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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
Drinking Water For Fowls.

The matter of providing pure drink
ing water may appear to be of less inn
portance and urgency at this. time
than during the summer. Water at
least does not become stale and impure
as quickly in cold weather as during
the heat of summer. Frequent rains
also furnish supply of drinking water
in vessels standing outdoors or under
the caves. etc. or in bitches, little de-
presions or basins here and there But
there is this danger, at the same time,
tht fowls following their natural in
stinct Cor is 1T depraved taste?) of pre-
ferring manure water to the pllrest
water just drawn from the we'll, will go
to the barnyards and manure yards
and fill up out of water holes. and
possibly carry the germ of fatal diseases
into their systems. At. any rate, it is
not scleanly or safe habit. Try to keep
fowls away from such temptation by
covering those water holes or by i'm
proving the drainage so as to lay them
dry. or keeping the fowls away entire
ly.-M issouri Dairyman,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
THE WEATHER.

lSplTiL Lake Beacon.
About now the weather is conspicu
Gus in desultory conversation. Like
the poor, it is always with us, and
when we shyer it particularly moves
US to speech. There are queer phases,
however, in weather impressions. Nat
urally ii might be assumed that as the
cold becomes more acute from influ-
ences of latitude it would more impress
the individual and enter most into
personal consideration. but it doesn't
work that way. Up in Winnipeg they
talk little of the weather except to
show that it is mot too bad" They
build for the cold and dress for it and
take 1T for granted, and besides the dry
atmosphere with little wind really
seems to take hold of the flesh less
than one would think in reading the
mercury Down in southern California
where it rarely frosts, the chief topic is
weather. While flowers are in bloom
and tender ilerbage in its best form,
rlgors play tag along the human YER
tebrae much of the time. Houses are
not usually prepared for any degree of
cold. They take it for granted that it
Is warm, but the thin blood of the
~ - opie"i ietliluus protests NlgOr-
oisly against the temperature when the
rains fan or the sun is obscured or
the evening chill comes in from the
ocean
so, when the people of Iowa complain
OF the cold and regret that they live so
far north, they should find comfort in
the reflection that more people chill to
death in New Orleans than in Winni-
peg that they can not escape goose
pimples anywhere in this country;
that people really complain less of
personal discomfort from chiliness at
Winnipeg than fhsy do in southern
California or Elorida: that in endur-
ing the ills we do not realize and pos
sess our souls in patience when the
weather is wont to burden the mind
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
High Price of Butter.

The working man of the cities is
paying all. he can afford for butter. 1t
is said that not since the war have but
ter prices been SO high. Everything
else is high and that is no reason for
butter being high. A second reason is
that the production thruout the United
States has this year been shorter than
usual. For butter to get higher in
price this winter than it now is would
prove almost a calamity. People would
eat oleo and other substitutes and but
ter would have to get very cheap in
fact, reach summer prices almost, be-
fore the consumption channels would
open again to normal With butter fat
around so cents the farmer. if dairy
ing properly, can make big money. and
he should not look for larger profits
thru higher prices. Higher prices for
butter win eurtail consumption. Then
there is less demand for butter, and it
is manifestly better for the farmer to
sell all the butter fat he can produce
at 80 cents than to sell only part at
la higher price.-kansas Farmer
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
ANOTHER FACTOR IN THE COST.

