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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28

his trepidation. Not that the investor
in Iowa lands who buys with discrimi-
nation and is in a position to stand a
pinch if a pinch We're to come, need
fear loss. Iowa land is certain to be
up to the 5000 price within a genera
ton. in spite of anything that is likely
to happen or will happen. But it is
well for the man who is buying on hope
and trusting to a continuation OF
present excessive prosperity to cut his
coat according to his cloth. The history
of land invest ment at the high notch
holds many examples Of warning Tor
the plunger.
But the west is prosperous, prosper
Gus enough to pay the big prices when
land will return prosperity from s2DO
values. Perhaps IT will remain so. But
that is another story and if so will be
new story.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
The Strawpile.


comparison of skim milk fed calves
with others of like breeding allowed
to rum with their mothers The ten
calves fed on skim milk supplemented
by equal parts of corn and kaffir corn
meal in 1874 days made an average gain
of 233 pounds. The twenty-five rum
ming with their mothers 140 days made
a gain of 248 pounds. At this stage
both lots We're weaned and the test car
ried on for seven months with the fol-
lowing results: The calves that nursed
the cows lost an average of four pounds
the first week after weaving while
the handled calves gained an average
of ten pounds. For the whole seven
months the handled calves gained
440 pounds and those that ran with
dams gained 422 pounds. The former
made 100 pounds gain from 439 pounds
Of grain. while the latter required 475
pounds of grain for 100 pounds gain.
The data for 1870 calves altogether
raised on skim milk and various sup
Elemental feeds (many of which
proved less valuable and more expen-
sive than farm grown feeds) with the
milk estimated at 30 cents a. hundred,
grain 81 a hundred and roughage IS
ton. gave an average cost for eeed
of $1,000 for an average feeding period
OF 125 days. The trials where corn.
kaffir corn. or the two mixed and
mixed hay were fed in connection with
skim milk showed that it took about
900 pounds of milk. 100 pounds Of
whole grain and 400 pounds of hay to
make 100 pounds gain. The ten calves
handled on whole milk for 1874 days
made an average daily gain of 1.s6
pounds, while twenty-five running
with dams made an average gain of
LII pounds and ten fed skim milk
made an average of ISL pounds. In
comparing cost of raising the two lots
hand-fed it was found that two pounds
of grain had the same food efficiency
/ as one pound of butterfat. Even at
low estimate of s12 a year for all eS-
penses involved in keeping a COW the
calves that nursed their dams cost
more than twice as much at weaving
time as the iland-raised calves, count
ing feeds at actual cost at time of the
experiment
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
Fattenins Hogs.


| Farmers interested in agricultural
experiment station work will find in
bulletin No. 81 Of the North Dakota
station very important deductions in
feeding hogs for market. North Da-
kota is famous for the production of
wheat and barley but is outside of the
corn belt and the experiment feeding
was for the demonstration of the COM
parative value Of barley with corn as
ration for hogs. The feeding opera
lions extended over period of eighty
| three days, with two lots of six hogs
EACH
The commercial value of barley is
largely Influenced by it's color. and
that which gets wet before it is
threshed makes "No. 8" or mo
grade" grain. So much barley is
spoiled in the harvesting Of the crop
that the agricultural station undertook
the work to ascertain it's intrinsic wall
Ne for fattening hogs as compared
with corn. The hogs selected were
9orkshire-B Berkshire. Yorkshire Po-
land-China, Yorkshire Chester White
and pure Chester White, comprising
twelve head, divided into two lots of
even grade and weight The average
weight at the commencement of feed
ing operations ranged at 125 to 1873
pounds
One lot was fed a ration of four
parts of ground barley and one part
of shorts (by weight) The ration was
soaked between feeding intervals and
fed moderately wet. The other lot was
fed the same proportions of ground
corn and shorts and in the same con-
dition as the ration for the first lot.
Feeding operations extended over a
period Of eighty-three days.
The first lot, fed the barley ration.
made a total gain of 614 pounds. or an
average gain of IA pounds per day.
The lot fed on corn gained TAI pounds
or an average increase of nine pounds
per day. The highest gains per in
dividual members of the lot were 1855
and 154 pounds, respectively. of the
two corn-fed Yorkshire Berkshires.
The experiment showed that it re-
quired 4.5S pounds of barley and 1.16
pounds of shorts to make gain of one
pound in live weight, and BAT pounds
of corn and 80 pounds of shorts to
make a gain of one pound in the corn
fed lots. The dressed carcass test
showed a greater proportion of lean
to fat in the barley than in the corn
fed hogs. The hogs sold at $500 and
the cost per hundredweight gain in
the barey-fed lot with barley at As
cents per bushel was $500 while with
corn at So cents per bushel it cost
$4.31 to make 100 pounds of pork. The
barley-fed lot made a net profit over
the cost of feed of s per hundred |
the corn-fed lot $3.50 With hogs SELL
ing at $3.50 per hundredweight the ex-
pertinent demonstrated that barley
would have feeding value of 36 cents
per bushel and corn 81 cents per
bushel.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
To Make Onion Juice.

