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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
Winter.Feedino Calves.

The present high prices of beef over
lhe counter are causing not only beef
producers but beef consumers to take
Keen interest in the beef congress
10 De held in Denver during the ma
tlonal live stock show. All phases OF
beer production will be discussed at
that time; and, in view of this discus
sion additional light on feeding prob
lens is of interest. The Colorado Agri-
cultural College has done some recent
feeding work in an attempt to find
whether 1t pays to grain feed steers
that are to be carried over on range
another season or two.
The first question to which an an
swer was sought, was whether it is
profitable to winter-feed calves des-
tined to be finished and sold as two
year-olds. Some of the calves fed
during the winter were given ration
OF four pounds per head of corn,
with all the alfalfa hay they wanted;
While others were fed twenty pounds
OF sugar beets, with alfalfa hay.
These calves gained on the average
259 pounds per head during the win
ter - only thirty-one pounds less than
they gained the next winter as YEAR
lings. The fall that they were yearlings
they weighed 14o pounds per head more
than steers Of the same crop brought
In from the range as yearlings. The
next spring they were only 10
pounds heavier and the next fall nine
ty-ntne pounds heavier and the spring
they were marketed thirty-rine
poudns lighter than the steers brought
from the range as yearlings The grad
uai decrease In the margin between the
two sets Of steers indicates that the
winter-feeding as calves fastened the
steers to maturity and consequently
lessened their capacity for gain each
successive season at rapid rate.
Another way to look at the question
is to compare the gains made each
year by the same lot of steers. The
lot fed as calves made gain OF 400
pounds per head the first winter and
succeeding summer; the next year
they made 325 pounds gain per head
already starting down HILL you no.
tice-and the last winter they made
a gain Of only 223 pounds per head,
or thirty-six pounds per head less than
they made the winter they were
calves.
NoAsiueTlnS tne year Wnen they
were / year old, they made a gain
of 431 pounds, as against a gain Of
2S5 pounds when 2-year- ODDS And
the steers that were not fed until they
were yearlings made gain of 456
pounds the year that they were twos.
Thus, any way one wishes to look
at the problem, the feeding of calves
does not appear profitable If they are
to be held over for finishing as aged
steers.
Further results show that the year.
ling steer makes larger gains on less
feed than the 2-year-old. The more
rapidly you can push a meat animal
to maturity the greater the profit
G. E. Morton, Colorado Agricultural
College.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
HoIdino the Soil.

Make It a point to never allow any
soil to get out OF your field. The fence
which crosses the lower levels may
serve good purpose here by setting
posts, driving stakes, placing brush or
planting grass or trees where the most
water flows thru 1t. It may be noticed
in any field where a fence crosses a
drain that the bottom portion Of the
fence becomes covered with soil which
has been arrested in its downward
journey. By making the fence extra
tight in these places and reinforcing
1t to prevent giving, 1t will sSSss the
double office Of fence and soil builder
Along these low places in the field
where soil and other matter settles a
succession OF dams, or brusily ar
rosters, may be placed to catch and
hold the wash till the valley grows to
some appreciable width. allowing the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
The Census of Shingles.

Concerning the single production in
1907 and 1903 by species. it is stated
| that for every kind of wood, except
chestnut, the average value in 1908
was less than in 1907. The average
value of shingles of all species was
s1.56 per thousand in 1900, s1s5 in
1904, s2.o4 in 1906, 1885 in 1907, and
50 in 1908. Nearly rs per cent, OF more
than 9,000,000,000, of the shingles manu-
featured in 1908 were of cedar. OF
these the western cedars furnished
about 7,600,000,000 or nearly S3 per
cent, and the eastern cedars, mostly
the white, supplied about 1900, O00, 900,
or slightly more than II per cent. OF
the western cedar shingles, Wash
ington supplied 1926, 100000, or
nearly SO per cent. The cut
of cypress shingles in 1908 was
1.155.041, 600, of 9.5 per cent Of the
total cut. Louisiana supplied 56 per
cent, and most of the rest were pro-
duced in Arkansas, Florida, and Mis-
sissippi.
The total cut of lath In 1908 was a.
decrease of 676,918, 600, or 1876 per cent,
from the cut in 1907. In Washington
most of the lath manufactured in 1908
was of Douglas fir, in Louisiana of yell
low pine, and in Minnesota of white
pine. No state and no species led de-
cistvely in lath production. The aver
age value per thousand of all kinds of
lath was $1.36 in 1900, $2.05 in 1904,
1901 in 1906. s2.S5 in 1907, and 1927 in
| 1908.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
Little Apples.

