Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-12
MANY FARMERS NEAR COULTER
BUY LAND WITH MONEY
MADE ~ THING.
FROM DITCH olocERs TO
wELL.Tp.oo LANDLORDS
Tiler Draws Coed Pay and Some Of
Thorn Save Money - Marketing
Spring Pigs Jan. Which Weigh
$40 Pounds-C. e. Wilson's Rural
Observations.
,ncial to rimes-Renuhlican

Special to Times Republican.
Coulter. Nov. IA 2oo-acre tract OF
land near this town is in process OF
improvement. New buildings, re-
modelling <of those already on the land
q big silo. extensive drainage work and
a general cleaning up suoh as Is given
q place when the right man gets hold
Of II. A neighboring farmer told the
story. About fifteen years ago the
affair began The first act was the
arrival of n young Dane who knew
how to handle a thing spade and
wasn't backward about applying his
knowledge. There is and always has
been good money in thing both for the
man who does the work and the owner
of the land on which the work is done.
The only drawback is the sometimes
mishandling of the money the tler re-
ceives for his labor The man referred
to in this case however knew what to
do. He rented farm and kept on
thing, He possessed the unusual
faculty Of being able to hire men and
keep them. the same ones year after
year. He drifted into contract work.
but kept on farming, or rather having
it done. The newspaper man never
could find him at home but he always
RENTED for his Times Republican. A
year or so ago he bought the farm as
mentioned above. 1t is said he owns
more than thirty horses and lot OF
other stock. He may be. probably Is,
in debt for the farm but there isn't
doubt that ne has a good strong grip
on it and will soon clear up the IN
cumbrance if there is any to clear.
Most rural neighborhoods have their
distinguishing characteristic. That OF
the Coulter community is the owner
shin of valuable farms by men who
began life as tilers. There are more
here than the one whose activities
have been sketched in brief. This is
simply an extreme instance of quick
work in acquiring one of the most de
pendable forms of property in exis-
tence-a farm.
vepy successful Coulter farmer
markets spring pigs about Jan. l
securing an average around "io
pounds. He does this without feeding
the animals any corn whatever untli
they begin to get the grain for them
selves at "hoSginS down" time in the
fall. His farm is fenced hog tight and
he sows rape in his cornfields just De-
fore the last cultivation. In short the
hogs are raised much in the same
manner as the average farmers wiie
raises chickens-they have the run OF
the farm and UP to finishing time their
owner hardly notices that they cost
him anything. He keeps number OF
mich cows and this, of course, helps
his hog business.
W. l.. Rhoades, of Bows. has what
looks like most excellent plan for
conserving labor in the matter OF
cleaning up his feeding yards. Instead
of going all over the yard with fork
he loads his spreader from "winrow"
made by travelling back and forth
across the lot with team and wheel
scraper thus rapidly and easily collect
ing what would require much greater
time and infinitely more labor If the
usual method were followed. a retired
farmer to whom this was told said he
used to use plank pulled by team
in the same manner.
In practically all north central Iowa
one finds the same conditions in the
cornfields. Last springs floods reduced
the possibility of normal yield from
twenty five to forty per cent out
everywhere the deficiency in quantity
is at least partially made up by the
quality of the product which is every
where high-C z, Wilson.