/ have often been deferred from
using onion juice in salad. meat loaf
and sc forth because of the length Of
time it TOOK TO secure it and the dan
ger of getting 1t In the eyes. But since
the following discovery it has been an
easy matter: Cut a thick slice off Of
one end of an onion. but do not peel,
as the skin helps to protect the eyes
and fingers. Hold the onion on the
table with one hand and scrape the cut
side gently with teaspoon until the
required quantity of juice is secured.
emptying the spoon as 1t fills. A tea
spoonful or two is usually all that is
necessary to secure the required flavor
in any dish to which it is added
HOuSekeeper
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
THE LODGES.
A MASONIC NOTICES.
Visitors always welcome.
~ Hall over 1852 Went Main.

4 MAsoNlc. NOTICES.
~ Visitors always welcome.
V\Hall over 1861 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 10s A. r. 4 A.
M.-Work on second degree next Fri
day evening, Oct. 20, at 1880.
H. G. Hoeck, w. NJ.
H. s. Lawrence, Secy.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. SO. R. A. M.
Work in the Mark Master degree
Nov.tl I, 1909. at 1880 p. m.
George H. Boggie, M. e. H. p.
I. s. Willard, Secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL r. 4 ..
M.-Stated assembly Monday, Nov. 20.
1880 p. m.
4. D. Nesker, T. !. n.
L T. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR CoMMANDERY NO.
80 K. T. stated conclave Nov. % at z: 30
sharp. Election of officers for ensuing
year.
F. M. Wilbur, 3. G.
Fred Wallace, Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. o. s..
Especial meeting, Nov. 8, 1880 p. m.
Mrs. Geo. Downing. w. AI
Edna G. Fularton. aecy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
MARQUIS Wheat.

Canadian agricultural experiment sta
tons are testing a new variety of wheat
which promises to be an Improvement
over fife. not only in yield but in earl
Ter ripening and quality. Mr.. James
Murray, superintendent of the Brandon
Experiment Station, writes concerning
this wheat, as follows:
This is a cross-bred wheat pro-
duced some years ago at the Central
Experiment Farm at Ottawa. Its par
entage is: Hard Red Calcutta female,
and Red Fife male. The kernels are
dark red, hard, of medium size but
rather short. The heads are OF medium
length, beardless and pointed. The
chaff yellowish and smooth. The straw
is stiff and of rather below the medium
length. 1t produces very strong flour
Of very good color
I'm three-years' trial at the Central
Experiment Farm, it produced twenty
four bushels per acre and ripened four
days earlier than Red Fife. At the In
dian Head Experiment Farm, in 1908,
the only year under trial, it produced
IS bushels and 20 pounds per acre and
ripened 13 days earlier than Red Fife.
At Lethbridge, in 1908, it produced 80
bushels and 10 pounds per acre and
ripened 10 days earlier than Red Fife.
At Lacombe in 1908, it produced 80
bushels per acre and ripened days
earlier than Red Fife. At Brandon,
last year, it produced 40 bushels and 10
pounds per acre and ripened 9 days
earlier than Red Fife, and this year
produced 43 bushels and 20 pounds per
acre and ripened 5 days earlier than
Red Fife.
In addition to the uniform test plot
this year, we had Az acres on land
that was summer allowed last year
from which we harvested 226 bushels
of good quality.
This variety has not been under
test a sufficiently long time to state
definitely how valuable it will be for
general cultivation in the Canadian
west, but the results up to the present
show it to be the most promising vari-
ETY. that has yet been introduced. 1t
has not vet been placed on the market
as this is the first year that it has
been grown in quantity
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
WOULDN'T STAND FOR BLUFF
Railroad Yardmaster, Strictly in the
Right, Made Company Pay
Hospital Bill.

