Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-19
Looker-On In Iona

In tho lsrgsr towns in Minnesota.
especially st. Paul and Minneapolis,
are FOUND meat markets where re-
frigerator system Is Installed, operated
much as artificial Ice is manufactured.
which enables the market man to
keep all meats under glass. The
counter has heavy glass top and the
cut meats are In full sight of the GUS
toner. Talking with an Eldora mar
ket man about It, the writer was told
this dealer was investigating the plan.
and found II would take. say $1,000, TO
put IN such plant and about SO cents
day to run 1t. As hts expense for ice
at present is less he has postponed ac-
ton. The condition Of affairs con-
corning meat prices there Is n puzzle
to many consumers. In the columns OF
the st. Paul dailies many dealers ad-
verttse and sell many cuts Of beef,
pork. and mutton way below what
some country butchers ask for the
same cuts. AS in Iowa the consumer
seems to have to pay for telephones.
delivery high rents and high priced
labor. The Texas Cattlemen's Associa-
ton have appointed "a committee to
find out why the consumer pays 800
per cent more for beef than the farmer
gets.
The gravel pits at Clifford are still
being worked. There is a greater de-
mand for sand just now than can be
supplied as needed Men who bought
this land for s. to S. an acre have sold
it as high as 500 an acre North of
strip of ground dug out so many
inches in diameter have sprung up and
now nearly cover the ground.
At Steamboat Rock the beet sugar
company have built an office and put
in platform scales and dump. getting
ready for the harvest close at hand.
Everything points to this place and
vicinity making beet raising perma-
rent and profitable part of Iowa farm
ing Three hundred acres were planted
this year, The yield VIII avera ge near
ten tons to the acre and the price paid
by the company is s. per ton If a
farmer contracts to put in fifteen acres
he has To do all of the work of cultiva-
ton. II over fifteen acres the corn
pany sends families to attend the
crop after il is planted and so much
is charged against the grower and
deducted from the s. per ton. Like
raising potatoes there is "a heap of
work III raising sugar beets. Come
to think of it there is to any kind of
business that pays profit.
The new law concerning cream buy
ers Is working many changes in many
towns It was becoming quite gen.
eral practice for storekeepers to buy
cream as we'll as butter or eggs. and
on the face Of il, 1t would seem az tho
a buyer had a constitutions! right 10
pay what he pleased for cream as well
as butter and eggs. Furthermore. II he
saw fit to pay one price to one farmer
and 20 per cent more TO another. whose
business was it? Nobody ever kicked
because John Jones & Company paid
Mrs Smith more for her butter than
they raid Mrs. Thompson. Exception.
The latter got "hoppin' mad" II she
found 1t out. OF course John Jones &
Company. when Mrs. Smith traded it
out" did not cut prices or push ss-cent
bargains. The new law FIGURING Ii
cense fee for all buyers. and making 1t
Illegal TO pay more to ore farmer than
another for the same test, so the writer
is told. as well as making false tests
working we'll and giving general sat
isfaction There is talk OF the need Of
more enforcement. SO IT is in the
working Of the pure food law concern
ing eggs Seventy convictions have
already beer made. and seventy far
mers found out by expensive expe--
fence /, no longer pays to rob the sit
ting hens just before trip to town.
Merchants especially. feel good over
these prosecutions for selling bad eggs.
Heretofore when the consumer report
ed bad eggs, the storekeeper had 70
make them good In the way of more
eggs or hand back the money Now
after said merchant Is convinced he
was deliberately imposed upon by the
farmer ne drops line to Commission
e- Barney, and the state Of Iowa does
the rest.
This year farmers say II takes about
TWENTY-FIVE acres OF corn to an the or
binary silo. representing a cost Of say
$500. One man near Grinneil is feed
ing twenty-three cows and sells his
milk from all these cows to one res
taurant firm. He claims he Will pay
the cost of his silo in two years. An
other farmer says one profitable feat
ure of the silo is that all weeds. and