Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-12
Wayside Notes and Impressions
BY A. D. ScougaI.

The farm hand. the fellow who 10.
these many years. has been the object
Of com passion and pity on the part of
sentimental people who in the Snug
ress Of satisfaction with things Ia
general. have found time to point out
how ne has been abused ard maltreat-
ed in hours Of labor and pay therefor,
nowadays Is not the tramp he was in
former times, going from farm to farm
from month 10 month, selling his labor
for from SIS 10 $50 a month. with the
high privilege OF sleeping In the attic
or out In the hayloft Erstwhle the
farm hand arose at 1890 In the morn
Ing, helped with the chores such as
feeding Gtock and milking the cows
and teaching the calves to eat. He
got out In the held with his team by
o'clock IN the morning. and he plowed
and narrowed and cultivated until high
noon, when he unh!tched, went to the
barn. fed his team and dragged his
half-famished body to the dinner
table. His hunger satisfied. he imme-
dia,ely huchei his team and trekked
to the field again, starting at o'clock.
About sunset he again unhitched and
ylddE IOT IflS Darn Win HIS ledl WHICH
he again fed, and then he went thru
the routine OF doing the chores. About
o'clock his work was done. and then
he ate supper. His hunger and long
honrs Of lahnr made of him 2 gonr-
mand. He became a victim Of dys-
peps,a and eventually drifted to the
city. where he sought and in most in
stances obtained more congenial en-
pIoyment.
All this ie changed now. The farm
hand of today IL q citizen, q house.
| holder a man OF family, and he lives
in the village. and ne goes to his work
in the morning and returns at night.
His wage Is sustaining, tho In most
| instances II Is supplemented by garden
| cared for by his wife. Many farm own
| ers who work their own farms now
are constructing sets of buildings for
| their farm hands. Some already have
! constructed them, and their en-
ploye and his family now have a place
| in the community as fixed. almost, as
| the farm owner The farm hand is
! allowed his supply of butter and milk;
| he has a garden tract, and ofttimes he
| Is privileged to rear pig or two for
| their meat In winter. Nearly every
| town has several farm hands who work
| out in the country and maintain homes
| In town. Their children are In the
| public schools All this change has
| been brought about by letter under
! standing among employers and en-
ployes.
| J. n. Moore, Of Written, is one Of
] those farmers who has got rich In
Iowa who does not want 10 move into
| a city and retire from work for the
| rest Of his life, which he could do In
| fine style II he 80 desired. Not long
i ago ne gave each OF mis- two sons a
| 100 acre farm, and he still owns
enough OF Gods footstool on which to
earn a comfortable livelihood. There is
| something peculiar about Jim and his
| good wife. tnn They ara real old
4 fashioned; they don't put on. any afrs
and act stuck up. Jim gets up at 8
o'clock In the morning. milks COW,
and Mrs Moore makes good old-fash-
Toned butter, "just like mother used
to make" and while they live in an
all-modern home, they are 'just like
/ they used to be" forty years ago, no
their neighbors say, when corn sold
for from Is to % cents a bushel and
when hogs went over the scales at
1926 to t3.76 and beef on the hoof
sold for s1T5 to %.
i G. H. Msbie, OF Written, seven years
ago was shipping clerk for Sioux
City Wholesale house He had peen
with the arm seven years ana dnrths
that time had seen : great deal Of ctsy
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