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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
ITALIAN FARM HANDS.

AT a recent lecture by Miss Jane
an owner of 500 acre Iowa farm who
had noticed how Industrious the Italian
laborer was on railroad construction
work, asked whether there was any
method by which Italian Immigrant
could be induced to come to Iowa and
raise corn. The labor problem press
ing him hard seemed to be straining at
a promised exit for relief but Miss Adj
dams, who has lived long among the
Italian colonies Of West Chicago, re-
piled that there was no way to bring
the Italian laborer to the Iowa farm
until the farmer was willing to change
his ways.
She then explained the life to which
the Italian had been born and bred for
thousands of years, viz. a village life.
While the farmer in Italy titled the soil
with care he lived in villages where the
women made social event of the
family wash day at the common wash
house, where the housewife baked her
bread in the village bake oven and
where there was social intercourse with
singing and a jolly time the year
around. To ask him to scatter to iso-
lated farms among foreign people
the moment he lands in America is to
ask him to reverse a training of 1000
years establishment for life which he
does not care to lead.
The conclusion was inevitable. II
the owner of the 500 acre Iowa farm
would utilize the Italian laborer he
mush go about it in the Italian way.
He must build village in the center
OF his farm with the common bake
oven and wash house. He must pro-
vide each house with a garden plot.
Build creamery in the village and
bring the cows into town to be MIXED.
by the women of the various families.
He must stock each family with plenty
of poultry and a few sows and work
the men in the field under competent
foreman at corn raising combined with
more intensive farming, potatoes, cab
bage. sweet corn, cucumbers, tomatoes,
ETC. He must come to the factory
farm.
If he would do it he could transport
an entire village of twenty families of
Italian rural folk and make
returns on his investment equal to the
profits of any factory with no greater
problem of organization than is re-
CURED in the operation Of manufact-
uring enterprise employing twenty to
100 people. In the next twenty-five
years this method will come to the
southern states for southern people are
studying the problem Of Italian immi-
grafton at this time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
Quack Grass VS.. MiIIet.
EST. Paul Farmer)


One Of our subscribers in Blue Earth
County, Minnesota, writes that he
has on his farm two or three acres
of quack grass in scattered patches
He states that last year he had good
success in forking out these small
punches thru the field as the land
was planted to corn and that he an
ticipates using the land next year for
German millet He says that he has
had good experience with millet and
that it grows especially rank on the
river bottom land except on the low
spots, and he raises the question as
to when is the best time to plant
this millet. He also states that last
year he sowed some millet which
proved to be American millet and
which did not do we'll at all. With
the millet he expects to use medium
red clover, thinking that as soon as
the millet is taken off the clover will
come up and aid in smothering out
the quack grass.
During the past season we had con-
siderable experience on The Farmer
Farm in growing millet on quack grass
land. The quack was allowed to get
a good start in the spring and the
land was not plowed until the quack
grass was knee high. 1t was then
turned under we'll with sulky pillow,
the land was thoroughly disked, and
seeded to millet. The millet got
good start and made an especially
good growth turnout the season ex-
cept on the spots where water stood
during wet periods. Where it did not
make any growth at all but gave way
to the quack Where the millet got
start the quack grass made very small
growth and looked very sickly at the
end TO the season. Next year we ex-
pect to put this land which was in
millet into corn and continue the work
of determination by using the surface
cultivation methods which gave good
results last year. We believe our
subscribers would have better results
in sowing millet late in the season
rather than early, for the reason that
uuack grass has the most formidable
kind of a root system and will get the
start of the millet. On the other
hand, if the quack is allowed to grow
UP and waste part of it's strength on
the first growth, blowing it under not
only adds humus to the soil, but also
greatly weakens the life of the quack
grass and gives the millet fair show.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
A SPLENDID DEED.

Last night common man in one OF
the ordinary villages of Iowa did
splendid thing. In the face Of death he
climbed thru flames to the top of d
water tower 10 feet high to bring
down two other men who were cut OH
by the fire and too nearly frozen to
save themselves. Not once but three
times Everett Butler of Scranton,
climbed the blazing tower trembling to
its fall, urging onlookers to STAND
away lest it crush them. One by one
he sent the half frozen and wholly
terrified men down safely to the ground
with ropes about their bodies. Then
burned and exhausted he staggered
down the ladder and the structure fell
ten minutes afterward. 1t was an ex-
ample of the most splendid herolsm
OF that element of the human soul that
rises to the grandeur of self-sacrifice.
Such men as Butler smilingly comoed
their hair iH the pass at Thermopolae.
and have died at the stake for their
faith in q thousand fires. 1t is mag
nificent to die for an idea. 1T is
Christlike to offer life for other lives.
We are under the erroneous impress
sion that heroism is uncommon. We
have read the historical instances OF
great bravery and elf-sacrifice until
looking backward as toward beacon
light we overlook the grandeur of hui
mainly as it exists on either hand. On
the contrary courage and abnegation
and splendid manhood never was more
common Not a disaster or a horror
where human life is at stake but calls
its hero from the crowd. Everett But
lers exist in every neighborhood. 1t
requires great occasion to call them
forth. But they come.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
When Should heifers Freshen?