The Lord made little apples.
And He made them one and all
To fulfill a special purpose
And to meet some urgent call:
They are not always perfect,
And they're knotty as can be
Just like some little people
That are known to You and me.
The Lord knew little apples
Would be scohed at and forlorn,
And He gave them patience
And a hardness unto scorn:
And He made them extra sturdy.
And as sweet as they could be
just like some little people
That are known to YOU and me.
Often, thus, the little apples
Keep the longest, last the best,
When the populace has eaten
And forgotten all the rest;
And we like them all the better
Just for being What they be-
AS We like some little people
That are known 10 You and me.
Baltimore Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
THE LODGES.
n MASONIC NOTICES.
XXvisitofs always welcome.
s/VN Hall over 106.7 Went Main.

4 MASONIC NOTICES.
Visitors always welcome.
/VNHaA over 1857 West Main.
/ MARSHALL LODGE 1os A. f. 4 A.
M.-Work in third degree Friday. Nov.
~, at 1880.
H. q. Hoeck. W. M.
II. s. Lawrence, sec'y.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. 90. =. A. NJ.
Special convocation, Monday, Nov.
10. work In Royal Arch. Refreshments,
George H. Boggie, e. H. p.
I. s. Willard. Secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL R. q q.
M.-Stated assembly Monday, Nov. %.
1880 p. m.
I. T. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR ccMMANDERY NO
80 K. T. stated conclave Nov. % at Z. 80
sharp. Election Of officers for ensuing
year.
F. NJ. Wilbur, n. c.
Fred Wallace, Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. q. >,
s.-Regular meeting Nov. IL.
Mrs.. Geo. Downing, ". n
Edna c. Fularton. e4cy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
An Apple Cave.

A farmer about two years ago, says
a writer in Farm, Stock and Home, con-
GUIDED to build an apple cave, and
while there are possibly better caves,
there are few that cost so little. An
excavation was made in the side OF a
hill. 1Sx50 feet square, and so arranged
that the completed cave was eight feet
III height. The excavating was done
with plows and slips, the walls were
kept plumb by using an eighteen-foot
evener with a twenty-foot chain fas-
tened to the plow. One team was
placed in the pit or cave and one on
the bank. BY this method the burrows
were plowed one on top of the other.
The rear end Of the cave was cut out
for about fifteen feet or more to drive
the teams in and out to obviate turn
ing in the cave. When the excavation
was complete the rear end was filled in
with poles, set close and capped with a
heavy plate. A 2x12 inch oak timber
was placed on the bank for plates. and
the top covered with heavy poles. Tho
front end OF the cave had been cut
away and the house built over the
entrance. The rear end. two sides and
the rear half Of the roof, was first COW
with 1x2 inch strips; then lath and
the lath with two heavy coats Of Port
land cement. The entire cave. includ-
ing the rear end of the house, was then
covered with dirt and clover sod. The
front end of the roof was covered with
a good grade Of building paper, and the
front wall boarded up and down, bat
tened. This was found to be mis-
take; the entire structure should have
been covered with cement Two salt
glazed tiles were placed in the roof Of
the cave for ventilators. Large double
doors were placed in both the cave and
the house. If necessary, two wagons
may be backed into the house at the
same time Two carloads of apples, 4
lot of potatoes, onions, etc, were stored
in this cave last winter. Everything
was packed in crates, boxes or barrels,
and all kept fine. The extra price
realized on the apples alone would
build several such caves.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
SEMI ARID LANDS AND SETTLERS.

