Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1898 — $20,000 Worth of Farming Machinery. [ARTICLE]

$20,000 Worth of Farming Machinery.

B. S. Feqdig, the general junk dealer, made a notable shipment Wednesday. Three or four months ago, for the first time in several years, old iron reached a value at which it would pay to handle, and be began to buy it in large quantities, and yesterday he finished loading on the cars his accomulations during these few months. There was about 200,000 pounds of old iron in the shipment. It filled five box oars, and took over 100 two-horse wagon loads to haul it to the depot. . The value of the pile here was perhaps SSOO or S6OO, but how much value it represented when new, would be hard to estimate. Mr. Fendig thinks that the re, mains of fully 100 harvesting machines, reapers, mowers and binders, were in the pile. Also several threshing machines, and plows, cultivators, corn planters &c. The iron of fully $20,000 worth of farm machinery was probably in the heap. Besides there were great quantities of wagon and buggy irons, and old stoves without number. Another article which Mr. Fendig has been accumulating in large quantities lately, is bones. Be has a large heap of these, and nearly all of them look nearly as good as new, but second hand • » v * -a bones are something which can never be used a second time for their original purpose. Bones, when they once get into the bone heap, are done fbr as bones, and have nothing better before them than to be ground into fertilizers, and for this purpose the skull or the femur of the [commonest plug is just as valuable as tbe similar remains of the bluest blooded descendant of all the Harnbletonians.