The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-09
.HAWKEYE STATE
FARMS GET PRIZE.
Authority Says That Iowa Ground is
Best In the Union In Way Of
Productiveness, Consider
ing Everything.
VALUE IS INCREASED
That it is Cheap in Proportion, is
Contention Of Authority,
Based on These
Facts.
VALUE is INCREASED

big crop yields come from high
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 gravel
and sand declares prominent
Iowan who knows the value Of land
in this and number of other states.
Edward Timmons, said to be one OF
the best authorities on land values in
the country. gives it as his opinion
that Iowa land, acre for acre, pos
sesses more real productive value
than any other in the United States.
That the present day prosperous
Iowa farmer has made portion Of
his money in the rise in the price Of
land, there is no doubt, but the time
is here when attention is being turned
to the productivity of the land and the
prosperous farmer Of the future Is the
one who has scientifically farmed his
land, and who has preserved Its fer
tility. Land, no matter how rich or
fertile, will not continue to produce
profitably year after year unless care
is taken oppressive 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 that they have
brought about the high price Of land
in defiance of value. This may be
true in few cases, but the gradual
march toward the intensive farming
methods is rapidly establishing value
received, and this value of Iowa
farms 1t is believed will in few
years force still higher prices.
The increase in Iowa land during
the past years has been enormous.
Statisticfans say that the increase in
Iowa's farm land value for d.ecade
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 substaatiate the raise, it is prac-
|.tically certain that prices will con-
tinue to raise.
A Grundy county farmer after seri-
ously considering buying large tract
of land in southern Minnesota. con-
siders that Iowa is the garden spot Of
the world. His object Of buying the
Minnesota farm was to provide for
his four sons. However, after think
ing over the plan, he came to the con-
clusion 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 will have a good mar
ket for them. His corn crop for a
number of years has averaged 20
bushels an acre and his other crops
have turned out proportionately as
we'll
A farmer near Agency cleared up
81, 100 on twelve acres of melons and
potatoes. This farmer carefully plan
ned his crops and took care of them,
with results far beyond his anticipa-
lions. This particular twelve-acre
tract is not typical Iowa soil It is
sandy and ordinarily poor land. This
farmer says that there is not an acre
in Iowa that it not worth $500
Near Paris lies a sixty-acre tract Of
land. sandy and apparently worthless.
A thrifty German has farmed this six
ty acres for twenty-five years. He
has sons in college, beautiful home