Audubon County journal., April 25, 1912, Image 6

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Here is a Bargain
While facing blizzards, wallowing
through snow drifts and standing
around with a pitchfork in hand feed
ing stock six months in the year,
don't go to Canada for relief. If you
are growing old and wish to try a
milder climate and spend your life in
comfort, we have an offer to make:
A stock farm of 200 acres of rolling
land in Central Missouri, 100 acres in
cultivation, all under fence, divided
into eleven lots, produces corn, wheat,
Kaflfer corn, hay, pasture well water
ed, and good oak timber dwelling
house, two barns, tool shed, corn crib,
wagon shed, granary, smoke house,
'chicken house, cistern, stock well,
orchard of 75 bearing apple trees, new
orchard of 95 apple trees, garden, ber
ries, grapes, peaches, pears, plums.
Price—$3000 cash, $2500 on ten years
time with interest. Apply to Journal
soon.
Farm Bargain Stands
Alone
•, A magniflceut farm of 5^8 acreb, ad
joining a small railroad village be
tween Charles City and Cedar Falls,
stands alone, we think, as the greatest
bargain in all Iowa. It is in a very
rich section where crop yields are big,
farms highly improved aud everybody
is prosperous.
About 400 acres of it are beautiful,
very gently rolling plow land. The
balance, lying along a stream, can not
be cultivated to good advantage, but
is unusually good pasture land. The
eoil is the finest alluvial black loam,
shading on one side to a very rich
aandy loam. All crops have been fed
on the place for years, so that it is in
a high state of fertility.
The bouse is a splendid structure
28x36, full two story with full base
ment, and one story addition 16x16.
It is furnace heated and has good
cistern. Other buildings are: Base
ment barn for horses 16x26 with 16-ft.
addition on three aides, stock barn
40x60 with hay in center, barn 32x32
Primitive Marriage Customs.
"Marriage among Wa-Unga of noth
east Rhodesia is much less of a for
mality than among the neighboring
tribes bethrothal being unnecessary,
and very often the parents know noth
ing of the marriage," says a writer in
the Geographical Journal. "In the old
days, before they came under the gov
ernment, marriage by capture was
common, the abduction being done in
canoes. In fact, the lake tribes
seemed to be continually raiding each
other, and among fellow tribesmen,
too, capturing sheep, goats and wom
en. Often raids would be made on
Wa-Wisa villages on the banks of the
rivers the raiders, waiting till the
men of the village were out, would ap
proach in their canoes and catch all
the women they could. As the rule of
Europeans, with European law, gets a
firmer hold, this marriage by capture
will presumably give way entirely to
the common method of marriage by
barter. The local value of a woman
sJmSJu- WW ST.
Each year sees fewer farms for sale, the prices
higher, and bargains harder to find.
for hay and machinery, double corn
crib 24x76 (note the size), granary
16x24 with sheds on each end, five hog
houses, three poultry bouses, small
ice house, smoke house, etc.
A conservative value of this farm
shonld be between $105 aud $115.
Farms no better in other parts of the
state command $150 to $1H). This one
is offered at $90 per acre on terms as
easy as the price. A casn payment of
13,000 is required and $7,000 more next
March. Bilance will be carried ten
years, interest rate during first five
years to be 4y2 per cent, aud during
next five years 5 per cent.
Farm Bargain Close to
Market
This farm which consists ot 154
acres is in Palo Alto county, and lies
just one-half mile from a small rail
road town, with bank, three elevators,
school, creamery, lumber yard, etc.
It is in the northern part of the
state, in a section which grows excel
lent crops, is unusually prosperous,
and in which the price of land is ad
vancing very rapidly. According to
thi government census report, the
average value per acre of improved
farms throughout Palo Alto county
more than doubled between 1900 and
1910, and at the present time the value
of the better class of improved farms
close to town, to which this farm be
longs, is from $100 up, some of them
being held considerably higher than
this.
This farm is in a splendid neighbor
hood of mixed nationalities. It is
surrounded by good, well improved
farms. It is a rich black loam, con
taining a smoll amouut of sand, which
makes it a warm, quics growing soil,
and very productive.
It ia a beautiful farm, smooth, and
nearly level, but with just slope
enough for tile drainage, and nearly
all of it haB been tiled. More than 125
acres are drained perfectly in this
way. The remainder, which does not
really need it, is now in tame hay,
Is one sheep (market value about 75
cents). In the case of a 'nafumo,'
who was killed, compensation was
fixed at one canoe, one sheep and a
string of beads."
Stuffing the Ballot.
"That politician couldn't be honest If
he tried," said Senator Sorghum.
"What has he been doing?" "We ar
ranged to take a straw vote in our
community and we caught him sneak
ing around with a bale of hay."
A Candid Admission.
"Are you sure you know all about
that topic you write on at such
length?" "Certainly not," replied Mr.
Hibrow. "If I were sure I knew all
about it I shouldn't be sufficiently in
terested in it to write about it."
GEORGE L. GORE
Funeral Director and Licensed Embalmer
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The Journal has searched with a fine tooth comb, and the farms listed below
are absolutely the best bargains that are now being offered
in the Midwest and Canada
that it is all tillable, and all in culti
vation.
The buildings are in good average
condition They include a residence
16x24, one and a half stories high with
a one story addition, 16x24 a barn
40x40, with 16 foot posts acorn crib
and granary 30x30 a chicken house
12x14, etc. There is a good well with
windmill. It is all fenced and cross
fenced, and there is a grove and some
fruit.
It is aplaceofmaay advantages. It
is''close in" to market, to school, and
to a creamery. It has fertile, black,
quick soil. It has a perfect lay and
is well tiled. It has good ouildings
in us good condition as those on the
average farm. It is a desirable farm
in every respect, and it is offered at
considerably less than its real value.