When Frederick D. Underwood, the
president of the Erie railroad, was as
sistant yardmaster at Milwaukee, one
of his friends among the men was
badly injured. No hospital was avail
able. and Underwood hurried him to a
hotel and told the proprietor that the
railroad would pay the bill. He made
frequent visits to the invalid, and also
treasured him. When the man came
out short an arm and leg bill Of
$1,000 was sent to Mr.. Merrill, who
was then the general manager of the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
A Eoraetful Poet

MIR. Arthur Coleridge, speaking at
the London College For Working
Women, related that the poet Cole
ridge once journeyed from Highgate to
Holborn to visit a nephew, Sir Will
liam Fl. Coleridge. 1t was very cold
weather and the poet had on double
breasted waistcoat which met just be-
low his neck. 1t was discovered that
he had got no shirt His nephew re-
monstrated with him. to which the
poet replied. I'm very sorry, William,
very sorry, but I've forgotten my
shirt" Upon this Sir William kindly
lent his uncle shirt, and" said the
speaker. II regret to say that very
necessary garment was never returned
to its original owner."-London Stand.
ard.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
Vases and Cost of Living.

The Minnesota experient station has
conducted a very Important tho some
what unusual line of investigation re-
lating to hours of labor on farms,
wages paid to hands and cost of farm
ers' living The investigation of farm
wages in four localities for the years
1904-1907 showed that the average
wages paid during the crop season
(Aprii to November, inclusive) is a
little over s26 month or 1877 cents an
hour, and the average for the other
four months is $14 a month or 11.2
cents an hour, the hours of labor being
much shorter in winter time. The
wages paid are not in addition to board,
the cost of which has been added to
the wages paid.
The hours of labor in three localities
during six years were found to aver
age for all the months Of the year So
hours for week days with three hours
work on Sundays.
Studies OF the cost Of living showed
that in Minnesota the average farm
family uses annually farm produce
worth $222.S9, groceries and fuel cost
ing s170S9, and house furnishings cost
ing $32.57, while the value of women's
labor involved is worth $216,66, and
that of men and horses 1914. making
a total cost of $760.72 per family per
year OF this $203.35 represents The
actual cash outlay for supplies, to
which must be added whatever wages
may be paid to hired women, the ball
ance representing the produce of the
farm and the labor of the family. The
average cost of the board Of hands
was found to be 1926 per month or
AZ cents per day.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT
Nevada Renresentatiua

AT the rate candidates are deyeloninp
for the office of state superintendent
1t would appear to be a reasonably
sure thing that none Of them will Sc
cure the necessary 80 per cent of the
popular vote and that the question of
nomination will Inevitably go to the
republican state convention. That re-
suit of the primary will necessarily
contribute much to the interest in the
state convention, and it will also in all
probability be good thing for the
schools of the state. The consideration
that the republican state convention
will give to the relative claims of all
the candidates will indeed be of a
cursory order; bur it will be better
than can be given by voter in a
booth when he comes UP against the
proposition of choosing between a
mess of names with which he is not
familiar. Last year it was demonstrated
that In such situation he took the
name that came alphabetically first:
but for next years primary the names
are to be rotated around so that 1t is
the widest sort of a guess what name
he would Hight upon. All of which is
not intended as a, reflection upon the
intelligence of the voter, but is only
intended to suggest that, there being
obvious limitations upon the ability Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
THE REAL TEST or PROSPERITY

