Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-29
NATURE PROVIDES ASSISTANCE
FOLLOWING UNFAVoRAeLE
MATURING SEASON..
COLD PREVENTS GREATER
LOSS THAN LOOKED FOR
Much Corn Still Remains in Fields and
Harvest Will Not Be Completed Be-
fore Spring-One eelnond Farmer
Huskins Without Assistance Field Of
Nearly Ninety Acres.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
kanawha, Jan. 29.-The crisp open
winter weather which has prevailed in
this part of the country until the re-
cent heavy snowfall was natures par
tal compensation to the farmer for an
unfavorable corn season. But for the
fact that much Of the acreage in Han
cock county was husked out between
Dec. Is and a corresponding date in
January a far greater loss than will
come to the farmer must have occurred
with the coming OF warm spring
weather. Some fields here are not yet
husked out but the great bulk Of the
crop Is either in the cribs or has been
fed 70 the hogs and cattle already mar
keted or ready for shipment most any
time. Many farmers have formed plans
for shifting their sorted corn from one
crib to another in an attempt to keep
a summer supply Of feed from spelling
after 1t thaWs out in the spring. The
seed corn question will be an important
one here but at least one farmer Is
demo strating what may be done in the
matter He stays at the crib and sorts
the corn that his help brings from the
fields and every particularly bright
looking ear Is thrown into the seed
corn basket. He gets only few from
each load but careful test shows
that part Of them can at least be de-
pend ed on for seed and gradually he is
securing his supply About $40 per
bushel Is the price men are paying to
those fortunate enough to have seed
TO sell.
1t will be long time before some
men will forget the late husking sea-
son that is even now unfinished and
some have made records that perhaps
will not soon be broken. For Instance,
John keleher, a Belmond farmer had
between eighty and ninety acres OF
corn. Last Friday he still had only
about twenty acres in the field. having
husked and sorted without any help
some sixty-five acres Of his crop be-
sides doing his chores and other WIN
ter work Not much sitting around the
fire during the cold weather season In
that kind Of life There are hundreds
Of farmers over northern Iowa who
have husked out alone two or three
times the acreagethat one man Is sup
posed to handle In an ordinary season..
Corn husldng machines seem to have
been losing favor with farmers in re-
cen. years but in one field near Kama
wha the other day one Of these ma
chimes was doing some highly salts
factory work to the owners who had
bought It second handed and who
had never run an outfit OF the kind
before.
The old saying There Is nothing
new under the sun" was first uttered
before modern market conditions were
in existence and therefore does not
necessarily apply to these. As an IL
lustration, a Belmond farmer and
stockman has for years made 1t win
ter practice to buy, feed and ship sew
eral cars OF sheep OF course. he has
always bought his stun In western
markets. Always until this year. East
ern feeders come west to Chicago Tor
their sheep and this year there Is car
shortage which affected eastern ship
inert more than that in an opposite d.
rection and the farmer OF Wright coun-
ty, Iowa, was observant enough to no.
tice that he could buy his feeders
about 40 cents per hundred cheaper in
Chicago than irP the usually patronized
western markets.
The man who originated the idea OF
giving prizes to youngsters who sue
coed in stock feeding contests. whoever
he was or Is, certainly hit upon good
plan to fire the enthusiasm OF the
farmers of the coming generation:
These young fellows are to be met IN
almost any community and II good
beginning means anything they ought
to be heard from In a larger way later
on. One Of these prize takers Is youns
George Johnson Of Belmond who en-
toyed the trip to Chicago. MilWauk.
and other places because he so hand
led a grade Shorthorn calf that the
animals weight was increased from 220
to nearly 900 pounds during 331 days
feeding period. and this without feed
ing any but the ordinary feeds. Dur
ing the pasture season the cali got
nothing except grass and outside tnat
season it ran with the COW, was FED
corn, oats, hay and some oil meal but
it must have been fed with judgment
for its feeder took first prize among
goodly number Of wide-awake young
Wright county competitors and canls
within less than three points Of equal
ling anything done in this line In the
state.
In the barn of A. j. Williams, with
whom young Johnson makes his home,
there was smooth little Angus heif-
er one stormy morning last week. 1t
was standing in about q foot Of clean
STRAW, locked perfectly cSmfortabie'
and without doubt will prove formid-
able antagonist for first honors When
the reports are in and the exhibits IN
spected next fall.
C, Il. WILSON.
Record Price At Hog Sale.
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