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By BERNIE KOOSER Tribune Farm EditorLast week’s Mystery Farm No. f»8 turned out to be two farms.On one side side of the road,Ray Fincham raises purebred Herefords for a living.And on the other side of the road. Ray's brother, Dr. Guy Finch am, with his good right-hand man Ernie Williams in charge, raise; purebred Herefords as a profitable hobby.Ray and Dr, Guy are two of five brothers, sons of Mr, and Mrs. B.F. Fincham, who pur* chased this place a mile or so south of Gilbert school in 1894.There were 250 acres in the lt;home place and now Guy, a vet iuarian who lives at 1317 Grc avenue. Ames, has the 160 acres on the west side of the north-south road.Ray has 90 acres on the east aide of the rpad, and in addition farms another 30 acres. This 30 acre* ho purchased off the 80 acres owned by another brother, Frank, who died in 1945. Dr. Guy also purchased 30 acres from Frank's estate and the other 20 acres were purchased by a fourth brother, Pleasant, whose farm adjoined thefarm of Frank.Ray FinchamHorsesThe fifth brother, Charlie, was the subject of a Mystery Farm report some time back. It was on Charlie’s farm, some readers will remember, that we found a team of horses, first to be found on any of these Mystery Farms—and by golly, we found another horse onDr. Guy's farm.Here Since 1915Vilietai3CdiswereWell, Ray has farmed on this place since 1915. He started farming in partnership with his father in that year when his parents moved to town. That partnership with his father continued until 1930 when the elder Fincham died. Then Ray farmed in partnership with his mother until her death in 1940.In that year. Dr, Guy and Ray purchased the home place and farmed in partnership until 1946 when the partnership was solved.While the two brothers farming together, the herd of purebred Herefords were registered under the name “Fincham Brothers, and that’s the way the animals still are sold and exhibited.The two men have a total of 90 head of the purebreds, headed by herd sire Bacaduke 40th, a Colorado bull with proud blood lines who has shown top ability to sire the solid, chunky, well-doing baby beeves who convert Iowa corn and hay and care into hundreds of pounds of tasty beef. Ray and Dr. Guy have had their Herefords since 1919 when they bought four head of cows with calves at foot and re-bred again. They paid $200 for the top cow in that group of four.PiRuby Fincham»»Dr. Guy Finchampasturing part of that. 60 acres of corn, 20 of oats and 20 lt;, beans.Feeds PigsthatcowsalebullTopped Sale Ray wishes you still could buy 'em like that, but is awfully glad he doesn’t have to sell ’em at price. Last year, he sold a with calf for $835 to top the at Adel. He also topped the sale at Adel. Top price for bull sold by the Finchams $800.Last year on Ray’s total of 120 acres, he had 30 acres of alfalfa, 10 of oats pasture. 20 of bluegrass, 40 of corn and 20 of oats. This year he won't go so heavy on thet HO f\t cronanywasDr. Fincham feeds out between 150 to 300 head of hogs a year, buying feeders. Ray keeps a few sheep on his 90 acres, usually enough to keep the weeds down in the orchard, but he doesn’t raise or feed any pigs.Mrs. Ray Fincham was the for mer Ruby York, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve J. York, of Zenor-ville, west of Gilbert. The Fin-chams have a son and a daughter and both of them made quite a name for themselves as 4-H’ers in the county and nation.wnlt;Hicbanailkeitmlt;j rollikpeThe daughter is Eunice, now Mr*. Joe Dues, of Thornton, la., where she helps her husband operate a big livestock farm. Eunice has three children, Alan, Carolyn and
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Ames Daily Tribune
Ames, Iowa, US
Tue, Apr 01, 1952
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