Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-28
ANoTH Err FULL MONTH
NEEDED TO MATURE
MUCH OF CORN CROP.

Special to Times Republican.
Ventura, Aug. 2s.-A cerro Gordo
county farmer asked how long it would
be necessary to have warm, dry
weather to mature his corn. answered
without the least hesitation till
Christmas" Needless to explain, this
Is an extreme case but conservative
farmers in this section agree that an
other full month Of very favorable
weather is one of the conditions OF a
normal yield Of marketable corn here.
Those who have threshed their oats
report on the whole an average return
perhaps of forty bushels per acre. As
in other communities few high yields
are mentioned but the low ones, the
kind not told about in print to any
great extent would reduce the average
TO about the figure given. In the Vi
cinity of Hanlontown and Fertile there
are some good yields reported this
year. For instance, S. L. Sanderson
sowed five bushels Of wheat last
spring, one and half bushels per acre
and last week threshed out ITO BUSH
els of the just now very valuable bread
making material from the less than
four acres OF ground on which he
planted the crop Lewis Rye had six
acres of winter wheat that made lSb
bushels or thirty-one bushels per acre.
John Lee got 2,434 bushels of oats
from thirty-five acre field, or ABOUT
seventy bushels to the acre. Then an
other man in another corner OF tne
same section reported yield OF l'.Vo
bushels of oats from eighty acres. ne
was called to put up with disastrous
hail storm one day last summer u
Is told that an old retired ia'a!e. "
Hanlontown brought home Stalk oi
corn a little more than nine rect hish
during the growing season and uaS
or two later another man came u
town with one a few inches longer.
Mr.. r. F. declared he had the best
farm in the country, also the best corn
growing tenant and he brought IN
stalk twelve feet something, set It up
in a conspicuous place and Win IL d
notice to the effect that a reward Oh
a quarter would be paid for tai
Ter one. Next thing he knew a tnlr
teen footer was standing beside 1t ana
then it is said the old fellow took
man with him and the two hunted TOT
three days for something to end the
contest. but the real finish was
brought in by the other man.
If car window observations taken
from North McGregor to Garner IN
dictate general conditions thru north
ern Iowa an enormous acreage com
speaking, of buckwheat mas
been planted this year. Everywhere
all along the line, fields ranging IN ex-
tent from an acre or two up are 70 De
noticed, indicating by their luxuriant
a appearance q later plentiful crop OF
this item of the much talked OF 1000
supply. most of 1t growing on lano
tina. was too wet for the more staple
ones requiring the whole season for
their production.
The other day a Ventura farmer
driving his car over thirty -eish'
mile stretch of road counted nfteen
outfits on the way He eA-
planned that the threshing business nos
ia late years undergone raolca'
change IN this part of the country
Formerly the work was all done by a
Few outfits each Of which operated
over. a large part OF the country. taking
every lob ii could ger and promising
in the way OF turn that II
was necessary to promise to get the
business of the farmer who was gen.
orally unable to secure other service
when he found out the true state OF ar
fairs and could only wait until the pc
lated machine reached him. oiten
weeks after the promised date. now
most OF the work is done by company
concerns and the labor conflneo 10
closely organized rings. "nen
machine of this kind has hnished its
little run it is used to thresh out near
bv men who, owing to circumstances
are not members OF the company. The
apparent disadvantage Of this plan'
the necessity of maintaining larger
number of outfits IS evidently over
balanced by the greater expeoiehcy
and certainty In the work Tor the
company plan appears to be CROWNS
in favor all the time until in some sec
tons foreign machines are Kept out
what Is undoubtedly the finest farm
flower garden in Cerro Goroo couhiJ
and perhaps in any adjoining county !
is that on the C. VI. Sites place near
Ventura. Sunny Slope" has front
ward where about half an acre OF the
finest flowers and sarxbs that skiiliu,
hands can produce are planted anu |
carefully tended by the female mem,
bers of the family, the mother ana
two daughters. Those who had mower
exhibits at the recently held county
fair have reason to remember those
brought by Miss Achsia Sites, VINO
carried away most Of the ribbons.
Phlox. tiger lily. saliva. gladioia, cos
mos, zenia, marigold, coxcomp' pinks'
hydrangea, nicatina- verbena, nas,u.
tium, daahlia. sweet peas. SNOWFALL
rose and numerous other varieue|
make UP the beautiful plot that causes
many an automobile driver to SO"
down as he passes the place 30 that
the occupants OF the car may see bet
ter what is there. 1t is pity tnat
the Sites farm Is not situated on the
most travelled automobile route IN the
state.