Now we have it that it is neither
trusts. Excessive eating on the part
of the people-this it is that is re-
sponsible for the increased cost of liv-
ing. So we are told by Prof Milton
Whitney, chief of the bureau of soils
of the department OF agriculture at
Washington. The professor thinks we
are eating far more than we did fifty
years ago 1t appears to be his reason
ing that, altho we produce more each
successive year, our appetite grows still
faster.
There doesn't seem to us to be the
least doubt in the world that the pro-
fessor's observations are right to the
point This gorging and waste-and
much OF it is waste-do not alone eX
plain the advance in prices. The cause,
however, is directly contributory. The
trusts and combinations wait on appe-
tite and charge all the traffic will bear.
perity is in everybody's mouth, nobody
kicks on the price, its a matter of
pride not to- boosting is the order of
the dayfi So it goes, even if We boost
ourselves INTO the middle of next
months pay check before it is earned.
For example, just as Professor Whit
ney offers his suggestion. the Washing
ton Post, noting that in the capital city
turkey is SO cents, butter so cents and
eggs AS cents. and that the people buy
greedily at that price, concludes that a
sucker is born now every second, in
stead of every minute. and says-and
with great good sense and precision:
THE public has the game in its own
hands All it has to do rs 10 say, I'll
not stand the eXtortion.' Then let the
people go home and live on hog and
hominy a week and the game is theirs.
Another thing against the people is
their criminal waste. If they would
save and consume all the foods they
throw into the garbage can. they would
have monopoly by the throat. and soon
there would be re-established the law
of supply and demand
With the remark that we suppose the
Post uses the phrase hog and hominy"
in a dgurative sense, since neither
swine or corn i peculiarly inexpensive
just now. we say amen TO all this,
1t is an ungracious role 10 play. that OF
prophet of evil, but We are willing 20
venture enough along that line u say
that if the eNtravangance II tina.
american people DOESN'T bring them
| woe if persisted in, the lessons Of his
tory will go for nausnt Indeed if we
tory will go for naugnt indeed, II we
in any measure al ali. We must say
that the evil fruits already are with Us
ito some extent, unless We take the po-
sition that price can not be too high,
the higher the better. That, however,
is not likely TO be the doctrine Of even
the greediest, most extravagant and
most dnprovident consumer of Ascent
eggs and 60-cent butter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
Loss on Farm Crops Due to Funo;

Prof. w. A. Orton, in an article on
the Importance of the development of
farm crops resistant to disease, justi-
fies his statements by pointing out that
the present losses from plant disease
are heavy tax upon the farmer. He
states that in the United States alone
the average annual loss from oat smut
is more than s6,500,000; and from loose
smut of wheat, $3.0OO,O0O. and from
blnt, or sinking smut of wheat, more
than $11,000,000. Loose smut annually
diminishes the value of barley $4,000
900, a careful estimate of the loss is
in one state last year placing it as Z
per cent. The combined effect of the
various diseases of fungal origin at
lacking the potato diminish the yield
of this crop over s36,00O,0 900 each year.
The above account shows that an an
nual loss amounting to over $55 ,OOO,-
900 is sustained, due to the injury
caused by fungi to cereals and potatoes
alone.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13

own inclination and ideals, but IL pro-
ducing horses to meet city consumption
he must cater to the fashion of the
market.
The farmer who tries to raise draft
ers of extreme weight that will sell at
$500 to 500 per pair will find great
variation in breeding and the under
sized animals will make elegant farm
chunks. Pairs of horses that can
handle six tons to heavy trucks at a
slow pace are what city customers de-
mand.
All breeds of draft horses have their
champions among the large city trans
portation interests, and all breeds of
draft animals approximate a blocky
type of conforma ton. A stilty horse,
light in the flank, long in the back and
narrow across the loins and chest is
an questionable type. AS the best
type of all breeds of draft horses APP
proach compact conformation tho
farmer should endeavor to breed draft
chunks of compact individuality, and
the more symmetrical the proportions
the higher prices will the offerings
bring.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
THE COMMISSION lmBRosL,o.

