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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02
MRS. d. j. cowden, before AID.

Mrs. ID. j. COWden, before Ada
ir County Farmers instituted
A dairy is where milk is kept and
converted into butter and cheese.
In this day and age OF progress this
is an impossbiljty and very unprotit
able to the farmer. Why? Because
the average farmer does not have the
time, place or machinery for making
either butter or cheese; and If he had
could not command the price our
creamerles do, where they have every
advantage and all the improved equip
ments and can handle all the cream
for miles around the creamery.
First. To get milk we must have
cows. When l first started to have
anything to do with the cow--twenty-
five years ago-we would milk from six
to eight or ten cows in the summer
only, and do without milk or butter In
the winter. After milking we would
carry the milk to the cave, Qew had
cellars), strain it In, gallon crooks.
let 1t stand from twenty -four to forty
eight hours, then skim, empty the
crooks into buckets, generally tobacco
or candy buckets. which held about five
gallons. carry up steps and 10 the
hogs.
My but that was a back-breaking
way. and this was generally done by
the farmers wife. Then the cream
had to be churned. and that meant
every day. too. The butter must be
worked over twice then packed in
Jars and taken to town and traded
out; and | have got as low as cents
per pound for 1T; and J. thought l was
doing wonderful things. buying the
groceries and trying 10 keep out of
debt. But the groceries were few and
far between, and luxuries never.
The COWS had no care--run on the,
prairie on feed range. in winter sell
dom had any shelter unless 1t was
straw stack, and in spring would be
walking skeletons hardly thick enough
to cast shadow. And 1t took some
time to flesh up, and 1t would be the
last of May before you would get much
milk. Then along carne the flies, as
thick as only can get flies and these
pests deprived the farmer of one
third of their milk, and so poor care
mixed with flies didn't bring In many
shlllings.
The first step away from the churns
was cream gathering, that was when
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02
Iowa Newspapers
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FARM CHANGES.
Manson Journal.l


We have enumerated only u small
part of the changes that have come
over farm life during the past 20
years; changes that have reyo usion-
lied life on the farm. In those days
the farmer and his wife were slaves.
They were little better than serfs, be-
cause there was not daylight enough
for a farmer to make decent living.
He worked way into the night at both
ends to exc out miserable existence.
He came to town in a lumber wagon
dressed in rags and often barefoot, to
sell his produce to an Indifferent mar
ket and paid the highest price for ev-
erything he purchased. The farmers
wife was nothing but q drudge and her
life worse than that of a slave. Her
work was never done and luxuries were
unknown to her. Her home was often
nothing but a shanty and in some cases
a dugout. Compare the home of the
farmer of those days with the home
of an up to date farmer of today! In
it you will find plano, easy chairs,
BRUSSELS carpets, papers, magazines,
books. The home is heated with hot
air or steam Bath tub and every mod
ern convenience can be found. Some
of them even have gas system and
light every room in the house with It,
When denatured alcohol becomes COM
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02
supposing.

Surprising. /,
Surprising trees grew down, like beets, IN
orchard and In dell.
To climb Cor pears and butternuts we'd
simply dig well!
Surprising shadows that we cast were
solid, III be bound
We'd find them quite embarrassing a4e
fairs to carry round!
Surprising rain was black as Ink. Good
gracious, what sight
'Twould often make Of plcnickers attired
in pretty white!
Surprising birds were eagle big and walk
ed instead Of flew.
I'd like to know what chance there'd DO
to take a stroll don't you?
Surprising snow was hard and hot instead
Of soft and cold
How drendfully the people who slipped
down in it would scold!
Surprising fishes swan in an air a. thick
as In the sea.
Mid whales and ghsrks and porpoiGes,
how frightened we would be!
supposing we fell up-just think how far
we'd fall!
And presently the earth would have no
people left at all.
-E. L. sabin.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02

