Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-03
Seven Farmers Near
Superior Join in Big
Drainage Project
Special to mes-Republican.

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Special to Times Republican.
Baskerville, Oct. SO. E. Barnes. NJ.
E. Leek, A. F. Mauss W. NJ. Nicholson,
F. c, Nissen, c. E. Slingerland and J.
r, Walston own an aggregate Of about
| 1000 acres of land located near the
little town of Superior The whole
tract needed draining. One of these
men drew up petition which he and
the seven was held and, yet another
meeting. AT the later of these En-
sineer Littlejohn with his blue prints
and data explained the exact require
.ments, costs to each man concerned,
everything, in fact, that anybody
wanted to know about the matter. To
begin with they laid a twenty inch tile
for the lower part of their main. de-
creasing the size above as it's usually
done. Eventually each man will tile
into this outlet which has cost its
| owners about $4,000, Estimates Of
| different men on the amount saved by
| this method of procedure as compared
| with the cost of doing the work by
throwing it into a pubic drainage dis
| trict vary from thirty 10 100 per cent.
The benefit to the neighborhood arts
ing from the exercise of a little com
! munity spirit" is not to be figured in
dollars and cents. These men have
put thru deal worthy of record for it
is a fact that drainage projects have
stirred up more neighborhood strife in
some localities than have political con-
tests or propositions on school con-
solidation. A community that can tile
its farms peacefully ought to be equal
TO any emergency that may arise in
future.
farmer owned well improved
place of 2+0 acres not far from Esther
Vile land tiled out, good buildings,
woven wire fences, everything calcii-
lated to make a man satisfied with his
farm. He traded, tho, for a large tract
in distant part of the country, it was
told, the Emmett county land being
figured al sl75 per acre. Afterward
the company that acquired the farm
sold it for s135 per acre to man who
traded in town residence at $4,000
A.4t AZ aAtci di u coUSiII tdSh iAS
house for $500. Just why 1t is neces-
sary in trade of this kind to place
fictitious values On all the property in
volved is not clear especially when in
telligent men on both sides are doing
the trading
Noticeable all over this part of the
country are the fields If sorghum that
were cut for feed for stock. Some was
sown thick so that it grew not much
higher than timothy or millet In
other fields it stood up above the corn
grown in adjoining fields. In all cases
it evidently yielded enormously and
not only furnished D great amount Of
Rough feed but besides this left the
srounl entirely free from weed growth
of any kird for next years crop.
Some farmers In this county report
corn prospects that warrant expecta-
ton Of fifty and sixty tushel averages.
Hold on a minute" said one man who
was pulling in from his field with a
load Of corn. 81 just want to show
you something" He went around be-
hind his wagon, pulled down sack Of
corn which he emptiea out on the
ground remarking as he did so, "Just
like I used to raise in Illinois," Oats
yields are reported varying from forty
to seventy bushels per acre.
'%Whitetail' is the name of COW
that lives on the s. NJ Baker farm
northwest Of Esthervil!e. She is a red
poll-mostly: a little Jersey blood
mixed in. Last year she started a per-
Torrance that few cows would have
stood for" and she finished it too,
which still fewer could have done. Two
or three hatchings of chicks are some
times given to the care of one hen by
poultry raisers. That's about what
Baker did in the calf raising line. He
gave Whitehall three calves besides her
very own one and turned the whole
outfit loose IN the pasture after a few
preliminary instructions. In the case
of hen and chicks the stepmother isn't
expected 20 furnish much of the feed
but with the cow II was different,
nevertheless she brought the whole
family thru and in such good shape
that one Of the calves was sold for S33
On a vacant lot in the town OF
Superior in Dickinson county a man is
setting UP tractor plowing outfit as
this is being written. 1t is a thirty
horsepower engine and there are ten
fourteen inch plows. With 1t the
owner expects to pillow thirty acres
day. He has $50 acres to fall pillow.
Next spring ne can put in forty acres
Of small grain between morning and
night.
A farmer near Estherville uses his
automobile in the work of hay making.
When the load of hay is hauled to the
barn instead Of detaching the team and
hitching the hay rops TO the double
tree the auto stands there ready to
run out and back as the fork is oper-
ated. In this way he filed a large
barn with hay. When an easy
on a hot July day and some labor
saving contrivance that will load after
a hay loader are figured out then there
will be nothing for the hired man to
object to in haying season.
This was one farmers tribute to the
daily paper as an educator. y came
here from a southern state and little
arithmetic is about ell tie schooling
brought with me. I couldn't read at
all hardly but I subscribed for a daily
paper and tackled it every day. My
little children going TO school helped
me evenings to get thru my paper. 1t
is several years since started in and
- hot I