Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-21
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects as
Refectedin the Iowa News.
papers.
The News Of Iowa From Hundreds
ofDiferent Towns and Com
munities.
"A CAT DISCUSSION.

Ss "A CAT DISCUSSION.
IAlden Times.l
The more that civet cat, killed two
weeks ago out on the II. S. Edwards
3 arm, Is talked about the more discus
lion 10 aroused, and 1t promises, tho
lead, to live in the minds of men and
become more prominent than when it
lived and thrived by eating off chick
tns heads along the banks of the
South Fork. Never having seen the arl-
NAL, either alive or since it came to its
1ecease at the muzzle OF Mr.. Edwards
gun, the writer hereof can shed but
little light on the subject further than
to say that y ciyet cat, a pole cat and a
skunk, according to the books on ami
mails, are three very different birds.
They belong, in fact, to three distinct
genera, tho having all the one similar
mode of defensive warfare. The pole
cat, according to books, is highly priced
for Its fur and the civet for u perfume
obtained from 1t similar to that OBJ
tanned from the musk deer.
AN IOWA PAINT MANuFACToRY.
Fairfield Ledger.1
Bennett Bros, who have a mineral
lease on large tract OF land west Of
this city, and who have been engaged
in litigation with the Burlington & OF
tnmwa Railroad Company over the
rlght-of- way for several months, have
finally made a settlement. They We're
given S1,400 for the right-of-wayg and
such strip of land as the company de-
sired The Messrs. Bennett are now
sinking shaft to the valuable bed of
ochre which they are certain hey have
discovered. and have it down to a depth
of fifteen feet. Its site is more convent
ents than the old one and water will be
conveyed it thru pipes from a spring
near by. They say the railroad Will
give them every facility in sidetracks
and like accommodations when they
may be necessary. Every test of the;
pigment, they declare, has been most
satisfactory and the patnt they can
manufacture will be of the best quality
and applicable to surfaces of wood,
iron. stone, plaster and canvas. They
expect to incorporate at once and use
every means to utilize and develop the
mine. There is an abundance of coal on
the land leased by them to supply fuel
for any factoxy they may erect.
TURNING LANES IN CORNFIELDS.
lIoWa Homestead.l
To the man who is engaged in raising
I corn and VINO is a met hodical farmer it
does not Took the right thing to do to
turn sheep intosa cornfield. OF course,
this kind of man will not do it, for he
4 10 primarily engaged in growing corn
and perhaps has no sheep to turn in.
Should he have plenty of sheep, in all
probability he will not be so largely ems
gagged in growing corn. Corn growing
Is all right and many sheep men grow
1t who turn sheep into the field al GER
tain times in the year and under certain
conditions.
For many years we have practiced
turning lambs into corn without mate
rial damage to the corn. and a great
dealsof benefit to the lambs 1t has al
ways been our custom to plant plenty
Of pumpkins in the corn, and When the
lambs We're turned III about this time
of }the.year or perhaps little later a
Few OF the pumpkins near the entrance
are broken open. Here the lambs would
loaf when they had filed themselves,
and having obtained a taste of the
pumpkins we did not afterwards have
to break any more Of them open. They
i looked after that matter themselves. To
the man who is not inclined To turn
lambs into his cornfield we would say
that the lambs will eat up the foxtail
and most OF the weed growth in the
corn first. If there are pumpkins they
will eat them. II the lambs are early.
s large and vigorous, an occasional one
Will take kindly to thesends of the ears
of corn We have never discovered that
III Injured the lamb to d. so. We die
Z discover. however, that since the corn
was grown for the purpose of feeding,
what5tllc lambs consumed saved Just
that much corn later on. and 1t vas
obtained as they needed it and did them
good. Lambs do not learn to do as
much damage in field of corn as adult
sheep will do.
Some farmers pnrposely SOW rye or
rape In the cornfields at the last culti-
walton for the lambs to eat and they.
4 ind II very advantageous. We have had
no experience in this line, however.
What rape and rye We have sown have
been solely for crop and NOT In con-
nection With a corn crop.
No one need fear&to turn lambs into a
cornfield. II any desire to try ii, few
lambs might be turned in day or two
and watched closely. observing the
good they do az we'll as the damage.
and the owner can determine whether il
will pay him or not.