Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-22

sary. This has no reference to this
town. but the subject has lately been
brought up half a dozen times In as
many different Iowa towns, and in all
OF these mentioned cases, the state
ment is made that g. is selling
meat that would not pass inspection
in Chicago" One man says that Mr..
Butcher Of Nextown, makes a practice
OF buying lumpy jawed cattle, kills
them out in the country where he buys
them-the farmer being accomodat-
ing, allows the butcher to kill, and
dress them out in the field-and the
dressed carcass, the head excepted, is
brought to town already to put in the
ice box. "There is very little risk in
this kind Of business for everybody's
business is nobody's business and
who's agoing to file an information"
H*k
Iowa Falls is gradually putting on
city airs The early closing movement
established few years ago is such
an unqualified success that at has
come to stay" About month ago they
inaugurated store delivery system.
One livery man does all of the delivery
for all OF the stores. The number of
necessary teams is used to make four
deliveries a day which certainly ought
to accommodate everybody 1t gives
the reader an idea of what it costs
for merchants to do their own deliver
ing. when the writer was told that
several firms have contracted to pay
the new delivery concern s65 a month
to handle their sales. Many other
firms pay $40 month or dollar a
day for the same service. The expense
of the individual delivery was shown
one day over near the Rock Island
depot, when between II o'clock and
noon. seven delivery wagons drove up
one house and delivered goods that in
the aggregate We're worth less than So
So now in Iowa Falls, the mail is
delivered. delivery company brings
to the house all that is wanted to eat
and drink, the telephone will probably
soon be utilized as it was in Gypsy
Smiths meetings in Chicago the other
night, and attachment made so that
people can stay at home Sunday and
get church services by phone. AT
least that's what one kicker suggests
Says now the farmers with the R. F. D.
system in vogue only come to town
one day in the week. and when the
parcels post is established they won't
come at all, and the town people will
soon too be able to stay at home all OF
the time. Meanwhile they are still do
ing business at Iowa Falls.
The practical potato digger is a,
work everywhere, but the practical po-
tato picker like the practical corn
husker is yet to be in general use. Gu;
in a potato field not long ago. where
the yield was $50 bushels to the acre
the owner told this scribe that it cost
him 10 cents a bushel to have his crop
picked up and unloaded. Machines are
the wagon lie. pick them up. but this
same machine also picks up chunks OF
dirt and loads it into the wagon
There's another machine that has a
shaker system that gets rid of nearly
all of the dirt, but this machine takes
four horses and two men to run it, and
unless a farmer puts in large number
of acres, that is goes into potato rails
ing on large scale, 1t neither pays
to own or rent one of these machines.
Potato growers will be interested to
know that the freeze of Oct. II did
but little damage to the Minnesota
crop. In and around ST. Paul the re-
ports given the writer this week were
that nearly the whole crop was dug be-
fore the cold snap occurred.
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