Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-14
FARMERS DELAYED IN GATHER
ING CROP BECAUSE OF SHORT
AGE OF HELP.
SOME SAVING CROP BY
PUTTING IT IN sILos
Novel Plan Successfully Tried Out by
Farmers in Poweshisk-Must Put
Plenty Of Water to Furnish. Neees-
sary Moisture to Make Siiaee-C. e.
Wilson's Rural Observations.
Special To Times Repu blican.

Special To Times epublican.
Grinneil, Dec. 14.-One day last week
farmer drove in from his corntield
about !: so y, m. with his first load for
the day--the last one too for that mat
ter for he has picked corn about as
many seasons as the average farmer
finds il eNpedient and he wasn't in the
! best of humor anyway, This Is the
way he explained the situation: III
you will look in tie barn you will see
why I'm late. There are two teams in
there harnessed and ready to hitch to
those two wagons that l got ready for
use this morning before l went to the
field. The day before a man promised
me he would be here, sure. and would
bring another man who wanted a job.
About the middle of the forenoon my
wife reached the man by telephone.
He had changed his mind about work
ing and had concluded TO stay home
a week. The other fellow had gone to
another place where he had found a
job and that ended the hope of help il
that direction" This is the kind of
stories one hears frequently in this
section in regard 20 corn husking help.
About the only kind available is the
farmers son who finished at home and
then helps d neighbor. One man said:
"A lot of professionals We're here
earlier but the fuShing season was SO
late they wouldn't wait and they all
departed for other places. Corn was
blown down SO badly here that husking
it is anything but easy work. This is
why the first storm of the season
found so many of us with corn in the
field; we simply couldn't get help"
William Matchett, southeast of Grim
nell. this year raised about twenty
acres of corn estimated 10 make sixty
bushels per acre and sound enough 10
throw into the driveway of big crib
filled with last years crop and this
without sorting. In the Chester neigh
borhood north east of town where
some Of the best farm land II this
state is operated by men that thor
oughly understand the business there
are some cribs of very good corn taken
from this years yield. E. D. Forehand,
especially, has several thousand bush
els that an elevator man can handle.
One farmer in this section finding that
a 4o0-bushel lot that he had crihbed
had shown indications of spelling
adopted an unusual plan to prevent
disaster. He had a partly filled stlo
and about 100 shocks of corn fodder
in a field, also a water supply, and
corn fodder and water went in a mass
into that silo. E. s. Parish in the same
netghborhood haa arranged to refill his
silo next spring with corn cut and
shocked this fail. Tried ii last spring
with results entirely satisfactory and
Gays that the only particular part of
the process is 10 put IN plenty Of wa
ter He had a man using an inch and
q quarter hose al the time OF filing
and then afterward some 200 barrels
more of water were added.
Mrs. James Artha lony IL a chicken
raiser. No doubt about that at all,
the records prove the assertion. She
goes al it in the old fashioned way
TOO. TO inc,tSa tors nor any other such
new tangled contrivances. Last year
she sold $500 worth Of chickens and
eggs This season she raised about
600 chickens and has Just sold 800 of
them OF these six young ROSTERS
weighed forty five pounds and seven
hens sold for s5.25. Last spring for
sime she marketed weekly an average
Oh ninety COZerl eggs.
Messrs. Bray and Jackson on the
Bray farm. east Of GrinnelI have
adopted a hog raising system that
looks up-to-d date. They began by plat
ting = trac- 2 little less than tw5 acres
n extent into lots ten rods long and
twenty-four feet wide with a street"
about fourteen feet wide extending
thru the middle. Then they proceeded
TO Improve these twenty lots, by
fencing with woven wire and iron
posts except along the street" where
board work was put III and by building
on 'cle inner end Of each division a
neat individual hog house six feet
square without windows but with
hinged root so that light and air may
be admitted in this way when desired.
The inner fronts of the yards are com
posed Of gates Of common fence board
which makes handling Of the porcine