Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-09
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Hampton. Oct. 9.-There are some
unusual feature connected with the
corn crop situation this fall as notice.
able in a comparison between the
rather widely separated sections OF
Franklin. and Emmet counties. In the
vicinities os Baskerville and Spirit
Lake farmers who are the fortunate
possessors OF silos were busy hiling
them from fields sufficiently matured
for Furnishing material for first class
ensilage. It was explained at that
time that the reason for the rush was
that everybody waited as LONG, az he
thought 1t safe to delay In order. to OBJ
tain the desired maturity. Last week,
or fun week later. the farmers in
Hampton territory were doing and
saving the same things altho in
territory where corn usually ripens at
least as early in the season as in the
latitude OF Baskerville. A traveller
starting near the center of Iowa day
after the earliest frost of this season
noticed less and less the effect OF the
visitation as he proceeded north and
west until in the region Of the two
northwestern county seat towns men
toned ne found no evidences what
ever Of freezing. An old time Grumpy
county resident there insists this state
of affairs is frequent and attributes 1t
to the fact that greater elevation
above sea level protects this section
from early frost, overcoming entirely
the differnce in latitude. There Will
be. or rather. IL. q good average corn
crop in Emmett. Dickinson and ad-
joining counties and the same thing Is
true of the territory surrounding
Hampton. There is decided lack OF
uniformity In maturity stage. however.
in both Of the districts mentioned.
Here in Franklin county some folds
present the appearance from the pub
lie read OF being ripe enough TO begin
husking and others are yet green az
grass" A single transaction recently
made here IL evidence Of what Is to
come when men begin to market their
corn. One farmer sold sixteen
acre tract IN the field for $3.50 per
acre
Stories OF big returns from the sales
OF crops raised of small tracts OF Land
are becoming SO common that they ran
to attract the attention given them
earlier in this present time OF lnnateo
prices For instance Fred Kruse. OF
sowed fax on little field
Of six acres He didn't secure any ex-
crop 80 far as quantity 10
eighty bushels machine
measure. but he sold it for 1926
bushel. s2se in all and pretty good
kind that would be considered suitable
for fax
T. A. Swearingen. Of Lake Park, in
Dickinson county planted an acre and
a-half tract to beans last year. Used
a horse planter to put them In and
doubled the rows" on about half the
patch. He cultivated the thick rows
with a hand pillow and the other part
with an ordinary horse cult'vator. he
stored his crop on the second floor OF
his barn and last spring threshed his
beans IN a manner all his own. He got
the upper cylinder Of an old clover
huller and with rope and pulley hoist
ed this into his haymow His two
horse gasoiene engine went up In the
same manner. The cylinder was put
in motion. the beans were. pitched into
II with a fork and the rest OF the JOB
consisted Of collecting the finished
product from various parts OF the
barn floor. When the books were
balanced II was found that $40 worth
OF beans had been sold from that acre
and a half OF bean ground.
Some men are honest, in financial
dealings at least An Illustration; A
Franklin county farmer employs q
married hired man. Young fellow
who for a time farmed on his own
account In q neghborins state and
went broke az a result. Then the
couple moved to Iowa and hired out.
That was three years ago and the
present employer says that his man
has been sending back SIS a month to
the old home as regularly as the month
goes by to apply On his unsettled bills.
Some OF these days some other man
viii have to be found to take the place
of a hired man who has recovered
from a formr misfortune and started
in again for himself"
Near a Hardin county town a
young farmer had a ninety acre field OF
corn that was badly damaged by early
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Ing q conspicuous success commenting
said, Its too bad for he hasn't any
stock except the horses he used to
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