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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
ouack Grass
dakota Far1ner.)

i
| The more experience we have with
fighting quack grass the better pleased
we become with the method of surface
cultivation as described many times in
The Farmer The whole theory Of
smothering out quack grass resolves
! itself into the best method of keeping
down all above ground growth for an
entire growing season. The leaves
and stalks Of the plant are it's stom-
lach and if we shut off it's stomach,
we kill the roots. If we pillow the land
SO as to let the frost do e. certain
amount of destructive work thru the
winter, If we get the land into garden
condition in the spring by repeated
disking and pulverizing and if we can
go on this land as soon as possible
with the surface cultivators which cut
off the plants at the ground and let
them lie where they are, following this
| by constant cultivation until the corn
| is high enough to partially shade the
ground. If we do all these things we
have done about all that is possible in
the way of keeping down the growth
| all summer. We assure our friends
that it is possible to grow a good crop
of corn in this way and in our own ex-
perience it is death to pretty bad
piece of quack grass. We would be
very glad to have any one investigate
results on our own farm.
We also had little experience this
season in the use Of buckwheat as
smother crop. Buckwheat has been
recomm ended as rough ON quaclS
grass" for several years, but we have
| never believed a smother crop to be
alone the recipe for killing this pest.
| Smother crops will weaken quack
grass but we have never seen bad
piece that was wholly killed. AS to
our experience with buckWheat we had
!, one low spot comprising about two
acres where quack grass got the best
of millet last year. This year we
| plowed this sod the last week in June,
, using the walking plow SO as to turn
| the sod under as completely as pos
| sible. We then used the disk and
! drag pulverizer and got the ground
| into the best possible condition. We
| then sowed buckwheat the End Of July.
| The buckwheat is ready to cut at this
| time and we wish to say that there
| is no quack grass that has gotten
| ahead of it, but if we take the trouble
| to get down among the stems of the
| buckWheat we find a considerable
number Of small quack grass plants
| that are not doing any harm but will
| if they ever get a chance. The corn
| field where we had such good success
| in fighting quack grass last season
, was in small grain this year and there
was little or no evidence of quack
grass. We seeded down with mix
ture of alsike and red clover and tim
othy and at this writing we have one
of the finest stands of grass we have
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
TWO CORN CROPS.

This years corn crop is estimated
at 2450 million bushels. Last years
crop amounted to 1900 million bushels.
Corn was a good price last year. This
wear it is selling above 60 cents In
Chicago, and feeders are wondering
what price the new crop will COM
nand direct from the fields.
Eleven years ago with shorter
crop than this year. 1888 million
bushels, corn sold down to 20 cents
bushel in Chicago. In one section
of Iowa at least 1t sold as low as 8
to II cents. 1t was poor corn OF
course that sold at the lowest figure.
However, good corn in a short year
brought very low price This year
the corn husks would rustic at men
ton of rs cents, not to mention 9
cents.
The demand for corn and corn prod
ucts, for milk, butter, meats. etc, is
scarcely to be supplied. The consumer
is reaching out his hand for all the
producer can bring him even at the
highest cost. The price of oats is at
record mark and likely to go high
er. Millions of breakfast tables are
waiting for the new crop. They must
pay higher prices for foodstuffs They
do pay. They have the money to
pay.
Land prices have doubled, trebled,
even quadrupled in sections of this
and other states. AS the demand grows
the price Of products and the price
of the lands that profitably produce
goes up. Where is it to stop?
We have grown into such great
country, with the possibilities Of a
rapid exchange of productions that the
periods Of general hard times recur
at longer and still longer intervals.
The last few years have been marvel
Gus makers of history. Perhaps they
have written the formula of contin-
ued prosperity and unending good
times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
PAY THE PREACHER.