The test Of general prosperity In the
middle west is not the ability to buy
automobiles, the establishment of new
Business houses or the many new man
ufacturing enterprises under way. The
real test is in land sales and land
prices. Judged by these the middle
west is in the most prosperous period
of it's existence.
In the country west of the Miss;s-
sippi the average man who has saved
money, is making money or sees money
ahead begins to look about for piece
of land. The theory is that land will
never get away. SO today thousands of
men are going west and north land
looking. Merchants who have done
well and foresee prosperity are seek
Ing a farm investment, farmers whose
bank account is grown bulky are
buying other farms. And the prices
of home farms are mounting toward
the $500 mark in the better counties
of the state. People want land They
have the Accommodations to buy 1t with
1t is the acid test of agricultural pros
perity In an agricultural country.
Prices seem dangerously high. So 1T
seemed ITO one of the best and most
successful farmers of Marshall county
the other day when he told an editor:
II am afraid. Prices for all raise
and sell are too high. Why. ann DO
Ding well farming if every acre of my
farm were to be salable at 5000 an
acre. ann making money on 5000 land
and 7 am afraid of it. It's actually big
enough to scare me-
And there is sense and warning in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28

Good for Bender! Here's to him. Illi-
nois is in need of reforming. Being a
newcomer to the state, Bender would
see this at once.
II the discount rate goes high
enough, France will let 60 of that gold
all right. The discounts the thing.
The standpatters of Iowa are said to
be organizing to capture the next state
convention. If they succeed, it will be
because the progressives are asleep.
because the latter are greatly in the
majority turnout the state and in all
parts Of the state and need only to be-
stir themselves to have things their
own way. Cummins and Dolliver will
be Endorsed.
Henry Clews. the veteran New York
banker says that stocks are passing
from strong to weaker hands Do you
know what that means That means
mat the manipulators are quietly I'M
loading. When the unloading is we'll
advanced, there will be a big tumble
and then the manipulators will buy
back again at reduced figures and so
on. Where did Hartman get it?
Don't be silly.
In the departments at Washington
one purchasing agency has superseded
thirteen, and of course, there is a big
saving.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
Topics of the Times

We are glad that it isn't necessary
TO prove in the courts that there will
be corn crop next year, in order to
give faith to the proposition. We are
moved to this remark by beholding the
impossiblity of establishing in court
the existence of trusts that are, outside
of court, visible to the naked eye and
palpable to the touch clear across the
continent.
Newspapers that deprecate the ac-
tivity of Attorney General Byers put
themselves in a peculiar position.
Byers activity has been directed
against evil doors and frauds on the
public. Generally, his detractors are
to be identified accordingly.
If you don't feel only relief in the
way of reduced cost of living under
the new tariff, you at least have the
melancholy consolation of knowing
that customs collections have grown.
If you are a town man and found it
impossible to take vacation in the
summer, why not take a week in the
corn field presently?
Keep your radium dry. According to
latest advices it possesses the power to
do anything from curing cancer to
growing tomatoes in the polar regions.
1t is a long detour that thu nresi
dent is making on his way back to the
national capital from Des Moines, but
it is confidently believed that he
eventually will reach home.
The man who sells his horse and
buys an automobile on the theory that
he will save in feed, is due for a sur
prise.
The murder of Prince Ito by a 10.
rean serves as reminder that there is
Korea.
The angle at which Uncle Joe wears
his cigar precludes the possibility of
regarding it as a'pipe of peace.
AS meat prices advance, consumers
are said to be turning to salmon A
rather heroic measure, construed 1T.
orally.
AS the editor of the Springfield
News. Victor e. Bender is whooping it
iup Tor a-direct primary law for Illinois
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
That Skim Milk Calf.

