The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-02-20

Sac Sun says: events are pointing
to the growing need Of good, practi
cal man who will give his whole time
to the collective interests of Sac coun.
ty farmers and aid them in working
out the special problems of war times
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Manila Times: Austin Saunders
who has been farming near Cedar Rap
ids, and who has the Simpson College
farm southwest of Manila leased for
the coming year. reached here Monday
with his stock and household goods.
Austin says the railroad company held
his stock at Arion from Saturday night
about 1880 until s o'clock Monday
morning, and in the meantime some
five or six freight trains passed that
station without taking up his car He
says he is going to report this case to
the state railway commission and see
if this isn't another case of railroads
hampering government operation. He
says he will also ask for damages to
his stock. ..
Glidden Graphic: Land prices keep
on soaring in this community with no
sign of let up. A new record was
established last Tuesday when H. G.
Lathrop bought G. II! Johnson's farm
of It's acres just south of Glidden at
$500 per acre and will get possession
the coming March s1st. The place is
known as the old Bentley farm and Is
\ exceptionally we'll improved. Like the
Hall farm which recently sold at very
nearly the same price per acre, it Is
close to a good town. No place as large
as this in this community has been
sold for as much as $500 per acre be-
fore. Mr.. Johnson bought the farm
from Frank Bentley four years ago
at 5000 per acre and the profit he takes
in so short Il space of time no doubt
sets another record. Mr.. Bentley had
built the place up to be especially fitted
for a dairy farm and it has always
had a great deal of stock on it.
Active work of the Crawford county
farm bureau is well under way. Agent
Quist has lost no time in getting start
ed and is putting into effect his plans
for year of extensive activity in all
lines of farm bureau work.
The United States office of public
roads and rural engineering has fig.
ures to show that while Indiana and
New Jersey have improved over 40
per cent of their highways, and Massa-
chusetts almost so, Iowa and Kansas
are away down the list with little more
than one mile in hundred of modern
roads. ... -" so
Indications are that this will be a
good spring to sow some wheat since
the price is guaranteed and the ground
can be worked early. One of the most
important factors iH seeding wheat is
to get it in very early. Another I'M
portant thing is variety. The Marquis
seems to be giving the best results for
this part of the state and l believe
would be the thing to- SOW.
Hardin County Ledger: 1t tickles a
fellow who knows anything about
Iowa to hear and sec ON every hand
/, urgings for the farmer to get busy and
do things to help save Uncle Sam from
wreck. 1t would be interesting to fol-
low some Hardin county farmer about
one season. You'd have to get up
about four hours earlier than you do
now, and keep working about four
hours later than you have been used
to. week in and week out. and then
you'd begin to see there were no slack
ers among that class of our citizens.
And you may have noticed that they
haven't issued any orders shortening
the farmers day like they did the
town follows and the railroad men. No
eight hour day there. But they are
delivering the goods and doing 1t with
out any great noise. .~..'. .s.s..s...
Manson Democrat: The prediction
that this newspaper made about five
years ago that Iowa land would reach
the $500 per acre price by 1920 is
quite likely to come true. Last week
we talked with NJ. Il. Faber, the we'll
known real estate man Of Remsen, and
he told us of two land sales he had
made within the past few months that
indicate the $500 price by 1920 is prac.
tically assured. Mr.. Faber sold one
farm of EGO acres near LeMars, part
of it bringing 1905 and the rest $4O7
per acre. A farm of 100 acres, also
near LeMars, sold for $31S per acre.
Many farms in that section, which has
no better land than Calhoun and Poca- !
hontas counties. if as good, cannot be
bought for $500 per acre today, and
offers of that much have been refused
by the owners.
FdTIllcTS Ill lulS VICAulIy WILL huOW |
more about their business than ever |
before, as the income tax law compels |
them to keep strict account of things /
which formerly they forgot about as!
soon as the cash was received or spent, !,
whichever way it might be. The great
war is at least teaching us all few
lessons in economy. ~ r., ...=
Farmers of Woodbury. county who
are members of the county farm bu.
reau agreed to recommend that during
the coming season the average wage
to be paid farm hands should be $3.50.
This figure was reached as comprO-
mise after some discussion in which
one group maintained that $50 should
be paid and another contended that
$45 should be the wage. Some farmers
in the country paid this high last year,
but with the increasing scarcity of
help it was felt that an agreemust must
be reached in order to prevent q cha.
otto state of things this season. The
daystof $40 a month hired men have
been left far behind.