The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-03-10
Cheap In PRICE
CHEAP IN VALUE
There Are No Cheap Lands in the
United States-Lands Cheap in
Price Are Cheap In Value.
IOWA LAND is AS CHEAP AS ANY
But There Are No Cheap Lands in the
Country Today-Advertised Cheap
Lands Cheap in Value.

| Big crop yields come from high
priced, yet very rich land, and the
proportionate return is all in favor of
the high priced land. lig money in
farming comes from land that has q
good rich black soil, free from gravel
and sand" declares a prominent
lowan who knows the value of land
in this and a 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, possess
es 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 pros
porous farmer of the future is the one
who has scientifically farmed his land,
and who has preserved it's fertility.
Land. no matter how rich or fertile,
will not continue to produce profitably
year after year unless care is taken
to preserve the plant life giving quail
ties of the soil. 1t has been said of
Iowa land owners that they have Inn
proved their farms for speculation and
that they have brought about the high
pr2cc OF land in defiance OF value.
This may be true in few cases, but
the gradual march toward the inten-
sive farming methods Is rapidly estab-
fishing value received, and this value
of Iowa farms it is believed will in a
few years force still higher prices.
The increase in Iowa land during
the past years has been enormous.
|Statisticians say that the increase in
Iowa's farm land value for decade is
greater than the total average per acre
of every state in the union except Ave.
With this remarkable jump in the
price of Iowa land, the value Of which
from a business standpoint must sub.
stantiate the raise, 1t is practically
certain that prices will continue to
raise, the only guess is the ultimate
facre.
A Grundy county farmer after seri.
ously considering buying large tract
of land in southern Minnesota, consid-
ers 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 thinking
over the plan, he came to the conclus-
ion that his sons could make more
money off 1925 Iowa land than $125
Minnesota land. This Grundy county
farmer is sure of crops each year and
certain that he will have good mar
ket for them. His corn crop for q
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
potatoes. This farmer carefully plar-
ned his crops and took care of them,
with results far beyond his anticipa-
tions. This particular twelve acre
tract is not typical Iowa soil. 1t ia
sandy and ordinarily poor land. This
farmer says that there is not an acre
in Iowa that is not worth $500.
Near Paris lies sixty acre tract
OF land, sandy and apparently worth.
less. A thrifty German has farmed :
this sixty acres for twenty-five years.
fle has sons in college, a beautiful
home on this farm, an automobile and
money in the bank. This land will
not raise weeds, but it will raise corn,
oats, potatoes, fruit and any other
crop that is planted on it. Iowa soil,
if given the proper care, is the most
productive of any in the country, and
being the most productive, must nec-
essarily be the highest priced.
Champions of cheap farm lands tell
us that Iowa farms once sold for $40
an acre and that their lands in the
newer countries are where Iowa farm
ers We're fifty years ago. Large num-
bers OF Iowans have believed this to
their regret. The facts are that there
is no cheap land in the whole United
States. Lands cheap in price are
cheap in value. and the still more i'm
rortant fact is that there are no farm
lands anywhere on the whole earth to
equal those of Iowa. That Is why
Iowa acres are costing the purchaser
from $3.50 to $3.50 apiece.-(By the
Iowa State Wide Publicity Commiss-
iOn)