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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30

lion and the price of 81 cents for
which farmers may contract their corn
at this time.
The corn crop, large as it is repre-
sents less than half of the farmers
marketable products in this county
SO that when the total income from
the fourteen Grundy county townships
OF land, every acre Of which will grow
n good crop, is taken, there is proof
in abundance that this particular spot
of the universe is indeed a land OF
plenty.
There is another condition that is
favorable in connection with this coun-
tvs large land income. The land earn
ings find their way into Grundy coun-
ty banks or are used for the comfort
of it's people and for the development
OF local enterprises. There are very
few farms that are owned by parties
living outside of the county. The rea-
son probably is that everyone must
live some where and that the best
place is none too good.
If there are any discontinued people
living in this county they should move
to Arizona There at least they would
have the satisfaction of knowing that
they had something to kick about.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
Feeding Snapped Corn.
TNebraska Farmer.1

The very common practice in Ne
braska feed lots of starting cattle on
snapped corn has much to recommend
it, AS long as cattle consume food in
sufficient quantity to insure good
gains the less labor spent in it's
preparation the more profit results
from the operation. This is the rule;
there are exceptions. When corn is
high in price and labor relatively
cheap, more artificial preparation
may be justif1afble, but rarely is this
the case in the western corn states.
OF course, it is assumed that hogs are
following the cattle. Aside from the
labor saved in feeding snapped corn
there are these other advantages:
Cattle like it. Give a steer his choice
and he will invariably take the
snapped ear and leave the one with
the husk removed. Especially is this
true after the corn has been husked
for some time An ear of corn en-
closed in its natural covering retains
a freshness and a palatability that is
at once recognized and relished.
In starting cattle on a corn ration
frequent aggravation is the tenden-
cy to scour and get off feed. This is
serious matter There is loss OF
both food and flesh. This condition is
evidently due to the compact and
heavy nature of pure corn causing in
digestion, fermentation in the stom-
ach and irritation of the intestines by
the poorly masticated and undigested
kernels All this is less apt to occur
when steers are started on snapped
corn. In that form the ear is neces-
sariiy consumed more slowly and
appears to be more thor
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30

alive gain of calves fed on skim milk
and whole milk. We condense the fol-
lowing from The report, says Separator
News:
The results OF an experiment with
thirteen groups Of calves, containing
ten each, show that when calves are
worth SO per hundred weight, skim
milk is worth nearly 20 cents per nun
dred; with calves at 81 per hundred
weight it is worth thirty cents, and at
SIS per hundred weight over forty
cents.
1t is very interesting to note how
two different groups of calves were
fed One lot received skim milk with
grain ration Of equal parts of corn ana
Kaffir-corn meal, with all the alfalfa
hay they would eat. The second lot
was fed the same as the first except
that fresh whole milk was substituted
for skim milk. Figuring skim milk at
fifteen cents per hundred pounds, and
whole milk at creamery prices for but
ter fat, and grain at fifty cents per
100 pounds, and hay at 81 per ton, the
cost of raising the different lots of
calves was as follows: The skim milk
lou cost |S.a0 per uuLolSu PooAi"''
gain, while the whole milk cost $7.06.
This experiment shows that the feed
cost of raising a good skim milk calf
need not exceed 1927. in contrast to
$19.13 for calf raised on whole milk.
The two groups of calves were
placed in a feeding lot, and the skim
milk calves made the best gains. The
feed records show that the skim milk
calves produced 100 pounds Of gain for
43S pounds Of grain. while the whole
milk calves required 470 pounds Of
grain per ten pounds gain.
1t will be seen that the best method
is to feed sweet skim milk, and that
there is considerably more profit real
lied per animal where skim milk is fed
In place OF whole milk.
The results of these experiments are
no more than we would have expected,
for skim milk contains all the import
ant elements for the growing of bone
and muscle. The fat in whole milk has
but little feeding value; 1t helps to
keep up the animal heat and some Of
1T, undoubtedly, is deposited in the
system; but the grains rich in starch
can be readily substituted to take it's
place, and they are much cheaper than
butter fat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
Aae Of Profitable Steers.