mon It will be manufactured on the
farm and furnish both light and power.
The wife and daughters dress In the
height of fashion and the latest modes
can be found on the center table. When
they come to town they ride IN hand
some carriage and drive horses that
hundreds of dollars could not pur-
chase. Then the farmer took a week
ly paper or two, ami received his mail
once il week. He knew nothing about
the markets except what the dealer IN
town cared to tell him. Today he has
his daily papers, his market reports
and his letters delivered at his door
every day In the year except SUM
days. With his telephone he can call
up the buyers in half a dozen different
towns and get their bids for his pro-
duce II none of them suit him he
brings its produce to market and ships
1t himself and gets all there Is In 1t.
The farmer was then a nobody. Today
he Is a business man. He is to be
reckoned with In every enterprise. he
Is independent. Then he was a slave.
He was ignorant then because he could
not help himself Now he Is educated
and informed. His children attend the
town schools and more. of them go
from town school to our colleges In
proportion to those who graduate than
from any other walk of life. His cred
it was poor and the banker loaned him
money with good deal trepida'ion.
Today the banker hegs the farmer to
take his money, but the farmer has
money of his own to loan. You may
think this story is overdrawn, but It is
not.
Plenty of such homes can be found
near Manson and many more will be
in few years. The farmer OF this
vicinity is to be envied but 1t Is all
because he earned 1t by the sweat OF
his brow. The labor and trials of
those years have finally been re-
warded. To be sure. many have gone
before they received their reward but
their children. who worked by their
sides, are enjoying the blessings they
helped to earn.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02
iGhoRANcE CAUSES KNOCKERS.

L was out in Il gathering of bus-
mess men the other evening"" said a
reader of the T.-R. where about 200
present were asked to step into lead
ing factory in their town, not more
than two blocks distant. to see a
special display of goods representa-
tive of what that factory was doing.
Not over fifty of the 200 present COM
piled with the request, yet almost every
man there thought he was interested
in his town and profted by the wages
of that factory's 100 employees. What
was The matter with them?"
Nothing, my friend. They were
average american citizens. They were
indifferent. Indifference is what
causes cities to be misgoverned. and
whether misgoverned or not, indiffer-
ence always causes ignorance of the
good things TO be found in ones own
town and hence is responsible for moss
OF the knockers.
As a general rule a knocker knocks
because ne has not seen the good
things in his town, and some other
knocker has told him about the bad
things.
Indifference comes from the average
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02
A POOR MARKET FOR PIGS.

Anna Gould Is home from market
and as old fashioned people might ex-
press it "she took her pigs to a mighty
poor market" Sympathy is not wide
spread for the sorrows and sufferings
of the daughter of the great railroad
pirate, whose buccaneering operations
founded one of the financial dukedoms
of this country. Her marital trou-
hles have drawn more smiles than
tears, and now that she has finally re-
VOTED and asked for divorce nobody
seems particularly interested. There
have been hundIeds of divorce suits
between pretty ordinary persons that.
attracted infinitely more attention.
But when all is said and done there
is much reason to sympathize, With
Anna Gould. She was a creature of
environment, the daughter of one OF
the new rich, at whom poverty peered
from the birth place of her parents and
to whom a title and an old name seem.
Ell tile 'pcSl SONSlluS LII tiiC DAoSio PA'S
of the map peddler who tramped the
stony roads of Delaware county,, New
York, to secure the beginnings Of his
wealth. Noblesse oblge in the lexi.
con of the new rich is translated as
the obligation to get as far away from
its ancestry as possible and depend
on some one else's ancestors. Castel-
lane was count and the distance be-
tween a castle and the little frame
house that had sheltered her father at
Roxbury seemed Unreasonable. So
she bought and married Castellane.
She was only twenty. Now she is an
old woman every way but physically
Think what she lost that many
peasant woman has gained and shall
gain. She never knew the love of a
strong man, never was able to lool.
Non her husband as her own and the
equal of other men. Why, Anna
Gould might have been happier in
wooden shoes, working in potato
field for bare existence, and going
home at night tired, to a cot matched
with straw. She might have been in
finitely happier and better as the wife
of an American farmer on a forty
COW" farm on the stony slopes back
of Roxbury. Think of what she MISS
ed. Doubtless she thinks of it. And
if your life seems narrow and the gilt.
ter Of millions dazzle your eyes, re-
member that the curse that fell OH
Gould's daughter was the curse Of
gold.
Love, youth and happiness are three
things unpurchasable. Who has these
in howell owns more than all the
millionaires can buy. The richest
man In the world is one of the I'M
happiest and most despised. It is
better to be happy farm wife than
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02