The Monticello Express advises
those who pay the preacher not to be
'sniggardly." 1t is excellent advice,
well timed Don't be niggardly with
the preacher.
The advice is especially applicable
to the membership Of the smaller
charges, and country churches. In
some of these ministers work and sup
port families on salaries little larger
than the pay of farm hands. Some
country charges offer a fair living to
q resident minister. The average
preacher, however, in the small and
remote charges, knows what it is to
make one dollar do the work of two
or go without. Without exact figures
at hand it would be reasonably safe to
assert that the rural mail carrier has
a better paying job than the average
minister. He certainly gets paid with
more promptitude.
The smaller churches are likely to
find themselves in the condition that
obtains in school districts where the
same scale of wages is in force that
held a decade ago. 1t is not to be ex-
pected that in this day and age COM
petent and satisfactory teachers Of
the Word or Of arithmetic will con-
tinue to teach and starve. The services
of good men are wanted by those who
are willing to pay FOR them. The UNI
willing may naturally expect to save
money and be lonesome.
Don't be niggardly with the preach
ers. Don't expect Rim to live on $50
month and serve three or four COM
nlunities, when your hired man gets
$50 a month and board. Pay what he
is worth.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
IOWA LAND VALUES.
&c. e. Taylor in Traer Clipper.)

years. The land is good, it Is well
farlned and the owner gets two-fifths
of the crop. This is a better way of
renting than on cash basis, both for
landlord and Tenant. AS with every
thing else, the best land is the cheap
est. There are Tama county farms
renting for So per acre that are bring
ing more than they are worth. Others
rented at SIS are cheap. What does
the 81 per acre extra amount to when
the same labor, horses and machinery
will produce $40 per acre more?
Iowa farmers, both renters and own
ers, are learning better methods of
cultivation. The skimmers have passed
on to Minnesota and Dakota. There
are pastures in Tama county today
that will support one steer to the acre.
In former days two were allowed.
There are many cornfields yielding six
ty to eighty bushels per acre. In the
days of $50 land forty bushels was
considered a big crop. The days of
twenty-five cent corn, SO hogs and 81
steers are over. The Tama county
farmer can today pay S. per acre rent
easier than he could pay $3.50 ten or
much higher but improved machinery
and methods enable the farmer to
produce his crops and his stock much
cheaper.
There are but few corn, grass, hog
and cattle states like Iowa. Popula-
ton is increasing faster than produce
ton. Our foreign markets are widen
ing. New uses for the by-products of
the farm are practced. Corn stalks
on Tama county farm will now bring
81 per acre for fodder alone. This is
as much as the landlord got for his
third of the corn thirty years ago.
Special farming, like potato growing.
cream selling, poultry raising, fruit
selling, etc, greatly augment the farm
income. This year several hundred
Tama farmers will get around $50 per
acre gross for five to forty acres of
potatoes, which will give them a clear
profit of at least $50 per acre. Rural
mail and telephones have improved
farm conditions, making rural life more
desirable than ever before. All these
things influence farm values. Fifteen
wears ago the writer sold a farm near
Traer for SAP per acre, few years
afterward for sos, later for SIS, year
or two ago for s95. and today it is held
at s11O. The end is not yet. That
farm and other first class Tama county
farms we'll improved are fast APP
preaching the $50 mark and inside of
twenty years at most viii bring $500
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
New Tuberculosis Test,

1t is reported that there has recent
ly been discovered a new method for
determining tuberculosis aside from
the commonly known tuberculin test.
Since the general adoption of the tu-
method of determining tuberculosis
there has been great deal of COM
plant as to the uncertainty Of results.
The tuberculin test has never been
pronounced an infallible test but the
only available test which we can use.
III going thru the necessary precau-
lions in making the test, animals are
always more or less excited and there
Is often a rise in temperature caused
BIZ abnormal surroundings alone and
not by tuberculosis At recent meet
ing Of the French Academy of Science
in Paris, new method was announced
which consists in inoculating cattle
just as in vaccination with a small
amount Of Koch tuberculin. If tuber-
culosis exists in the animal pustule
or scab forms somewhat like that in
the vaccination of human beings for
smallpox and which remains for some
time. If no tuberculosis exists the
point Of incision heals very rapidly
and there is no disturbance. There is
no proof as yet that the new method
will prove reliable and fit for general
use. We will doubtless hear more OF
the matter after sufficient time has
elapsed for the trial of the method.
If there is simpler method for de-
termining tuberculosis than the tuber-
c1losis test now used it would prove
a great boon to stockmen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
NOT THE ..yolcEn OF pEcENcY.

