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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28
CURB IMMODEST BATHERs

Atlantic City, Aug. 2S.-This resort
Is to have reform in the matter of
appearing on the streets in bathing
costumes. There has been a great in
crease in this evil here this year, and
the matter will be taken up.by the
city solicitor and the executive COM
mittee of the Board of Trade.
Some of the people who have ap-
peared on the streets in what they
were pleased to dignity by the name of
bathing suits have not been quite half
dressed, and Joseph Fralinger said
before meeting of the Board of Trade
tonight that some of the young men
might better be adorned by a breech
clout.
There has never been a time when
there were so many people bathed
from their boarding houses and cot
tages as this year. They come several
blocks from on the far north side of
the city and there is everything worn
in the shape of bathing dress. They
parade the streets of the city both
night and day.
1t Is purposed to have an ordinance
drawn and passed by the city council
prohibiting persons from appearing on
the streets In bathing suits. under
penalty of arrest and fine.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15
Riqht Care of the Cows.

The Importance of good sheltering
in cold or stormy weather for milk
COWS can be easily tested by any own
er of them Let him shelter one lot
over night and not feed them; then
feed another lot all they want and let
them remain over night outdoors in
the wind and dampness. We will be
very much surprised if the first lot
does not give more milk the next
morning than the second lot. Many
progressive dairymen recognize the i'm
portance of good shelter for their
stock-the stock providing their in
come. On the other hand, many stock
owners who know the Importance of
feeding do not appear to give the
credit to housing which they should.
Even on farms where there is plenty
of feed, COWS fall off greatly in milk
production if the pasture on which
they are running are exposed to the
cold wind.
Neglect to provide shelter and
warmth causes the physical endurance
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15
Dairy School at Pullman.

Announcement has been made of the
opening of the eleventh annual ses-
sion of the dairy school at the State
COLLEGE of Washington, beginning
January 7, 1907, at Pullman This
popular school has always been well
attended and under the arrangements
for the coming session those purpos-
ing to attend will find it of unusual
value While the original idea of
the dairy school is to train butter max
ers and creamery manufacturers, it
must not be understood that these
are the only objects in view. The
school, as planned for 1907 contem-
plates special work for dairymen. 1t
is recognized that the foundation of
successful dairying must be found
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15

of the cattle to be so severely and un-
necessarily taxed that it is impossible
to produce the full quantity of milk.
Unfortunately, and especially with
farmers or villagers who keep only
from one to two or three COWS, sys-
tenn of management prevails which in
numerous cases practically allows the
animals to find their own living, to
put up with the cold of winter and the
unshaded heat of summer, and to sub
sist to a considerable extent only on
the natural pasture. There are few
parts of the world where this system
works satisfactorily. Treat the cows
right and satisfactory results will not
be looked for in vain.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15
Testing Cows Is Important.

Why are dairymen SO willing to go
it blind? asks Mrs. M. r. Sherman.
| heard a man say the other day he
did not intend to take time to test
any COW in his herd until he had
hundred registered COWS in milking.
He said he had no time to run the
Babcock, though he had a fine steam
one connected with the boiler. [
thought how much money he could
save by wedding as he grows the herd.
The undesirable sire could be spotted
at once when his heifers came in, and
discarded, while the valuable one, the
one that nicked kindly with his strain
Of cattle, could be used more freely.
Numbers in a herd amount to little.
had at one time twelve COWS at the
head of the herd that made in year
6,132 pounds of butter, while at the
foot of the herd it took over nineteen
to equal them in production. These
last nineteen made an average of 303
pounds of butter in year, so they
were not so awfully poor after all.
Testing COWS is a pastime that is
unequaled in interest. I would rather
test COWS as a sport. than play bridge:
it is playing for prize with all your
might Not casual one, but one you
have worked for, bred for, and often
missed when you thought it at hand.
When old Lady Bonita used each year
to slip under the 600 pound mark,
making from 597 to 500 pounds of but
ter, the last testing of the year on her
milk, that was just falling short, was
exciting. The mixers are keenly
alive to the excitement and slip out of
bed to await near the testing room to
find out what the COWS are doing. If
they bet on their favorites, is it any
wonder?
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15
Confirmation of the Good Cow.

