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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09
kafiir and Indian Corn.

A great deal of experimental work
has been done to determine the rela-
tive value of kafir and Indian corn
crops. The general results appear to
be that in feeding the ground grain the
value of the Kafir corn is about Is per
cent below that of corn. especially when
fed to cattle and hogs. To sheep and
fed to cattle and hogs. For sheep and
horses the value is nearly the same.
Kafir. slower, however is generally far
superior to corn slower in feeding value.
1t can be both harvested and kept in
a better condition than the other When
the yield per acre, is considered, how
ever, Kafir is undoubtedly the superior
crop for many conditions. Its superior
draught resisting qualities make it ex-
ceedingly desirable for upland soils and
for dry or wind swept regions. or for
a late crop in dry seasons, kafir corn
will otter produce a good crop when
Indian corn would be a practical fail
ure. 1t has a larger root feeding sur
face than most of the common crops
and so draws heavily on the soil for
moisture but 1t does not require any
more plant food from the soil than any
other crop.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09
Feeding Young Animals.

Feeding young animals too strongly
or generously, on grain foods is not
only improbable, but dangerous,
writes a Pennsylvania stockman. There
should be no attempts to crowd" the
fattening steer. 1t is better to feed
lighter rations, and take longer time
to obtain the amount of fairness re-
quired.
Feeding experiments conducted at
the Minnesota station, and the Ontario
Agricultural College. showed that the
medium and light rations Of meal are
much more economical for fattening
steers than heavy rations. The right
way to make beef at the least cost,
and most profit to the producer, is to
keep the animals growing rapidly and
constantly, all the time from birth ur-
til year or fifteen months old, and
then send them to market. They
should rightly bring more per pound
than older beeves, because better. Veal
(the flesh of calves from four to eight
weeks old) brings more than any other
fresh meat in market unless it be hot
house lambs" and there is no good
reason why the flesh of yearings
should not bring more than the patr-
archal beef of old oxen, and superan-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09
COMPANIONS IN POLITICS.

The Washington correspondent for a
Chicago newspaper writing about poll
tical conditions in Minnesota pictures
o. striking parallel to the Iowa situation
when he says:
The fact that the general western
representative for the Rockefeller inter-
ests is candidate for delegate at large
TO the republican national convention is
provoking considerable Of 'ruction up
On Minnesota. Frank Kellogg of ST.
Paul looks after the Standard Oil bus
3ness for that state and half a dozen
Urhsr states in the vicinity, and assist
tng him is Joe Cotton Of Duluth. The
latter, too, is candidate for delegate
At-large. Some of the Minnesota people
have raised the point that no Standa
Oil man could conscientiously represent
the sentiment of the people of Mime
sofa In a republican national conven-
ton. And when 1t is recalled that the
Minnesota people, men women and
children, are all clamorous for the NOM
anation of Roosevelt and that every
cent Of Rockefeller's money, and every
thought in the Rockefeller intelligence,
hired and otherwise, is opposed to
Roosevelt and all for which Roosevelt
stands there is some occasion
Tor the objections which have
been raised. Messrs. Kellogg
and Cotton are most suspicl-
to keep them out Of the conven-
tion."
10 ne would substitute the name OF
q. w. Blythe and the Northern Secur-
tiles Company for the Rockefeller in
kerests his remarks would picture the
Iowa situation most accurately With
ull the power of federal patronage back
of him and the newspapers that such
patronage can control Blythe expects
to control Iowa's delegation in the ma
Hional convention and yet 1t was Blythe
and the president of the Northern Sc
curlties Company railroad he works
for, who waited on Hanna with urgent
requests that Hanna defeat Roosevelt
tor the presidential nomination. When
khe correspondent recalls that every
cent of Rock efellers money is opposed
70 Roosevelt the same suspicion arises
as to the Northern Securities Company
And the men who wanted to defeat
Roosevelt when they thought they had
q Chance When Hanna refused to be
used and was approaching his end on
sick bed, Mr.. Blythe quickly endorsed
iAa -nrssidsnt hut II II were QQssible
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09