The price is $87.50 per acre. It will
carry a mortgage loan of $55 or more
per acre, or about $8,600. The balance
of $4,875 is asked in cash.
Can You Judge a Farm?
If you are a good judge of land, bs
as most Iowans are, we want you to
weigh this quarter section farm care
fully and decide what, in your own
personal judgment, it is actually
worth.
It iB located in one of the rery best
counties in southern Minnesota, with
in twenty miles ot the Iowa line, and
nearly north of Mason City, It Is two
miles from one railroad station, three
miles from another, and four miles
from a third. It is surrounded by
Bplendidly improved farms, is forty
rods from school and is on rural mail
route and telephone line.
It lies from level to gently rolling,
with excellent drainage. There is no
waste land on it. Every foot is tilla
ble. The soil is a rich, black loam, as
fertile as Iowa's best. Last year's
corn crop averaged fifty bushels per
acre, oats forty bushels, and barley
twenty bushels. All crops were in
jured by the drouth, but you can com
pare it with Iowa in her best years if
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I hardly breathe or speak for 10 to 201
minutes. My doctor could not helps
me, but I was completely cured by
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M. Christensen's Jewelry
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Chat. Van Qorder, President
John McDaniela, Vice Premideni
Ed Delahorde,
EXCHANGE BANK
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Collection* promptly attended to.
Money to loan on good aecurltlai.
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Buy now and get rich as Iowa farms go on up.
The movement is irresistible. Delay is Costly.
you choose. It has always been quite
well stocked, and the soil is in a high
state of fertility.
The improvements are worth at
least $5,000 There is a good house, a
big barn 32x60 with lean-to on both
sides, good granary, corn cribs, hog
house, poultry house, wind mill, etc.
It is fenced and cross fenced. There
is a good orchard with plenty of small
fruit.
Note the proximity of markets, the
almost perfect lay, the fine, rich soil
and big crops of small grain as well as
corn, the total absence of waste land,
and the excellent improvements. The
fact is, of coure, that Iowa farms with
not all of these advantages are selling
commonly nowadays at $150 and $200
per acre.
What is it worth? Decide for your
self.
We can sell it at $75 per acre on the
following terms: $1,800 down, $3,200
next March, and balance carried on
farm at 5 per cent.
Two Hundred Acre Farm
at $95 per Acre
This farm lies in Howard county,
neat the Chickasaw .county line, four
miles from Elma, the same distance
from Alta Vista, both being on the
Great Western railway.
It is a good neighborhood in which
Germans predominate, on a rural
route, there is school on land, and
surrounding farms are well improved.
It lies gently rolling, but drains well
with the exception of between ten and
twenty acres, which are used for pas
ture, but would be tillable by tiling, in
which case the entire farm could be
cultivated. The soil is the best black
loam over clay subsoil.
The house iB 14x20, two stories, with
addition 16x16, one and a half stories,
and another addition 12x12, one story.
The barn is 40x54 with 20 foot posts
there is double corn crib 22x30, granary
16x26, poultry house, etc. BuildlngB
are in good condition.
It is fenced and cross fenced into
four fields. There is a good water
supply and windmill.
It is priced at $95 per acre. A pay
ment of $1,500 down is acceptable and
liberal terms given when settlement
is made next March.
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FARM LOANS.
Lowest Rates. Complete set
of Abstract of Title to all
Lands and. Town Lots in Au
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It is located in one of the very best
wheat districts in all Canada, sur
rounded by fine, highly improved
farms, and school and church are just
across the road.
Many improved farmB in Canada no
better have lately sold at $45 per acre
or more. We offer it at $30 per acre,
will accept $2,000 down, and one half
of crops until balance is paid.
Rich Prairie All Gone
The rich, gently rolling prairie, out
of which northern Iowa and southern
Minnesota were formed, has vanished.
In its place today are tens of thous
ands of the most fertile, beautiful and
highly improved farms of the great
Midwest.
One of the very few excellent pieces
of it, still left unimproved, is an 80
acre tract near Le Sueur in the best
part of southern Minnesota. It is the
richest, blackest loam, and every foot
of it is plow land, 60 acres now being
under plow. Only a few miles away
improved farms are now selling at $90
to $115 and rising rapidly. Yet it is
absolutelv as good as they, and it can
be bought just now at $42 50, with a
Cash payment of $2,200, and three
yearB time on the balance.
It iB certain that this eighty will
double in value within a few yearr.
It is an ideal investment where idle
money will grow steadily and surely.
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A Poor Man's Chance^^^
The land where, poor men have be
come rich and are becoming richer, 1b
Canada. Several hundred thousand
of them have
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far attained wealth in
the great wheat fields of Manitoba
and Saskatchewan.
We are offering one of Canada's
choicest improved wheat farms at a
sacrifice price, and on terms so easy
that it will pay for itself.
It is In central Manitoba only about
110 miles from Winnipeg and two and
a half miles from a station on the C.
N. railway.
It consists of 480 acres of rich black
loam, all tillable, and more than half
under cultivation. It has a good sized
frame house, frame stable with loft, a
granary, and excellent water. It will
make any good farmer rich.
Dr. T. J. McClain
VETERINARIAN
Diseases of the horse or the
cow is my specialty. Milk
fever in cows, or astoria in
the horse need immediate
attention.
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INSURANCE
Continental of New York
Queen of New York
Eidelity-Phexix of N, Y.
Capital, M. & B., Iowa
Royal of Liverpool
Iowa State of Keokuk
Security of Davenport
Hanover of New York
Des Moines of DesMoines
Estherville Hail
Connecticut, Conn.
Farmers, Cedar Rapids
National, Conn.
Over 25 years experience.
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Phone No. 67 BXIRA, IOWA
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