Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-08

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1t is claimed that the russell applvi.
make the best vinegar-nOt stronger,
but better favored.
Man can build a twenty story sky
scraper in u year, but he can't make
SPIDERS web in night.
One of the aggravations of age Is to
have the rheumatism when the bass
fishing is good in October.
In wet seasons, while man may
raise bigger crops, he always loses
more of them. August rains make q
terrible waste.
It is the busiest men who always
have the most work to do. The more
such man does the more he finds
that wants doing.
Considering the titanic power of the
lightning stroke and its great frequen-
cy during the summer months, the
wonder is that more damage is not
done.
With all the food in sight and all the
pigs and cattle, it must be that before
many months the price of meats will
get down to figure where they will
cease to be luxury.
California is coming to the front
with new crop of growing impor-
tancethe soft shelled almond. This
year the crop amounts to 267 carloads,
or 2.67O tons, worth about II cents per
pound.
There is one comfort for the poor
man this winter, even If his coal is
likely to be high priced, and that is
that he will be able to get all the good
potatoes he wants ut 80 cents bushel
or less.
The most expert chicken picker in
the country is employed in a poultry
packing house in Chicago. Els record
is fifty chickens in SIN. Is. 1t is GER
tain that the feathers fly when he gets
to work.
Wo have rid large lawn of the
pesky squirreltail grass by persistent
moving during its seeding period and
burning up the cuttings. If you keep
this pest from going to seed, 1t will
disappear.
Rural mail routes will compel the
making of better highways. The gov
eminent has not sentimental feelings
on this subject and simply gives the
alternative of fixing the roads or losing
the service.
A heaping bushel basket of dead
sparrows was gathered up In one Sec
ton of small interior western town
after one Of the heavy storms of Au-
gust. Hail plays the mischief with
these birds.
The byproducts of the Chicago pack
ing houses are worth $3OO0O,OOO per
year and are the sources of large prof.
its connected with the business. Thir-
ty years ago most of these byproducts
were wasted.
If In flt Of public spirit you buy
wide tired wagon. your neighbors will
quite likely commend your public spirit
and keep right on using their old mar
row tired outfits. letting you smooth
the highways for them.
The old poky way Of farming with
oxen and doing most Of the farm work
by hand in France is at last giving
way to improved methods where the
lsrse supplants the OK and the modern
machine the hand labor.
something we have often wondered
did not come to the front, is out at
last and is pronounced success and
IL generally adopted is certain to still
further reduce the cost of freight trans
portation.
The general government has. finally
abandoned further efforts at the i'm
provement Of navigation on the Mis-
souri, river. The railways have beaten
the boats and captured nearly all the
freight which was at one time carried
on the river.
Central Iowa seems to be the center
of the atmospheric disturbances and
unusual rainfall Of the year 1902. the
rainfall being reported at three feet
and even more in localities, doing Inn
mense damage to one Of the finest
crops ever raised in the state.
When man can get his dairy herd
up to an average Of $50 pounds Of but
ter per head. he can afford to entirely
ignore the beef side Of the business of
stock raising. Such COWS should be
bred to secure as many heifer calves as
possible which will do as we'll or bet
ter than their dams. The male calf
should meet theological fate-be dis
posed Of as deacons.