"A Davenport editor has achieved
fame in Davenport and notoriety else
where by assaulting and beating with
a heavy cane one Of the well known
residents Of Davenport who had been
instrumental in putting a lid on
Davenport saloons. According to the
reports given to daily newspapers he
rained blows with heavy cane on the
head of his victim until the weapon
was broken into several pieces. The
report also says that in doing SO he
"voiced the German-American pro-
test against saloon regulation in Day.
export. The assailant, one DR.. Rich
ter, is editor of Der Demokrat.
1t was a brutal and lawless defense
of lawlessness. The correspondent Is
probably all wrong when he says 1t
"voices" the protest of the German
Americans of Davenport Davenport
is a German-American city. The leu
tons predominant. They incline to
permit the liquor traffic. But the
average German American is not a
promoter of savage assault. 1t is I'M
just to put him in the position of pro-
noting and approving an attack that
offered every possibility of murder. If
the forces that impelled the crime
were to be analyzed it would be found
that violence and forcible defiance of
the liquor laws Invariably trace to the
greedy lawlessness of liquor sellers and
the unrestrained resentment of the
tough element that supports districts
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17

The increase of Iowa land prices is
an interesting study. The writer be-
gan to sell Talna county land fifteen or
twenty years ago. At that time $50
per acre would buy the best farms, yet
the universal plea heard from pros
! pective buyers was that the land was
too high. In a few years it advanced
to SIS. The same story was. heard and
many pessinlsts freely predicted that
| a reaction would soon occur and Tama
county land could be had in a
| few years at lower figures. But
/ it continued to go up and
soon reached 500 an acre for the best
farms. The old, old story was reiter-
ated Prices were entirely out of rea-
son and were bound to go down soon;
the rent would not pay four per cent
on the money; no man could buy a
Tama county farm and pay for it from
the earnings, etc. Yet prices continued
| to advance until the best Tama county
farms bring $125 today and in occas-
| ional cases considerably more. More
over, there is a healthy demand at
| these prices with every prospect of
higher figures. Yet you hear people
argue that values are altogether too
| high and a reaction is bound to come
soon.
! The ar-Clipper takes no stock in
such argument. Tama county land
will continue to advance in price grad
ually until it reaches at least 5000 an
acre for the best farms. We do not
maintain that there never will be dull
| time in the real estate market here,
or that farms will never sell for less
| than they cost A failure or two of
crops, not likely to occur here once in
a quarter of a century, will affect land
values. A panic in the money market
will influence them. But in ten-year
cycles prices will continue to advance
There is not much in the argument
that Tama county farm will not re-
turn four per cent in rentals. Govern
ment bonds, no better security than an
Iowa farm, yields only two to three per
cent. vet there are plenty of takers,
and bonds do not increase in value like
Iowa land. The man who bought a
good Tama county farm at it's actual
cash value ten years ago can today
get close to 100 per cent profit on the
deal if he wants to sell. This means
ten per cent a year on his money, not
TO mention income from rents at all
| But the right kind OF land farmed right
will return five per cent on 800 per
acre. The Mccormack farms near
| Traer have brought the owner SIS or
more per acre on an average for fifteen
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
Topics Of the Times

