Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-05
Local Comment
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES .S.a1..S:

In considering the creamery propo-
sition this week The mana cement OF the
Marshalltown Club has learned that
the serious problem in creamery organ
ization IS not the raising of sufficient
capital with which 10 build but the
contracting with farmers who will milk
cows enough TO make the business pay.
A first class craa nlery. with pasteuriz-
ing equipment and complete ice cream
factory can be built in Marshalltown
for $4,000 or $1,000 and VIII easily pay
out 100000 10 s150.000 annually TO the
men who milk The cows on an in
vestm ent in buildings and machinery
Of less than 10 per cent Of what II
would require 10 build first class fac
tory in other linss i VIII pay out in
cash TO the community sums equal TO
the best factor pay roll in the city
But on 500 cows IL VIII De loser to
investors: on 1000 COWS II Will pay
only small profits while on 1900 10
1000 cows, il will prove a small sized
gold mine for the stockholders. Mar
shalltown can have a creamery Of the
latter class if It's club viii put man
in the field % contract for the cows
The capital viii be ready and asking
for admission when the cow contracts
are made. What farmer will come
forward ana offer to give the enter
prise a boost:
Marshalltown should fill the Odeon
next Monday night when Attorney
General Byers addresses the short
course gathering On Law Enforce
ment' Byers is one of the big men.
politically, in Iowa, running mate for
Senator Cummins. He has dignid ed
the office Of attorney general in this
state by his vigor in enforcing the laws
of the state and he has been the means
of creating new statutes for the more
effective enforcement of law thru his
office. The so-caued Cosson bills, in
Guiding the removal law and others,
were prepared under his direction and
passed at his request. Attorney Cen
eral Byers is al present running for the
republican nomination for congress in
the Council Bluffs district as an in
surgent and if he succeeds in going to
congress will become a figure Of ma
tional prominence. The people Of this
town will be well repaid for turning
out to hear him.
Retail meat dealers in MarshalItown
all agree in the assertion that if peo-
pie knew how to use meat they would
net &c 55--aac=ea 18th the cost of living
The average of their trade, they say
buy one or two cuts only. Hundreds
order steak, steak, steak, three times q
day turnout the week, while Others
know nothing about meat except to Or
der "a roast" There are dozens OF
other cuts which cook up into the most
wholesome and appetizing meals by
those who understand them and cos,
from half to one-third the price per
pound of the choice cuts. Meat dealers
say that their high priced cuts are in
greater demand than they can supply
and at the same time sell the cheal
cuts which must always go in exact
proportion as they come in the carcass
What is needed thruout the country
rs much as trust probes is some edu-
cation as to the great value and over
looked economy in the cheaper cuts OF
al meats. We need a cooking school ir
AL Of our public schools whereby the
next generation of working mems
wives may know as much about meat
and other cooking science as they d.
about algebra and rhetoric.
One restaurant keeper in this cit,
Aotarted to keep COWS to supply tn,
needs Of his business and now he il
fenlaxg1ng his herd for pront. the poin
Il that wage working people who ar,
eompIAining about the cost Of livfnt
80 buyin9 his product instead of sup
Dly1ne other restaurants with mill
from their own cows.
3he city OF Davenport mas recent!
~ SEXUAL contracts for concrete paw
1 ~ q sL27 and $1-3e per yard In CON