Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-02
MANY CREWS At WORK HAND.
LING BIG CROP IN cERRo
aoRDo COUNTY.
FEEDERS SEE NO PROSPECT
OR PROFIT FROM STOCK
Claim Every Changing Condition ls
Working Out to Advantage Of Pack
srs-Farm Tenant Found Who Has
Model LandIord-c. e. Wilson's
Rural Observations.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Rockwell, Feb. &C. w. Heaford. a
farmer living near here on a Mason
City mail route, owns corn shelter
So do each of five other men living
within four miles of his home. Mr..
Heaford estimates that his seasons
work will foot up $4,000 bushels and
that the other outfits will average
about the same quantity. Other shell
lers are at work all over Cerro Gordo
county. which is supposed to have pro-
duced an average of fifty bushels of
good sound corn per acre this last
season. many claim the best corn crop
ever grown in this section of the state.
Those feeding cattle and hogs for
the market are anything but optimistic
over the outlook at this time. Sixty
five cent corn and present market con-
ditions form combination that pre-
cludes possibility of profit declares
the feeder who insists that somehow
every irregular or unlocked for Incl
dent of the business seems to work out
to the advantage of the packers and to
the disadvantage of the men who feed.
The universal complaint is Il paid too
much for my stock.
Similarity in names of people living
on the same mail route occasionally
results in unsatisfactory delivery of
letters and packages. Sometimes this
happens to those living on different
routes from the same office and even
in few cases to those receiving their
mail from adjacent postoffices. There
is a case of mixing up things in this
line here, however, that is something
of record breaker and-is not SO very
strange either all circumstances con-
sidered. A local farmer and a man
living more than 100 miles from here
sometimes receive each others mail.
One of them is Mr. F. b. Tourtellot,
of Rockwell. Iowa, and the other one
is F.. c. Tourtellott, of Rockwell City,
same state.
The silo is now so common an in
stitution in this part Of the country
that it receives little more attention
from the observer than any other kind
of farm structure. One on the Roy
Hemm farm near Sheffield, however. is
distinctive because Of its very unusual
capacity. 1t affords room within its
walls Of hollow brick for 245 tons of
silage. Last fall thirty five acre field
of corn was put into the huge recep-
tacle. tho it should be explained that
hail storm had made the crop on this
land a light one.
Il read in a farm journal an article
scoring the land owner for his treat
ment of his tenant" said prosperous
young farmer the other day II know
OF case where 1t Is different" he went
on, land that is my own For eleven
years or ever since I started farming
for myself I have lived on this place
giving share of the grain and paying
$3.50 per acre for the pasture and
grass. The rent has never been raised
on me in all that time. We have no
lease nor complicated oral agreements
of any kind, others have offered more
for the place than l am giving but still
stay. The man before me left the
farm because the rent was raised from
81 to S. and last year the owner re-
ceived just about $1,000 for her share
try to keep things picked up and
looking neat as / would my own farm
When door hinge becomes loosened
tighten it before the door comes
down and when board drops off
nail 1t up again. There's no use in
owner and tenant fighting all the
time. Both sides thrive when peace
prevails
Once a newspaper solicitor calling
On farmer, found him doing some re-
pair work in an outbuiiding. A neigh
boring farmer was present. Farmer
and visitor had met several times in
other years always on friendly foot
ng. Some men claim this farmer is
afflicted with. what they term "big-
head" Anyhow 1t looked this time as
tho the man proposed to show his
1eighbor how to dispose of an agent
and he employed the ignoring system
On the caller. who soon took in the sit
1ation and departed for more congen-
al fields. The other night there was ;
held church supper in a town in that
Mr.. Farmer was there:
so was the visitor Of year previous.
Conditions We're different. however In
stead of a lone neighbor to be i'm
pressed there We're many members of !