+. N. Eldredge has assumed editorial
charge of the Deep River Record.
Some day soon much that we call
fad farming, will be common every
day farm sense. The farmer of only
few years ago burned straw in Iowa.
The American Airship and Balloon
Corporation had been recently incor-
porated under the laws of New York,
with capital of 100000, and affords
inventors peculiar opportunity to take
flyer in its stock.
The latest development in the In
diana cocktail incident indicates that
Vice President Fairbanks can keep
his mouth shut like a gentleman. -
Sioux City Journal.
Takes EN- thru straw, Ell?
Editor Henry Watterson seems to be
as much disinclined toward the Bryan
bandwagon as toward the water
wagon.
* ga ~ q
The trusts may come to give up
expensive attorneys and take to the
cane brake.
rs there not" asked the prison Wis
itor "some line or two from the Bible
that would be helpful to you? Some
thing that would serve as shibboleth
a MOTTO
Eyes, interrupted the convict Gag
er1y, there is one motto I'd like to
take if I could only live UP to it,
And what's that?"
eve are here today and gone to-
morrow '-Catholic Standard and
Times.
Mr.. Carnegie would select a good
president a good president over and
over again. Mr. Carnegie is one Of
those who never let's loose Of a good
thing.
Vice President Fairbanks will do
well to cut out the life saving bust
ness while at Sioux City. The Mis-
souri, is different AMI no respecter of
persons.
The Rev. Frederick Mueller, pastor
of the Fourth Reformed church, Of
Albank, has entered the Albank
Law School in the freshman class. He
will not become lawyer, but believes
that law course will give him a bet
ter command Of new English lam
guage. Possibly he intends to break
into the class of professional evan
gelists.
Mr.. Fairbanks should know that
cocktail order at Sioux City will at
tract no attention-unless it should
be for single drink.
Maryland has an old home week in
effort to offer every returning son the
best there is, suggests: "Homecomers
can be assured of getting as fine goods
here as elsewhere, and better still, of
getting the goods for less money.
"As matter of money saving, Bal
timore merchants offer splendid OPP
portunity of which our homecomers
should not neglect to take advantage
Mrs. Viewed (sobbing)-Or, J-John!
The c-cat has e-eaten all the angel
cake I .b-baked this m-morning. Boo
hoo!
Newed (consolingly) - Well, don't
cry, dear! I'll buy. you another cat
omorrow.-Chicago News.
AT this point my hero filings up
car window
do yougnot go in for realism?"
II do.''
"Then you mean he prizes and
wrenches up car window" Louis
vile Courier-Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
Good Alfalfa From Good Treatment.

l.
The Missouri station reports two
good cuttings of alfalfa after spring
sowing Doubtless the soil was nearly
or quite free from weeds and very
rich. While fair yields of first sown
alfalfa can sometimes be had from not
overly rich soil, as rule, the first
crops, at least are as much influenced
by the richness of the surface soils as
are those of any other plant. Being a
heavy air feeder as well as deep sub
soil rooter, the older plants are not SO
greatly influenced by the condition of
the surface soil as the younger
growths are. However. good soil and
good treatment always pay. Field and
Farm referring to this side of alfalfa
growing says:
"Our production of alfalfa would
amount to a good deal more in this
country If we would give more thought
and attention to the requirements OF
the crop. One of our subscribers in
the east who has taken up the culture
of this great plant writes: On June
18th I cut my first first crop of three
and half acres, of about ten and a
half tons, drying 1t seven days without
rain. One June rs, j put on about a
cord of decomposed yard manure and
little more alfalfa seed to each acre,
and went over 1t once in each direction
with harrow set at right angle to
harrow in the fertilizer and seed,
and kill out the foul trash Twenty
three days after the first crop was cut
1 took off the second crop and sowed
little more decomposed yard manure
and alfalfa seed, narrowing it the Same
as I had every crop heretofore. This
narrowing process does not kill the al
falfa stand at all, but does kill the
weeds in sort of hoeing process. 1t
also works in the fertilizer and new
seed. I can see nothing now but a
clean alfalfa field"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
In the Poets Den.
(Atlanta Constitution.)

