Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-22
FALL FLOWING IS
, VERY DIFFICULT
GROUND BAKED AND MUCH
MORE POWER Is RE-
REQUIRED.
FARMERS SAY CONDITIONS
INDICATE GOOD CROPS
Corn Field. Weedy But Immense
Yields Are Being obtained-Grain
Elevators to Be As Busy as in Good
Old Days-No Advocates Of Pre-
mature Peaee-Rural Observations.
Special to Times-Republican.


Hampton, Oct. 22.--In one respect
Franklin county in common with most
other parts Of northern Iowa is decid-
eddy odd fashioned" this fall this in
the matter of. a corn crop. A normal
yield of first class quality is in the
fields waiting ITO be "hogged down" or
farmers explain that they 'plowed that
corn six times and now look at it," but
= the season was peculiar. and we'll tend
ed fields are frequently weedy and
grassy thru no fault of the men who
operated them. The grain elevators in
few weeks will be busy as in the old
days. There is d very good corn crop
here this year.
Another feature of the season is the
difficulty of fall blowing. Heavy spring
rains and subsequent dry weather
packed the ground and this condition,
together with a generally dry autumn.
made necessary the application Of
about double the power usually re-
ouired for piowirrg- One man found
consolation in his experience. declaring
that he never yet turned over dry hard
ground but that a mighty good crop
was grown on the land the following
season.
With all his labor troubles in mind
his ardent desire for peace and in many
cases his anxiety for the safety and
early return Of a son or other near rela-
tive from across the ocean have yet to
-.
trary to the OPINION that the war ought
to go on until fought to a point where
future wars of the kind will be put be-
vond the realm -of possibilities.
One thing the country dwellcr will
welcome is the coming return to the
old fashioned method of indicating
time In all field work like threshing.
having. silo filling and kindred farm
Jobs il has been found utterly I'M
practicable to fall in with the new
method stopping at Il for dinner and
quitting at in the evening, In some
farm homes dinners have been served
regularly at I O'Clock This has been
the case on the larger farms where
more or less outside help was required.
In other cases two kinds of time were
kept. one clock for fast time. the
other going along as tho nothing un-
usual had happened.
=.
Going back to the = subject of fall
blowing, Mr. l.. H., Green, of Bradford,
IS irving an unusual experiment in the
hope of tightening the work and doing
n better job than by the ordinary
method. He cut up a thirty-five acre
field of corn and put the product into
his silo. Then he put a man on a
tractor behind which two discs were
hitched and when he had gone over the
field in this way it looked almost like a
plowed one already. 1t was thought
that the cutting of the stalk bottoms
and the loosening up of the surface Of
the ground would materially aid in the
work of blowing which was to follow
that of the tractor and.discs.
About the most satisfied appearing
man one meets in these days is the one
generally compa ratively young in years
who is returning to farm life from a
year or more of town or,city experience
He tells with evident pride how he
managed to assemble a farming outfit
for another try at something that
promises more than a mere living and
how he ought to have known enough to
stay on the farm when he was there
before.
The farmers wife in the yard nd
Gated the wherea bouts of the propri-
etors saying he would soon be at home
that she herself could renew the Times
poppblicap c,bScriptiop hut that she