Show ROB ROB I ERTSON RANCH By Frank Beckwith I Albert Leuthaeuser twit took me out not m in hIS I auto mine came limit back behind be be- hind Robertson's mule Maud S S. S But my was Just the E reverse reverse- I went out jut to Woodrow with my enthuSIasm at about as Iowan low an ebb as possible but ca came back with it stronger than a 8 6 cylinder 90 at high I will try cry to M give o v. v my impressions as ser seen een by a anon non farmer nors-farmer farmer and as especially fully through the eye of the banker banket barker to whom any evidence of mo money hazard lazard induces a panic The fi first ImpressIOn of the Rock Rock Roberl Robert Robertson son Ranch is pleasing all feric fenced id and strung strong with three barb hub wires p posts to on hand to set et in 10 between he the Z present long spans span and plans plan so that by this time next ext year the whole forty will be enclosed m in n 20 inch mch hog bog wire the gates are not the usual piCtures pictures ures of shiftlessness so often seen but easy working well made and painted pam ted and a driveway leading to o the snuggest three room cottage you could ask for anywhere and that also painted not ot only painted outside but stain stam ed d wood finish within of pale live matched d walls al I papered and ana ceiling e Q I And now you marriageable lass las les im give ear eara a cellar well stoc stocked a not only with meat but with so rows row a of huge two quart fruit jars fillad fill fill- ed ad with ith peaches and small fn fruit which Rock had some ome mg ing housewife put up And next one sees a well built barn baris with wagon shed and chicken coup up adjoining which enclose all the live stock but the and they keep a cow have a c ickens e butter and milk Every wagon and pIece of machinery is s housed a and tak taken is care cams of We We now come Uthe to U the central feature of this ranch bu built buh namely shed h the and Sf pigs that t A painted ai fine d well too whIch 1 conSists its of ten stalls stalla with double doors and addItional removable reo re- movable clean light try airy and as tidy as man who loves love hIS work can make it t. t Ex Ex- emise air fresh water and cleanliness seems seeing to be the slogan slog slog- an of this farm add to th this variety var var- ed lety J wheat of food t alfalfa lf chopped sugar barley f b beets boiled boil mangle manglis and your banker bank bank- er or hazards the the- prophecy that if ever evor hog cholera hits ti the Cue 11 valley hit the Robert Rick It will not son aon Ranch Here Hem in 10 thIS pen were ten sows with varying families and with the call cal of Father Stork the afternoon I got there them the total number of pigs all kinds kind sizes and ages just exactly tallied an ars even hundred bundred there them were two families famille and two younger pigs only of mixed breeds breed all the rest being i good registered D Duroc Duroe and J a beia sig sight t betokening r a bank account next fall With stalls clean and With run ways way provided ed and with plenty of fd food oil in the well stocked I. I eS granary a ar these pigs will grow grew into dollars o for fall aR shipment ft to top the h market their mar ket with the best but price obtainable Now here is the point of this housing and care At any time f e of the year as Rock tersely put in 10 arrivals arrIVal are properly ti taken care cases of and all saved aved in 10 win com on this he used the op f picture Now there theres s So and So I asked his boy how bow many pigs came and he said E Eight lit an and is Pa saved four If g we have good luck Pa c can ge get t as many out of the next litter We don dont don't t lose a pig added Rock Reek our our business is pigs and we tend to them There you ha have haveIt haveIt it It exactly some farmers by goodluck good goodluck luck uck save half and get a half success c no money in pigs they say my and ana drift along ii in d debt There are five acres in m alfalfa three years old and a good s sv stand tand five acres mom being n now v j plant plant- d w l ad in a grain ra nurse e cropo crop Afew Wt acres a will be put to o sugar beetsi beets beats me i to toon mangle and runni running ir yards yard built out into the thea alfalfa stubble Now to got get down to the tho i b-i- now nesa of values Rock came here hem three years ars ago ago- the data dam went out on him un the first year and left him almost without crop so got that thai the results resul to show are we practically two years but all three y years war were spent pent every minute 1 in m working on the place And Ande e the the forty shoie shows howa it Al tI And here hem was are e the banker convictions for forthe forthe the real estate n mon mn to talk ThIS forty will be worth at least loO loOi an i acre in 10 two years for the I land excluSive of the improvements and id until then it will be belf or only 1 self lf supporting but they will wills turn irn o off s this year 1 1200 in sit h hogs hogsand and id each fo following year two car Z loads load which will willi run ran just juat about 2 2400 m in the met meting time me-time e uc ing all they e ec consume is ot i t and small sales a for a d haf r money to run on And best beat of all al not an ounce of off products will be turned off ff this f d term that doesn't t walk o on four legs lega thu tho living food factory as the but best selling market markeL an and nd With everything IRK improvements re bought t thrown outright h in inand this farm is i. is Wi w rth Idu today Way at least 6 and p produces p this year I 1 1200 in 10 two years tears full fully stocked to nearly im 10 10 And to show sho- betes that Robertson is believes this h h he quit a job of a month to g go goon goon on this farm Success to the undaunted eri er an en of these men And sue sue- cess cera i they a y will will get geL This fai farm far wi will ish how se and andu show how u soon ROOn the profit of selling products on four feet May as the rustle of skirts be heard there and may a little lisper keep bot botti at it |