The warning offered settlers an6
purchasers of semi arid and arid lands
is timely and should be needed 1t is
one of the difficulties in the face of the
settlement of the lands irrigated and to
be irrigated under the reclamation act
thousands of settlers have gone west
to the arid lands taken up homesteads,
claimed tracts and it is pretty certain
that many of them will find hard sled
ding for time. Depending on the pro-
gress of the irrigation projects hun
dreds have taken a chance and of these
A considerable number will lose out
long before the reclamation projects ar
rive at stage that will make their
holdings valuable or even capable OF
supporting life
The semi arid lands are worth while
now that the big corn producing lands
are under ownership and held at prices
considered prohibitive to the poor man
or the person with extremely limited
capital Dry farming has opened a
future for the semi arid country and
promises crops on lands once justly
considered as deserts. They were desert
/ land under the conditions of half and
even a quarter century ago. They are
nor corn lands nov None need evnect
to duplicate the fortune of the pioneer
who came into Iowa when land was
Sl.25 an acre or was TO be homesteaded.
But there is not only a living but
competence and more for the man who
goes 10 the semi arid lands with a
knowledge Of where he is going, what
for and why
The trouble is that too many who
know nothing about conditions, the
crops that may be raised with profit,
and the knowledge of dry farming are
going are taking a chance with scarcely
enough to keep them while they get
settled There will be failure and suf-
fering among this class. The warning
is mainly for them. Many of them
have never seen the country to which
they emigrate. They do not realize
that they need a few months to gain
necessary knowledge Some men are
optimistic with the optimism of ig-
norance. Shown feather they imagine
poultry by the car load.
The land craze draws like a lode
stone The ultimate of the western
man is a piece Of land of his own It is
a sensible and laudable ambition but
like all laudable energy it needs the
governor of common sense.
Our estimate OF land values has
changed Lands which were considered
practically worthless a few years ago
are valuable today. We have discover
ed, under the pressure of necessity,
that these rejected acres are potential
with possibility We know more about
the land and all have learned the ways
whereby it may render back returns to
| industry skill and common sense.
The warnings offered do not mean
that all lands listed as semi arid are
worthless; but that those who buy
should exercise great caution and that
those who settle on them should be
prepared understandings as to the diff
. fculties they will have to overcome.
1 The uncautious and improvident settler
is the one who most need and should
best heed the warning. There are plen-
" of opportunities in the dry lands,
opportunity to make money" and OPP
portunity to walk back to the wife's
folks"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
Poor Economy.

A light team for farm work is poor
economy. Farm work simply must be
done in its proper season, and the man
who tries to do 1t with team that Is
too light or too poor for It's purpose is
badly handicapped. He falls behind
with his work, and does it poorly or
not at all. His team is overworked and
less efficient thru the season. These
things wear upon the man himself, and
the damage done to him is even greater
than that to his field or his horses. Put
on plenty of horse power and both
yourself and your field will profit by it,
and your horses will last longer. Make
your arrangements to breed your horses
sd they will be bullying with surplus
power.-Kansas Farmer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
WHEN WOMEN Run THINGS.

GOrange City Herald
The woman suffragists of the state
have taken heart from the experience
of their sisters in England and will al
tempt to take the next Iowa legislature
by storm. They say. and say with con-
siderable vehemence, that the time has
come for stringent measures and they
propose to have the right to vote or
know the reason why. This question,
like that of the original sin, promises
always to be with us. The dear women
run everything else on earth except the
ballot box, and just why they should
wish the privilege of standing around
on the street corners eectioneering,
and then casting a ballot for Jim Jones
for constable. is beyond the explanation
of mortal man. 1t is freely granted
that few of us know how TO vote prop
erly, and that all of us make mistakes
with the ballot But in what way
things would be improved by giving the
right OF voting to several million beau
t1ful creatures, who already own the
earth and all that therein is, is a matter
of conjecture. We don't believe the
majority of them wish to vote in the
first place. Secondly. and most import
ant of all, we should have the election
booths turned into such brilliant dis
play of gowns and millinery that the
candidates would be forgotten entirely.
Mrs. Smith would be nudging Mrs.
Jones and asking about the latter's new
bonnet: Miss Brown would sail into the
room Respondent in a new gown and
the judges of election would hand her a
dozen tickets instead of one. There
would certainly be an awful confusion
and the experiment would result in
disaster. We beg the women to let up
in their demands. "This world is but
a fleeing show" and they already are
the large part of it. Give the poor men
chance
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11

