it easier than pasture land The
buyer will take the fruit on the trees.
1t will not require daily attention on
your part You will not have to hang
around all the time. Take a trip when
you please. Make money on the or
chard Uncle Charley was right. The
thing that kills more old men than
anything else is letting loose and feel
ing that all is over. Have an orchard
There's money and long life and inter-
est in life in it.
| What's the matter with the scheme