me Farmers strawberry sea.
Mr.. William S. Crawford writing n
the Fruit Grower on how to make
a farmers strawberry bed. says:
You can grow strawberries on any
land that will grow corn or potatoes
!, If you have a choice, you will proc
/ ably find sandy loan or clay loan
more satisfactory than either very
! light or very heavy land. If possible
avoid low undrained land, soil compos-
/ ed of mixture of gravel and clay
as plants are likely to heave out OF
the former and the latter bakes bad
lily in hot weather IT, like farmers.
you have a garden fenced against
chickens, take a piece of that If You
can spare it. If 1t has been in vege-
tables for two or three years and has
been we'll MANFRED for them, it will
generally be prime strawberry land.
If you have not such a piece, take
other land. but avoid sod or meadow,
lif you can, as it may be full of white
grubs.
II the land is not what you consider
fairly rich. it would be we'll to give i.
a good coat of stable manure now and
before blowing rake off the rough
straw or cornstaks. We will suppose
enough plants are to be set to supply
a good sized family 200. They
will require from 1900 to 1000 square
feet of land, plece forty feet long
by thirty or forty feet wide, or in any
other shape you prefer. Pillow the
ground as early in the spring as You
can. Around here one can plant from
the first of April till the latter part
of May successfully, but the chances
are much better in April than in May.
The strawberry ground can be pre-
pared like the rest Of the garden, but,
If possible, it would be we'll to harrow
it rather more than the rest so the
horses will tramp it down and make 1t
pretty firm. An ordinary drag or
float will make it smooth enough
Don't waste your money in sending
half way across the country for your
plants. Get them as near home as you
can. provided they are good ones.
would not advise you to get plants
from your neighbours old bed, however
IL there is a nurseryman or plant
grower near enough SO you can con-
veniently go to his place. go there and
get the plants and he will tell you the
best kind for that neighborhood. There
is just one thing to look out for, es-
pecially, do not get all varieties witt,
pistillate blossoms or you will prob
ably get no fruit
The only secret of successful plant
ing is to set the plant in the ground
just as deep as 1t grew and pack the
earth firmly about the roots. An easy
way is to let a man take spade and
somebody else take the pail of plants
The man sets the spade on the line
drives 1t down six or eight inches
pushes the handle forward fev
inches. leaving a wedge shaped hol,
behind it. The other person places
plant in the hole with the crown leve
with the surface, and holds 1t till til
man w7ithdraws the spade and tht
earth falls back against the roots. The,
the man with the spade steps forwar
and sets its two feet further along IL
row and makes the next hole, and
the same time sets his foot on tn
loose earth against the roots of til
plant last set, giving it shove at RICH
angles to the roots and making it firm.
Cultivate as often as you have time
till September.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09
OUR GROWING EASTERN TRADE.

