Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-01
pgEoeRs DECIDE TO TAKE
soRTER AND EASIER WAY
~ TO CASH GRAIN.
FEEDING CATTLE COST
FARMER TOO MUCH
Hogs Turned Into Corn Fields Made
Twenty five Pound Gain in Two
Hssks--Ne. Many Farms Being Sold
at Present-C. E. Wilson's Rural
Observ atoms.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Searsboro Oct. MANY hogs and
few cattle" Is the short and cor
rect answer to the feeding question
this season 50 far as this part of the
country is concerned, The experience
OF last winter and the prospect Of
high priced feeders and feed have been
too much even for some of the old
feeders and somebody else will have
to contribute to the finished beef sup
ply this time. with hogs it is offer
emit. A few days ago farmer turned
400 head into a fresh corn field after
they had taken all that was valuable
from a twelve acre tract OF heavy
corn. Another man pointed out a
bunch of porkers and told how they
had been running on clover neld'
turned into a patch OF corn ana maue
a twenty-five pound gain for him IN
two weeks period of time Win
the outlook for a shortage of help TO
husk the corn and very high wages
TO the available supply 'hoggins down
corn will be in high favor this fall
and already temporary woven wire
fences are being strung thruout the
country. The corn harvesting season
has virtually commenced already Inc
nusk1ng and cribbing part OF the JOB
will be small in comparison with other
years on many farms. One farmer
near the town Of Malcolm has nineteen
brood sows from which he expects to
raise crop of fall pigs.
Said a well known Poweshiek coun-
ty farmer the other day, Il have no
complaint at all to make Of my situa-
ton in these times of war. l am %
years old but 1 am willing to work
hard every day while my boy and
others are doing their duty in Europe
and elsewhere. 1t is what some
other men do not do that makes me
dissatisfied. For instance, last spring
one farmer in this county moved to
town and placed a son in charge Of
his farm. Everybody knows he did it
to keep the boy out of the draft. He
succeeded in doing it too despite the
fact that while the threshing was be-
ing done o. that farm the young man
ager(?) was tn town eating ice cream
while the father was out where the
work was being done. Not hong ago
l went to town and the first man
saw there was this retired farmer at
tending a political gathering as dele
gate,s Such a man as that helping to
choose men to rule the land in which
real citizens>and patriotic people live.
This II only one instance that Illus
trates what 1 am trying to make clear,
viz: that no man dong his utmost
in these times ought to want TO do
otherwise, but he has right to KICK
like everything on the way some men
are acting even tho they claim to be
loyal citizens which in effect they are
far from being. This man have in
mind isn't at all satisfied with himself
either these days. He keeps mighty
quiet around other people. Is getting
some retribution even this early and
the end is not yet"
Taking the country over not many
farms are being bought and sold these
times but this section is an exception.
Several farms in each Of number OF
places in the county have lately
changed hands at figures ranging
from $500 per acre to $500 for farms
most favorably located. Occasionally
Somebody predicts fall in land prices
but these transfers all point out a
steady advance.
One Of the progressive farmers OF
Searsboro is woman. Miss Nettie
Armstrong owns and manages a 100
acre farm near town and is building
one Of the finest farm homes in her
part Of the county. 1t is an eight