Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-29

gave some faint idex of the mechan-
ism required to overcome the law Of
gravitation.
The state of Illinois produces two
thirds of all the broom corn grown in
this country. Just why we do not
know, as any of the corn belt soils will
produce good broom corn. Like tobac-
co growing, the culture of peppermint,
onions, celery and some other Of what
may be termed special crops, the bust
ness develops in certain localities and
Is confined to them.
The war between the cattlemen and
the sheep herders has reached an acute
stage out in the range country. Cattle
and sheep cannot be herded on the
same territory, for where the sheep
run there the cattle will starve. The
cattlemen arc slaughtering the flocks
nate the herders. There was the same
old trouble in Abrahamic days.
The name Of the owner Of the farm
printed upon the rural mailbox in
front of his house is no little conven-
fence to the travelling public. Only
the men who have old, ramshackle
places, with hogs in the dooryard,
down fences and the mark of shiftless-
ness all over, object to 1t. The man
with neatly kept farm home is cred
itably advertised by his name on the
box.
We have found the weeder an utter
and complete failure for the cultiva-
tion OF crops this season, and this not
because of any inherent fault with the
tool itself, but solely owing to the pc
culiar climatic conditions of the sea-
son-too much ruin. This is essential
" dry weather tool aud OF no more
value In wet season than boat
would be on dried up lake bed in
Manitoba.
A supposed perfectly worthless house
cat that for long had persisted in max
ing the front porch by our bedroom
window a trysting place where duels
were nightly carried on deposited the
scalp and nose of q large rat on the
doorstep one night recently, done, we
suppose, to prove that his reputation
was not as bad as we took it 20 be.
But we are not sure that some other
cat did not kill that rat.
Nineteen hundred and two will prove
. very productive one in spite of nu-
merous storms. foods and isolated
crop disasters. A friend tells us
that he has more potatoes this year
ON one square rod of ground than he
had on an ncre last year, another
that he will get more oats from fifteen
acres this year than he got from forty
acres last year, while the yield of hay
Is more than six times as great as that
Of 1901.
The time is not far of when new
Indictment will be returned against the
sparrow. When this bird becomes more
plentiful. which will not be long, vast
flocks OF them will descend upon the
wheat and oat fields just as the grain
gets in the dough, and IL unmolested
they will literally ruin the crop by
squeezing the pulp out of the kernels.
All over the country a persistent and
organized warfare should be kept up
on this bird.
Six million three hundred thousand
Frenchwomen work for a living-that
Is, they do that kind of work which in
this country is usually assigned to
men and not to women. A large per-
centage of them work on the farms OF
that country and do the blowing. dig
ging, hoeing, milk the cows, feed the
stock and market the farm produce.
There are plenty Of them who could
lay out an American hired man in the
shade when 1t comes to hoeing pota-
toes or pitching hay.
We have a friend who il always
little behind-always behind In meet
ing his financial obligations, behind in
meeting appointments at specified
hour, behind getting in his crops, car
ing for them and harvesting them. He
is always late for dinner, gets left by
the cars, and his whole life is largely u
failure for the simple lack Of prompt
ness and punctuality. II your boy is
taken this way, lose no time in taking
the kinks out of him or he will be
handicapped all his life long.
It quite often happens that the COW
which gives milk only testing per
cent of butter fat will make more but
ter than will the COW whose milk tests
as high as per cent for the reason
that the per cent COW is quite likely |
to give a much larger flow OF milk
and keep it up for longer period. The
quantity Of milk which COW gives
and the length Of time she maintains
the flow are important factors in de-