Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-13
PROSPERITY ITEMS
FROM IOWA FARMS


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| The record land lead in Marion
county, perhaps in southern Iowa. was
quietly maize al tine Harvey James
farm in Dallas township Monday fore
: noon when Mr. James sold his $40
acre tract 10 James Ha. tley for lump
SIM of $4,000 or s225 per acre. Small
tracts of land in Mari county have
been sold at 81 mucA larger per acre
price, but nothing approaching the
magnitude Of The s1Si,U10 dea! between
Messrs. James and Hartley has eye.,
been recorded in this sec.;in Of the
state SO far "a we have been able 10
earn. And that was only a portion. ii
dr James big financial tre nsactioi.;
on that date. within four hours Of eT'
closing the deal with Mr.. Hal tlty, NJ.
James made aneflser earn hat NO. ;G
! b. staggering in i.s-ina gnitude but for
tie previous transaction; that very
afternoon ne purchased 42l acres IL
James Reynolds, Of Pleasant Grove
| township. at 1854 per acre OF a total
Of s6s,044. The Reynolds tract is, one
lying about four miles southeast Of
I. Pleasantville on the Knoxville and
Pleasantyille road. The two deals (and
especially the one f'whopper." which
has been the main f1ems) have caused
more local comment than President
Wilson's peace address caused in ma
tionai political cirelee. Everybody has
his own special version of the story
and can tell exactly what the real es.
{ tate men received as a commission.
One story is TO the effect that the
middlemen received' $4,000 in commits
sions.
Philip Sauter, of George, received ten
| herd of pure bred Hereford cattle from
the koerselman farm near Steer,
Mimi, having paid little better than
$3.50 a head for the ten. Two are Iast
fall bull calves nine are heiIers. and
one is COW about years old. Mr.
Koerselman, who has been in the bust
ness a number of years, coming from
Sioux county to Lyon a few years agu
| and last spring he moved up to Mime
sofa, north Of Steen, has purchased a
farm near Sheldon and gets possession
a year from this spring and in the
| meantime had 10 give possession, so
rented an eighty north of Hull, conse-
quently ne had to sell his herd. Prior
to getting out the bills he had offered
! his herd at private sale at $2,25O. but
| the breeders thought it wouldn't bring
! that much at auction. and refused to
! deal at that price But they were badly
/ fooled, for when Mr.. Koerselman
F.; totaled up his sale he discovered the
herd had brought a little more than
| $4,000. cows selling at as high as 5000
| and s4S0 for top.
| Hefflefinger's closing out sale was
! held on Wednesday Of last week at
| Mechanicsville. The sale had been
widely advertised Sc enc &c the big
| sales Of the season and 1t proved to
! be all that had been claimed for it.
| The day was ideal, the crowd, esti-
mated at more than 1000 were en-
| thusiastic buyers, and the FIVE auc-
| tioneehs kept thing humming from
start to finish. The result was that
! this $4,000 sale was able to close early
! in the afternoon with a lot of record
| prices established. The highest price
! paid for horses was $3.50 for one team;
! cows sold from $50 to $3.50. young
calves up to sl7, last years calves up
! to s45 head, brood sows from $50 to
| $35, corn at ninety-seven cents a
! bushel, seed corn at So a bushel, clover
| seed at $3.50 u bushei, with good
J prices for the machinery. Mr.. Heffle-
!, finger was very well pleased with the
results.
! The A. Lamkin forty-acre farm near
Sheldon was sold last week to William
Jenkinson, who now lives across the
road in the Judge Boies property. Con-
sideration was $4,000, or $3.50 an acre.
! Possession will be given March !. The
Lamkins purchased the farm about
/ five years ago. Altho a few thousand
! dollars less was paid for the place,
they expended considerable money in
erecting new buildings and improving
/ others The farm is in first class con-
dition and is good buy for the money.
/ It is very desirable property and
| splendidly located
An unusual feature in farm auction
\ sales in Fayette county was the Item
of 230 sheep sold at Homer Carmich-
ael's sale in Auburn township on
| Thursday. OF these, 167 were high
grade ewes, thirty full blood Shrop-
shire ewes, and thirty full blood Cots-
/ void ewes. The average price OBJ
tanned for the 23O head was right
around 81. Sheep are not raised in
large numbers in this county, as many
farmers regard them al delicate va
riety Of live stock, requiang much at
tentfon, but those who do raise them
and give them the requisite care find
them highly profitable. OF course the