Three timely monographs which dis
euss commercial and other conditions
In Japan, Korea and China. are now il
Nhe hands of the printers and will be
published as part of the monthly
summary of comerce and finance, by
They discuss commerce and commercial
conditions in each of the countries in
question, not only at the present time
but the history of their commerce
their trade relations with the various
parts of the world and with each other,
the total value of their present COM
meree compared with that of earlier
years. their trade with the United Stat
es, with other leading countries of the
world, and with each other. Many other
Important facts regarding conditions
In those countries are also discussed.
such as railways, telegraphs. routes of
communication, manufacturing indu-
tries the class of merchandise imported,
and the class of merchandise export
cd.
The total commerce OF the territory
fronting upon and Immediately adjac-
emit to the scene of present hostilities
aggregates In round terms about
$500. 100000, of which considerably more
than one-half is imports. Japan's COM
merce is about equally divided between
imports and exports, but in the case Of
China and Asiatic Russia imports
greatly exceed exports. and this is also
true of Hongkong which passes most
OF its imports on into China and draws
from China most of the articles which
become its exports. Probably three
hfths of the total commerce of the
countries in question, taken as a whole,
Is in the form of imports, and the I'm
5ted States is year by year supplying a
larger share of those imports Of the
countries in question and gaining upon
other countries in the relative share
which it supplies thereof. OF the ex-
ports from the countries named, the
United States is the largest single pur-
chaser. The tea, the raw silk the man
ufaturing silk, the rice, the mating,
and other products of this character
which form the bulk of the exports of
China and Japan go more largely to
khe United States than to any other
single country Of the world, while as to
Asiatlc Russia and Korea their exports
are at present so small as to be of little
Importance in a discussion of the COM
merce of the countries in question.
The most important of the exports
Df the United States to the section in
question are cotton and cotton goods,
Kerosene. flour, lumber, manufactures
OF iron and STEEL manufactures of
heather and tobacco. Raw cotton ex-
ported to this particular section of the
world goes chiefly to Japan. Kerosene
Dis an even more important item in our
exports to the orient, and in this arti-
Gle the trade is barely holding It's own.
kerosene from Russia and Sumatra
Flour as a factor In our export trade to
the orient has of late attracted consid- |
cradle attention, but the total Is not
large. nor Is the growth rapid.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

Bailey, of the Britt Tribune altho a
standpatter visited the Des Moines
primaries out of curiosity. He says
We har a narrow escape from death
or perhaps worse than that at the
hands of the Prouty police. But we
don't hold Judge Prouty responsible
for thei. acts-for candidate for Of
fee who gets into the hands of these
ringsters and ward heelers is simply
their slave and not their master .
Judge Prouty had rotten advisors and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09
DESTROYING Ants.

Where ants infest lawns punch a
number of holes about foot deep
with cane or other stick at three or
four points near the center of ~
nest: pour into each one an ounce Of
bisulphide of carbon and close the
openings with the foot. The yapor
will get into and follow the galleries
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09
/ TOPICS Or THE
TINES = = q

/ II the man who has sure cure fol
his neighbours attack of grippe couic
| make it work in his own case. there
would be little sickness.
Ebert Hubbard, who Is to lecture or
Socrates. the Philosopher" at Des
Moines, this month, will devote a por-
ton Of his time to the explanation OF
the charges made against his concep-
ton of the marriage tie and its re-
sponsibilities. 1t seems a shame, how
ever, to drag poor old dead and gone
Xantippe into twentieth century
scandal.
The attention of the democratic ma
tional convention should be called =
the young man In Baltimore who can
talk 5000 words an hour. This should
go far toward the elimination Of Mr..
Bryan.
Smoot!
Boot!
Scoot!
March Outing along with other in
teresting features and illustrations,
contain special articles by Lenida
Hubbard, Jr., and f. S. Van Dyke,
which are alone worth the price of the
magazine. A. c. Liant contributes his
Adventures Up the Missouri River"
and Jack Hampton a well written BIZ
ography Of the Parachute Man to this
issue
II Russia turns round while he IS
makes faces behind her back some
thing salutary is likely to happen 20
Clara Morris contributes some pleas
ing personal "reminiscences Of L. 9. =.
Lamor to the March Cosmopolitan,
which cast q pleasing light upon that
southern soldier, orator and jur-
list. The March number is up to the
average Of the very excellent publica-
ton.
1t Is just as easy 10 De gao lldl the
snow shovel is laid away as to be sad
and keep looking at the lawn mower.
A Crude Impression = What is civ
ilization?' inquired one simple minded
savage.
civilization" answered the other,
lis something that prevents people
from annoying one another without
aging Excuse me- or killing one an
other without good political reason"
Washington Star.
A story tina, possibly explains the
tendency of Edward Atkinson, tbs,
head of the Boston "anti-imperialists'
to thrust a meddlesome finger into
the administration pie is that he suf
fers from such unsteadiness that he no
longer uses a pen, but employs a rub
Der stamp In signing his name. This
is done even on checks of small or
large amount AS such a signature Is
not legal, Mr. Atkinson renders it SO
by attesting 1t according to the Ber-
tillon system, He inks the ball Of his
thumb on a pad and leaves the imprint
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09

