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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-12-17
DENISON FIRM
BUYS CHICKENS
Nicholson Produce Company Purchas-
es 44660 Pounds Of Poultry at
Logan, Paying $4,000 for 1t.
10000 POUNDS IN ONE CAR LOAD
From December First to Sixth Logan
Merchants Gather Chickens by
the Car Load.

Who said chickens? We say chick
, ems came to town pretty lively the
first of the month. From December
first to sixth inclusive there was
bought in Logan and shipped from
this point 24660 pounds of live poul-
try in coops and one 10000 pound car
additional, making total of 1860
pounds live weight of the teathered
live stock. If each chicken weighed
four pounds the total number would
have been 11165, but probably not all
weighed that much and it is quite
likely that four pounds would have
been fair average, counting geese,
etc., that were shipped so that 1000
would not be far from the actual num-
Der handled here. All Of this great
lot of poultry went to Nicholson & Co.
at Denison We have not investigat-
ed as to whether there are any chick
ems left in the country or not, but
would suppose there are some. You
can easily figure that quite sum of
money was paid out for this amount
OF poultry Hens brought 11hc a
pound, and the total paid for the A.
$50 pounds if all were hens would be
.v,135.90, but even if the highest price
was not paid for ali the income would
have been something over $4,000 un-
doubtedly to the producers of poul-
try in this trade territory. The hen
pays her way all right on the Iowa
farm.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-12-17
TO HELP THE
:tF Arm WOMEN
The Secretary Of Agriculture Recon-
mends That Some Federal
Action Be Taken.
OFFERS A FEW SUGGESTIONS
Says Work Should Be Made Easier
and Sanitary Conditions Should
Also Be Improved.

Washington, Dec. 12-The depart
ment of agriculture is trying to do
something to improve the condition
of the woman on the farm. Secre-
tary Houston's annual report tells of
letters of inquiry addressed to the
women on $4,000 selected farms COW
ering every county. Other surveys
and studies also were conducted.
Analysis of the small part of the
letters as yet digested shows that
farm women desire assistance in all
phases of home management, espe-
cially as to ways of securing running
water, introducing household power
machinery and labor saving arrange
ments and providing better hygienic
and sanitary conditions. Many seek
advice as to the better marketing of
the articles they produce. Others ask
the department to prove to the man
that their work is worth something
in dollars and cents.
Housework the Problem.
The overwork of women and chill
dren and difficulty of getting domestic
help are mentioned by many writer's.
The department believes that intellt.
gent help to women in matters of
home management will contribute di-
rectly to the success of the farm. 1t
purposes, therefore, to ask congress
for money and authority to make more
complete studies of domestic condi-
tons on the farm, to experiment with
labor saving devices and methods and
to study completely the question of
practical sanitation and hygienic pro-
lection for the farm family.
Reorganization of the department of
agriculture is foreshadowed in the
report. A plan to be submitted to
congress in the fiscal estimates for
1916 proposes to carry out the work
of the department in five or six main
groups, such as research, state rela-
tons, rural organization, forest serv-
ice, weather and regulation. Such a
plan, Secretary Houston believes, will
promote coordination.
Free distribution of seeds by con-
gressmen should be discontinued, the
secretary recommends.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-12-17

