Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-06
DAKOTA SEED CORN
FAILS TO ESCAPE
JACK FROST IN IOWA
Special to Times. Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Belmond. Feb. s.-At his home on
Garner mail route a farmer was load
ing some corn from a crib into his
wagon; big. long ears with the black
| ened, shriveled appearance that told OF
crop caught by freezing weather be-
fore it had had time to mature. Man,
this looks like last years corn, you
must have failed to get a stand last
spring" said his visitor. No. he an
swered, that wasn't the trouble at GALL.
! | have only few bushels like this
am glad to say. I was little shy ON
seed and planted some South Dakota
seed corn and this is the result.
thought seed that would mature in
| that state would ripen here. Bought IL
from a place farther north than this'
but there was something wrong, the
seed that produced this stun was
planted at the same time as the rest OF
my corn and home grown seed gave
me sound corn" This is about the eX-
perience of farmers all over the north
ern Iowa territory I make. Last week
Belmond farmer asked as to the local
corn crop replied Pretty good AROUND
here an average of about forty BUSH
els; some lost out by using Dakota
seed" Then he went on, Il don't De-
lieve the seed sent here was ever rails
ed up there, either. 1t was good tho IN
one respect, every grain of it appeared
to grow, but it was like the seed We
got from Nebraska a good many years
ago when the home supply was insult
Gent. We got big stalks, big ears but
no sound corn. I always have been
taught that it was safe to plant seeo
corn grown north Of here but we have
an example before us that seems TO In
4 lcate an exception
The average tenant farmer finds no
satisfaction In contemplation OF the
rise of land values. Said one OF these.
Land here is too high. 1t isn't nat
ural condition either and it Is the cause
Of large part of the renters troubles
these days A good deal OF the diff
Guilty arises from the present method
Of listing and selling land. Here is an
example that occurred year or TWO
ago in Cerro Gordo county. A non
resident land owner listed an eighty a.
ss5 per acre 4 dealer got in touch
with an Illinois land locker. annexed
the eighty to another tract of like size
and sold the whole thing TO his client
at sl65 an acre. I wish that assoc!a-
,ions might be formed in different
counties for listing farms like they
were last year for listing seed corn.
These latter saved many thousands OF
dollars to the men who had to buy
10 -Ir II
their asking price too. If farms could
be bought and sold in the same way
the owners could give their tenants
better terms"
Last week a business deal in the
town of Clarion left one more good
sized county seat without such a thing
as horse livery. The old-time livery
barn is disappearing even more rapidly
than in other years since grain anu
hay have reached such unusually high
prices. One liveryman who Is stu
hanging on insists that the only way
to preserve horse livery service IS the
enactment Of law compelling every
man engaged in any sort OF livery bus
iness to keep a certain, number or
horses besides his auto outfit. He ar
CUES that the livery business Is in some
respects like railroad passenger serv-
ice, partially a public service and that
this method would shut out the en-
croachments Of the outsider who with
his automobile has been making bust
ness life a burden TO the liveryman,
serving the travelling public when
weather, roads and other circum-
stances make such service agreeable
and dropping out whenever he pleases
leaving the disagreeable and unprofita-
BILE Jobs to the professional liveryman,
or in case the latter has become dis
gusted and quit. affording the travelling
public no means Of transportation.
The railroad companies are not alone
with their troubles in times OF snow
blockades. Three men were waiting in
depot for the agent to return and
tell them what he could OF .'probabili-
ties" One was a travelling man
compelled to cancel his weeks appoint
ments and trying 10 get home by a
route which would start him off in the
opposite direction. Another was a con-
tractor who had finished his business
for the day and was endeavoring to
d
cars TO his home town on another road
or he could walk the rest of the way IL
he had to do so. 1t was only eight or
! ten miles. Another anxious Individual
was an Illinois farmer here to attend
the funeral Of deceased relative. His
old father and mother were alone at
| home and he had been gone overtime
already. Back at the hotel was a man
from Titonka who wasn't sure he could
get home before spring and who re-
marked that he would have made it all
right il he had kept away from Alex
ander where ne didn't get any bust
ness anyway" c. E. Wilson.
! AIIamakee County Cheese Center.
| Allamakee county will soon be the
cheese center Of Iowa, having nine
| factories in operation now and two
more in course of construction. Ross
vile, Volney, Village Creek, French
Creek, Cherry Mount. Harpers Ferry
and Forest Mills each have factory.
There are two In Hanover and two are
being constructed at Lycurgus. Hon.
D. T. Murphy Is the promoting genius
| behind these enterprises. He Is a seN
made man. In the who's Who in
waukon." published last year, IT is
stated that Mr.. Murphy at the age
Of IL years. started out to make his
"wn living and for four years worked
on farm in Lafayette county, Wis
consin. He graduated from the Platts-
vile Normal school in 1886, and from
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