| rotten managers. So far as we coult
see it in the two precincts we visited
| his campaign did not end any too soon
| II wasn't a Cummins victory by any
| means altho the governor was known
| to be mixed in it more or less
That the state has plenty to do is the
opinion of the Davenport Democrat
when it says: ~Just how far it is wise
to develop the agricultural idea at the
Iowa college intended to cultivate the
science of farming, is a question. Stock
growing, butter making, the chemistry
Of soils, and a hundred other things
are natural enough. But Professor c.
+. Curtiss of the Ames institution.
made speech at Des Moines the other
day In which he advocated the estab-
lishment of slaughtering house, the
curing and the canning of meats. State
aid in this direction would undoubtedly
produce the result; but there seems to
be enough for the state to do without
offering competition to the packers
combine"
It must have been due to a theolog-
ical accident, thinks the Boone Repub-
lican for it explains: I'VE are inclined
to think that when President Smith
of the Mormon church, got that direct
revelation from Heaven commanding
men to practice polygamy the wires
were crossed and the message came
from the other place"
The Register and Leader now be-
lieves that there is no middle ground
in this national delegate contest. 1t
says: They will send delegation to
the national convention that will be
heralded far and wide as favorable to
liberal tariff declaration in the ma
tional platform. or they will send one
that will mark the complete triumph Of
standpattisn. There is no middle
course.
Now watch the American Economist
rejoice over the Polk county treachery
and call it state victory for the stand
patters," exclaims the Sioux City Tri-
bune.
On the good democratic authority of
the Davenport Leader we learn that
congressman Wade is announced as
in favor of sending an uninstructed
delegate to the democratic national
convention"
The Amas Times wants the good
roads conventions held in country
school houses after the frost goes out
in the spring, that is, In school houses
from railroads instead of in
we'll furnished, well lighted and heated
opera houses.
Now that muddy roads will next be
in order in the country, and every far
rner who has anything to haul will be
in favor OF the good roads movement,
the Belle PLANE Union advises the
good roads associations to get busy and
gain converts while the farmers are
under conviction.
Noting that Mr.. Cownie's term ex-
pires on the 9Th Of April next. the
Davenport Democrat asserts that mo
one has yet been proposed who is equal
to filling the Scotch american farm
ers shoes on the board Of control
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09
New Whitewash Mixtures.

A correspondent of the Farm Stock
Journal comes forth with the following
paint or whitewash mixtures which we
believe are a little different from those
most commonly given in the past. We
give them for what they are worth.
Slack lime in close box to prevent
the escape Of steam, then pass it
through a sieve. To each six quarts of
this lime add one quart of rock salt
and one gallon of water. after which
boil and skim clean. To every five gall
Ions of this, add by slow degrees three-
fourths OF a pound OF potash and four
quarts of fine sand, apply with a paint
brush. This wash is almost as durable
as slate. 1t will stop small leaks in
roof, prevent the moss from growing
over 1t and render it incombustible
from sparks falling up 1t. When APP
piled to brick work 1T renders it utterly
impervious to rain. 1t endures as long
as paint and the expense is a mere tri-
He To make whitewash for outside
exposure, shake half bushel of lime
in barrel, add one pound of common
salt, half pound of sulphate OF zinc
and q gallon of sweet milk"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09
II Saved His LEG.

