Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-11
COMMUNITY NEAR GOODELL HIT
HARD THIS SEASON THRU
CORN CROP FAILURE.
RECEIPTS FALL OFF
APPROXIMATELY S25o,Coo
c. &. Wilson Complies Figures Paid
Out by Elevator Men For Corn This
Year ana Last and Comparison
Shows Growers Loss-Crop Condi.
lions Make Wire Fences Essential.

/ CfoojeN. Jan. ll.--Last season one Of
the grain dealers Of this town paid TO
the surrounding farmers more than
$4,000 for corn. There are TWO ele-
vators here and assuming that the
other did an equal amount OF business
nearly quarter OF million was paid
10 local corn ra.sers for their surplus
product. II is said that altho many
more hogs were marketed in this
locality this year than last their value
was not much greater because so
much light stuff was sold this season
as result Of feed shortage. \ COM
potent authority says that the cattle
. sales this year about equal those OF
the preceding season and while the
small grain crop was big il was DAM
AGED by rain and returned to its grow
eTs no more. perhaps not So much
money as did the 1914 crop. Ahou-
$50 coo. therefore would appear To ha
the loss OF this community thru the
partial failure of the corn fields TO
Weld what was expected OF them when
they were planted. II should have
been stated earlier in this paragraph
that not hushel of this years corn
has reached a local elevator except the
four car loads that have been shipped
in from the more favored southern
portions of the country. For Illus
tration OF what has been going on on
the farms here this fall and winter.
one man turned eighty hogs into a
twenty-acre Ccrnfeld and just two
weeks afterward found them back TO
the gate they had passed thru and
squealing Justify for more corn. Al
this rate il would appear 10 require
a bout seven acres of corn Of this kind
10 support one hog an entire year and
a man might be able 10 have raised
enough Of the grain TO sustain seven
or eight of these animals turnout
twelve months period if ne worked
hard enough. Profitable farming, that?
The stability and prosperity of this
community IS evidenced by the fact
that nobody within its borders has
been busted" by what has taken
place and the business Of farming in
Guiding corn raising Will probably so
on next year as usual.
In the mird Of one good Wright
county farmer one of the lessons of the
season is that of woven wire. Many
farms in his reichhorhood were thus
enclosed because Of cornfeld conditions
and the benefit 20 the owners IN the
next few years in the matter Of utili-
cation OF feed hat except for this
form Of improvement would neces-
.sa-iiy be wasted will much more thar
make up for the partial loss Of this
years crop II is his observation that
farmers like mer in other lines If
work improve only when compelled 20
do so by such agencies as crop fail
ures and other things not entirely con-
trola5le by the hand OF man.
farmer near Go0dell * The owner
OF Z number Of sheep. The animals
have the run OF pasture ard 2.
night pa, up" IN the driveway OF
double cr-2 One morning recently
they were found rot 70 have come up
as Usual ard while the owner was
wondering what had become Of his
4 flock ne heard "bla-t.-g y the
direction Of the pasture that led 10 an
invest cation. As he approached the
! vicinity from whence the noise cana
Re sew all his sheep lying on the
snow covered ground and all in
spra wing attitude that Indicated dis
lress on the parr Of the woo;y flock
mystery was soon solved. They had
Iaye5 dcyrn y he sof= snow hours be
fcre and the weather had turned cold
freezing them fast. In the morning
not ore could exCricate himself from
MS ICY bed Il required TWO hours ~
speedy work with jack knife for the
owner 10 cut them loose, after wh!cr
: performance they were ali none the
worse for their experience.
: The old proyerh IS right-"Where
living near Rowan are the parents of
twins The mother doesn't want TO
stay al home ali the time. neither is il
( convenient 10 Use q double haby cab
in making farm home visits. So she
procured a large clothes basket and
i when the youngsters go visiting they
are placed in the basket feet TO feet"
; and are carried around like any other
kind Of merchandise.
II is noticeable that fewer farm
few months than has been the case
in this part Of the state in good many
years. In the vicinity Of Rowan there
are but three or four houses built this
season One Of the best Of these was
put up by G. II. Aldinger west Of town.
II is 51x30 feet in size, contains nin~
rooms and modern basement with ali
the modern equipments. The house Is
wired FOR electricity and is a fine ap-
Dearing structure, John Rr.ukaan and