Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-12
COMMUNITY FARM
SALES sUccEssFuLLY
rRIEp,iN PoWEsHlEk
:peclal 70 mines REPUBLICAN,.

SoieS Is uctHoHStEdSiuS tHS SuCSSSS "
a new idea in public sales. Mr.. Jones
owns and operates farm a few miles
distant from Grinnell. On three differ
cnt occasions this year since the begin
lung of the sale season surrounding
farmers have brought in live stock,
farm machinery. feed, ETC., which they
wished TO sell and this has been dis
posed Of in the regular public farm
sale manner. Heretofore the bringing
T.. q sale outside stun has not proved
popular but In this case the plan APP
pears to work out very satisfactorily.
Offerings are not listed" here as they
gre at the ordinary market day and
combination sales held in many of the
cities and towns these days. Those
having stuff for sale simply notify the
auctioneer, who fixes date for the
event, gets out his sale bills furnishes
free lunch. pays his clerk and all
ether expenses and charging rate OF
commission supposed to cover this
outlay and the ordinary per cent the
auctioneer receives for his services~be-
si6es. Separate compartments Tor
each contributors live stock offerings
are fitted up in the large farm barn
and feeding and other conveniences
are provided. There is strict under
standing that all stun brought in is
really for sale and not merely invoice.
The popularity OF the idea is attested
by the fact that at the latest OF these
sales held one day last week more
than $4,000 worth of stuff was sold to
men who attended the sale from miles
in every direction.
The story was told recently Of how
a group of men contrived to buy re-
t.ring farmers corn at an ATTRACTIVE
price The farmer making the sale
appears to have been somewhat 'un-
popular with. his neishbors. Whether
the fault lay with the farmer Or with
he neighbor4 has nothing TODD with
the story. however When the field
OF corn was offered several bidders
iow market value they suddenly
stopped and very good field Of corn
was sold for little more than $50 per
acre. Afterward group of men got
together and divided the corn among
themselves Of course all this must
have been figured out beforehand.
lit is said that one dealer in farm
machinery operating in Poweshiek
county town is attending farm sales
this season and buying up machinery
which he takes to his warehouse 10
b.. sold again as. plain second hand
goods.
An unusual feature OF December
arm work in this locality Us that OF
fall blowing /, Hundreds Of acres of
stalk ground husked and pastured
earlier in the season have been turned
ever in the. unexpectedly, mild weather
Of last week and spring work next
season has been shortened to thatsex-
tent J. w. Ahrens, a local farmer
went into a twenty six acre field OF
old corn ground with a small tractor
the other day and in three seven-hour
days he had plowed the entire field.
Hog cholera has appeared again in
tie region northeast of GrinneE. one
OF the heaviest hog raising sections Of
the country On ORE the Martin
Eichhorn farms there has occurred q
81 800 loss and tits said other herds in
the neighborhood are afflicted With this
dreadful scourge. aslf !
Renters will buy Iowa farms &C.
ca sionally no matter how high tho
prices. c. l.. Deedrick, near Malcolm
has bought l20-acre farm near Grin
rell at a price of s2o2.50 per. acre. The
Deedricks began housekeeping ten
years ago with a financial capital Of
ss5. They have farYned seven years
a.. ~, hnt rar
wouldn't make one-tenth payment
toward that high priced farm
There was an old, run down farm
three miles from Grfnneli. 1t got so
bad that nobody could raise much ex-
cept cookie burrs and other equally
profitless crops on it until dozen
years or so ago a man from an east
ern Iowa county came along and
bought it. He thought he saw way
IT, make the place productive. There
were barn yards in Grinneil that the
owners wanted cleaned UP and kept
clean. The new conner had team OF
mules that were some mules they
must have been or they couldn't have
made six trips daily in the short win
ter days as, they did. =, The barnyard,
land retuvenator is still being taken
regularly to the Schwab farm. Never
ar acre OF the place was seeded down
n all that time until last year. Iowa
lind responds to fertilization in very
satisfactory manner. Some mighty
good crops are being taken from the
once rundown farm in these later
years. 1t all depends on the manner OF
farming.
One Of the points Of interest in this
part OF the country il the r. A. Fritz
4C8-acre place southwest Of Grinnell.
Mr.. Fritz Is breeder Of pure bred
PEELED Hereford cattle and has nearly
200 head Of these animals on his farm.
Some of us, sometimes, are tempted to
feel that the extremely high prices
breeders OF pure bred stock pay are
fictitious or II real are unwarranted
but an hour with an enthusiastic cattle
man among his favorites and insight
In regard to the labor and expense to
which he il put to build up herd to
first class quality and keep it there Is
enough to convince the average OBJ
server that, in general. this class Of
farm property is we'll worth every cent
It brings. and that the country Is in
cebted to the conscientious breeder
whose work has resulted in wonderful
Improvement ii farm livestock every
where. G. e. Wilson.
FOUR. COUNTY GRAIN SHOW.
Most Successful! Exhibition Held at
Aeklsy Last Week.
The Four County Grain Improve
ment Association annual show at Ack-