The regulation time TO have heifers
freshen is at about two years old, as
this establishes an early tendency for
giving milk At this age the animal's
growth begins to slacken and the heif-
er usually begins to lay on flesh. and
the intention is to get the start of this
flesh forming tendency by making her
produce milk. While this is generally
good practice there are exceptions to
this well established rule. No one
wants to have their heifers freshen at
an age that will materially dwarf their
growth Breeding heifers at fifteen
months. putting them on short rations
and expecting them to continue to grow
and produce thrifty calves at the same
time, is asking too much Of them.
Neither Is it well to have 2-year-od
heifers drop their calves in the fall, as
the flies by day and the mosquitoes by
night are apt to start them into de-
cline. We have come to the opinion,
both from personal experience and OBJ
servation that many cases of abortion
are started by breeding immature heif-
ers in poor condition.
Excessive annoyance on short rations
is followed by waning vitality and
decline in vigor, which makes it i'm
possible for the young heifers to pro-
duce their offspring. We have many
reports of contagious abortion which
seems to have started with young
heifers during last summer.
A good time for heifers to freshen
is at the age of 30 months. For in
stance. if fall calves freshen two years
from the coming spring they will be
2h years old. and will nearly have
their growth by this time. II they are
we'll fed during the winter before calv-
ing. they will bear good calves, and
with the fresh pasture which follows
will establish a tendency to give
good flow of milk. If it is desired to
have them freshen in the fall, they may
run over the next spring and have
their second calves in the fall. With
proper care this long milking period
will establish the tendency of persist
emf milking
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
Topics Of the Times

Nothing like trying. The mercury
finally got eight degrees below in
Iowa.
The first step toward harmony is a
step in the direction of generosity. =
Sioux City Journal.
The Journal is correct If its under
standing of generosity is not perverted.
Generosity that gives up to political
bosses any Of the reforms demanded by
the common voters at the polls during
the past five years is not liberality but
betrayal. Weakness is not generosity.
Swettenham is an exemplifcation of
the official who has nothing but his
dignity to fall back upon. There are
too many such in positions that re-
quire real men. Trouble brings out
their incapacity and weeds them out to
be replaced too often by others OF the
same ilk.
If Chancellor Days idea that wages
are too high is the result of his own
modesty there is one point on which
the people and the chancellor will be
in full agreement.
An Ohio man stole half hog and
got life sentence in the pen.
If ]. Bull would like to see the right
sort OF governor over Jamaica let him
hand the island to us and we'll send
Bill Taft over.
Is MIR. Stevens open to an offer from
the traction companies? If we are to
run an intelligence office on the 18TH
mus for the benefit of the transporta-
ton people let us fix a cash commits
vice.
Senator Jameson, the democratic
successor of Senator Lewis of Page,
has had his wife appointed as his clerk
during the present session and it is in
simulated down in Page that innumer-
able democrats who worked hard to
elect him and who could use $21
week to advantage are disgruntled
over "Billy's" canny frugality. How
ever, one doesn't often get chance to
be senator of Page county, if one is a
democrat, and wisdom makes hay
while the sun shines. 1t may be years
before Mr.. Hepburn and his followers
Will consider it advantageous to again
assist democratic ambition
If this below zero weather that
makes ice cheaply only made ice
cheaper, few of us would mourn over
the added cost to the coal bill.
Mr.. Bryan's proposed magazine at
tack on the republican party should be
differently classified. If he goes into
the magazine business it will be to
complete the Bryaniza ton of the dem
ocracy. Mr.. Bryan proposes to be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
NERVOUS WEAKNESS
!. tho Cause of Organic I.Is-Wheeler.

Is tho Cause Of Organic IlIs-Wheeler.
AS the strength of the chain EQUALS
only that of the weakest link, so is the
body only as strong as the weakest
organ, and as the nerves furnish vital
energy to operate the organs, there
fore the strength of the body is only
equal to that of the nerves.
A normal nervous system has in store
at all times enough energy for almost
any emergency. When the supply runs
low sickness attacks the body, show
ing by symptoms the particular organs
affected. The organs may be perfect,
lacking only energy to operate them,
as the idle machine lacks steam to put
it in motion. Therefore if sickness is
caused by lack of nerve power a sur
plus of this energy will cure and pre-
vent it.
To generate this vital energy there
is probably nothing that equals
wheeler's Nerve vitalizer, which con-
tains, in a very agreeable solution, the
necessary elements which are eagerly
absorbed by the starved nerves as soon
as liberated in the stomach.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31


