Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-29
SOME FARMERS COMPLETING
WORK OF HARvEsTiN BIG.
FIELDS OF GOOD GRAIN.
OTHERS HAVE NOT VET
~ begun ANNUAL TASK
influenza Epidemic Proves Aid to Far
ners In Gathering Corn BY Turning
Loose Considerable Yeuthtu! Ensray
from school Room,-Hampton Corr"
Shove. e. Wilson's Rural ooser.
vatiens.
Special to Times Republican.

Hampton. Oct. 2s.TA. c. Woodley
last Friday evening was within TWO
days Of the end of his corn huskins
season of 1918. Another farmer on the
same mail route said the same day
that he had not yet commenced crib
bling his crop. An average as between
! these two would appear to indicate
that corn husking on one Hampton
rura, route was about half finished at
the end Of last week, and this Is. pro-
baby nearly correct.
IA national misfortune contributed
somewhat TO the progress OF farm
work in this locality, namely the pre-
valence of influenza making necessary
the closing of the schools and turning
loose a lot Of Juvenile energy that Is
being utilized in the fields. Big, hlgh
wagon boxes fill up surprisingly quick
when a farmer and four or five husky
youngsters get into action in good
field of corn.
Another source Of labor supply: In
one field two teams were being used.
The proprietor himself with one, TWO
individuals in overalls, but yet not
men nor children with the other me
farmer explained that his school
ma'am sister being temporarily out OF
job had come to keep house WINE
his wife helped with the corn. one
was also finding time to help In the
field. There is to be corn snow helo
in Hampton soon and certain farmer
plans to enter some specimens OF MS
product If he carries off premium
or two. which he is pretty sure to 90,
for his corn is extra good, his wife GER
tainly will be entitled TO some direct
credit. for she plowed that corn. NOT
only that but few years ago in the
days when farm help and all other
kinds of help were not half so scarce
as in these present times she painted
the barn. big hay door and all.
The other day farmer was hitch
ing I'D his team to make trip INTO
another neighborhood for barrel OF
apples. Answering the usual question
what do you pay for them?' he SAID,
$3.50" Pretty high, isn't it?' SAID
the questioner. mo. pretty cheap.
declared the man, adding. Il went out
and earned IS in one day husx1ng corn
for q neighbor. I Will have that barrel
of apples and $3.50 for my days
work" Then the other remembered
that he had husked good many days
at $3.50 per day and no barrel Of
apples thrown in either. Yes, apples
are cheap this year, for hundred bushel
80, n Add n
swer to wage inquiry stated that ne
was receiving cents and dinner.
That he had husked forty five bushels
the previous afternoon. Eight dollars
and ten cents per day at that rate.
On one Franklin county farm there
is big flock of sheep that have been
on the firing line in as true "a sense
as has any Franklin county boy IN
France They are the property OF
Peter Miller who oHns land in the re-
gion of the recent forest fires in Min
nesota. A cleared forty set to grass
was all that saved the animals from
destruction while the fires were rag
ing and when that danger was over
the food question became acute at once
and they were sent to Iowa where FOOD
for sheep and everything and every
| body else is plenty.
X. X. Steenhard lives on level
farm his house some distance from the
road and rather low land between. His
lane used to be muddy at times and
the mud out northwest Of Hampton IS
| the kind. that sticks to wheels some
times for days together. But Steen-
| hard doesn't have to travel thru a
| muddy lane to get to and from the
| road. He goes back and forth on a
graveled pike. Hauling sand and
gravel in hot weather is real labor but
| It pays where conditions are as out
lined above. One trip over that lane
furnishes full proof Of the fact.
Emil Kastberg proposes to fit low
weedy tract Of ground for the best
| possible next years crop prospect.
It was in small grain this year. He
fall plowedN early. later cultivating
deep and next spring will go over II
with the cultivator again preferrins
this to discing as a greater depth of
cultivation is possible Mr.. Miller
mentioned before in this article has a
different plan for reaching the same
result. He plows early with Stir
ring plow," to shallow depth, then
with the same implement plows Sec
ond time and much deeper than be-
fore using his sheep between plowings
for weed eradication.
| i O.. r Wilson.