Prof. T. L. Hacker, of the Minnesota
agricultural college, gives the follow
ing pointers for the selection of good
dairy cew. at does not matter wheth-
err the udder goes we'll back or not, or
whether it is large or small Look
nrst at the body or barrel, to see if
that is large and deep, as this is the
measure of the cows ability to store,
digest and assimilate food. Next, look
at the thigh, to see what disposition
she makes of the food, beyond the
amount necessary for support. The
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15
THE DAIRY
Pampering the Heifer Calves.
Mrs. M. r. Sherman.)

NNllo. W. IL DhCl hitlh'
A common mistake of dairymen in
purchasing registered cows is in PAM
pering the heifer calves. They are al
lowed to suck their dams three, four
or five weeks to give them good
start. Sometimes this start is never
lost, and the heifer grows more and
more beefy, until she is useless in the
dairy. Sometimes the dairy blood tells,
the surfeited calf stops growing long
enough to undo any harm done. A
calf with good dairy inheritance does
not know what to do with surplus fat.
She has no tendency to put it on her
back, her system becomes clogged with
it. I have had over fat heifers start
to milk three months before they
calved. When the milk starts it must
be drawn or else inflammation set is.
I have seen heifers not MIXED where
the milk veins swelled to great size
and became full of the watery portion
of the blood. At this appearance of
distress and swelling, sympathy is
aroused and the stomach is lanced.
When this is done, the calf is always
aborted. Sometimes. however, it has
to be done, because the distress of
the animal becomes so great. The calf
allowed to nurse on her dam for six
weeks has serious troubles to over
come if she is of value in the dairy.
Now, if she does put the excess on her
back she has formed habit.
AS the twig is bent SO the tree in
clines, applies to COWS. When the calf
becomes a COW, how are you going
to break the habit of making fat?
Ii you starve the COW she grows thin
and there is little milk. If you stuff
the cow there is little milk and much
loss of feed. The beefy registered
calf is too valuable to be thought as
beef, so she is allowed to become
COW and her calves sold for good
dairy breeding stock while there has
been fed into them a beef tendency.
These heifers should have a tendency
to make butter rather than beef. The
Inheritance wanted is from dams max
ing fifteen pounds or better of butter
a week, rather than from beefy ones.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-12-15
As YE SOW, 50 SHALL YE REAP.

Was your crop q poor one
E this year? Did you give it all J
the attention it needed? II so,
s then the failure was caused by
poor quality of seeds. Good s
seeds. properly cared for, make
good crops, while seeds of a :
poor quality, or old seeds
which have become infertile,
are surely a failure.
TITS Your Own Gain or Loss,
However
But we want to call your
attention TO our seeds for field
or garden. We buy in large
. quantities and so are able to
give the benefit of a better
price and we are careful to buy I
only the best from a reliable
8 house, SO that you are assured
g of fertile seeds. Do these {
i things count with you, or are
& you willing to buy any old
& kind of seeds and reap any
old kind of crops?
: But if You Farm for Money
We know that you are look
ing forward to that day when
= you shall have accumulated
sufficient to enjoy the fruits of
your laborS. Poor seeds will
never allow you that privilege.
The first element of farmers
success is always good seeds. |
Z Without them he cannot sue
coed. Let us quote you prices
on fresh seeds this fall. Now
is the time to look about buy
ing and just now the prices are
exceptionally low, so get in
= ahead of the other fellow and
take advantage of good prices.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-03

than the poor man. Today the nations
ideal has been changed. Men in their
prime, flushed with business success,
have been made to see that public
opinion now measures a man by his
ideals as we'll as by his dollars. They
are made to realize that they must
make their money honestly and fairly
or they will be scorned by the world
and deemed failure. Preaching Is
not exactly what we elect our presi-
dents for, but Roosevelt has done as
much for the nation in his preaching,
backed by his actions as he has done
in his executive capacity. If Taft
should succeed him the country can
rejoice that the standard of this ma
tional pulpit performance will be main
tained
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-03
Eeedina Oil Meal. to Cattle.

