Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-20
FACTS DO NOT sussTANTlATE
CLAIMS OF MEN WHO SAY
LAND is TOO HIGH.
SALES AT $3.50 PER ACRE
COMMON IN FRANKLIN
Geneva Farmer Demonstrates Praet'e-
ability OF Tractor-labor IN Demand
and There is No Excuse for id'eness
NEW Bank For Gsneva-Wilsons
Ohserv atoms.
Special to Times Republican.


Geneva, May 2O.-lncluded in tie
shop talk" of farmers these days u
always comment on recent sales OF
Iowa farm land. If man wants 10
start something in the way % q sue
walk or grain office discussion an Nv
need to do Is make the assertion lhat
land ts too high and must come down
in price or that 1t is to go 500 or 80
higher within a year. Either asSer
ton will call out argument ana protest
in abundance. In this particular lo'"-
,ty it may be said that activity in tar'h
real estate Is greater than Tor MANI
years and prices keep mounting al
most from week to week until SOU an"
even more is not at all uncommon loI
land. One unusual transaction WIS
made here lately when u man pouEuI
a 2a0-acre farm at SEQ per aCr" with
q down payment OF 81, and a COM
paratively insignificant further pay
rncnt next spring. The balance runs
long term of years at low rate OF IN
terest. II should be explained, now
ever. that the purchaser has plenty OF
financial backing and there's very III
tie doubt that the land will be in the
late purchasers possession when the
last payment is due. provlding OF
course that he lives out his life eN-
pectancy.
Farmer Ben Snater, Of Geneva has
had tractor farming experience this
spring that convinces him of its claim
ed advantages over horse power meth
DDS. On this farm one man has pre-
pared the ground for a half and halt
.65-acre crop, doing the estimated
work of two men ana ten horses Be-
sides this he has plowed seventy acres
of ground for neighbor. One of his
farm implements is Il double five-horse
disc so set that there is no middle
streak" so commonly noticed in fields
worked by the single disc The owner
of this s1700 outfit has found that he
can work ground so wet that horse
power farming is impossible on it.
Thing operations this year in north
ern Iowa appear to be limited only by
the available supply of labor requir-
ed to do the work. In one case the
manager of farmer elevator company
manufactured and the force loaded
three cars of the product for shipment
alome 1t blistered the managers
hands all right, but it was the only
way tc get any tile. There certainly is
no excuse for unemployment for able
bodied men in this part of the country.
4 1t has come to time when the re-
tired farmer class in the country town
is confined to a few old men who have
reached an age that incapactates them
for farm work. The others are out
from early morning to night helping
the present occupants of the old farms
to put in the crops. and generally
speaking they will stay by it until
those crops are harvested. Father
works, too, this year.
Away back IN 1857 there was a prick
kiln near the creek bank on what is
now the Ed Sheppard farm. about two
miles west of Geneva. 1t was man
aged by man named Russell and was
owned by another man who lived in
Alden, Iowa. A young man named
Clock helped make brick there and
farmhouse was built near town, the
material being the product Of he ya.d.
The plant failed to pay out, the civil
war broke out, both Clock and Rus
sell enlisted and the brick yard betame
only a memory. 1t is sixty-two years
now since the first of this happened.
H. g. Clock. one of the ten men who
enlisted from Franklin COUNTY and who
returned to Geneva and entered bust
ness in 1871, is still here and so is the
house built of the brick he helped
make so long ago. It's a pretty fair
house yet-good enough for a farm
family to live in, and that means
good -nough" for anybody. although
there is some complaint about winter
drafts Of wind Those must have been
good brick, to last the way they have.
Application for a new bank charter
for Geneva has been granted which
will make this one Of the smallest
towns in this section to have two
banks. An option for a site has al
ready been taken and it is said brick
building will be erected for a home for
~ ne new institution, " iIiItl miIi De an
other Farmers Bank"
M c.. Z. Wilson.