which should be set in rows about four
1eet apart, and cultivated as corn.
Seeding trees can be purchased from
the larger nurseries at from SO to IS
per thousand, which is cheaper than
the labor required to dig them in the
timber lands IL they could be gotten for
nothing. 1t is good plan to cut off
the entire top OF the young tree when
setting out. This will give a good,
strong, straight growth for the trunk
of the future tree A little pruning
during the first and second summers
VIII start the trees with good, clean
trunks and after this but little care is
needed A small plat of land, if proper
~ handled. will in few years furnish
au abundance of firewood and posts
and poles that are necessary for fences
The value of a constant supply of tim
Der can be hardly overestimated
POSTS can be grown in groves much
cheaper than in line hedges. Hedge
fences are not to be considered. ex-
cept in special cases, for the reason
that the labor required to keep a hedge
fence in good shape would care for
large grove. a tall hedge may some-
times be of great value for windbreah
and for such purposes their use should
not be discouraged, tho a grove will
Usually furnish better protection to cul-
tivated fields and farm buildings. The
varieties best adapted to. western
prairie countries are black locust, ca
talpa and cottonwood, succeeded by
soft maple, mulberry and white ash.
the last-named being of somewhat
slower growth than the others, but
more valuable for manv purposes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
Small Farms.

Small farms possess many advan-
tages over large holdings, and for the
capital invested pay much larger divi-
bends. The owner of small farm does
not envy the bonanza agriculturist who
becomes slave to his broad acres. In
general, men who engage in husbandry
are ambitious to own too much land,
and in this way become in many in
stances actually land poor. They can
not profitably work their estates. Altho
a man may have the resources to buy a
large farm, unless he has the capital to
properly equip it he will find his broad
acres an Improbable investment. To
realize the greatest possibilities out of
farm it must be equipped with prop
er appointments and stocked with I'M
proved breeds of animals. The OUT
buildings need to be economically ar
ranged. and of a class to afford proper
protection to his stock. If all ones
capital is invested in land the owner is
destined to struggle for years to make
his necessary improvements. Begin
ming with inexpensive betterments, the
farmer is forced into life of self
denial before he can attain to the COM
forts of life which might have been his
'
land and better improvements The
farm improved with poor fences and
outbuildings, inferior wells and no
windmills continually subjects Its own
err to losses of crops and live stock.
Large farms require much help to
successfully operate them. The big
farm is always short of ample laborers
to efficiently operate it. AT great ex-
pense. crops are often produced, only
to be sacrificed because the farmer can
lot obtain the requisite amount of help
to save the harvest.
Modern agriculture contemplates more
intensive cultivation of the land, and
ceived under ordinary tillage. I'M
provement in tillage is the foundation
of advanced husbandry Intense Gull
'tiivatiG.: kills weeds, encnMra ges nlant
growth and keeps the soil in proper
condition to absorb natures fertilizers
from the atmosphere dews and rains
that fall on the land
Consider what a vast difference is
possible between one farm of $40 acres
or sixteen farms of forty acres as to
the social features of rural life If
owners could carry their land with
them when they pass to the silent
shades of death land covetousness
might be tolerated. but too much land
forces a neglect of the higher and
nobler attributes of cultivation.-Farm-
ers' and Drovers' Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
THE MILLIoNAIREs' MILLIONS.