It requires about one-haf as much
grain to produce hundred pounds OF
gain on calves as on two-year olds,
writes Professor Mumford Of the I'm
iversity of Missouri. The work Of the
Missouri Agricultural College has def
initely demonstrated that the most
profitable age to fatten cattle Is while
they are still young. The older the an
imal the more food is required to pro-
duce q given gain. Other stations have
also investigated this question and
have arrived at the same result.
The Central Experiment Station
Farm at Ottawa, Canada, found by
comparing one thousand pounds live
weight in the case Of calves, yearlings.
two, and three-year-olds that the pro-
fit for each one thousand pounds was:
Calves, $1,000; yearlings. $1,000; two
year-olds, s19.1o;l three year-olds.
$3.50.
When all of the cattle Of all ages
were purchased at cents a pound and
sold fat at 5 cents per pound, the pro-
fit on $1,000 invested in feeding cattle
was: Calves, s557.50: yearlings, s2s4,-
90; two-year-olds, $19S.75; three year.
olds. is17750.
Nine-tenths OF all the cattle fed in
the Middle West are two-year- at
the beginning of the feeding period.
When these cattle are in thin condition
at the beginning Of the experiment,
they are often fed with profit; but
starting with calves in the same con-
dltion it is unuuestionably true tina.
the calves return more orof1t for each
thousand dollars invested than the old
err cattle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
Top Grating.

The severe winter of 1903-4 killed
large numbers of fruit trees In the Or
chards of Ontario and Quebec, as we'll
| as in New York and New England. AT
the experimental farm at Ottawa. N.
Y, 300 apple trees. including 164 var
ieties, were killed, all above the snow
line. During the preceding six years
80 varieties were top grated on hardy
stocks to determine whether varieties
which would not succeed when grown
in the ordinary way would prove sat
isfactory when top grated on stocks
having heavy trunks. Practically all
of the varieties thus used for top graft
ing were killed back to the stocks Mil
waukee and Martha were top grated
on Wealthy, each variety occupying
about half the top of the tree. AS
result of the cold, Martha was killed,
while Milwaukee remained alive and
bore crop. Trees which have proved
tender when tried as standards were
shown to be also tender when grown
on hardy stocks Hardy stocks do not
appear to make crafts noticeably hard
Ter.
The above we'll credited tests suggest
some interesting conclusions. While
this influence of the scion on the stock,
and vice versa, is admitted in many
respects, this is the first extensive re-
port on the question of hardness of
top-grafted trees on stock of known
hardness. In regard to the union Of
a scion to stock, it seems that there
is the further question of the relation
of the foliage of the scion to the foliage
Of the stock. Growers of dwarf trees.
know the Importance of grating or
budding varieties with oval leaves on
stocks bearing oval leaves to get
good union. Varieties having lance
shaped foliage worked on stock bear
ing oval leaves rarely form good I'M
ion, and it is perhaps true that other
leaf characteristics should be taken in
to account on this question of top.
grating to secure hardness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
TWO VIEW POINTS.

G. Jaqua, senior proprietor and one
of the editors of the Humboldt Repub-
lican, used to be one of the stalwart
protectionists OF Iowa. He became as
ISOLATED with Cummins and now he Is
one Of the most ardent tariff rippers.
1t shows that the stronger mind al
ways leads the weaker.-Vinton Eagle.
The above Is an insult to one OF the
most intellectual and manly men that
ever lived in north Tanla. Mr.. Jaqua
is as good republican as anyone con-
nected with the Eagle, and as for
strength Of mind we will chance him
any day with the Vinton editors. Mr.. ia
qua is not a riff-ripper. He is exactly
the same kind Of republican as Roose-
welt and Tama Jim Wilson. He thinks
there are some tariff schedules that
ought to be changed If that is an evil
dence Of weak mind this country is
going crazy mighty fast.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
Mans unr.asonableness.

is often as great as woman's. But Thos.
8. Austin, Mgr of the Republican"
Of Leavenworth, Ind, was not unreas-
enable, when he refused to allow the
doctors to operate on his wife. for fe-
male trouble. Instead" he says. we
concluded to try Electric Bitters. My
wife was then so sick, she could hardly
leave her bed. and five 90 physicians
haC failed to relieve her. After taking
Electric Bitters, she was perfectly
cured, and can now perform oil her
household duties" Guaranteed by Nc
Donald & Mahood Co, druggists, price
20 cents
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
Topics Of the Times

