Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-13
teen days work per month, the earn
lngs figure out as follows:

Car leaders, company men 1908 324
Laborers. first class. 49,. 27.03 324
Laborers, second class ;. -. 21.93 263
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The growers of sweet corn for the
canneries are this year getting Sc per
ton for their product, equivalent to
return of about SIS per acre, besides
the forage, wsorth not less than 81 per
acre. AS this crop is cheaply pro-
duced and draws very lightly upon
the soil, it is u profitable one to raise.
The growing of cotton is being de-
veloped i1r southern Russia, about H.
600 bales of the staple being produced
last year. The growers now have rep
resentatives in this country examining
the machinery used for making cotton
seed oil. the seed there produced hav-
ing been I'D to this time alnoA wasted.
Twenty thousand Swedes came to
this country in the month Of July from
the hills, valleys and towns of Sweden,
every one of them, male and female, OF
the very best type of foreign citizen
ship, all Industrious and thrifty and to
be most easily and readily assimilated
and transformed into good citizens
here.
A man never really understands the
risks which he runs in living until he
becomes the possessor of good mi
and then he wonders he did
not die years ago. The horribleness of
invisible forms Of life is calculated to
give one the cold chills when one real
ICES that such life is In all air breathed,
food eaten and water drunk.
The great advantage of growing your
own fruit lies in the fact that you can
allow it to get to that stage of perfect
before using which makes 1t
palatable and desirable, while nearly
all of the imported fruits have to be
picked so long before they arrive at
this stage that much of their flavor
and lusciousness are destroyed.
Kansas farmers have learned that
the grasshopper, heretofore regarded
as pest, may be made of much utili-
ty and profit Large focks of turkeys
are raised and are easily taught to
range the farms for the hoppers. OF
which they are very fond and fed up
on which they become large aao fat.
This is the age of economies and utili-
ties.
Talking about forage crops, we have
q sample of Japanese millet which III
sixty days from the date of sowing
the seed produced fifty bushels of seed
and five tons of fine fodder to the acre.
The crop stood six feet high, and the
stalks were green and juicy when the
seed was ripe enough to grow. 1t is
our opinion that the land upon which
this crop was grown will need q rest
or tonic next year.
A good many farmers could do more
to improve their condition by visiting
some successful farmer in some other
locality and studying his methods than
they could in any other way. The man
to learn from is the man who does
things and not the man who can only
tell how they should be done. We
never yet visited n progressive and sue
cessful farmer but we found out some
things which were Of value.
There are three things which may
be done with few hours work round
many farm home which would I'M
prove the appearance of things 100 per
contemplating the fence around the
dooryard, trimming the trees and cut
ting the weeds around the premises
and clearing up the old ragtag and
bobtail lot Of broken machinery, old
posts. wire. boards and the like. These
do not harmonic with o
good house.
Few have any correct idea of the
magnitude and Importance Of the meat
inspection work of the government ex-
perts. During the past year 37.OOO,OOO
animals were inspected either before
or after being slaughtered. OF $780,
600 cattle inspected only one-fourth Of
1 per cent were condemned, of $780,
600 sheep only one-tenth OF per cent
and Of 24,25O,OOO hogs only one-third OF
1 per cent failed to pass inspection. q
really remarkable showing Of the good
health Of the stock of the country.
Careful experiments made show that
pigs weighing about fifty pounds each,
about twenty-five to the acre, placed
in an alfalfa pasture, will make gain
of 100 pounds each during the grow
ing season. This on alfalfa alone. II
given supplemental feed of grain,
the gain will, of course, be still better.
This figures up fine return for the
use of an acre OF alfalfa, 500 pounds
of pork, worth, at the low figure of 81
per hundredweight, $500. Another good
thing is that hogs SO fed are almost
always free from disease.
A binding Irvine lighter In weight
and Of superior tensile strength to the
Irvine in ordinary use has been made
this season from fax fiber alone. When
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