Are you pretty well up with your
work now?"
"Ah, no! I've got to write a short
story to pay for Mollie's new dress; a
couple Of poems for her hat and gloves;
a good stirring song that will bring in
enough for a ton Of coal, and one or
two love lyrics for ham and assack
Of flour. o.. but it's a glorious old
world-isn't it?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
Strawpile

dition, and the hogs were eight months
old when sold, so it is easily seen l
got good returns, considering the poor
the entire crop. The same storm
washed away hog pasture fences ana
turned everything loose. The fence
was repaired once, when we were Wis
tied by another severe rain and car
ried them away again. BY this time
we were so nearly disguised with the
outlook that we just let the hogs go
at it and help themselves. We went
and bought 1S-inch woven fence and
fenced the whole farm and gave 120
pigs the run of sixty-tive acres of
corn and as much more of the farm
as they cared to use. The corn was
rotting from excessive rainfall and
it appeared an impossible undertaking
to try to save any of it. except what
the pigs could save, so we had no SER
ious thoughts as to how much they
wasted. About October 18th we let
the cattle into a part of it at time
and let them have all they wanted
There were about forty-five head, big
and little, and with the sho2ts lived
in their glory until about Christmas
time. A few acres of the corn was
consumed by them. | would like to
add here for the benefit Of readers
that a farm nowadays is not brought
up to its standard of usefulness If not
fenced hog tight The cost is not great
where one has posts and top wires all
ready in place"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
Afflicted With Sore Eyes for SO Years.
I have heen afflicted with sore eyes

have Deem alIlcteu WIFI Sofe eyes
for thirty-thre years. Thirteen years
ago l became totally blind and was
blind for six years. My eyes were
badly infiamed. One of my neighbors
insisted upon my trying Chamberlain
s;alve and gave me half box Of it.
no my, surprise it healed my eyes and
my sight came back to me.-P. G..
I1arls, Cynthiana, Ky. Chamberlain's
s;alve is for sale by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
We do not expect any

ever seen We do not expect any
further trouble from quack grass in
that field as it can make very little
progress in thick sod of this kind
and the field will be in a cultivated
crop again before it could have made
any considerable progress.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
Abstemiousness PAYS,

(Henri Rochefort in LIntransigeant.)
The future is to the peoples who are
strictly sober. The Japanese, officers
and soldiers, fed on rice, and during
the great war from which they issued
victorious had only water to appease
their thirst.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
How to Avoid Pneumonia

TOW 10 NVUTu TfTeUTHUNId
You can avoid pneumonia and other
serious results from a cold by taking
Foley's Honey and Tar. 1t stops the
cough and expels the cold from the
system as it is mildly laxative. Refuse
any but the genuine in the yellow
package. Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17
Deduction:
(D,,oL

Farmer Meddergrass (reading paper)
Tibet Vaudeville must be q great
show town.
Mrs. Meddergrass- why so, pa?"
"W'y, I see here where another one
Of our greatest actors has made ar
engagements t. stay right Their fer hull
season.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-17

which will have the best right next
years to a republican ballot, the stand
patter who voted the democrat ticket
last fall or the democrat who voted
the republican ticket.
Governor Cummins and Senator AL
lison being agreed that the result of
the primary should be final. their view
of 1t having been endorsed by practi-
cally all of Iowa's congressional dele
cation and a majority of the party
leaders and newspapers that are ex-
pressing themselves it begins to look
like those anything-to- beat Cummins
newspapers would have to give it up
and let the majority of the voters at
the polls decide who should be Iowa's
next senator" says the LeMars Senti-
mel.
every Iowa congressman who med
dies with the senatorial fire is going to
get his fingers badly scorched," pre-
diets the Northwood Anchor and says
1T is the peoples fight and Congress-
man Haugen will keep out"
= ne next liUle lne cOUltneTclal
telegraphers engage in a strike they
probably will see the advantage of
devoting a little more attention to
team work. suggests the Sioux City
Journal.
"The time for debate on this ques-
ton has passed" says the Sac Sun,
referring to the acceptance of the pri-
mary law by Senator Allison and the
congressman, and 1t would serve the
party Well to drop the senatorial con-
test for few months"
But if you believe this will settle
the fractional fight in the republican
party YOU are overcredulous" says the
Sibley Tribune, commenting on the ex-
pressed willingness of Senator Allison
and the governor to abide by the re-
suit of the primary.