Why don't the live stock interests
ask for a subsidy? They certainly
need one quite as much as the ship
owners.
The London physician who breaches
cold air as the best tonic, would have
found few patients in Iowa yesterday
morning.
While the faithful may rise up and
kill few Armenians now and then,
they don't play foot ball in Turkey.
The Turk always has a reason for
killing.
Nothing can be more clear than that
President Roosevelt desires united
party.-Cedar Rapids Republican.
And nothing Is clearer than that the
union must come thru the square deal.
The president and the best element Of
the republican party have never been
disumted The rebels are those who OPP
pose honesty in legislation and claim
special privileges.
- 80
Mr.. Rockefeller's twenty millions of
dividends are the profit from by pro-
ducts. The people must buy Mr..
Rockefeller's products.
Here's to the stork,
A most valuable bird,
That inhabits the residence districts.
He don't sing any tunes,
Nor yield any plumes,
But he helps out the vital statistics.
Chicago Journal.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth
it is to have a "rambunctious friend"
Since the republican party first plac-
ed a ticket IN the field in Ohio, in 1858.
the state has gone democratic Just
eight times. 1t was carried for demo-
cratic candidates first in 1862, when
the disappointment felt on account Of
the slew progress made in the prosecu-
t;nn Of The VII war caused 81 severe
rea otion from the republican t.iumphs
D, 1861 and 1891.
What sort IF man is old Halnw y
well, he claims that he has been
sancti:ie,. ard th,.t makes all who hear
him happy"
why, to reflect that they have not
been, you know"
San Francisco Cali.
The people from southwest Arizona
are az far from Albuquerque, New
Mexico, as the people OF Minneapolis
or Omaha are from New York, and, on
the slow and infreauent trains running
thru that section, the time of travelling
would be much longer than it takes to
go from the Missouri river to New
York. In other words, Arizona claims
that the two territories are too large
to be satisfactorily united into a sim
gle state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
Week. Excursions-lowa Central
RAILWAY

The Iowa Central railway will place
in effect until December 18th the fol-
lowing excursion arrangements
Half rates-On Saturdays and Sun
days to all points within $50 miles,
good for return until Monday morn
ing: minimum rate. Is cents.
Fare and one third-On sale Fridays
to points not less than Is miles nor
more than $50 miles distant, limit the
following Monday.
One fare plus s2.oo-To points more
than. $50 miles away, limit five days.
These rates apply to the cities where
theatrical attractions and other amuse-
ments are best at this season OF the
year, and they also apply to all local
stations on the line.
For further particulars call on Iowa
Central agents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
Iowa Newspapers

SCANDAL MONGERS.
Honda Timesl


There are people in nearly every
community who take great satisfac-
ton in dispensing gossip. each time
adding something more unpleasant
every time they repeat their story.
1t is a habit with these people, one as
difficult to cure as the morphine, or
whisky habit. There should be a
state institution for these people,
who should be sent to this bow WOW
house to have their tongues and
minds treated. They care little how
good the character they blacken or
how deep or unjust the wrong they
infiict. Their little, dried up sensi-
bilities simply crave for some rich
morsel to roll beneath their tongues.
No one is safe within reach of the
tongue that ISLANDERS.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
GRuNDY's CORN CROP.

IS1I uITUy 11S'tft0ShSee1
Grundy county's corn crop II 1t were
equally distributed would keep and
keep we'll every family that now lives
in the county. If such a distribution
were made it would give about $500 to
each family Of five and this Is prob
ably higher estimate of family ex-
penses than are required to keep In
comfort all of Grundy county's peo-
PIE.
The above estimate is based on the
most reliable authority obtainable Of
this years corn crop yield. 1t places
the total number of bushels at five mil
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30

the law" says the Dubuque Times,
referring to the soldiers preference
law. ut is regrettable that those who
defended it when it was in peril should
at this late day be placed in the po-
sitdon of denying this fundamental
proposition"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
6ETTlNG A JOB.

