Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-13
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects as
Reflected in the Iowa News.
papers
The News Of Iowa From Hundreds
Of Different Towns and Com.
munities,
DEMOCRAT 1MAGIN1NGs.


The democratic party is in a chronic
state Of indigestion and nightmares. Its
vivid Imagination is constantly con-
juring up tremendous disasters which
are about to overtake our people, but to
the healthy, we'll organized man the
democratic party with its fearsome pre-
dictiona and its bitter denunciation has
no charm. The healthy, well organized
man is looking toward the party that
does something, not to the party OF ev-
erlasting pickering and faultfinding
and opposition.
WOMEN WORKING. ON THE
GRADE.
[Belle PLANE Union.1
The contractors who have the work
OF grading the extension of the branch
to Lakonta are hard pressed for men
to work on the grade, and have put
women into service driving the teams.
Several hundred men could be used
there, but as the laborer is just as
much in demand in go many other
places the contractors have to get along
as best they can, and when some of the
women folks offered to serve as drivers
their services were gladly accepted.
This Is only another indication OF the
character OF the hard times which fol-
lows upon prosperity as advanced by
the republican party.
80
IOWA SUGAR BEET CROP.
fort Dodge Chronicle.l
One hundred acres Of sugar beets are
IN cultivation in Webster county and
esveral times that amount in Hamilton.
Wright and Humboldt counties. The
beet culture is under the competent di-
rection Of an expert secured by Score
tary William T. Chantland from the st.
Louis (Minn.) Beet Sugar Company,
who has been in the city since early
spring, and who has devoted his time
exclusively to experimenting the opera
lions of the farmers of the counties
where the bets are being raised. The
farmers are taking to the culture of
beets like ducks to water. and 1t is dol
larssto doughnuts that they will become
Infatuated with the crop and keep right
on sowing and tending beets until q
factory Is built right here in Fort
Dodge.
Mr.. Z. E. Armstrong. who occupies q
prominent position in the Fort Dodge
Beet Sugar Company, says that the
members OF the company and the far
{ merss who are. trying the experiment
have every reason to feel encouraged
The culture Of 100 acres OF beets this
year will be sort of an educator to thu
farmers. showing them that bets car
be raised in Iowa without enormous la
Dor and more probably than oats
wheat or corn.
From different localities sample beet.
have been pulled and brought into tht
otf ox,1 sc
charine tubers can nowhere be found
They are OF large size, considering tn,
time OF year. and are Of perfect ehape
which counts fora great deal, beet sug
ar farmers say. The beets should b,
wedge shaped and should correspond
closely to an elongated heart. IL perfect
The main thing that Will be learned b,
the present seasons work will be tn,
percentage Of sugar to the ton. ,yh:c.
can now be but vaguely estimated. TIL,
etate experiment station made severa
tests OF Webster county bets and tn,
tests were very high, but nothing on ,
large and comprehensive plan has eve
been carried out on this line, 90 that tn
early tests made at the st. Louis parl
factory will be awaited with great in
terest.
The beets will not be harvested unit
after the first frost. and from then OF
the work Of harvesting and chipping
really begins. There can be no doubt,
gays Mr.. Armstrong ..but that low,
can raise Just as good beets and bette
and just as heavy tonnage as any stat
In the union. There is no reason to cup
pose, that Webster county can not rails
beets as protitably and as cheaply a
any county in the state. The factory
bound to come. but 1t takes time