Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-06
Looker-On In Iona

| LOOkeY-On In IONA
Roland, March Con the first day
Of March, 1909, between Gearing and
McCallsburg, along THE Iowa Central
more ducks were In the ponds and
sloughs. than at any time for num-
Der of years. One large flock. which
numbered several hundred, disturbed
by the passing train, only rose few
feet and settled again. With the
quantity Of snow north Of US. and
present weather continuing here, the
prospect for good shooting pleases all
of the hunters in this vicinity.
| Emigration to the Dakotas, Texas,
Missouri and the Canadas never was
larger along this branch. On the first
Of March probably twenty carloads Of
household goods and stocks end half
as many families left the towns along
the Story City branch. This Is only
a beginning of the loss that occurs to
this part Of Iowa, as several other fam
lilies have engaged cars for the near
future. 1t is common remark that
some family takes the place Of those
moving away, and that these movers
do not take the land with them, but
/ Just the same, 1t Is "the bone and sin
1 ew," the younger ones of the family.
that go. thus reducing our working
force and percentage of population. At
| McCailsburg. the writer Is told that a
| cars left there to go to northern Iowa.
! these families settling near Thompson
! Iowa. And here is the point. All OF
| these changes occur as the direct re-
| suit OF some mans action and work.
tAnd we can fill up Iowa by just such
work intelligently and economically
carried on by an Iowa emigration
board, IL we had one. The settlers
we gain from Illinois. Ohio and the
least. come to Iowa and add to our
population, because some friend or rel
| alive writes them and interests them
in Iowa dirt.
| Another year will see in the fields
a more or less perfected corn husker
on the market that husks two rows OF
corn, the motive power being a
gasoline engine This machine is
Epushed, not pulled, by three horses
and the claim Is that oven with all OF
the expense. Of horses and gasoline 1t
will reduce the cost of husking so that
| hand work will be a thing of the past.
All Of which we have heard before,
and which we believe will come to pass
but when? 1t seems, too, farmers now
have chance to buy binders. both
corn and grain, that are run Ivy gaso-
! N how IN Ia
hauled or pushed by the old reliable
| horse
Many times this scribe has flesitated
about mentioning things he sees, for
fear the reader will imagine the "taffy
act" is being INDUCED in. so names are
frequently omitted, when one would
| like to print them. = In this case the
name is omitted by request. A Nor
wegian born in, the old country Is
working wonders in one Iowa school
district He has 'interfered" in the
school work, the teachers work, the
identifying of the grounds and In
many ways SO far advanced" this re-
/ ferred to little red school house" that
observers and educators use 1t as an
object lesson, Of what just one inter-
|.ested school director can do. OF course
he has stirred UP all manner of OPP
position, is called q crank and the old
fogies try every election day to get
him "off the board" yet he can stay
there by the votes of an intelligent
community, just as long as he wishes
to remain.
This following is only for the perusal
of those that pay grocery and meat
bills. Some of us have become much
interested in the much talked OF
tablet food. The new system OF
buying a puond of beef
steak concentrated in a little sugar
waters the size of your finger nail. All
this saves house work and does away
with much of the necessary family
cooking. The Boston Transcript says:
Nebuchadnezzar ate grass, but, tho a
king, his example has not proved pop.
ular with civilized humans during all
the intervening centuries UP to the
nresent time But the National Alfalfa
Mi!lers' Association, on the roof gar
den of a Kansas City hotel the other
night returned to a diet that had some
points in common with that to which
| the Babylonian monarch was reduced
| They ate alfalfa, that wonderful forage
crop of the west made into mullins
and protested greatly to enjoy it. First
however, the dried alfalfa was ground
into a fine green meal, then kneaded
| into dough, and seasoned and baked
like the graham gem. There were two
at each plate one to eat and one to
take home as a souvenir. but so relish
able did most of them find the new del
icacy that they ate their souvenirs
The leaves from which the green flour
is made is said to contain % per cent
of protein and 2 per cent OF tat. SO
husks and grass need no longer mean
the extreme of restitution that they
did in scriptural times. especially as
unon the irrigated lands of the west
four crops in season are not an In
frequent yield The yellow flour
which the n1illers' combine has decreed
shall be substituted for the white may
now be varied with the green Hour OF
the great new west.
| This settles it. A town lot 7bx150 can
raise three crops year of alfalfa, the
Weld generally about three tons to the
acre This dried and ground, put away
in barrels or tight sacks, furnishes an
unlimited food supply. Elenceforth
those of us accustomed to a fixed in
| come can put in the savings bank
enough in ten years, to keep us the
rest of our natural live. Fact is we will
,o+ ,aad money for old age. Keep on