IAN interview With Commissioner
Eaton appearing exclusively in the
Times-Republican today and a. state
rnent issued by Mr.. Eaton to a Des
Moines newspaper are interesting read
ing TO the farmers, meat producers and
packers of the state. They deal with
situation serious enough on the face
of it, and suggestive of collusion be-
and the railroads. Mr.. Eaton's signed
statement may be said to fully cover
the commissions side Of the affair. In
it Mr.. Eaton is particularly assertiye
of his own innocence and ignorance of
the furnishing to opposition ATTORNEYS
the information concerning resolutions
which the board had agreed with the
meat producers to keep secret and of
which no open record had been made,
and of his ignorance that copy of
these resolutions had been procured
and placed in the hands of the at
torneys engaged to oppose the content
ion Of the meat producers and the case
wherein the commission had become a
party with the meat producers by its
own action. Along with his explana-
ton Mr.. Eaton announces his determi-
nation not to be a candidate for an
other term on the commission His
statement should be carefully read as
the best defense of the commission.
With all the charges floating of col
+ fusion, dinner parties where commits
sioners have been entertained by rail-
road magnates, and the like, Joined to
i the damage certainly done to the meat
producers case by the leakage in the
office Of the commission which put a
4 secret resolution into the hands it was
by its very secrecy intended to avoid,
there appears no proof of direct col
fusion or of crookedness on the part of
the commission. Bad faith is evident
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
Winter Ration For Hens.

For fifty hens l give one quart of
wheat in the morning, scattered in the
litter. AT IL O'Clock they get one
quart of wheat, barley or oats. The
last feed at night is two quarts of
cracked corn. Fresh water is given
three times a day during the winter
Charcoal, grit, oyster shell and dry
cracked bone are within reach at all
times. A half peck of green stuff
such as turnips, cabbage or beets, is
given every day or two. In a trough
with Slated front they have free ac-
cess ito a mixture of dry ground grains.
This mixture is composed of 200 pounds
of wheat bran and 100 pounds each of
corn meal, middling, gluten meal and
beef scraps thoroughly mixed together
Our fowls are harder and we do not
lose as many as when we feed meat
ration as wet mash. They mott
quicker and the pullets come to laying
sooner.-Journal of Agriculture.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
THE MOVING PICTURE MANS CHANCE

OF late there is much complaint over
the character of the moving picture
SHOW The complaint is made of the
character OF the pictures and the char
acter of the pictures is the character
of the show. Ii is objected to upon the
itlstifiable grounds that most of its
films are either silly or degenerative in
their effect upon children. Scenes of
burglaries. chase after thieves, or
bandits with plenty OF mauling and
shooting at the finish are not educat-
i've in the right direction.
All this gives the man who wishes to
fill a need and supply a demand his
chance to win approval and make
money 1T is useless to say the people
will not go to see the better class of
films. This is disproved at every chau-
rauaua session where the moving pic
ture show often draws more people Of
an evening than a well known second
class orator. People will come. They
stay away and keep their children
away because the moving picture men
and the film makers are making pic
and the slums of other big cities and
not for the smaller towns and minor
cities where the picture show must de-
pend upon higher class clientele.
When some film maker shows the
departure Of an ocean liner, the living
pictures of the steerage with it's packed
crowd of raw material to be "assimil-
ated,' the ocean sports of the cabin
passengers and all the interesting fea-
lures of a voyage across the Atlantick
when he hurries to put upon the films
the history which is making daily and
hurries his films out to a clientele of
nickel theater proprietors, who are
seeking the up-to- date and cleanly,
both the film maker and his patron will
be pleasingly astonished by an in
creased patronage of the highest char
acter. The moving picture show may
make itself as necessary to this gener-
alton as the newspaper, it may become
part of educative processes and of
the advancement of the age in general
knowledge. Years ago some district
school directors We're cheated into buy
! ing a set of Biographies and the stere-
| oscope which went with the set They
felt the hand Of resentful district
but it was one Of the best purchases
ever made if the teachers had known
how to teach geography and to apply
the pictures to their teaching. Just so
the moving picture show may be VAL
liable adjunct to the history made
yesterday and the day before.
Ut must do something pretty soon.
] The complaint over the character of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
PAYNE,s PLAIN TALK.
Nevada RenresentatiyaI