and so have all the farmers wives
who have separators Some OF my
neghbors have made as high as $S
month per COW, and from the Adair
creamery, too This is an exceptional
case, but true. nevertheless
. Under the present system good
COW will bring $50 profit each year.
This includes the calf, the cream, and
the milk for hogs, to say nothing OF
milk and butter for house use.
1t is possible to keep four or five
cows for every member Of the farmers
family over twelve years OF age. and
run fewer risks Of being manned for
life as their city cousins will III one
game of football.
Twenty cows we'll MIXED and well
taken care Of means an income of
81 900 ito the farmer each year. One
half this number will clothe and buy
all the groceries needed by any one
family and keep them from running
a store bill
Before the day OF the hand separa-
tor 1t took all that hundreds OF far
mers raised to pay their store bill.
Now the cows keep the family, ieav-
ing what the farmer raises to pay thes
mortgage, make improvements, and
add to His farm
1t requires no more brains to milk
COWS than to farm for grains. Brains
are not needed ,one-half as much as
closer use of the ones we already pos
sess.
The cows will make you more money
in less time and let you work In the
cooler part of the day. than simply
farming for grain. but to make sue
cessful farmer and keep the land en-
riched you will have to do both. True,
milking must be done when the time
comes. 1t Is work that is binding and
keeps one close at home, but In the
end it pays.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02
Son. Of the Mountain.

Eon Of all the cities,
With their culture and their code,
What brings you to my doorway
BY the lone and starry road?
You may come with seven pack mules
You may walk or steam or ride,
But you'll never, never know me
TIL you come without guide
You may come with rod and level.
With compass and with chain,
TO parcel me for profit
And barter inc for gain;
You may tell my age in eonB
BY the scars on drift and slide,
Eut you'll never. never know me
Till you learn how l abide.
You may range my slopes for silverS
You may wash my hands for gold;
You may tally every jewel
TIL my gems have all beer told;
You may cross my widest canyon;
You may top my last divide,
But you'll never. never know me
Till you watch me wonder eyed.
You must sleep for nights together
With your head upon my breast,
The comp; aion of my silence.
The receiver of my rest.
You may come with all your wisdom
To subdue me In your pride,
Eut Youth never, never know me
Till you love me like bride.
Bliss Carman.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02
Possibilities of Dairying on the Farm.

man came around and gathered the
cream The milk was kept in large
tin cans with strip of glass in one
side with inches marked and these
cans were kept in q large trough filled
with water. This cream was sold by
the inch, but the same company never
ran two summers in succession, and
always broke up, owing the farmers for
the last months cream. This didn't
pay the farmer, but 1t might have
helped the creamery company at the
expense of their good name. The sec
ond step wa; selling our milk to the
creamery or skimming station, hiring
all the milk hauled to the station and
separated there, and then hauled back
but 1t was never fit to feed to calves
Every one has his own ideas, but mine
are that this milk hauling is what kill
ed off all the cheap horses and helps
account for the present 1igh price of
horses. When horse flesh came up,
milk haulers went out, except the
ones that had receipt for absorbing
milk from their patrons cans into their
own can by the time they reached the
creamery. And this didn't pay the
farmer either, but 1t surely did add to
tho hauler's income.
Now the farmer had his choice of
doing the impossible thing of hauling
his own milk or payinf; twenty-five
dollars for q twenty-five dollar HAND
separator.
The farmer chose the lesser OF the
two evils and bought the separator and
now nine out of every ten has his herd
of from eight to twenty or even more
cows; his cow barn, his sprayer to
kill the flies so that he can milk in
peace, and the hand separator, and has
gone into the money making business
for himself.
1t only takes about ont'-half hour to
separate the milk, feed the calves and
carry what is left to the hogs, (Which
converts all the waste OF dairying into
golden eagles), and the 1rtilk has never
been down cellar once. Of course, the
separator will have to bet washed and
during the summer the separator house
will have to be scrubbed once a day,
but this is not one-half so hard on
the farmers wife as thu. old way. I
know, for 1 have tried both. BY the
otd way had plenty of hard work and
no pay; and now / have some work
and plenty of money in my pocketbook
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02
WHO is BEHIND HuNrER7

