Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-14
FOUR FORMER RENTERS WHO
BOUGHT AiGh-PRlcED FARMS
NOW MAKING GOOD.
SOME MEN ADAPTED TO
CHEAP FARM LANDS
One Hamilton County Tenant Farmer
Construct Own SIo-Results Show
Profisao'eness of His Investment
Last Word in Farm Residences
Wilson's Rural Observations.
,ecial 10 Times Republican.

Special 10 Times Republican.
Ellsworth, Sept l4.-"Land is too
high here for q man TO start with
nothing. and expect 10 ever buy and
pay for a farm The man who said
That lives in Hamilton county: he also
lives in Poweshiek and Franklin and
IN every other Iowa county There are
thousands Of him, be believes what he
says and every year hundreds OF MN
move away TO regions OF lower priced
LAND and thereby make good by
eventually buying and payinS for farms
OF his own.
Certain object lessons, however
demonstrations OF land owning posi-
nilities under the very conditions above
noted may be observed in the localities
named 50 that the proposition la!u
down by the enigratins land seeker
must not be iutallible after all Per
haps some men are adapted TO hish
priced land and others do better where
dirt j. cheap Anyway there is nothing
like being satisfied with ones location
in farming or N any other occupation
Four young men. brothers law. at
that, renters all have bought farms
in This locality within the past year.
Elmer HanGeland, Osmound knuison'
Cernal Knutson and Anton Peterson
there are the names no need 10 men
tion their nationality Some OF these
may have been aided 10 some extent by
relatives out they have all been renting
Tor the past few years and certain IT is
that one OF them at least has MADE
every dollar Of MS money himself pe-
ginning with handicaps that would
have deferred most boys from ever
try.ng such q project. Anton peterson
landed IN Ellsworth six Years ago with
Size in has pocket ard without the
ability 10 SpsaH a word Of Ensiish. lie
dtdng lnpw a SOUL in this part OF the
countrs but he found Job al once
or farm at so psg month and Went
70 work. The man who emploNec him
says the KID never had to 5e told twice
h0w % Go q ;AiHg and that ,ae more
d5fytcug; ard compli Gated a job the
more snx!ogs NJ was 20 get a. II he
.:dn'- remain II me hired man busl-
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farm in Iowa inz!Ge Of SIX Years. An
TON Peterson did that
Charlie Barkhuf rents farm near
here He wanted silo and no better
method OF getting one presenting itself
ne put one up at MS own expense. He
also operates another farm and last
winter kept cattle OH both places. On
the farm without the silo he had eleven
head These were wintered in the usual
dry feed manner On the other farm
he started feeding silage TO forty mead
OF cattle Jan. !. About one month later
he added twenty more cattle feeding
the sixty head an exclusive silage
ration until nearly May !. Besides the
cattle ne FED sIlage 10 seven head OF
horses turnout the period indicated.
This isn't all the stock that ate from
that l30-ton silo. There We're twenty
brood sows that didn't have much else
10 eat besides siIage from March to
July 4 Mr. Barkhuf declares that the
cost OF wlrtering the eleven head or
the one farm was actually greater than
that OF the forty 70 sixty on the other
place julius Ingelbritson Young
farmer near Ellsworth mas TWO siios on
his eighty-acr farm. one for winter
feed the other for summer. His pas
ture is ridiculously small but IS never
eaten down like the ordinary pasture.
His cattle appear to prefer using their
limited range for a bed and about
IS o'clock in the evening they make
their way regularly 10 the yard for their
favorite ration
Just about the last word" In farm
residences is that being finished by
John SparDoe on his fine farm south
east of Ellsworth. When the basement
of a farm house contains an electrical
room and is equipped 10 the extent
of A provision for operating a vacuum
cleaner it is unnecessary TO mention
such items a not water heating plant,
light, etc. The house contains eleven
or twelve rooms. most of them finished
in oak. a finished attic, seed corn room,
everything to make a splendid and con-
venient residence. 1t may be truly said
of the Sparboe neighborhood that il