Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-26
SHEFFIELD FARMER KNOWS Ev-
ERY HORSE IN HIS CON-
MuNlrY.
LARGE FAMILY ENGAGED
IN SAME LINE OF WORK
Grain Business Appears 70 Be PopuIac
With ironing "eoys"-Tsnant Far
mer Occupies One Place twenty
Consecutive Years-Rapd Work in
Farm Selling.
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Sheffield, Jan. 26.-There lives in
this town q man who knows almost
every horse, old and young, on almost
every farm, large or small, in this en-
tire community. If local animal is
for sale he seems to be the first to
learn Of the fact. Age, size. quality,
are all known to this veritable equine
cyclopedia, and when the old horse
buyer makes one of his regular, trips
these two know where to go TO find
business. For eight years this has
been the situation and the community
has apparently developed into horse
growing center to the advantage. of
all conference.-the the buyer, for he
finds horses every time he comes, and
to the farmer because he knows he can
sell his surplus stock. It Is said there
are fewer old and unstable horses by
far In this section than in the average
community as the result of these con-
ditions, and unusual attention is given
to the matter of blood and care. Within
the past Ave weeks seven carloads of
horses have been shipped from this
station. The larger ones are going to
the lumber camps Of the north. the
smaller chunks" to the European war
The man who buys them says that the
old man as rule is better horse
raiser than his younger competitor,
giving as the reason the automobile
Insists that the animal raised on the
elderly mans place receives better
care and more regular feed because his
owner is more likely to be around
home at feeding and watering time,
especially in the winter season when
care counts.
It is interesting to note the tendency
Of different members of a family to
follow the same occupation in life.
This is strikingly illustrated in the
case Of the Fronings, who constitute
numerous family living in different
sections Of this state. A. j. ironing
was running q grain business in
Geneva nearly twenty years ago. Later
he ran an elevator at Shell Rock. in
Butler county. and is now located In
Webster City. A. G. ironing, son,
owns an elevator in Sheffield. A
brother Of the former conducts a SINH
lar institution at Chaplin. Theodore
ironing a few years ago operated an
elevator in Grundy Center. Henry
ironing was once in the business in
the state Of Kansas and Ed ironing
Is engaged In the same work at
Chaplin.
Few tenant farmers occupy the
same homes for twenty years, but one
local farmer has just finished a score
of seasons on the same place. ]. O..
Bishel rented q farm northwest Of town
when farm land here was considered
high at $40 per acre and rent high
enough at $3.50. The land was run
down" but he knew how to build 1t up
and has been raising big profitable
crops for many years. In the mean
time the children have BEEN given
high school educations and at least
two Of them are teachers at this time.
A good Iowa farm of 100 acres has also
been bought and paid for in the mean
time There was time for an 5000
mile sightseeing trip, too, good evil
dence that there has been something
more than toll and drudgery In the
proceedings on the rented farm. Pos
sibly there would be more tenant farm
ownersships In Iowa than there is If
the average lease could be made for
even one-haf the period that Bishel
has stayed on his rented place.
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Here is a record for rapid work in
land-buying minus preliminaries or
previous intentions. John Slower, local
farmer. might have been heard to say
that he wished he owned a larger farm.
At any rate when he answered phone
call one afternoon it was a request that
he go with party to look over a farm
several miles distant with a view Of
purchasing. Protest was met by in
sistance that he "go anyway" so he
went. The farm looked good and the
price was satisfactory. Then the agent
said he could sell Stover's farm but,
Mr.. Slower thought he might do that
himself. That evening neighbor an
swered another telephone call and be-
fore noon the next day Mr.. Slower had
sold his quarter section farm, bought
q larger one and will have, to move
March 1.
About seventy years ago little in
land town in northern Ohio was being
founded and the adjacent territory
cleared or It's forests ana converted IN
to cultivated fields. The public we'll
needed equipment in the way of a
pump and a pioneer of the place pro-
ceeded to supply the want He pro-
cured a ''cut" from red elm tree.
bored hole lengthwise with a small!
auger, then trimmed" it with a larger
and yet larger one until he had pump
stock. Buckets, valves, ETC., were
placed in their proper positions and the
pump was installed Congress" is
still an Ohio inland village. The pump
maker passed on to another world
many years ago but his elm tree pump
is still in action and is still the town
pump" Some five years ago Solomon
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