P. A. Danforth, of LAGRANGE, Ga.
suffered for six months with a fright
full running sore on his leg; but writes
that Bucklen's Arnica Salve wholly
cured it in five days For ulcers,
wounds and piles it's the best salve in
the world. Cure guaranteed. Only "a
cents. Sold by Mcdonald & Mahood,
picfc
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09
FoIey's Honey ani Tar

Cures coughs and coles.
Cures bronchitis and asthma.
Cures Group and whooping cough.
Cures hoarseness and bronchial tror
bles..
Cures pneumonia and la grippe.
u. A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09

they were fifteen or sixteen months
old, were as large as ordinary two
year -olds, and We're disposed of to
good advantage to drovers who came
with their trained dogs and took them
AWAY
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09
Do You Want Strength

If you want to increase your strength
you must add to and not take from
the physical. In other words, the food
that You eat must be digested, assimi-
lated and appropriated by the nerves,
blood and tissues before being expelled
from the intestines. Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure adds to the physical. It gives
strength to and builds up strength in
the human system. 1t is pleasant to
the taste and palatable, and the only
combination of digestants that will di-
gest the food and enable the system to
appropriate all of its health and
strength giving qualities. Sold by ali
drupPiStS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09

Pleased At Last.
"Was your last mistress satisfied
with your" Servant-Well, mum, she
said she was very we'll pleased when
left.-Stray Stories.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09

made by the ants and will kill them.
1t is rarely that a second treatment is
necessary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09
Cough Settled on Her LUNGS.

CoUgh SettIeo on HeF Lungs.
my daughter had a terrible cough,
which settled on her lungs says N.
jackson, of Danville, Ill. I'VE tried
great many remedies without relief,
until we gave her Foley's Honey and
Tar, which cured her." Refuse substi-
tutes. B. A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09
GUARD THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

Davenport Delnocrat.l
There will always be differences OF
opinion on the best way to promote
the cause of temperance; on the ex-
tent of protection that American made
goods should have, df any; on what
dollar should stand for; and on
great many more political, moral, and
economic questions. But in this age
of the world there ought TO be agree
ment that the common duty is to
guard the public health by every
means that can be devised. Epidem-
les of typhoid fever, for instance,
ought not to occur in settled and civ
ilzed community, and this for the
simple reason that typhoid fever is
not a dispensation of providence, but
a preventable disease This statement
applies with equal force to other cpl
denies.
1t is on this general ground that
the Democrat looks with great favor
upon a bill now pending in the general
assembly of this state. 1t is vouched
for by the engineers and the architects
of Iowa. The bin merely calls for
competence. for fitness in places OF re-
sponsibiiity. such as those who look
after the sanitary arrangements of
cities and public buildings An archi-
tect who plans a public hall. a church,
a theatre, or any such structure ought
to know what the requirements of pub
lie health are and then see that they
arr. provided. Possibly 10 a greater ex-
tent this is true of the sanitary and
the ciwl engineer. The bill referred
to calls for the examination of the
men who do this class of work for
municipalities.
1t is carrying popular rule a little
further The law says that & physi-
clan shall not practice his profession
without giving proof of his Compel
ence to do so. The same demand is
made of the pharmacist, of the awyer,
and of Others. There is equal reason
why the municipal engineer and the
architect should, by examination. show
that they are prepared TO meet the
responsibilities with which they are
called upon to deal. 1t is easy to un-
derstand why the bill should pass: but
it is very difficult To understand why
there should be any objections to 1t,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-09

ports that the old school buildings
which We're heated by stoves, cost
$279.3S to keep it warm last sshool
year and up to March /, 1904, $1423t
has been expended in heating the pre-
sent relnodeled building. This will
it is estimated by us. make differ
enee of close ITO 500 saving in the
coal bin this school year, If Mr. Pecks
figures are correct, and we have no
reason TO doubt them. We see Mr.
Peck says school buildings and we
SUPPOSE from this he has figured in
the cost of heating the Hub" school
building with the main school build
ing last school year. Figuring the
coal at 81 a ton, lit shows that only II
tons of coal has bees, burned SO far
this school year. He says since the
new heating plant was accepted Jan.
Is. no room has been closed on ac-
count of lack Of heat, except the gram
mar room. for one-quarter Of day.