|
Ofhciai integrity ought not TO he a
party question or a political question.
II there is anything in the interior de-
paflment to stigate-and by the
request of Secretary Ballinger for an
investigation 1t is confessed that there
is-then the investigation should he
genuine and thorough And if it is to be
such then there should be no finessing
over the creation of the investigating
committee. There should if possible,
be an agreement upon it's membership
and in any event there should be no
presumption in the public mind that
the committee is TO develop anything
put facts President Taft may be-we
thlnk ls-too much involved in the
Balllnger business to back out: bur the
republican majority in congress is not
yet SO involved, and it ought not to be-
come so.
"A tlnge almost of burlesque is given
10 the whole muss by the circumstance
mat the day of the removal of Pinchot
ana hence OF the precipitation of the
whole row was the day on which Pres
iueht Ia1t communicated to congress
ms ions advertised special message on
.tuses ana interstate commerce. What
atlehtlon this message might have
COMMANDED from the country if it had
oeen afforded fair chance, we can
hot say; but it has not had any chance
al all. The presidents chief recon-
mendatlons were for commerce court
or circuit judges specially assigned to
duty therein and for a national moor
pofallon law. The former of these
propositions was thrasbed ont ,vbi1a
the rate bill was under consideration
'ne conclusion was adverse, and
ms iaeeer proposition is with the pres
ueit So lresh that it was not brought
pupiic attention in his recent tour
" Tue country when he was supposed
~ Ne giving the people full exposition
u ms olans. 1t would take consider
auie STUDY Tor people to figure out inst
"iial would be the probable effect of
sach law. and at best there might
nave peen anticipated trouble for the
piesioehts schemes; but by precipitat
ihs the Plnchot- Ballinger row at the
very moment when he was subnittinp
MS message the president has M
cnahce at all. Attention has heen di-
rected wholly toward the row and +ba
message has had nothing more than
perIunctory consideration from anv-
pody and that much only from !. fa,,,
III anyone but the president had dona
dHylnlng so to obscure the message
WHICH is supposed to enbodv h;s ,,nst
mature conclusions upon most on
eIossihe pubic questions, such obdur-
oh woulo nave been AN insult. hut
"neh 'he president himself let's 60 Of
,n1,;t .,ssaase ana at the same moment
nrs , 81 'iie country to become spectat-
ba $500 d poiltical dog fight. there may
sor os raa Ior amazement, but none
~. .,,a mo'est; The inevitable results. and
'he dog fight has the floor. -''
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
THE LODGES !, !,
MASONIC NOTICES.

4 MASONIC NOTICES.
w Visitors always welcome.
wv Hall over 105-107 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE, 1oS, A. f. &
A. M.-Regular communication Friday
evening, Jan. IA, at 1880 p. m.
r. ". Chamberlain, W. M.
H. S. Lawrence, Secretary,
SIGNET CHAPTER No. SO, r. A. NJ.
Stated convocation monday. Jan. II,
1880.
George H. Bcggie, g.. H. P.
I. S. Willard, Secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL, r. & S.
M.-Stated assembly Monday, Jan. II,
1870 p. m.
A. d. Meeker, T. I. M.
L 7. Forbes, Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR COMMANDERY No.
80, K. T.-Stated conclave Tuesday ev-
enfng. Jan. 10, 1910. Visiting Sir
Knights always welcome.
F. NJ. Wilbur, E. @.
Fred Wallace, Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER. No. 81, o. b.
SHEETS in regular session Wednes-
day evening, Feb. 16, at 1880.
Mrs. George Downing, w. M.
Edna c. F'ularton, Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
Owls for Orchards

The fruit growers Of New Zealand
after long raclIing their brains in vain
TO find some way of getting rid of the
small bird pest. recently thought of
trying owls. says the Sydney Mail. A
hundred small German owls were or
dered from Europe and part of the
order was delivered last September.
The owls We're liberated in the fruit
growing districts and immediately
proved a wonderful success They
killed Waxeyes, finches, green linnets
thrushes, blackbirds and sparrows; also
mice, rats and young rabbits They
fec their young on caterpillars, grubs
and beetles, and their only fault seemed
to be an occasional fondness for
barnyard chicken.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
Shocking the Chauffeur.