appetite failed me, and had to choke
down what little did eat. My atten-
ton was directed to Wheeler's Nerve
Vitalizer and I concluded to try it. 1t
had a wonderful effect on me; in a few
nights I was able to get all the sleep
needed, my appetite returned, and be-
came as ravenous as a VOLTS, my
weight increased twelve pounds, my
mind became clear and active; in fact,
I was restored to health, and I look
and feel an entirely different man.
Five years later Mr.. De Vos wrote as
follows:
I'm reply to yours of the Goth inst,
would say that I wrote testimonial
for Wheeler's Nerve Vitalizer some five
years ago and it had the effect then
stated. The cure has been a perma-
nent one, and I am enjoying better
health and weigh more than I have for
years. can heartily recommend this
remedy for sleeplessness and rundown
constitutions Sold by druggists at 81
per bottle. j. w. Brant Co., Albio1T
Mich.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
what he really is the biggest toad in
the democratic puddle.

what he really is, the biggest toad in
the democratic puddle.
Some one suggests that there are too
many old men in the senate for a pro-
gressive country. However, this is NOT
astonishing when one stops to consider
that it requires a life time to earn the
price of a senatorship. Few young
men can raise the money.
According to letter of the Duke of
Argyll, published in the London Times
the Church Army of England has
sent to Canada 5000 poor and unem-
ployed persons, of respectable class,
at cost of 100000. The Army" is
most anxious, says the Duke. to make
well in advance" to
send greater numbers this year, since
is the best corrective OF
evils arising from lack of employment.
Would-be emigrants are tested before
acceptance. as to efficiency, etc, and
hearty welcome awaits them in Cana
that can be sent. The Duke asks for
$500. 600 to send out 10000 more emf
grants. AS they could get good homes
in the south at less expense, it might
be expedlent for southern immigration
bureaus to correspond with the Duke,
who can be addressed at Church
Army Headquarters, SIS Bryanston
street. London.
If all the dreams we love to dream
Would start to coming true.
I'd be so loaded down With gold
I wouldn't speak to you.
If all the wishes that we wish
Could really, really be.
You'd be SO beautiful you would
No longer speak to me!
Baltimore Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
chamberIain's Cough Remedy a Safe
Medicine for Children.

In buying cough medicine for chill
dren, never be afraid to buy Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy. There is no dan
ger from it, and relief is always sure
to follow. 1t is intended especially for
coughs, colds, Group and whooping
cough, and there is no better medicine
in the world for these diseases. 1t is
not only a certain cure for Group, but.
when given as soon as the croupy
cough appears, will prevent the attack.
whooping cough is not dangerous when
this remedy is given as directed. It
contains no opium or other harmful
drugs and may be given as confidently
to baby as an adult. For sale by all
druggists.
It's healthful, wholesome. It's good
for one as the other. The more you
take the better you sleep and eat.
Makes people happy That's what Hol-
listers Rocky Mountain Tea does. 35
cents, Tea or Tablets. Mcbride & Will
Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
The Strawpile

When the millet is seeded late il
the season in this way it would hard
ly be advisable to SOW clover, as i
would probably be smothered out b.
the rank growth of the millet. w
have seen good growths of clover OF
quack grass sod, and the clover seem
to aid materially in smothering o,
the quack, but this clover had bee
seeded with barley or some oths
favorable nurse crop and not with
rank growing crop such as mile
The millet which is grown principally
to smother out the aGack. would UNI
doubtedly act the same way on the
tender young clover plants. 1t is a
matter of common observation that
alsike clover does very we'll on 1uack
grass sod, even better than red clover
and when clover is used to smother out
quack grass it would undoubtedly he
a good plan to mix the two clovers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31

Few except poachers will object to the
dollar game license. If game is to be
cared for and protected, if the hunters
of the state are anxious for the pro-
lection it is upt them to stand by the
resident hunters law.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31

1t certainly must be
gratifying to those affict-
ed to be able to secure
such a remedy, endorsed
as 1t is by all of those who
have used it. The two
letters published below
from C. De Vos, Coopers-
vile, Mich, may be inter-
esting:
II broke down with
nervous exhaustion and
sleeplessness. Could not
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
CANNED GOODS.
1Redford Free Press. J

We recently received a proposition
from firm to sell US a book of ready
made editorials, obituaries, weddings,
ETC. We consigned it to the waste
basket, for while they may be more
ably written then we can do, we do
take some pride in the fact that what
we publish is of our own work, and
we are better satisfied, whether the
n,1h1io ia M. NOT
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
Farm Notes.

