Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-31
OLD-TNME STOCK
BUYER PASSING
SHIPPING ASSOCIATION PUT
TING ONE CLASS OF MEN
OUT OF BUSINESS.
STATE CENTER MAN
"DRIVES" HIS TRACTOR
Uses Lines With Patent Steering At
tachment While Com fortabIy Seat
! ed in One of Heavily Loaded Trail
ers-ProfessionaI Road Oiler APP
pears-Wiison's Observations.
TBy c. f. Wilson. |

farmers shipping association. Last
year this concern sent out seventy
one car loads Of livestock and did a
total of about s113,ooo worth Of
business. The present year VIII
show great increase III that
amount, for the ASSOCIATION is new
and growing.
these shipping concerns appear to
be meeting with general favor every
where, ami according TO the state
ment Of the old-time professional
stock buyer, lie is about to be driven
out Of business by the later method
OF marketing livestock. In one coun-
ty-Seat town man said Il have
been away from home anost of the
summer. | am stock buyer here
There are about ten buyers in the
town. A Shipping association was
formed here and from the time il
began operations We ten have been
IN state of retirement. 1 took my
car and my family and went on Il
vacation trip. l may get into the
game again and | may not. You new
er can tell about these farmer move
ments until they have run awhile. 1t
may, be that the day of the old,
fashioned stock buyer Is over for all
time and again ii may not. We will
know more about that later on"
And then there is another kind OF
occupation sprlngmg into existence
and this, too, without crowding any
body else out, viz: the professional
road and street oiler. who comes to
a town with an outfit resembling
street sprinkles With a heating at
tachment, two or three assistants
and whose only earthly trouble APP
pears to be fear that his car of oil
| is not going to arrive on time. TO
hear him talk ONE would almost
| conclude that railroad freight SER
vice is not exactly satisfactory In
tthese times. He ordered his OIL so
long ago. The town OF State Center
has just recently improved it's main
streets in this manner. or rather,
will have improved them when the
oil-soaked surface shall have dried
out so that further sanding of
| floors in banks, office buildings and
Stores will not be necessary.
| 1t has been said that There is
nothing new under the sun" What
about this? A man drove two loads
of grain into State Center one day
/ las, week. The wagons were coupled
together Il Wcs pulled by a trac-
tor. Tie $50, ON the tractor was
empty but the spring seat in the
l. 81; Nrix--
or was there holding lines as of old.
He had fastened bar about three
| or four feet long across the steering
wheel Of his tractor and attached a
harness line to each end of the bar
and he was driving under exactly
the same conditions so far as guild
| anee is concerned as tho horse pow
Ter instead of machinery were pro-
| polling his load. Whether iti was to
get away from the noise and jar of
the tractor or a desire to do some
thing different from what other
people We're doing was not evident,
but he was getting to market with
two big loads of grain and this
without and difficulty whatever.
L.
| owns Jersey COW. A good one too,
| as will be noticed from the follow
og Brownell lives about nine blocks
| from the business part of town TO
winch he travels each evening. He
has established a milk route along
the way SO that by the time he
reaches the court house square ne
has delivered to his customers. For
his own family he reserves about
twice the amount of milk an ordi-
nary one uses and the price he gets
is not high as milk prices go these
days, yet the proceeds from the sale
of milk from that one little Jersey
COW averages for large part of the
year between $50 and $50 month.
Her milk was tested one day in the
presence of number of people and
when the result was announced one
man offered 5000 cash for the COW,
which he. had never seen, but she
was not for sale.
This evidently is good honey
year in Iowa A great load of Grated
tin pals were piled on the station
platform at Colo. A travelling man
waiting for a train had learned that
they We're to be filled with honey by
a local bee man. That this was the
second consignment Of pals a like
quantity having been received a few
days before; and that the man to
whom they were consigned had
$4,000 pounds of honey to put into
the containers.
/
1raer Pioneer Dead.
Special to Times Republican.
Traer, Aug. S1-John Burns, one
Of the pioneers Of Tama county, died