Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-26
FARM NEWS AND NOTES

panied ana assisted them IN picklnB
out these high bred animals. They
feel repaid for their trip and the anil
mails are to go TO several men In their
community.
q. X. Williams OF Beaver township,
has ions been recognized the cham
pion sheep raiser OF this section OF
the country, but a car load of lambs
he had ON the Chicago market Mon
day Of last week added another feather
in his cap They topped the market.
Some of the boys at home suggested
that the fact that q hog was loaded
with the lambs had something to do
with the fancy price, IL was not dis
covered there had been a hog loaded
with the lambs until Mr.. Williams got
his returns from the Chicago commits
sion firm. Mack Bass was shy one
hog and, OF course, claimed the credit
for the lambs having topped h mar
ket. 1t was a white hog.
r. c.. .Larts s6id one of his hne
! Dutoc Jersey herd boars last week to
! Johnson Bros. we'll known Duroc Jer-
sey breeders Of Winnebago. Minn, h
ANNA, :s se.r years cid, and "".S;i
Mr.. Marts purchased him three years
ago he paid $3.50. and the wise guys"
as usual. thought he got soaked.
After using him for three years he
sold him last week for an even $500,
and now these same prognosticators
think that Marts sold him too cheap.
In spite of the zero weather Thurs
lo,, ~ 10 CT p,opIy n Ia run Crnud attend
ed the II, S. Keuning sale west OF
Pella. and everything sold we'll. Horses
brought as high as SITS, cows ssS. and
corn averaged about 81 cents n bushel.
Hay brought s12 per ton in the stack.
From reports the sale totaled in the
n~eighborhood Of $1,000.
Two real estate deals that were OF
interest in more. ways than one were
! consummated at Glidden the latter
part of last week. Harm Busch bought
from J. J. Smith the S0-acre farm five
miles northeast Of Glidden, occupied
i by A.. d. Smith, at s1S7.50, Mr.. Smith
then bought from Henry SNYDER his
finely improved so acres at the north
edge of town at S270 and A. ID. ana
family will occupy the place March 1,
| !ir. snyder was generally recoyl.izcd
as using boot Judgment when he
bought the place twelve years ago at
500. The new price just about sets
| /, record for farm land around here.
Had Breeding and two others gath
cred 500 pounds of fine honey last fall
from the bee trees they cut in the
woods near Little Sioux, besides which
! many others reaped n harvest from
| the bees. it being a good year for the
! busy workers. Mr.. Dickey, who lives
| on the river at the end of Mulberry
| street. Little Sioux, had an old box
elder tree in his yard cut down a
~oe'- 900 and the bees had stored up
for him about twenty-five pounds of
fine honey.
Arends & Stumberg, of Grundy Cen
ter, negotiated nearly 100000 worth OF
land deals last week. Three deals
were made amounting to sos, 500.
The G. NJ. Baker farm in Hardin
county, consisting OF eighty acres was
sold to Dick DeNeui for sl37.60.
The Henry Typkes farm in Lincoln
township, 14O acres. was sold to NJ. G..
Bakker. It is a nice home, three and
one-half miles from Dixie. The price
was $40, 800.
The Albert Typkes estate, in Lincoln
township. three miles of Dixie, 24o
acres, was sold to Henry NJ. Typkes.
The price given is $4,000.
John S%hoenhair, OF Eagle Grove,
sold his West Broadway farm OF forty
one and three-fourths acres last
Wednesday to O. T. Floren, OF Fort
Dodge. The consideration was S5ho
per acre. Possession will be given
March /. Mr.. S%hoenhair has bought a
14O-acre farm east Of Marion at sits
per acre and he will lift 1t to $500 per
acre.