Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-04-11
4 100 Hardin County
Women Successfully
Operate Dairy Farm,

operate Larry Farm
Special to Times-Republican.
y Eldora, April 11.--Fate placed the
care Of an invalid mother and an aging
father upon the shoulders OF two
young sisters, Jennie and Grace
Penelricks they accepted the re-
sponsibility. proved equal to the
undertaking and incidentally estab-
Iished themselves in one Of the neat
est and best conducted business
projects Of Hardin county.
A short distance south OF Eldora
the road leads past what is known as
Maple Park dairy farm. 1t is a finely
improved efghty-ac place and the
property OF Mrs. H. w. ENEMY. It is
operated for the double purpose Of
producing poultry and dairy products
and the two arb under separate man
Rgement, Mrs. Emeny having the over
sight Of the former and the Pencil
ricks the latter. Feminine control all
round. G. M. Barnes, an elderly man
is employed on the grounds and In the
poultry yards and a younger man at
tends to the heavy work Of the dairy
department. - -
To begin at the beginning the Pencil
rick girls traded some sittings of eggs
for a little Jersy heifer calf and some
green apples for another one. That
was two years ago and from these
transactions grew their little dairy
herd. the management of which fur
nished an income for the support of
the family mentioned in the first para
graph of this article and a practical
experience preparatory to bigger
things in the line of dairying. Two
years ago when the Emenys estab-
lished their dairy project they took
over the herd and put its former own
ers on salary with subsequent re-
suits eminently satisfactory to every
body concerned. Expensive importa-
tions are being added to the stock
which will soon be if it is not already
SO. the finest Of its kind in the country.
At first a dairyman came to the
place and bought the milk which he
re-sold but all this is changed and the
entire product is now bottled and sent
by auto to regular customers who pay
a premium over regular prices for
what they receive. There are from
twelve to- twenty cows in the barn
and with one single exception these
have never been MIXED by male
member of the human race. 1t Is
doubtful If the feat could be accom-
plished except with considerable pre-
liminary and attendant disorder.
Records are kept here with scrupulous
exactness and one heifer it was told
the visitor that for several months
she gave more than her weight in
milk every thirty-day period. An in
spectator on one occasion called and as
he departed remarked to the effect
that IL all diaries were handled like
this one he would soon be hunting an
other job. Mill products. hay and
ground grain are the feeds used, silage
not yet having found favor in this
establishment. In the pasture season
some butter is made and finds a ready
market at IS cents pound. The
buildings are equipped with city
sewerage, electric lights and electric
power for pumping. grinding and all
power work The calves are fed "by
hand" from the. very beginning OF their
lives and every heifer Is kept on the
place to be MIXED later on. Every
animal is sprayed for flies twice daily
turnout the fly season. ~
IL capital" and labor worked as
harmeniensly everywhere as they evil
IDENTIFY do In this case, strikes, labor
riots and other kindred troubles would
soon pass out Of existence. ID
m the basement Of the ENEMY home
in Eldora are five incubators with
capacity for a thousand egg hatch
every three or four weeks. Outside is
steam heated building, at ono time
q little greenhouse, and a gigantic
brooder and into this go chicks, duck
lings, gosIings and young turkeys
there to dwell until they are old
enough to be taken out to the farm
where some fifteen acres Of poultry
houses and woven wire enclosures
await their continued activities. Mrs
Erneny has the oversight OF all this
ana with her co-workers in the dairy
department is making "Maple Park
most interesting place for the visitor
interested In this kind OF institution
eyes. sir, Iowa is the best state in
tf1e union and land is bound to go on
nm TO $500 an acre." the sidewalk
orator was telling his companion and
continued, Last year boy raised
more than $50 bushels of corn off one
acre Of ground. Last year, mind you
when the average was way down
we've got to farm more like that boy
did farms are going to be cut up into
forties and farmed right" when is
tf1is to begin?" asked the listener, who
went on. "about the only changed re-
cali since last year is where Steinbers
added an eighty to his farm; that ISM
division, it's combination" Then the
other replied: Let me tell you about
that. The farmers sons Z have fol
years been going on to the CHEAP
lands of.the west and north. Only
few years ago these were to be had
7, far from $50 to $40 per acre. Their
they went up to $50 and SIS. Now
& they are 500 or more. This can't last
always, Some day soon the Iowa
farms viii begin to be divided and Their
win be paid prices that the average
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