Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-07
pOWESHlEk FARMERS RESORT
TO NOVEL METHOD TO SAVE
CROP.
CORN IN THAT SECTION
BETTER THAN IN NORTH
age Yet Lacks Value in Feeding
Two Bushels Required to % Work
of Once. &. Wilson Tells of Prof
table Trapping Operations,

Special To Times Republican.
Searsboro. Dec. S.-Wil McFarlin
farmer near this town. last week
shipped Go head " :5S pound hogs 81.
of which he raised himself and led
and finished for market on corn he
grew last year and this
There is a decided difference in the
appearance OF Poweshiek and
3 Wright or Emmett county corn
field this year and all in "a
vor OF the first named. Stalks and
ears here have attained the usual size
At distance OF ten feet load Of 1915
, corn looks very much like one did
year ago. The husking outfits course
thru the fields as in former seasons
and wagon boxes are nos partitioned
off for no grade" and worse" as in
some places So far as superficial APP
pearances are concerned everything
OF the country. But little infsStisS'-
t!ons failed somewhat in confirming
first Impressions. There were no hot
nights last summer in Poweshlek
county any more than those a little
farther north and the number of cool.
cloudy days here perhaps equalled the
number experienced there. One local
farmer feeder has found that il re
Quired two bushels OF corn this year to
do the work that holt as much did a
year ago and occasional soft ears are
TO be found in every load. Men are
placing strings of tile thru their cribs
and taking other precautions to insure
the keeping qualities OF their corn. and
while this county has enough OF the
grain for its own use. there VIII per
haps be a scart surplus Of the crop for
other less favored parts of the country.
The young man who heads the teach
ing force in the public schools here re-
ports that he spent recent Saturday
in a cornfield in his home county, mon
roe. and found no difficulty in husking
two good loads OF sound. merchandise
corn. But that IS still farther south.
and latitude seems 10 be the determin-
ing condition this season so far as corn
production is concerned.
Searsboro community is broken
country with frequent ravines and
some wooded streams. making il
profitable region for fur-trappers and
the annual aggregate income Of the
three or four local men who follow up
the business during the winter months
IS no small sum. Pleasant Wright ap-
pears 10 be most persistent and sue
cessful Of these semi professional trap
pers and has been in the business To-
cally for the past ten years. In sum
mer he is a tiler. The two jobs. for
reasons that are obvious. go well to-
gether. Wright has something more
than one hundred traps which at the
present time are scattered over a ter
ritory of about thirty miles. These are
visited by him daily. SO it is at once
apparent that this kind Of trapping IS
by no means a snap" he rises at
a. m. gets his OWE breakfast and mid
day lunch, and starts out. BY 8 p. m.
ne has made the round trip. The days
haul the day this was written was
six skunks, this being the only unpro-
tected fur bearer at the time. Mink,
unuskraI and 'possum will have to suf-
fer later. Skunks are all on high
ground al the present time because OF
frequent overflows of streams earlier
in the season. 'Possum will not be
plentiful because they "winter-killed'
four years ago and have not stocked
up. Mink and muskrat young were
thinned out by the drowning method in
the spring and will not be very p,enti-
full this winter. Mr.. Wright started
in after the skunks this year, Novem-
Der IS, and on the S0th he sold a dealer
$50 worth OF hides. In November, 1918.
ne sold his months catch for s247.
Says he expects to find about $500
worth Of the product this winter. One
day last week he found white. or
rather cream colored. skunk in one of
his traps Did you receive more for
this one than the others" was asked
TO which he replied, NO, but the buyer
"'iH." This rare specimen was pink
eyed, mature age and large size It is
said that little trouble occurs among
trappers in the matter Of territorial
occupancy or Of appropriating the