Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-31


condition of the seed as to purity. year
grown and the price. The COMMITTEES
will then undertake to get such infor-
nation into the hands Of those who
want, the seed. The committee hopes
that this request will receive wide CIR
culation and an immediate response
as it is now time to get seed jim the
hands Of planters for fall use.
Iowa Crops and Sales.
Frank Gotch, Of Humboldt. has q
field of l40 acres Of oats that went
seventy bushels to the acre this year,
and the oats weighed fifty pounds to q
measured bushel. Men experienced In
oats raising state this Is the heaviest
yield they have ever known. Mr..
Gotch had picture taken OF SINGLE
tree with a 10 shell Of these oats on one
end just balancing a fifty pound scale
tester on the other end. Parties are
now taking steps to report this yield to
the state and national agricultural
headquarters, as they propose to let the
people at large know what the big
Humboldt farmer is doing to increase
the productiveness Of the soil and in
crease the food supply Of the nation.
OF course it is entirely probable that
these oats will not be converted in
to food, but saved for seed to produce
more fields of the same sort. and in
that capacity will net their owner a
very handsome profit.
Threshing in the vicinity of Lafay-
cite is practically completed and local
farmers consider themselves fortunate
in finishing the work SO early in the
season. Instead Of waiting until Sep
TENDER, as has been the custom hereto
fore, the farmers took advantage Of
the big twenty-forty gasolene tractor
that Charles F. Maier brought from
his farm into the neighborhood. Thirty
six thousand bushels OF grain were
threshed over in fourteen days. at a
cost Of IN cents a bushel. The biggest
run Of the thresher and separator was
1892 bushels. done in ten hours and
forty five minutes. The biggest yield
was that from the land Of Jacob NJ.
Schmickle, an average Of eighty five
bushels an acre being harvested from
tw enty-on acres. Because of tAe big
yields 1t was necessary to haul many
bushels Of grain to city elevators, the
bins being inadequate to handle It.
Farmers in this vicinity are greatly
pleased over the successful and early
harvest.
The greatest yield Of wheat yet re-
ported in that immediate vicinity. says
the Hawarden Independent, is q small
patch owned by Allen, Wheeler & Bet
located near the gravel pit.
This patch contained four acres and
the yield was 411s bushels per acre.
They sold 1t right from the machine at
$3.50 per bushel and 1t brought them
the sum OF S10375. per acre. They also
had seven acres that went "a bushels
per acre. The yield on these two patch
es was so large that these gentlemen
now contemplate raking them over to
gather up the missing heads and ex-
els by so doing.
Will Evans returned from Chicago
last Wednesday morning. He and Carl
Groves went to the city with their
shipment Of hogs that were hauled to
Eagle Groev In auto trucks. MIR. Eavns
had about 100 head and MT. Groves
had $50 head. They sold at $3.50. Mr..
Groves check called for S9.1s0,75 and
Mr.. Evans pulled down handsome
sum also. Hogsreached $50 in Chicago
yesterday. Bert Clarke suggests when
you have boys, ready to. sell to give
them a bath. comb and rub them dry,
notify him and he will come and trarfs-
fer them to the stock yards'in his up
holstered auto transfer.
David Keefe, on the Burt -Algona
road in Kassuth county. bought the
E. NJ. Jones farm, better known as the
old Max Dau farm. in Union township.
at $210 per acre. This gives MI. Keefe
more than 500 acres Of Kossuth coun-
ty land, all adjoining. We consider 1t
a good buy for MI Keefe, as it is one
of the best farms in that locality, and
he has four SONS t0ffeip with the farm
work. Mr.. Jones bought this farm
three years ago laxtsJuly at SITS per
acre and received raise OF $S5 per
acre on his Investment during that
time. The Joneses expect to move to
Dallas county the coming winter or
next spring.
Barney Frank, OF Irvington. fed So
head Of hogs at the 1rvington creamery
dur ring the past few weeks. His brother
John bought and shipped these hogs to
Chicago last week. and they were sold
on Saturdays market. They brought
S19 per cwt., and were the first carload
John ever topped the market with. The
total receipts for the load were
32,553.60.
Tom Coy, three miles northeast
of Imogene, has one acre Of onions
which turned out 400 bushels. He sold
them for 81 a bushel to an Omaha Arm
Last year Nj. Coy cleared up about
$500 on the same acre of land raising
onions.
Sam Major. living near Ida Grove.
/. reported to have recently threshed
a field of oats containing nine and one
half acres, which yielded 1o4 bushels to
the acre.
Joseph s. Havel, recently delivered
to the elevator at Riverside a load Of
corn for which he received $12s.e5. The
load weighed out 50 bushels and so
pounds.
Canning & Brown. Of washington,
sold twenty six head of cows and
heifers Saturday afternoon at an av-
erage Of $70.SS. The highest price paid