The longer you feed oil meal the
higher the finish, but you can see the
effects of it in sixty days. The question
was raised whether if oil meal is to be
fed just sixty days it should be fed the
first sixty days or the last sixty days
of the feeding period. Ell. w. Mum
ford says: II don't know He said
that most persons would answer the
last sixty days, that being the com
mon practice. But he has seen such
a difference in the way cattle start on
feed 1t takes a great deal longer TO
get cattle started to gain on corn and
clover hay than where oil meal is fed
at first; with oil meal they start right
off. The corn and clover cattle make
their large gains along toward the last.
He would like to see the matter test
ed scientifically The oil meal. VIII
show in the finish of the cattle If it is
fed at the beginning and not at the
close of the feeding period.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-03
Good Cattle scarcer.

NJ. A. Judy, of Beecher, ILL.,, speak
Ing Of fine cattle prospects, says: IN
people of this country are going To
wake up one of these days to the fac
that The supply of real good cattle Is
short and is decreasing. When they
do. and with crops good and mort
cages few. there is likely to be rise
in prices to a higher point than has
ever been known before
There is no end of common and
inferior pure bred cattle, is there. and
do YOU advocate a more liberal use OF
the knife among young bull herds?'
asked a Live Stock World Represent
tative.
Yes, there is a big supply of cattle
of common breeding and poor indl-
viduality. and there will come a time
when these will not pay very well. and
more breeders will see the necessity
of doing really good work.
mo. am not in favor of using the
knife as long as the general average
of the cattle in the country can be
brought up even by the use of pure
breds that perhaps never ought to have
been registered.
During the past two months have
received a large number of inquiries
for young bulls to go to the western
ranges, and think the corn belt breed
ers ought to be prepared to fill sucf
orders with profit to themselves ant
benefit to the herds of the west
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-03
Cement Feeding Floors.

A good feed floor. says Forest Hen
ry, of the Minnesota Institute Lecture
Corps, is necessary for feeding eco
nomically. All know that a pig should
never be fed in the mud and to feed
in the dust is even worse, and both can
be avoided by feeding on floor Ce-
ment makes not only the best, but the
cheapest, feed floor. It. however, -
stand must be laid on we'll drained
surface. The ground can be slightly
raised so it will turn water and on top
of 1t put four inches of sand or gravel
Thoroughly wet and lamp down and
you are ready for the cement. The
idea is to get good drainage and, at the
same time, get the location of the
same degree of hardness. so all Will
settle alike and prevent cracking. In
laying the cement 1T is we'll to dig
trench first around the site for the
floor and fill with cement mortar. This
will keep pigs from roofing under or
rats from undermining the floor later
on. The floor should be laid with not
less than three inches of good cement
mortar as hogs are much harder on 4
floor than cattle. The mortar for first
two inches need not be richer than that
made by using one part of good Port
land cement to five of clean sand 9r
gravel. The surface coat should be
at least one inch thick of mortar,
made by using at least twice as much
cement as recommended for the lower
coat, or about one part cement to Two
or three of clean sand. The sand must
be free from clay and thoroughly mix
ed with the cement before adding wa
ter Finish with "a board trowel, not a
steel one, so your surface will not be
too smooth and slippery.
If this floor is surrounded with a
tight board fence you have an ideal
floor to feed hogs on. AS a rule, 1t
will cost about $50 to build floor
large enough to accommodate fifty
hogs. or one dollar for space for each
and this can be saved in raising one
batch Of hogs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-03

paign speakers during the campaign
In the main it is good and strong.
1t would not only be idle but useless
for the Eagle to pretend that that part
of the speech devoted to the tariff is
satisfactory to it. To do so would be
to stultify itself on what it has here
tofore advocated as to the tariff
But Mr.. Cummins must be his own
judge. On him rests the responsible
ity Of his own acts, and il he prefers
to voice his own sentiments rather
than the general sentiment of the
party leaders he alone must be re-
sponsible.
Orange City Herald There is OPP
position to Cummins within his party
just as there was opposition to Roose-
welt. but when the votes are counted
it will be found that it has awaited lit
tie against the overwhelming wishes
of the people at large.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-03
STORY COUNTY BANKS.
IRELAND Record I

