Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-22

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drug on the market, for people will
not eat melons when the weather is as
cold as it has been this season.
There is one great advantage about
the silo often overlooked, and that is
that wet and catchy weather never
prevents the putting up of the silage,
nor does the rain in any way impair
It's quality. 1t is safe to say that one
hnlf Of the hay put up in the United
States this season has been injured by
rains to q greater or less extent.
II is worth mentioning that the cat
tie which brought the highest price
paid for beef animals for twenty years
on the Chicago market up to the mid
die of September were eighteen grade
Hereford steers grown in South Da-
kota and fed for year Oh soaked corn
and oats, averaging 1878 pounds and
bringing $3.50 per hundredweight, or
$134.34 per head.
The hardest job which the society
Journals have is to instruct the dear
people how to eat sweet corn from the
cob when in company with becoming
grace and gentility. The best way in
which to serve it for company is to cut
the corn from the cob before it is
brought on the table, for no fine lady
can shipper just right when she has
three big shelled ears lying by the side
of her plate and her teeth fast In
fourth one.
So well satisfied are we that stuffing
the young pigs with new corn ana
nothing else is most provoking cause
of swine plague and cholera that we
would not feed ration wholly COM
posed OF it even if it were furnished
free. One or two ears of new corn a
day, with Stop Of ground rye, bar
ley and oats and plenty of green food
rape or blue grass or clover--will push
the pigs fast enough to be finished for
market during the early winter on the
new corn well matured.
A dairyman friend Of ours is just now
filling 500 ton silo with the product
of forty acres Of field corn. The corn is
so large crop that he will hardly get
it all in his si1o. This silage will fur
nish him a most excellent dairy ration
for 1873 cows for six months, allowing
forsy pounds day per cow. In no 9TH
er manner is it possible to so easily and
cheaply provide desirable ration for
dairy herd. He will supplement this
silage ration with well cured clover
hay and gluten meal.
There is whole lot of foolish stuff
printed about corn growing SO tall, just
as though the height Of the stalk in
any manner indicated the prospective
Yield of the crop. Our own experience
proves that 1t is not the tallest stalks
which produce the biggest ears. We
have been through fields OF corn in
Arkansas where the stalks would aver
age twelve feet in height all over the
field and where good crop was fifteen
bushels per acre. The diameter Of the
stalk rather than its height better de-
termines the size Of the ear and thus
Of the crop.
We are inclined to think that in the
effort to do business on the largest
scale possible the modern thrashing
outfit has grown altogether too large
for profitable work either for the OWL
er Of the machine or his patrons. In
communities where these huge ma
chimes are at work every available
hand from dozen or more farms has
to be drafted to operate it, and when
the thrashing is interfered with, as 1t
was this season by continuous rains, an.
immense loss results. Either the grain
should be stacked as In the old way,
which is always good way, or a
smaller thrashing outfit should be
owned Jointly by two or three farmers
to do the work when needed at the
proper time.
Ducks and geese are not nice sort OF
fowl to have around the farm home
stead unless they can be assigned
lot by themselves and pond of water
or q running stream. Then we don't
like this picking the birds for their
feathers while they are alive, making
the dignitied old gander look like the
head of the house turned loose IN
ragged nightgown; in fact, it was al
ways puzzle to us how a woman who
will make an awful fuss if a fellow
steps on her cats tail can deliberately
sit down and peel the feathers off an
cid goose without any compunction.
All through the section Of the coun-
try where the Poland-China hog IS pro-
duced in its greatest excellence 1t -
sent to distant market when fat
tened, and then the hams. sausages, ba-
con and fresh loins into which its car