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Iowa State Register and Farmer, The (Newspaper) - October 9, 1908, Des Moines, Iowa I owa State For Farm Folks ESTABLISHED 1856 No 2786 We took an ocean steamer one day in July from Boston to Yarmouth thence came by rail to Nova Scotia The railroad express from Yarmouth is called The Flying and the people here are called Bluenoses just as New landers are called Yankees They think their express is a flyer I only hope get back to Yarmouth alive It goes as fast perhaps as an American fast freight hut the track is crooked both horizontally and vertically and it makes you more seasick than the ocean voyage I have since had opportunity to walk part of the track near cook and notice that the ties are so rotten the spikes are half out of them only on the curves are they half way safe This is the land in Longfellow's Evangeline and having read that you need only be told that the people and their lives are described just as they exist today Grace is always said before each meal and family worship is held each morning after breakfast and each night before retiring The ple are peaceable and fearing They raise just enough to live on and make all of their own just as their ers and grandfathers did before them Land here is unlimited the farms being up to one thousand acres each and but ten miles to the westward is wild land where they all have equal rights for pasture for tle The country is not even partially developed Sitting at the window here I look out over the clearing and see a little patch of turnips in the corner further on is an acre of wheat here are some oats and over there more oats with potatoes in between the rest of the clearing is for hay haps the hay grain and vegetables together occupy twenty acres of which more than fifteen acres is in hay The rest of the farm is woodland They eat very little meat in summer for they have no ice They have salt pork but do not care for it orten Each farmer keeps a pig or two which he bought when young and which fattens on the skim and buttermilk Their cows run wild in the woods and return at night for milking and some hay if they feel like it if they don't feel like it they stay away until they do or are hunted and fetched The land is low and water is plenty but there are no wells All is spring water Pumps are not generally used and I have not seen u single windmill Silos are unknown Machinery is just coming in Only one reaping machine one threshing machine and one grain seeder are in this vicinity and aro let out to as many farmers as sible for a fixed charge of fifty an acre for sowing fifty cents an acre for reaping and one bushel out of each twelve for threshing Mowing chines and horse rakes are in general is a low ceiled place fitted with ions The hay overhead is put in by an unique contrivance not at all up ro date We went to the wild land caught a steer and brought him home and ered him One man held him by the horns while another hit him with an axe The handle broke and the animal started to run they got him back and hit him again with a third blow he dropped When we went after the steer the dog a very large and intelligent animal went with us They use the dog to catch the steer by the jaw and hold him until he is captured While we were butchering the herd bull got A I.TNE CARS The illustration shows Telpher system which involves n minimum of interference property which it traverses fur cars could a of wheat without in any way interfering with the cultivation of the fluid use but the ground is so uneven and there are so many rocks that a great part is hand labor Many of these are of United States make and bear a fine reputation those from Ontario are not so well thought of This is not an apple country I have sampled hundreds of them and have not found a single apple that was fit to eat The house we are living in is fifty years old and one of the barns was built at the same time the other about fifteen years old All the buildings are in fine shape The fifty year old barn is as straight and stout as any I ever saw The cow stable has no stalls but into the barn and smelled blood and then there was something doing This was a week ago and he is still The device used for hanging the beef is also unique and simple It beals block and tackle all to pieces By it no power is lost and if human hands are not sufficient other forces can be em- ployed We went a week ago There were seventeen in our party men women and children We went in a hay wagon ten miles to some barrens taking lunch with us We had but three hours to pick for the trip was so wild and rough and long but we gathered two barrels of berries I over a bushel myself and I am not as quick a picker as some of them here They had told me that a man could pick a barrel in a day which seemed in- credible We found a moose that the men had shot some time previous and could not trace I am bringing the horns home with me They are beauties Wild cats and porcupines abound I don't see any wild cats A few days ago we went fishing the same way we went only a bit farther There is a lake that no- body owns nobody uses or lives near We reached it at noon for we had to blaze the way for the wagon We made a raft the men cutting the timber and I snaking the logs It was 3 o'clock be- fore we had it finished and had lunched We sent the wagon back after the en whom we had left to gather blueberries and we started to fish Two of us caught fifty-one fine fish in two hours The lake is just full of them If we had not lost any we have had nearer five We tramped across try about six miles to where we had agreed to meet the wagon Although darkness comes about eight yet we could scarcely see each other in the thick ber and I thought we were surely lost bur these men know their business we made a bee line and came straight to the wagon It was a beautiful ride home If this country was properly developed it would be very rich The soil is jet black and very rich and hills abound to such an extent that any desired degree of dryness or moisture can be had I am told there are all kinds of minerals and on this farm there is a coal mine partly worked but very rich At a depth of fifteen feet the entire hay field is un- with fine plaster There is so much of interest to say but time for- bids Have seen nothing but split rail fences and oxen are used for all hauling Experience is a good teacher but that of the other fellow is usually cheaper than your own and it can be made about as useful if one will only keep his eyes open Published by the Iowa Fanner Co Dec

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