Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-23
Effect of Environment
on Corn Crop Pointed
Out Near MOntezu,11a
special to Timcs-Republican.

| Special to Timcs-Republican.
Montezuma, Aug. 22.-An agricultural
| preacher having chosen for his subject
"rhe Effect Of Environment on Grow
| ing Corn might find material for a
sermon this fall in the fields around
| Montezuma. In his observations ne
would notice generally promising out
| look for u good crop. Most OF the carry
| planted leeds are giving their owners
no uneasineSS whatever In regard u
| the outcome Those who Tor any rea-
| son found it necessary to plant later
| are saying as usual that If killing frost
| does not come before Oct l the late
paintings will mature. But the investl-
gator will find here and there helu
Of early planting that certainly will not
yield more than half crop, altho the
stand is good and the field has been
| properly cultivated and it is from these
| he gets his sermon on environment.
| Every year somebody in almost every
neighborhood plants corn on worn Out
land. If the season is just right he har-
vests a fair crop and says it doesn't
! make much difference after all about
fertilizing and rotating farm land in
Iowa, corn will srow on it anyway. II
| there is an exceptional season, for in
/ stance a month of drouth and that in
| the hottest period of the year, as was
| the case here this season, the corn on
| the run down land suffers infinitely
more than that planted in better ground
and all the consolation left the man
most concerned is that he can not con-
| >, ~ MI, h1
| truth after all, for given favorable con-
ditions all around there are very few
| years in the average farmers expert
ence when an Iowa season won't pro-
| duce a pretty sood yield of the states
| most valuable crop. There are plenty
| of farmers in this section who are in
| directly controlling the season year
after year judging from the kind of
| corn they raise.
Oats. while still a good crop here, are
not up to last years harvest. Hundreds
| OF acres OF timothy was cut for the
seed crop and threshes out satisfactor-
| lily. There are said 20 be in the vicinity
OF Brooklyn more than q dozen com
| paHy' threshrG machines owned by
| farmers who thresh on the cooperative
| plan and find it the only satisfactory
method of doing this kind of farm
work. An innovation practiced by one
of these, at least, and one doubtless in
hiSh favor with the farmers wives
where it prevails is the plan Of only
| Inishirg the midday meal to the
| tfieshing crew. Every evening when
the belt is thrown off every man takes
a chew of his own tobacco and goes
home to supper.
| There is a rural church society in
this county that is live enough to salts
fy the desires of the most ardent adj
vocates of this institution. 1t is located
| in the little inland point known as
| Forest Home, southwest from Monte
yuma The church seats some $50 peo-
pie and is said to be crowded at al
| most every service. One of the fea
| lures Of these is the orchestra re-
| cruited from the many local abitants
endowed with musical talent. And to
| illustrate the quality of this it might be
mentioned that one of the violin play
ers formerly played in noted college
orchestra and uses an instrument val
ued at about 5000.
| 1t is told that not long ago two mem
| bers OF this community fin ding they
| could not sec things alike" became Sc
estransed that they no longer saluted
| each other when they happened to
| meet, whereupon the. peace maker OF
1.-THE neiahborhood concluded to try
his mediation powers and Wis
itng the home of one of the
'beiliscrcnts sought to explain the
beauties of reconciliation. The
rnn i'm bat J1,I
| when the peaco,raker walked out to he
| other mans safe and promised to
pound more sense and reason into the
others head than had ever existe q
there before if he would only come out
into the road However. that visit or
some thing else worked the desired re-
suit for peace prevails now where con-
| tent:nn did reign supreme.
when your engine dies on you
part way up d hill put on the brake
and drop back slowly to the foot of the
incline, etc, &c" That is the substance
of advice auto drivers were busy Civ
ing each other last week wherever two
of these CHANGED to meet, and that in
cludes in this part of the country about
every pair that approach each other.
What caused it all was that a man
started to his home in the country,
from MOntezuma in a car which he
proposed to drive with almost no pre-
vous driving experience. Failing to
reach the top of a long steep hill he
unin tentionally reversed" and started
rapidly down the incline. The wife
jumped and machine and driver went
on down. Finally slight turn and
shallow ditch stopped the car at
point only few feet from where auto
and driver would surely have been pre-
cipitated twelve or fifteen feet into
deep mud and water. The rest of the
story is that next day the car was dealt
hacl. to it's former owner and one fam
lily will continue to travel by the old
fashioned horse and buggy method for
a time, at least.
Madison township of this county evil
IDENTIFY is not ready for anything in the
way of school consolidation as it is
building nire new school houses this
year. Each is 24x30 feet in size except
center which is 24x34 to permit Of
cquipping the building with a voting
place. Each will have basement con-
tanning furnace and fuel rooms, inside
toilet, manual training room and do
nestle science room fitted out with a
table which will permit of dining room
privileges The contract price of the
nine structures is said to have been
about $4,000. c. E. WILSON.
UNIQUE EXHIBIT AT FAIR.
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