Story county will be able to pass a
very comfortable winter. The Sep
temher bank statements collected and
the amounts compiled by the Intelli-
gencer shows deposit of $3.50, 94S.72.
This not only shows that the banks
are doing a good business, but demons
strates the general prosperity of the
people of the county as well. The corn
crop is yet to be gathered. Little Of
this will go at once to the banks to
swell the total deposits. Some money
will be coming in. Some of the money
already in will be drawn out to buy
more corn, to feed more steers, to make
improvements, to buy more land. With
nice bank account put down in coal
black ink presents a temptation to
many farmers to buy lands in the west,
in the southwest, in Canada and other
places. So some of this money will go
out and away from Story county. But
as the steers and hogs become mar
ketable new money will return.
1t is a comfortable feeling to find
over $3,000,000 in the banks Of just one
agricultural county.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-03
FOREIGNERS FOR THE SOUTH.

The experiment of shipping immi-
grants directly to southern ports is 20
be tried in the near future shipload
of Belgians will be sent to Charleston
and it is planned by the North Ger
man Lloyd lines to establish regular
service between Europe and our SOUTH
ern ports, bringing immigrants and re-
turning with freight
South Carolina announced definitely
early last year its desire to bring new
people within it's borders. Only about
a third of its 20,oo0.o0O acres is classel
as improved farming land, and the
quickest way to secure the population,
which means development, seems to lie
in tapping the country's great immi-
graft stream. There is also need Of
MANY mill hands. The state is willing
to pay the transportation expenses Of
the first shipload of aliens.
Other portions of the south are con-
sidering the same propositions. 1t is
believed that immigration may do
much for the country in the south.
+ Foreign colonies in Tennessee and
Virginia have been unusually success
full on the unimproved lands of those
states. i, has been shown that Italian
workers in the rice fields and on cotton
planta lions do better for themselves
and are more satisfactory to their en-
ployers than are the negroes.
1t may be that diverting the imini-
grants, in part at least, to the south,
may help solve the immigration prob
lem. One of the great evils resulting
i from the constant stream of aliens ar
riving on our shore is their tendency
to longest the labor market in the
larger eastern cities. There they not
only glut the labor market, but come
under the viscious influence of foreign
sociaistic leaders and are little better
If not worse off than in their native
country. Away from the evil influ-
ences of the congested cities, breathing
the air of freedom in the country, they
gain saner view of our country and
it's Institutions and become worthy
class of citizens.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-03
WARDEN HUNTERS GOOD WORK.

Iowa will look Il long while before
Warden Hunter of the state prison a.
Anamosa, whose death occurred Sum
day night. His conduct of the insti-
tuition has been exceptionally success
full He was adapted for the work
Blessed with a broad and generous ma
ture, reform and not punishment was
the dominant note in his management
of the institution.
1t was due largely to his efforts that
the lockstep was abolished at the pen
itentiary. He introduced the grade sys-
tenn among the convicts with excellent
results This was one of the most inn
portan steps taken in prison reform in
Iowa, for it gave a chance to- differ
entiate between the hardened criminal
and the one who committed his first
offense. He favored the indetermin-
ate sentence and other reforms in har-
mony with the more. enlightened meth
DDS of dealing with criminals.
Warden Hunters heart was in his
work. He made it a study. He wanted
to make good citizens Of bad, to bring
hope instead of despair to the unfoc-
tunate. He believed there was soma
good trait in every criminal and he
sought to find it. He taught weak men
self reliance and cultivated within him
the stamina that would stand him in
stead when he should regain the liberty
of which he had been deprived largely
because only his evil genius had ever
been appealed to. Teaching the GRIM
mails trades, to employ the hands in
useful and skilled occupation, was not
the least of the methods which War
den Hunter introduced in his work Of
reforming convicts. It gave them pride
in their ability to create and left them
a means of livelihood when they should
be given freedom.
Iowa rejoices in the excellence of it's
state institutions. Perhaps peniten-
tiary is not an institution, however,
successfully conducted, to be proud OF,
but within its walls lies a great re-
sponsibility to be met and Iowa can be
thankful that 1t was so splendidly met
by Warden Hunter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-03
DA1RYING THAT PAYS.