II used to think 1t was bad enough
in Paris" the woman began. where
the cabbies swear at you if they come
within an ace Of running over you
and don't, but it's just as bad here.
You know Monday night, how it
rained? Well, was crossing Forty.
second street. or trying to cross it
and hold my umbrella at one and the
same time, when the wind blew me
against an automobile that was turn
ing the corner. never saw anything
like the glare of the driver.
"Why don't you keep. your ewes
about your" he shrieked "Youl nearly
stopped my machine!"- York
Press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
Iona Newspapers
sNEAKING INTO HEAVEN
[Vinton Times.

Al a recent Sunday morning service,
a Ninton pastor disclosed the astound-
ing fact. that nearly 200 of the enrolled
members had failed to keep their prom
ises of paying the church expenses and
that another leading church had nearly
100 delinquent members on its list This
looks whole lot as tho some folks
are trying to get into heaven without
paying any admission fee. They are
probably figuring in climbing over the
fence when no one is looking. or expect
to get by ST. Peter when that noble
gate keeper has his back turned.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13

from Eaton's statements, hut it seems
to have been the result os weakness
rather than intent. Some one talked too
much to lawyers or their clients and in
so doing seems to have dropped secrets
which the board was in honor and by
agreement bound to keep.
With the evidence before the state
the conclusion may justly be arrived at
that the commission has made itself
ridiculous. First it appears as inter-
venor and becomes party to a suit
to lower rates on hogs and cattle. Then
it backs out of that position, passes a
resolution not of record definding its
attitude half for and half against. A
member allows himself to be turned in
side out and this resolution is secured
and made part of a pleading, thus put
ting the commission in the peculiar
situation of a man astride rail.
Eaton knew nothing of this until it
came, to his surprise, in the pleading.
1t is stated by member of the COM
mission that Palmer as chairman sign
ed up for the intervention of the board
without the knowledge of the board
and this member also asserts that Pal
mer did not know or understand pre-
cisely what he was signing, indeed
considered it "perfunctory'' matter.
Here Were two very important pro-
ceedings that do not seem to have had
the combined judgment of the board.
Then when the pleading set the board
astradtlle it passed more resolutions.
And there you are, and there the board
is
Moreover the board appears to have
been between TWO fires. The meat pro-
ducters on one side and the packers
and transportation lines on another. In
the settlement of rates the packer is 10
be considered equally with other inter-
ests and the transportation lines equal
ly with all. Justice and equality, a just
balance between interests naturally and
irrespressibly opposed and as naturally
mutual are to be done. There is certain
TO be much pulling and hauling. 1t
would have been well had the lawyer
member been consulted and had David
Palmer not assumed in his perfume
tory fashion to put the commission
into a hole. 1t would have saved the
commission the necessity of attempting
10 crawl in and pull the hole after it.
would be we'll for the meat producers
to ponder Well over the rates on hogs.
These rates should be arranged to the
advantage of the Iowa producers but
not to the destruction of the Iowa
packer Whether or not the Iowa rate
may be further lowered in equal justice
TO all opposed interests is a question
for investigation. If so it should be
done If not it should not be done. The
Iowa packing houses are certainly
| barrier against complete domination by
the big packers, if they are conducted
on the square.
1t is probable that the commission
| inabroglio will end in the conclusion
that the most nearly sustained charge
against the board is that of weakness.
1t has done ridiculous thing for
board selected for intelligence, capacity
and probity to do. Perhaps it has also
emphasized the demand for bigger men
on the railroad commission.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-13
Cuts Of Beef and Their Uses.

AS an example Of teaching, the way
OF showing the various cuts in beef
animal may be TAKEN the numbers re-
ferring to the diagram:
(1) head; (23 sticking piece, soups
and stews; (S) neck. soups, stews. beef
tea and sin1mering; a. second and
third chucks, pot roast, braising and
cheaper roasts; go plate Ono bones),
steWs and soups; (10) brisket, stews,
pot roasts and soups; CID butt end of
brisket, soups and stews; (12) bolar Ono
bones) cheaper rOasts and pot rdasts;
! (13) bony end of shoulder, soups; (14)