Whatever regret may force itself to
be felt over the general political char
acter of Ed Hunter, the versatility ana
tarriar-like activity of the man is
marvellous, and his weasel pertinacity
astonishing. even,i If it is not admirable.
ed, as he has become familiarly
known to friend and foe in Iowa, is a
wonder. All parties and all issues be-
lcng to him. His predatory political
instincts carry him into every burrow
that smells of game and he turns and
twists in every tunnel like the political
ferret that he IS. "Good hunting is all
he asks. AS to the character of the
game he is Indifferent He trails like
a bloodhound from instinct and at
command.
1t was only short time since Ed
was the guiding spirit in precon-
vention campaign within the repub-
lican party Perhaps the less said of
that the better now. 1t is a sore sub
iect to many men who are trying to
forget that they We're ever implicated
with him. 1t is necessary for compar-
ison, however, to recall that Ed was
assuming to distribute political favors
such as postoffices, treasury jobs, ETC.,
as Inducements to the delivery of del
egations and other things Ed and the
forces behind him considered neces-
sary to complete peace of mind. Some
OF the things he andA his We're after
Ed got. They lost out on the main
this, ed failed to deliver the head
OF Cunfmins on a charger.
Now note the versatility OF the man.
The grain harvest has had hardly
time to give way to corn h,lsking when
Ed appears not in a new role, but with
a new company. He retains the dark
moustaches, the lowering brow and the
thigh boots that mark the heavy vii
lain Just now he is conducting the
democratic campaign in Polk county.
Mr. Ingham, editor of the Register and
Leader, states eiitorially that on
a voluntary statement einanating
from such unimpeachahle democratic
authority as Murphy OF the Dubuque
Telegraph. Rhnehart or Carr that r.
FL Hunter of Des Moines is conducting
the campaign for the democrats In his
county. and that he has promised a
standpat republican bolter federal
appointment if the republican candle
date for the state senate is defeated.
Which of these three leading demo-
Gratis made the statement the Register
and Leader does not say. However, it
is probable that any one Of the three
might on demand secure a definite
public statement.
1t is said of Ed. Hunter that he US
ually endeavors to deliver the goods
he promises. Where is Ed Hunter
getting the federal appointment to as
sist in the defeat of republican NOM
inee? Certainly not from any demo-
crat in Iowa If Ed Hunter has a fed
eral appointment in his vest pocket
where did he get it?
When Hendersons dos comes round
the corner. Henderson is not far away
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02

coffee cup and lighted his cigar. ut
is pity that people have not been
educated to Il understanding OF the sto-
ries which are painted with such glar-
ing headlines. Why, ] watched one
young woman the other morning in a
down town cafe as she eagerly de
voured the contents of n nashy paper,
feeding her imagination upon the
frightfuI details OF the story and TAX
ing bite of her breakfast only as r,
recreation. She frowncd, she shivered
she grew excited and fairly held her
breath as she pursued the screaming
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02