Like other newspapers the T.-R. is
much beseiged by letters asking for
employment on the paper. One pecul-
iarity about these applications is that
nearly all of them are for important
editorial positions, and most of them
Few ask for minor reportorial positions
and fewer for mechanical jobs. A con-
siderable number are for road jobs"
as solicitors and collectors. Most OF
them. however, have an edftorship or
at least something in the line of w.
e. Curtis work. as special cores
pondent, in view. And, small but
notable point is that not one applicant
In fifty encloses stamp or self-ad-
dressed envelope for reply. One man
writes on the back Of a circular print
cd to exploit the virtues Of a patent
bread board. He wants a place as So
Hcitor. He uses a pencil carelessly and
his letter gives the impression that his
reports would be slovenly and his work
In general loose ended and sporadic.
He forgot the stamp and received no
reply
Correspondence Is not the most
effective way to get a job. The best
plan is to apply in person, neatly
dressed, clean and looking up to the
position applied for. Perhaps the
young man who used the back page
of aTcircular makes fairly good per-
sonal appearance. His letter was badly
dressed, ill-written and looked slouchy.
Had he came to the Office with his
application he would not have expected
to have his car fare paid, but he evil
dentIy expected some one to spend the
price. of a stamp in response to his
written application.
Another thing noticeable about these
applications: the applicant for solic-
itor's job offers his services at So day
Collectors may be hired at $50 month.
Not so in the mechanical department,
where applicants are scarce. A press
man will double the 81 a day asked by
the applicant for road job. A good
linotype operator will earn double or
treble 81 daily. The cheapest printer
on the floor" earns more.
There is a lesson for the man who
warts job in all this. The mechanical
trades pay. They are not overcrowded
Instead Of hawking without prepara-
tion. at position that requires special
ability and training, instead of being
content with a So day job Of uncer-
tain tenure, the man who wants a job
should learn to do something better
than others do 1t.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
Sleeplessness
is Natures Timely Warnins.-WheeIe

lS N atufe'S Timely WdFniil9.-W HSS'oI'
Sleepleesness is one OF the most
prominent symptoms of nerve weak
ness as it is one of the most Distress
ing Sickness and bodily injury may
be borne for a time and, while borne,
brushes it's victim by wrecking and
destroying both mind and body.
There is habit of waking at fixed
hour in the night and sleep is dis
turbed by nightmare or frightful
dreams so that on arising in the
morning the unhappy sufferer is not
rested and the constant tired, worn
out feeling soon forces him to abandon
his daily occupation. Dizziness un-
easy sensations or buzzing in the ears,
floating spots before the eyes, confu-
sion of thought, loss of energy and
other distressing symptoms that lead
to serious results are neaIy always
present, except when the nervous en-
ergy is whipped into action by stimu-
lants These are but lan6lrn a1+l1s on the
road to nervous prostration and pa
ralysis.
There are many drugs for the relief
of sleeplessness, but there is only one
cure. The word "cure" is used adj
visedly, for Wheeler's Nerve Vitalizer
is a cure, always effective and pernla
nent. 1t supplies to the nerves the ele-
ments worn out and exhausted by
years of mental toll. worry and grief,
burned up by excesses bad habits and
dissipation The first dose gives re-
lief and refreshes. Each dose is price,
less to the victim of impossible sleep
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
MAKING NEW MARKETS.