During the month of August 1886
pounds of milk was received at the
creamery and out of this amount OF
milk Manager Whitney extracted 22,-
75O pounds of butter, which at 20 cents
per pound, melted the institution $1,000.
The expenses of running during August
were $S6632, which would leave s4.-
1858 to be divided among the com
panies 1870 patrons. The expenses for
August are unusually heavy, as during
the month thirty-eight tons of Illinois
coal were bought and paid for at a price
Of S4.25 per ton. Among the interest
ing figures furnished US by Secretary
Hatch, we find that the average milk
test was 3765; the average cream
test 2SSS7; overrun of churn test, 20
per cent; paid for butter fat rs cents
per pound; paid for 100 pounds milk
"a cents; the average yield was A.
pounds. The creamery took in 20,042
pounds more milk in August. 1906
than in the same month last year.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-03
Topics Of the Times

Walter Wellman should have known
that hot air wouldn't carry balloon
far in such a cold climate.
Office seekers visiting farmer friends
in the cornfields this year ought to fur
nish assubstitute l1usker if they expect
to get much attention to their plans
for saving the country.
No doubt those repatriated Spanish
generals are saying: II told you So
The City Editor-"What have You
written about the death of that bright
young jenkins ?"
The Irish Reporter Something
nate, sir windin' UP with these words,
He leaves brilliant future behind
him. Youth.
'I,m glad to get back to Iowa. said
Rev. Luce. the new pastor of the North
Des Moines Methodist church, Rev.
Luce, came here from Kentucky. II
feel at home here. AS soon as l
crossed the Mississippi and saw the
broad smiling prairies of this good old
state. it was like coming home again.
No where else are the fields so good
looking to me as they are in Iowa, for
it was in the old Hawkeye state that
l was born and tho | have wandered
over this land east and west, north and
souht since then. am always happiest
to get back home.''
The Washington Star is inclined to
take gloomy view of the democratic
situation. 1t says that even if Mr..
Bryans friends get him quieted con-
corning government ownership, he
will probably think up something else
equally bothersome.
w#A
A Texas woman has been nominated
for representative. Now il her male
opponent could make noise like a
proposal they might both go to con-
gress.
If simplified spelling had, anything to
do with this fine spell Of weather. it
ought to become more popular.
There seems TO be a we'll defined sus-
picion that Wellman's north pole ex-
petition was never seriously under
taken but was clever scheme to adj
vertise its promoters interests.
Down in Missouri a town council
has taken up the proposition of an Or
dinance timing people not less than 50
nor more than 500 for lying, and the
keokuk Gate City suspects that the s.
fine will be for the married men.
Hearst says he is a Jefferson demo-
crat Wonder what jefferson would
think about 1t.
Statisticians estimate that TWEEN
ty-one acres Of land are necessary to
sustain one man on fresh meat. The
same space of land, If devo ed to wheat
culture, would feed forty-two people;
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-03
Stand by Your Creamery.

More than one butter maker can tes-
tffy that it is a very difficult task to
build up creamery after it has lost
it's influence in the community and the
confidence of its patrons. When all is
moving along nicely the faults OF the
concern are overlooked by the satisfled
patron. but when the tables are turned
and reverses come, the business OF the
creamery is viewed thru the other end
Of the telescope, and molehills are
made to assume mountainous propor-
lions. Stand by the home creamery
and keep the business of the institu-
ton continually on the up grade. lis
the only safe plan to pursue.