Americans capacity TO mind ms owl
business and walk right by every
thing else with his eyes turned
straight ahead at the thing he Is doing
himself. This trait of American char
aeter makes us a race Of great indlVld-
uals. but n crude lot at collective ef-
forts or community living. When we
want TO build up a town the news
papers talk about pulling together
but the average American just goes
on pulling for himself. He Is indffer-
ent.
These zoo men all thought we'll of the
factory. had nothing against 1T, were
not knockers at all; they just didn't
care enough about another mans bus
what he had. II they had gone, as
many of them did. they would have
become enthusiastic over what they
saw They would have been surprised
to see so much. They would have
gone out with boost for the factory
which, in effect, Is boosting their town
over the factory's shoulders. Ignor-
ance would have been dispelled by in
formation about a city's leading in
dustry. They never could have be-
come knockers.
In Des Moines the other day a COM
mercial club held banquet to which
they invited the greatest advertising
expert in the world to tell them how
to make Des Moines greater. He, of
course, told them to advertise, but the
first piece of copy" he handed them
was to teach the people of Des Moines
themselves what Des Moines already
had to make 1t great. He realized the
chronic American ailment of indiffer-
ence and knew how little the average
citizen of any place knew about the
good things of his own town. He also
knew that if all the people of any town
could be Informed of what their town
had to brag about the town would be
advertised far and wide by Its own
citizens So far as the result of
visit from an advertising expert Des
Moines has already held a factory
day." on which the populace turned
out and visited It's own factories. Next
week they will hold college day."
when everybody is expected to visit
Des Moines' colleges, and all over Iowa
today are to be seen hand bills adver-
Using rates on the railroads to the
college day" at Des Moines. AS the
first piece of copy in advertising Des
Moines the indifference and ignorance
of its own people is to be turned into
information and boosting for what
their town already has A flood of sun
light called information is to be turned
into the dark corners where ignorance
of ones town and Indifference has
chilled mems blood and made knocking
easy. There Is a moral.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02

bowling mob of yellow words The
simple truth would not suffice. She
gloried in the thrills of horror which
caused her hair to stand On end.
'Bosb! don't tell me that Americans
have to read the sensational story be-
cause it feeds their high strung ina
ginatlve minds. If that young woman
had taken walk Of Il couple of blocks
md felt the keen air of That October
morning as VI cut thru the roots of her.
lair. she could have enjoyed the sem
alton without any harmful results"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02
A NEW ERA FOR IOWA.
ICedar Rapids Republican,


Men competent to speak believe that
the new interstate commerce law Is
going TO make new era for the peo-
pie of Iowa. There is no Disgusting
the fact that in the past they have
been grievously dealt with in the mat
ter Of railroad rates. The railroads
themselves have been held up by the
big shippers in places like Chicago,
with the result that the railroads have
been used to build up Chicago and
other centers at the expense OF the
people of states like Iowa. Now all
this is about to be changed. The rail-
roads under the new law must treat
all alike and the penalties provided for
violations of this law are believed to
be severe enough to make 1t an OBJ
iect for the roads to live well within its
provisions. The big shippers and thu
big centers can no longer claim special
rates. Railroad and commercial men
see in these provisions a virtual COM
plete REIMBURSEMENT of business cond1-
lions. 1t is predicted for one thing
that many more factories for working
up the raw products of a state like
Iowa will be established in Iowa. In
the future it will not be cheaper, to
ship the hogs, for instance, to Chicago
and then the meat back to Iowa, than
it will be to kill the hog in some local
packing house.
The cities of Iowa ought to be on
the alert The next few years are go
ing to mean a good deal to them, pro-
vided they are forehanded in taking
advantage Of the situation. Cedar
Rapids will not fail to take notice.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02
LET US HAVE PEACE,

"The state has been safe under Gov
ernor cummins' control for the last
five years, and it will be safe as long
as he is in control. He promises to
look after the business interests Of US
all. What more does anyone want?
] am for the ticket and every man
on the ticket. Let US have peace.
"a. M. SHAW"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02

| a countess like Anna Could 1t is bet
than the dyspeptic monarch of Stand
ard OIL The best market for pigs is
the home market.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOIEs

The Dubuque Times thinks sit will
always be a question whether the agi-
tation which preceded the enactment
of the new meat inspection law was
necessary to the correction of the
abuses reported by. the governments
agents"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02

"a little bit of reciprocity would do
more to retain the American trade with
Germany than great deal of expert
investigat ton" suggests the Sioux City
Tribune.