Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26
Corn Cribs in Wright
County Almost Bare
of Last Years Crop
, Times-Republican.

special 10 llIutS-NtpupliCdE.
Eagle Grove. Sept. ga business
man Of Eagle Grove went out To tha
farm of William FLETCHER ard brough,
home a window display from the
farmers cornfeld that ought TO satisfy
anybody as 10 corn crop prospects in
this section of the state.
Another significant, occurrences:
Thomas Moore shelled and marketed
1900 bushels of 1914 corn and George
and Henry Derscheid. well known loca !.
farmers, shelled out their holdever
supplies aggregating several thousand
bushels Of IS-cent grain. Old corn in
farm cribs. however, is about as rare
a sight these days as it has been IN
a good many years. Near the town Of
Ellsworth in Hamilton county ;wo
farmers, a. o. Hovda and ]. J. Sather,
had each about 1000 bushels Of year
before-last crop and this was all that
was noticed in that region of fine corn
soil. In this community il is general
ly conceded that little damage will re-
suit from freezes that have occurred
up 10 this time as only the blades OF
the plant were frozen the stalk con-
tanning juice sufficient to mature most
of the grain, only the replanted fields
of which in any probability will be at
all "chaffy."
A very successful Wright county
farmer commenting on threshing grain
defended the shock threshing practice,
declaring that stacking means hand
ling the grain one more time and thus
making the labor expense overbalance
gain in other directions. But near
Eagle Grove there is a group Of far
mers who persist in stacking year
after year and one of these told why
he didn't try to eliminate that extra
handling OF his crop. He is alone on
his farm, too, so far as field help is
concerned.
First, he finds that grain which has
gone thru the sweat" in the stack is
better in quality than that Inreshsd
from the shock and allowed TO do its
heating in the bin. In the straw he
finds an even greater difference of
quality in favor o. stacked froS"c!
Threshing just before the corn huskins
season nearly all the fall rains come
before this work is done and much
brighter anu USlScE Az
feed is had from stack threshing- Il
is no easy matter 70 build a rain re-
sisting straw stack with modern
threshing outfits and no farmer can
afford to allow his straw TO become
damaged in these days Of high prices
for rough feeds. Then there is the
matter OF fall blowing in the eScep-
tionally wet fall season for the farmer
who couldn't get machine" In such
cases the stacked feld is plowed in the
fall and the other not until the fol-
lowing spring. And last threshing isn't
such a pleasant job that the average
farmer enjoys running around over the
country all thru the late summer sea-
son paying back" the extra help that
is required by the labor saving
method of handling.
This is what the banker in north
ern Iowa town told about two far
mers of his community. These were
boys twenty years ago who rented
farm in a partnership deal. Both were
possessed of very limited means at the
beginning. After working together two
or three years they dissolved partner
ship and each farmed by himself. To-
day one of these is retired, that Is he
lives in town. has a substantial equity
in each of several farms besides his
town home and few shares of bank
stock. His hoyhood partner is renting
yet and from necessity. The banker
thought that so far as energy, indus
try, mental capacity. most OF the traits
that go to make financial success III
farming a possibility the boys started
in on about equal terms and il would
have required shrewder banker than
he to pick with any certainty the fut-
ure successful man, but it wasn't long
after the beginning until one OF the
partners developed a tendency to drink
a little with the other boys. not much
but a little. He took to poker on
small scale too, only an occasional
game but enough TO prevent his max
ing the start that for the other fellow
led to substantial equities in several
farms. good comfortable modern
town home and few shares OF bank
stock to say nothing Of the conscious
ness Of being considered one Of the
useful and successful citizens of his
home community and the satisfaction
resulting therefrom.
c. E. Wilson.