Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-05
CHILDREN IN DEMAND.
IRnnna Rennhlican.

( ~ Is evident that there are not
enough babies to so around. Since the
Republican announced that q car load
of orphans would be brought here next
month from New York, six applicants
for children have visited this office and
left their names with us. One peculiar
fact is that they all seem to want girls,
and we fear there will not be enough
girls to go around. But anyhow peo-
pie want children and are willing to
take these unknown ones and rear them
In tn ir homes. This entails q good deal
of r sponsibilfty, along with some risk.
1t Is serious enough proposition for
most OF us to rear our own babies. To
take those OF other people, of whose
antecedents or previous condition or
training We know nothing involves pos
5sfbilities not to be lightly considered. 1t
also involves the idea of noble service
to the race. for it is great achieve
nlent to become a parent to some waif
and form the character into ideal citi-
szenship, fitted for useful and worthy
life. Boone county will absorb these
little ones readily and we hope the re-
suit will be in all respects satisfactory.
AT any rate it shows that the local re-
quest for babies is greater than this
supply-that the baby crop has not
kept up with the demand. The logical
conclusion is that either the baby crop
Is not properly observation-disclosures peo-
pie having too many babies and others
not enOugh-or else baby farming as an
Industry needs to be encouraged and
developed until the supply of babies
without becoming drug on. the mar
ket-is sufficient to supply local needs.
SUGAR BEETS YIELD WE'LL.
MASON City Globe G;azette.l
Theron Palmeter, who has had charge
of considerable sugar beet cultivation
in this county. talks interestingly on
the subject. He has made some In
lvestigations and finds that II. sHales
one and three quarter acres yielded
fourteen tons per acre at Clear Lake
and sold for 1880 per ton on board the
cars at Emery. Mr.. Hales says tina,
after paying all cost OF labor and ex-
lpense he has $21 per acre left for rent
l3of his land. kline's field IN Masor
township of eight acres sold for s3.at
per ton on board the cars. MIR. Kline
says he will double his acreage next
year. Dorchester's field Of ten acres
raised by the business men of Clear
Lake went ten tons to the acre at $685.
liper ton. Another field of five acres
raised by the business men of Cleal
Lake Went seventeen tons per acre a
$3.50, $267.50. Brice and McNider's fielt
4 has nine acres harvested, fourteen ton:
per acre, SAL. w. r. Brice says. he vii
double his acreage next year. William
Bromley, who had a patch of twelve
rods OF ground, received a receipt from
1.-The company's agent for $500 pounds
ltwenty-three and one-third tons pc
acre of beets at $3.50 per ton. Tina
would be $S2.25 per acre. have sev
4 eral reports from the iowa experiment
station Of samples of beets, sent TO
4 analysts also from the Nebraska Sugl
! Beet Company, that say sugar in TIL,
Ibeet went from ~ to 1917 per cent su
4 gar and from so to S6 purity, all 9
which is remarkably good for the tim
THAT they We're sent, five weeks ago. be
fore the beets We're ripe and right o.
1.-THE heels Of that long, rainy weather.
lam just sending some now. They VII
4 test much higher. Any farmer cal
raise a few acres of beets al goo
profit to himself and a benefit to tn
4 country He can do it much cheape
than a company can in the way the!
nave to do ii at arms end and hire al
the work done by men and teams a
prices that no other farm produc
would justify. The beet culture Is nes
Ito all. We have to learn how in
great measure by experiment. Whel
I raised by the farmer a few acres eacl
lie could use the tops of beets thus GU
Ion ait d value Of 81 per acre. They vii
average from four to eight tons Pc
acre according to the growth OF IN
I'll jhaets