In a recent address Secretary Will
son stated that the settlement OF the
Mississippi Valley created q nome
market which was worth more to the
manufacturers of the United States
than the markets of all the rest OF the
world. 1t was their own market ana
they did not have to compete for Its
trade with other manufacturing ma
tons. II the Mississippi Valley with
its thirty or forty million OF IN
habitants, largely occupying farms OF
100, 200, and 500 acres affords the best
market in the world, what would be
the reclaimed arid west where arriga-
ton doubles and trebles the yield and
farmers make fortunes out OF twenty
and forty acre tracts? Desert land,
when it is provided with an adequate
water supply, jumps in value from
dollar to hundred dollars an acre
and the created value Of the American
desert when irrigated with the flood
waters which now run to waste, 1t Is
estimated would be not far from ten
thousand million dollars.
One of the remarkable and wonder
full features Of Irrigation development
Of the government lies In the fact that
the cost OF this great work will be
paid back to the government. The first
completed national irrigation work
was announced last June-a small
patch Of $4,000 acres-and it is sig
niflcant that long before the water
from the big government ditch was
turned upon the land, every acre under
1t had been eagerly taken up by
settlers, in eighty-acre tracts, under
agreements to repay the government
every dollar expended in the work.
Under one Of the proposed govern
ment projects In Washington, where
1t is estimated that the cost will be
in the 1leighborhood Of SIS an acre, a
reconnaissance Of the lands included
shows that the farmers and prospec-
tive settlers are willing and anxious to
( q 4 ~ &.
have the government go ahead on the
basis o. the repayment by the land
holders of this amount The only
hindrance to the commencement of the
work on this project lies in the fact
that the government has not the
necessary appropriation.
Where irrigated land will produce
annually farm and fruit crops worth
from $40 to 800 an acre, the initial
cost OF an adequate water supply, even
when the cost is high, is not a serious
consideration and the obligation is
gladly undertaken by hosts of settlers
The rush for these irrigated lands up
on which to make homes is reported
far in excess Of the supply of the i'm
proved lands.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30

w. A. Herren, Of Finch, Ark, writes.
IT wish to report that Foley's Kidney
Cure has cured a terrible case of kid
new and bladder trouble that two doc
tors had given up" For sale by Nc
Bride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30

Thirty Iowa women have places in
banks. You can usually bank on the
Iowa woman-Atlanta Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30


| declares There is no real opposition
| to Conner in Webster City. There are
a couple of disgruntled politicians here
who are sore at Conner. Nearly ev-
erybcdy else is for our present con-
gresham" 20
ut has been announced with de-
gree Of authority that George E. Clarke
an Algona attorney, will be candidate
for district Judge to succeed Hon. w.
B. Quarton. Clarke is recognized as
an able attorney, but there Is no par
ticular desire lii this country for a
change"
"There is really Just one ISSUE" i'm
sists the Rockwell Photograph, for
or against the square DEAL
The Boone Republican wants to hear
from Secretary Shaw on the railroad
rate regulation proposition. 1t says.
Presumably he is in accord with Iowa
sentiment, Tut we have not seen an ex
preston Of opinion. When the secra-
tary expresses rilrself there is never
any danger of misunderstanding"
The Baxter New Era explains ",Tha
standpats are now all in line for rate
legislation, because they have count
ed noses and find that the president
cannot be beaten, and the politicians
who are looking for pie, are breaking
their backs getting into the band wag-
on before it is everlastingly too late"
Rockefeller gave ten millions for
education, and now another man plays
the fool" asserts the Washington, "a,
Press. "He is Stephen N. Salisbury,
of Worcester, Mass, who wills 20 mill
ions to Harvard and other eastern
schools to educate the tough bats and
bilks who haze students to death,
tying them to railway tracks to be
run over as sort of amusing initia-
ton, or subjecting them to electric
torture so severe they go unconscious.
University? College?" calculates the
Press. "Why ninetenths of the course
Is now outrage, hazing, chuckle- headed
gives to modern schools is first class
chump"
Inc COuNCll Bulls I\OilpdFell COnSlQ-
ers it altogether likely that the For
aker bill is put out in the nature of
a trial balloon.
'sThe passage of rate bill - which
Of course will be carefully consid-
ered-will be an achievement of ex-
ceptional credit for this administra-
ton and this congress-" points out the
Sioux City Journal. "The O. K of the
president will satisfy the people, and
they will see to it that both the pres
ident and the congress are equipped
for further business along right lines"
The Dubuque Telegraph recalls what
Mr.. Bryan alleged in 1895 about the
iniquity Of Wall street and asserts that
today's revelations vindicate him. "Mr.
Bryan looms up today a moral giant
clean, patriotic, honest" continues the
Telegraph. "And Wall street, which
gave the money to beat him, which
employed intimidation, coercion and
stolen dollars to accomplish his de-
feat, is proved to be all that he said
it was"
you have occasion to be mighty
thankful If you haven't something to
be mighty sorry for says the Castana
Times.
Our countryss boast has been that
In this land all men are equal before