Million dollar fortunes do not come
from the profits of fair trade; they
come out of the speculation induced
by special privileges granted by the
law-making bodies under one plea and
another, usually under the plea that
such laws are for the benefit of trade;
but the law maker does not live who
is not fully aware that if one person
or one set Of persons is given an ad-
vantage under the laws, some other
persons or set Of persons will be dam
aged to just the extent that the law
benefits some other He knows this, or
ne doesn't know enough to make laws
for any people.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
Planting Trees For Posts.

The rapid denud1ng Of our forests and
the consequent scarcity Of timber for all
purposes, especially the cheaper kinds
in the rough for farm requirements,
renders the planting of forest trees of
great Importance. There are few farms
especially on prairies, that have not
several pieces of land that are not easy
of cultivation, which little time and
works will fit for the planting of trees,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
No Case on Record.

There Is no case on record Of cough
or cold resulting in pneumonia or con-
sumption after Foleys Honey and Tar
has been taken, as 1t will stop your
cough and break up your cold quickly.
Refuse any but the genuine Foiey's
Honey and Tar in a yellow package.
Contains no opiates and is safe and
sure. Mcbride & Will Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
Il WA ePihtuNs AND NOTES.

Captain Rathbun, Pat" Murphy
Dave Brant, Major Lacey and a few
other delightful men-personally-w
row have another occasion for re-
GREETING the elevation OF Albert 3.
Cummins to the senate" cruelty re-
minds the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
How He Got II,

The kind lady had just handed the
hungry hobo sandwich and a hunk
of pie. "Poor mani" she said. sympa-
thetically. "Are you married?" Mn"
answered the H. H.. II got dis hunted
look from bein' chased from place t
place by der perlice."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
Iona Newspapers
BOUND TO WIN,

webster City freeman Tribune.l
The young man with good health and
grit Us bound to win. He is not looking
for an opportunity. He is making one.
You can't lose the young man with
character and grit. Some day he will
be at the head of railroad corpora
ton, large manufacturing institution,
big retail establishment or something
equally as good" He is not now
whining that there is no chance for a
young man in this country" He knows
there is and he is making the most of
his talents. Watch him grow.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11

Ten to one after all the rivers have
been deepeaed the bulk of the freight
viii continue to be moved by the rail-
roads, predicts the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican. The railroads can do it so
much more quickly. But. in the mean
time. the possibilities of shipping by
water have a beneficial effect upon
railroad freight rates"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11

LAS to the central bank, it appears
TO us that Senator Cumm.ns is abso-
lutely right says the Nevada Repre-
sentative.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11

The Eldora Herald says: "Senat or
Cummins' speech is a challenge to the
Cannon people which they can not ig-
more and an appeal to the rank and
file of the republican party to elec,
men 10 office who VIII uphold the prin-
ciples and tradition of the party of
Lincoln ard of Garfield, ana who vii!
rise in their might and declare that
while they have the power to vote that
the republican party shall see that
liberty, equality and justice shall not
perish from the domain of the United
States of America"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11

The Davenport Democrat says, "Ev-
identity the central bank is to be one
of the issues in the next session of
congress, and probably there will be
members of both parties who do their
own thinking who will have to be
read out" before the measure is final
ly whipped into shape in which it can
command the support necessary 10
make it operative"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11

Halley's comet. it has been figured
out, will pass across the suns face
May is, on which occasion. however.
the sun will try to look as pleasant
as Observation-Disclosures News
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11

If such party is formed another will
be organized for the express purpose Of
combating it. San Marine boasts OF
having no factories and practically no
taxes.
Profiting by the experience of sew
eral American cities which provide
food at cost for their school children,
the London county council has about
decided on similar system in some
of the schools of the metropolis. Par
ents having asked that meals be sup
Piled at school to their children who
are not "necessitous," the county coun-
ell authorities are planning to grant
the applications. payment to be made
In advance, the charge "to be calcu-
lated to the nearest farthing."