Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-07
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Dumont. May 1.-THE "by-product"
here when a renter brought in 1879 doz-
en- fresh eggs and sold them for 20
cents a dozen. Didn't have time to
gather them all or would have brought
more" The reader should understa nd
this renter is mot in the hen business"
IN the sense that he makes speciality
Of raising chickens. He Is an Iowa
farmer with all the words imply, merely
keeps hens on the SIDE"
The canned milk business is making
big strides right here in agricultural
Iowa. One travelling man for a whole
sale grocery house, says he is selling
1t now in all of the small towns, and
sold six times as much in 1908 as dur
Inf the year previous. Housekeepers,
even in the small towns now keep a five
or ten cent can in the house. and such
thing as borrowing some MILK is
unnecessary. This is written as a
pointer for some hotel keepers that
can not get cream in this town" Buy
can of xyz milk, put on the table
as cream, and all of your guests can
then have cream in their coffee.
Roosevelt Bros, of Ackley tell the
writer that Notwithstanding the high
price of wheat and the advance in the
price of flour, there is little or no in
crease in the demand for rye flour
which remains at about the same price.
Bakers say there is but little more rye
bread sold than formerly. And grocers
say the corn meal trade has not per-
ceptibly shown any increased sale. In
other words 1--WE don't have to" eat
anything but the highest priced -four
and bread
This suggests what the market man
Will tell any questioner. The people of
Iowa and presumably all over the
country. want the high priced beef,
and are willing to pay for it. One
butcher says he sells three beeves, to
one hog, and when it comes to NUT
ton, he has hard work to sell one
sheep before it spoils. Chickens, on
Saturdays, he seldom has enough to
supply the demand at SO to 60 cents
each, according to size. Another deal
beef, buys three headquarters to one
LIZA SqudIlSI, WHICH SHOWS II1e uGiIldHu
for soup bones and boiling pieces is
not eGua! to that for steak and rosast.
| Here's another suggestive thing In
one town in Iowa, where a few years
ago the average sale of oranges was
about a car load month, now easily
sells twenty car loads a month, these
being consumed in the town and near
by small towns, all retail trade.
Strawberry sales, in all Iowa towns
this from the time they are shipped
in from Texas till the home supply
fills the demand. are a hundred times
as great, in the number Of boxes,
as the sales OF ten years ago. The same
| is true of bananas and all other fresh
fruit. Lettuce, radishes, and young
onions are for sale every day the year
around, in the larger towns and in the
smaller towns on Saturday. Creamery
butter is handled and sold in many
towns by the grocers, in many cases,
shipped in while the local creamery
ships their products to New York.
| Few houses are now built in our
Iowa towns, without a heating plant,
inside closets and bathroom, while the
new house is invariably wired for cleo
trio lights. Rents everywhere, on an
average, are 20 to 80 per cent higher
than fifteen years ago. And all this
goes to show the average man, en-
ployer or employee, Is living on the fat
Of the land. Some say incomes and
wages have not increased in the same
ratio as living expenses. If so, how is
1t Iowa people are having so much Of
the unnecessary. Or are fruits. high
priced flour, high priced meats. bath
tubs and electric lights now to be set
down as necessities?
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