| The floor of the poultry house.
whether 1t is of earth or wood, should
be covered three inches deep with sand
and this sand covered four inches deep
with hay or straw. All cracked and
whole grain fed should be buried in
this litter so that the fowls will obtain
| exercise by scratching for it.
Kerosene emulsion is good for hog
lice Kerosene two gallons, common
soap one-haf pound. water one gal
Ion. Mix hot and spray both hogs and
pen.
Give the sows some exercise when
ever you have chance. Scatter
little shelled corn over the ground and
they will take their outing without
knowing it,
It's all right to have the brood sows
in the same pen now, but we would
make arrangements to give them sep
arate quarters when they begin to get
heavy
Keep watch of the pullets and save
those that produce the most eggs in
fall and winter to breed from next
spring. That is the way to Increase
the egg producing power of your
flock
Take close look at the old harness
hanging back in the corner. If rats
are around, the chances are that they
have been feasting on the cruppers
or breast straps. They eat it for the
salt in 1t, caused by perspiration, as
well as the food. A good harness box
or closet Is the proper place for the
harness, especially that not in use.
If there is hay just over the horse
stable especially If the ceiling is very
open. better move 1t or feed it up. The
moisture and steam from perspiring
horses will soon spoil any hay for feed
Ing purposes. Fill up such places with
surplus straw which will take up the
steam and moisture and keep the barn
dry Hay Is too precious for such use.
Slips. as a result of bad roads or
icy yards. cause many horse troubles
Spavins are sometimes first started by
slipping. Strained muscles and sore
joints often come from the same thing.
The brood mare especially has to be
careful on account of slipping or II
maN cause abortion. Don't let the
horses go on the road unless properly
shod. Fix up the slippery places around
the barn door. Scatter some litter ovet'
icy spots in the yard. Look out for
slips because they usually spell trou-
BILE of some kind.
Altho 1t is true that an overfed hen
will not lay many eggs. it is equally
true that a very poor hen will not be
especially productive. Each producer
must have sufficient food to maintain
the heat and energy in her body and
some more to devote to the building OF
eggs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
IUWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

The Rockford Register concludes
that "the type of insanity that would
enable a man to escape the gallows
after committing some horrible crime
ought to be sufficient to put him In a
lunatic's cell before he runs amuck
and does a job of this kind"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31

Noting that Senator Smith. of Mitch
ell, has introduced bill providing that
man who deserts his wife shall be
sent to the penitentiary for a year, the
Odebolt Chronicle objects. IF the SEN
ator had to live with some women we
know he wouldn't father such a meas
ure. And how about the wife who de-
serts her husband?" 1t asks.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
FROM THE ANTILLES.
Chamberlain Cough Remedy Benefits
a City Councilman at Kingston, ia

Mr.. w. o'Reilly Fogarty, who is a
member of the City Council at Kings
ton. Jamaica, West Indies, writes as
follows: "One bottle of Chamberlain
Cough Remedy had good effect on a
cough that was giving me trouble and
think should have been more quick
ly relieved if / had continued the rem
edy. That it was beneficial and quick
in relieving me there is no doubt and 1T
is my intention to obtain another bot
tie" For sale by all druggists.
Purity is our watchword Selecting
only the choicest herbs and roots
known to pharmacists. No spirits or
harmful drugs. HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea is purity itself. 35 cents,
Tea or Tablets.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31
DO you GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure to know of the wonderful
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31

It's all right TO have the brood sows
in the same pen now, but we would
make arrangements to give them sep
arate quarters when they begin to get
heavy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31

Give the sows some exercise when
ever you have chance. Scatter a
little shelled corn over the ground and
they will take their outing without
knowing it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31

CURES uAduC Ny LII.
Kilmer's Swamp
Roc, the great kid
ney, liver and blad-
der remedy.
1t is the great med
ical triumph of the
nineteenth century
discovered after years
of scientific research
by DR.. kilnler, the
eminent kidney and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31

bladder specialist, and is wonderfully
successful in promptly curing lame back,
uric acid catarrh of the bladder and
Bright,s Disease, which Is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
DR.. Kilrner's Swamp-R00t is not rec
commended for everything but if you have
kidney, liver or bladder trouble it will be
found just the remedy you need. II has
been, tested in SO many ways, IN hospital
work and in private practice, and has
proved so successful in every case that
special arrangement has been made by
which. all readers of this paper, who have
not alread, tried it, may have a sample
bottle sent free by mail, also book tell
ing more about Swamp-R Root, and how to
find outif y gu have kidney or bladder trou-
bic. When writing mention reading this
generous cffer in this paper and send your
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fifty-cent and one -. -. ! -
dollar size bottles are Home Of svanpseas'
sold by all good druggists. Don't make
any mistake, but remember the name,
Swamp Root, DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
and the address, Biughamton. N. Y, on
every bottle
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-31

Kerosene emulsion is good for hog
lice. Kerosene two gallons, common
soap one-half pound. water one gal
on. Mix hot and spray both hogs and