How every lover OF good stock likes
to see the sleek, straight-sided calf
running with its mother, and how often
we have said and thought, particu-
larly we older ones, that no hand
raised calf can ever compete with this
natnre-srcwn product But experiments
and scientific feeding and figures show
another side to this, and many Of NJ
have come to bow to the land-reared
calf, though come OF US have done
SO not little reluctantly. In the KAN
eas bulletin No. 126, 10 reported
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28

IF the Seventh district would do
something for humanity, If it would do
In the nation what private individuals
should do for themselves, if it would
assist in establishing better ideals. then
it should choose from among its mem
bers some man in whose career and
character there was promise of better
things, and send him to congress in
place of Mr.. Hull" says the Glidden
Graphite.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

What has become of the opposition
TO our homeless governor, Mr. Carroll?'
inquiries the Burt Monitor. While as
governor he has done no particular good
or harm, give him another term and
then shake him"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
If 1 could hear as child ears hear

II CUuIu -ItdI rs NIIIII tdIs IISstl
The stars would sing 10 NE. my dear.
And in the night to me- would come
The silver trumpets and the drum
OF little people of the dream
That ali in purple pageants CLEAN,
AS in the moonlight of the room
They Johnny junp-up into bloom.
If I could beat as childheart beats.
On stairway. in the hall. the streets,
O darling, soon Id dance away
Unto the rainhow's end of play;
And would make believe TO hold
The charm of keep from growing old,
And SO. my love. know that
Would nevtr, never want 10 die,-Bal-
timore Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28

The Mount Vernon Record thinks
The prospects are that the ship sub
sidy will go thru at the next session of
congress, 1t is graft, pure and
simple, caluculated 70 help a few ship
owners, and some other men of wealth
who have interests in foreign countries
that they wish TO exploit at the ex-
pense OF this country. This country
has practically nothing to gain, except
that in case of war we will have suffic-
lent vessels to carry coal to our war
ships
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
Iona Newspapers
A KEG OF HARD STUFF,
Rockwell Phonograph. 1

He may not have been sold" but we
WIZ leave that to you. We understand
that one of our citizens received an
advertisement from an out-of-town
concern that upon receipt of 81 they
would send him key of "hard stuff !"
Behold his expression when upon op-
ening the key he found it full of scrap
iron.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
Rather Amhinuaus.

The Rev. Mr.. DOZEN had not gained
the golden opinions of his congrega-
ton, who were unanimous in asserting
that he was foolish and conceited.
He considered himself greatly SIAN
dered and. meeting an old German
friend of his in the street one day, be.
gan to retail his woes. ending up by
saying:
And the church warden actually
called me perfect ass. My cloth pre-
vents me from resenting insults. but
think shall refer to it In the pulpit
next Sunday. What would you ad-
vise?
Mine friendt." replied the German
soothingly. II know not, but t'ink
DAT all you can do viii be youst to bray
for them. az usual!'-Pearson's.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28

# I could see as child eyes see.
Each roadway would be gold TO me.
With pageants Of the fairy dawn
With or1nuz and With sapphire on;
And every rise would be hill.
And every ditch would be a l-ill,
And every hut of mud and sand
a palace hall in wonderland.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
TAKE THE CORN HUsKTNG CURE
iTr,1nf31, naDooor,t

'GIuliuy DemOCrdt.l
If your upper or lower story Is
out of repair, if there is anything
the matter with your stomach. your
liver or your what-not get out into
the corn field and husk corn for a
month. There is no other cure that
will do more for a dilapidated sys-
TEN than months engagement in
corn field in the fall of the year.
1t seems to have been another OF
the many wise provisions of nature
to bring the corn huskng time in
the fall ofithe year when the human
system needs to go thru a tough
enfng process in order that it might
be in proper condition to withstand
the severe weather of winter.
The work of corn husking brings
into play every muscle of the body
That is what makes the exercise
such a wholesome health builder
1t makes you tided. it makes you
sleepy. and it makes you hungry
very hungry. One of the most de-
licious of human Injuries is to ge!
the appetite of a corn husker.
Without doubt the cheapest and
surest remedy for those who have
anything the matter with them is
to take the corn husking cure.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
The Vision Beautiful.

If I could see as child eyes see,
The world would look so sweet TO me!
If l could go as child feet go,
The paths of life with rose would glow
If I could hear as child ears hear,
The sunbeam song song would dry NY
tear
If / could beat as child heart beats.
My soul would faint to taste such
sweets!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28

candidates for minor offices to make
| themselves known to all the voters Of
the state, 1t is much better that the
matter of choosing between them
should be referred to delegates to
whom the candidates will have some
chance of presenting their respective
cases.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28

Fall colds are quickly cured by Fol.
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