Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-12
POINT TO LESS
THAN so PER CENT OF Av-
GRACE YIELD OF CORN.
FEEDING OPERATIONS
TO BE cURTAILED
Stock Raiser Says Corn
Can Not Sc Shipped Into Iowa and
Fed at Profit - More Corn Than
Usual Going Into sics Marshall
County Tenant Forty One Years.
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican
Hampton, oct. Il The corn crop
situation continues 10 furnish the chief
toric for consideration in the country.
The late heavy frosts and their prob
able effect on the crop constitute the
latest features Of ii now Opinions
differ because everyone WHO has any
thing 70 say adfnits that conditions
are different this time from those Of
any ether year in mis- experience, hence
the uncertainty, One Of the big cattle
feeders Of this section walked out thru
his fields and said: We'll. this looks
better than | thought, This ground
vas heavily MANFRED was planted
early. cultivated five times and is as
good as any il this ueighborhood. You
can see that about half of it IS be-
yond the milk stage. We will put it
into the silo at once. all that Will go
in and il IS now Just where the silage
men a few years ago figured it was
at its best Tor that purpose, altho now
they advocate further maturity Ny
Judgment on this field this morning
NOct 81 is that what is left 10 husk
viii make 80 per cent of a normal
crop. feeding va!lc considered If this
mans estimate of his crop IS correct
the average corn field OF this part of
Franklin county viii not measure un
10 TIE half WAY mark by several
points, - 10 s. per cent is high
enough.
Next wear is the one for the
summer feeder OF cattle to keep out
of business. continued the feeder
Feeding cattle is about the riskiest
business there IS anyway You can
tell at the beginning what Your cattle
are TO cost and you can calculate
pretty closely the expense ST feed and
labor The selling price. however. is
an absolutely unknown quantity.
something that must he rechoned with
months ahead and in the meantime
all sorts of unlocked for things may
happen. A SO 1-3 per cent price mar
gin is nothing unusual and no one can
tell beforehand which way ii will go.
Corn for feeding next summer will
have TO be shipped into this part Of
the country and there are too many
commissions and other intermediate
expenses to make it at all certain Of
paving out
! Last week MAS s!lo filing week in
/ this part or the country At one place
! near Coulter this work was being
: done II was the noon hour Ten
wagons with hay racks we're standing
/ in the yard Three corn binders were
! at the edge of the corn field Eighteen
hun CRY men sat at dinner in the house
ana tflrty-tive horses we're crowded
into the farmers barn Leaving out
the cost Of feed for both men and
horses. expense for fuel and labor
there was at least IS 600 capital in
vested in the outfit. complete. that
worked that day to furnish winter
feed for the animals kept on that one
farm Many silos were already in This
community and many more were built
this fall some of them Tery large
ones One on the Reeve farm south
west OF Hampton Is said to have q ca
pacity Of 600 tons. 1t is vet to be filed
ana is expected to furnish room for
sixty acres IF corn
Ten wears IS a long time in these
modern days for a renter to farm one
place. Five is about two years longer
than the average tenant manages TO
stick under the present unfortunate
year time renting system But
ten years is only small portion Of
the time that James Taggart occupied
q farm as tenant in Marshall county.
Iowa. He finished MS forty-first sea
son before he bought one Of the fine
200-acre farms near Hampton. He
started in on 100 acres and as his
place Taggart took oyer the additions
| until he was farming 400 acres, There
was never word of written agree
nent between them either. and if there
We're more cases of the kind there
would be more old men able to buy
good farms in their declining years
than is possible with renting customs
| as they are in this country The Tag
CART farm cost its owner 500 per acre
about five years ago and has doubled
In value since that time thru the ad-
vancng price OF land.
How much did you cost that auto
| MOBILIZE" asked six year-old boy of
/ the rural mail carrier as the latter
| pulled up to the box -Four hundred
| and sixty dollars promptly answered
| the rural carrier. 1--WE haven't any
automobile" continued the youngster.
| do you know Why" The carrier
didn't know Cause we haven't got
| the money" explained the child DO
| You know why we haven't got the
money" he persisted Again the car
rier was compelled to say he didn't
| know. See across there" asked the
| little fellow as ne triumphantly pointed
a finger toward new house that was
| just being finished across the road.