Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-16
COMPETITION FOR PRIZE MILK
Frs is kEEN-ENTRiEs
JUST CLOSED.
WATERLOO GUERNSEY TAKES
FIRST PLACE IN JUNE
Animal is Owned by w. w. Marsh
Other Winners and Statistics Of
Tests-WaIIace's Farmer Takes Rap
at Greater Iowa cIub-Imported
Farmers Not Needed.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 16.-Entries for the
Iowa dairy COW contest closed yester-
day. There are such a large number of
entries that those conducting the con-
test are not only surprised but flooded
With the work of making the reports.
The contest started May and will
continue for some months. June, the
second month in the contest, gave the
best showing to Dairy Maid, a Guern-
sey COW owned by w. w. Marsh, of
Waterloo. She gave 1,605.5 pounds of
milk during the month which tested
4.761 per cent butter fat, making her
butter fat yield 7643 pounds. Her age
entities her to a % per cent handicap
in the contest which gives her contest
record as 1854 for thirty days.
The second COW was Holstein-
f'riesian, Nutula Queen -Alcartra,
owned by Mckay Bros. of Bucking-
ham. Her record was 2O62.9 pounds of
milk testing 1858 per cent butter fat,
yielding 13.o pounds of butter fat. The
third cow was a Jersey. Edna Silverm,
owned 10y the Iowa State College of
Agriculture and it gave 1884 pounds
of butter fat
The fourth COW was ,Minnehaha
Gerben, a Holstein owned by c. A.
Nelson of Bremen county, which gave
l2.15 pounds of butter fat.
Twenty nine COWS gave a record of
fortytwo pounds of butter fat or over
for the month of June. The records
We're so close in some instances that
they had to be carried out to the forth
decimal to decide the points.
4 The contest is the first that has
ever been conducted in Iowa and the
interesting feature so far is that for
both months Guernsey COW has tax
en- first place and a Holstein second.
The record shows very little change
of places for the rest of the list be-
tween the individual cows.
The last issue of Wallace Farmer,
published in this city, says the Greater
Iowa Club is. barking up the wrong
tree when it declares its intention of
bringing in Jewish, Italian and Swiss
farmers to teach Iowa farmers how
to farm. 1t claims that there are no
Jewish farmers worth mentioning and
no Italian farmers outside of small
fruit districts in the south and that
Swiss farmers are as scarce as mems
teeth. 1t suggests that the Greater
Iowa Club may be able to do great
IDEAL of good in the way of advertising
Iowa but hints in no unmistaka.ble
terms that Iowa farmers are about as
we'll posted in how to farm as any
foreigners that can be brought in and
that when the day for intensive farm
ing arrives Iowa farmers will farm in
that way.
The same paper criticses the action
of congress and the president in pass
ing the tariff BILL the congress is criti-
cised for putting it thru and the presi-
dent for not earlier taking a hand when
it would have been possible to get low
er rates. The free hide part of the bill
which it is claimed will lower the
worth of a COW by s1.00 to $50 a head
is especially criticised and the stand
taken that the democrats are no long
er to be trusted as free traders for they
worked with the trusts and interests
as much as any republican.
Closing the editorial SAYS: 'sNo mat
may be rooted and grounded in the
faith of protection, that faith will be
shaken when both political parties lie
in their platforms, when he realizes
that schedules are framed to deceive
that certain cliques of capitalists have
combined to hold him up by demanding
higher prices at home than they gladly
accept abroad. The conviction will
gradually creep over him that he ha.
been fooled and deceived, and that de-
signing men have trifled with his hon.
est convictions and have made him pay
tribute. He will then begin to see tina
the senator's who have demanded re.
duction of the schedules are the true
friends of the protective principle, ant
that only by supporting them will it b,
possible to prevent big, black troubl,
J to the entire country and to restor,
: and maintain industrial peace
, The portrait of the late Joseph w
Blythe, general counsel for the Bur.
, lington railroad, has been hung in tn.
: portrait gallery of the State Historical
Building in the gallery of famous men
: The portrait is an excellent likeness O
the late attorney and politician, ant
lit is understood that later on the rela
::;,vas of the man will have it painted 1,
oil SO that it will be more permanent
and enduring.
A portrait OF President William F
King Of Cornell college. will be hun,
in the gallery some time the comm.
winter. President King was first con
nected with Cornell as a professor ii
1862 and in 1855 became president ant
remained president till within a shor
time. He is counted one of the promi
nent and able educators of the west
His portrait will be painted by Ralph
Clarkson, the Chicago portrait painter
and will be done in oil.