Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-13
Government Plans to Increase
Production and Quality in
Iowa and Elsewhere
AGENT PLACED IN THE FIELD
Will Devote Entire Time to Educating
Creamery Men = Supreme Court
Holds Mere Contract Does Not Con-
stitute Marriage in lowa-court De-
fines EmbezzIement and Larceny.

| Des ,.Ioines, April 13.-The United
States government has come to the re-
lief of the northwest country and will
endeavor to increase the production OF
butter. 1t has determined to put a man
in Iowa, another in Wisconsin and an
other i'll Minnesota whose entire time
will be taken up in travelling about the
state making suggestions to creamer-
les how to better their product. The
Iowa man is to be +. L. Odell, who has
been up to this time connected with
the state food and dairy department as
creamery inspector. Mr.. Odells pc
sition has been taken by j. j. Ross.
The action of the government mere
ly adds one more man to the work in
Iowa and it is possible that the next
legislature will be asked to add more
in the state department.. Mr.. Odell
has been doing for the state just what
he will do for the government. The
government in the past from the SAM
Piles Of butter inspected have written
letters to the creameries telling them
what changes to make to improve their
butter but these letters have not been
very satisfactory in that they fail to Sc
cure the changes. The government has
turned these over to the state dairy de-
partment but the state department has
had all the work it could handle with
it's two, inspectors looking after its own
work.
The United States agricultural de-
partment as we'll as the state de-
partnent and the state dairy depart
ment are anxious that the dairy bus
mess in Iowa should be greatly in
creased. In agricultural circles the
question of how to keep up the fertility
of the soil is vital one in western
states and it is desired to preserve 1T
rather than replace it after it is once
exhausted. Dairy farming is recognized
as one of the kinds of farming that
keeps up the fertility of the soil. Iowa
now produces annually about 70,000,000
pounds of butter, but this is only
small per cent of what the state is ca
pable of if it's resources are properly
worked.
In addition to extending the dairy
business and increasing the amount of
butter made each year is the further
question of bettering the product. Oft
entimas it is found that the methods
used do not produce the best butter.
The result is that the butter does not
bring the best price and the creamery
cannot afford to pay as much for the
cream and the patrons stop supplying
the cream. The departments there
fore consider that the best way to in
crease the production is to better the
quality first.
Creameries all over the state are
to be asked to put in septic tanks. The
state food and dairy commissioner has
been endeavoring for years to find some
adequate means of disposing of the
sewage from creameries. The part that
is left from the milk and cream after
the Lutter and cheese is made, is
thrown away. When dumped into a
drain and allowed to run out along a
roadside, as it frequently is at the
creameries, it makes a smell
that causes the inhabitants of that sec
tion to remain as far away as possible
When dumped into a stream it polutes
the Stream. 1t has been found thru ex-
periments that septic tanks will take
care of it. In these septic tanks bac-
terra are placed which eat everything
and nothing but clear water runs from
the tank
eiver Saturday holds that contract
Of marriage drawn up and signed with
out the formalities attending as pre-
scribed by law is not a marriage un-
less by action of the parties it becomes
so. The decision was given in the case
Of Margaret Pegg, against the admin
istrator of the estate of Elias w. Pegg,
deceased.
Margaret Asher worked for Pegg in
Harrison county under contract
wherein he agreed to pay her certain
wages each week. 1t seems that they
were arrested for illegal cohabitation
and produced the contract wherein she
worked for wages as proof, but later
TO avoid further arrest, went to a law
vers office and drew up a contract of
marriage.
When Elias Pegg died she sued to
It was shown. however, .tf,at after the
contract of marriage had been signed,
the relations of the two We're no differ
ant and that she continued to sign her
name as Margaret Asher and that she |
ven receipted to the administrator OF
he state for wages as Margaret Asher
md in sending word 10 his relatives
1f his death signed her name as Mar
sar.t Asher The supreme court holds
.ha. common law marriages by con- |
ract can be recognized in the courts
onlv when the relation following the
execution of the contract becomes In
'act that of husband and wife.
When a man runs off with money
to him II IS enbezzlement
Ind no. larceny according TO the SUI !