The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-03-23
Joe {. REDMAN'S FARM
Former Mahaskan Attracting Wide
Attention.

The Des Moines Register and Lead
er in recent issue tells, as below,
OF the success of former Mahaska
county boy, the son of r. Redman
and brother of R. E. and b. F. Red
man and of Mrs. Hill Barnes of this
city. Joe was born and reared near
Leighton. and until few years
since, when he removed to Polk
county. was among the most success.
ful breeders and one of the best
Judges of horse flesh" in thsi neigh.
borhood.
That Joe has lost none of his Gun
ming" is amply demonstrated by the
account given:
THE barn and the Percheron horses
on the farm of J. c. Redman, who
lives in the southeast part of Altoona
on 'Edgeland' farm, have attracted
wide attention. However. it might
be said that Mr.. Redmans particular
hobby is the production of big Per
cheron horses of good quality. and
that the barn is just a necessary part
of his equipment
The barn is 40 feet bv 50 feet in
size, the long way running north and
south. and upon the roof the words
'Edgeland Farm, J. c. Redman.
tell the pasEerby exactly what the
chief product of the farm is The
first eight feet of the wall is built
VI concrete, the wall being eight
inches thick above the ground, and
eighteen below. That makes a pretty
solid and substantial beginning for
the barn, and the rest of it is built
just as solidly. The first floor is
devoted almost entirely to box stalls.
a central alleyway dividing them into
two rows of stalls. These stalls are
built solidly, as for the first six feet
or more the concrete outside wall
comes up. The timbers used in the
construction are heavy throughout so
that a stallion cannot easily do any
damage to the building, nor get loose
either for that matter
Much Space Upstairs.
The particular feature to the barn
is its roominess in the hayTnow. From
the second floor the outside posts
run up about six feet in a perpendic-
ular fashion, and the rest of the roof
is built in self-supporting fashion,
with heavy truss roof. and without 1
any posts in the center of the hay
NOV. That gives the haymow
very large capacity for the size of
the barn. There is a great deal of
difference between the capacity of |
the haymOw with a common style OIL
roof and between one with posts as
shown in the cut on this page. and |
Mr.. Redman says that it did not cost |
him a great deal more to build his |
with the self-supporting roof than it |
would have to have used the old style |
roof.
Mr.. Redman's horses are all pure. |
bred Percherons, all of heavy weight |
for he thinks that there always will |
be a market for the heavy Dr.
horse in this country in spite of the |
coming of the tractor. He raises
few colts each year and these he sells |
for good price He finds that there
is good profit in producing pure. |
bred colts on his farm to dispose OF |
to horse breeders and to farmers
His stallion is good boned animal. |
and has left his imprint on the coun.
tryside BY the number Of good colts |
he has sired
Mr.. Redman uses home grown |
feeds almost exclusively, as he finds |
that there Is nothing else which |
keeps down the cost of feed SO weli |
ne doing that. He uses corn aud |
pats and clover hay. within the past
year substituting alfillfa hay for the |
-lnTer II Is only occasionally that
BE- has to buy any ESeds from the
lealers, and when he noes that he
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