foods are expensive and others are
cheap. They say that some foods are
filling, while others have no substance
to them. Some foods are richer than
others. But as to just why these
things are, very few women can give
any reason. Generally the buying of
food in family settles down to get
ting those things which the farmer
likes best, but which do not cost too
much. This method of procedure
really does fairly we'll, but it does not
fit the case exactly.
The New YORK extention depart
ment at Ithaca, has published a series
OF bulletins on the cost of food. Here
are some things we have cleaned from
it, which not only the city man and
his wife should know, but the farm
Ter and his wife as we'll:
Corn meal furnishes energy cheaper
than any other food. 1t would be-
hoove the canny housewife, therefore
to feed corn bread and mush to her
family as much as possible. Let her
take care, however, that the family
does not get tired of it.
After the corn meal-oat meal, po-
tatoes and sugar furnish energy cheap
err than other foods. Then comes
bread. 1t would seem wise to use
these foods as far as possible in con-
nection with corn meal as sources Of
energy.
Eggs, fruit and the higher priced
cuts of meat are the most expensive
sources of energy. What costs ten
cents in corn meal costs a dollar in
round of beef, and two dollars in ap-
pies and oranges.
On the farm, milk, everything con-
sidered, is the cheapest and the best
source OF muscle building material.
Cheese and cheaper cuts Of meat are
almost as good. Corn meal and oat
meal furnish muscle building material
even more cheaply than milk, cheese,
or meat, but it is kind of muscle
builder which is more difficult for the
body to digest, and@which does not
do the body so much good when it is
digested.
The body must have energy giving
material so that it may move around,
and muscle building material so that
it may be kept in repair. In addition,
it must also have small amounts of
bone building material, such as lime,
iron, etc. These mater
ials are furnished far more cheaply
by milk than by any other food. Next
come cheese, oat meal and beans.
In feeding human beings, palatabil-
ity must always be given first consid-
Grafton. In meeting this requirement
the good housewife is governed more
by the method of cooking than by the
used. Proper cooking can
make the cheapest cuts of meat fit
for king. 1t can make out of corn
meal product which, while cheaper
than almost any other food known,
must be ranked as one of the delica-
cies.
Lest it may have been thought from
the foregoing that we would exclude
fruits from the dietary on account
of their high cost, we wish to say that
the fruits by all means should be in
cluded, and in liberal amounts. They
are great help because of their pal
liability, and more than this they
furnish certain bone building materials
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-12-17

Hence at Christmas, the stock being
bigger than ever, it is felt that more
than ever can and must be spent in
advertising, without exceeding the
normal proportion for this form of sal
es expense. Hence it is that all news
papers are crowded with Christmas
sales notices. ...,.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-12-17
THE.NAN and
HIS FRAILTIES
We Follow Out Lot Of Old Customs
Simply Because We Do Not
Know Any Better.
ARE JUST CREATURES OF HABIT
Thoughts From WaIIaces' Farmer on
How to Cut Down the House.
hold Expenses.
Are we creatures of habit?

Are we creatures of habit?
Are we following out a lot of old
customs simply because we do not
know any better?
Are we eating high priced things
when low priced things would be bet
ter!
Are we" wasting our substance in
riotous living without knowing it?
Read the following from Wallace's
Farmer. and note particularly that
Wallace says the bodily energy con-
tanned in ten cents worth of corn
meal is more than can be found in a
dollars worth of beef steak or two
dollars worth OF apples and oranges.
He says:
Hundreds of letters come to us
every year asking some such question
as the following:
81 have 100 ffty-pound shotes, run
ming on blue grass pasture Corn is
50 cents bushel, oats IS cents. tank
age $s.40 per hundred, middlings $1.5O
per hundred. oil meal SLIGO, and bran
$1.10. What shall feed these shotes
to get the cheapest and latest gains?
Strange to say, we don't get and
so far as we know, neither does any
other institution get, such an inquiry
as the following:
81 have 160-pound man working
hard in the field all day Roast beef
(chuck) is 10 cents a pound, round
of beef 20 cents, a pound, eggs Is
cents Dozen milk 8 cents a quart,
butter 80 cents pound, corn meal So
a hundred, oat meal Sc a hundred,
shredded wheat IS cents pound,
wheat bread cents pound, potatoes
/ cent a pound. What is the cheapest
ration that | can feed my man so
that he will be pleased with his wife's
cooking, and will be able to do his
work happily and well?"
Such an inquiry would be practical.
There seems to be something in femi-
nine nature. however which objects to
examining into things too closely.
1t is rare woman who will sit down
and seriously consider what combin-
alton OF foods will feed her family in
the best and cheapest way All wo-
men have vague idea that some
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-12-17

Under modern systems of efficiency,
the cost of advertising is reckoned as
necessary part Of the expense of
selling goods. The merchant no more
thinks of stopping it than he does of
turning off his sales people.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-12-17
iowa CROP BEATS
One OF. YEAR ago
Value Of 1918 Crop Far in Excess
of Other Years in History
Of State.
POTATOES AFFECTED By DRoUTH
Only Yield in Entire State That Was
Seriously Affected by Weather
Was That of the Potato.

The annual crop report for Iowa
was made public today by DR.. George
NJ Chappell, director of the Iowa crop
terial gain over last year in the ag.
gregate value of all Iowa crops, and
also that the total value is greater
than that of any year in the history
of the state.
The complete report as made by
the section director shows the total
value of all crops, December /, 1929,
443,437 as against $392,42O,66S.
The report follows:
In spite of many adverse conditions
that prevailed during the season, Iowa
has produced a full average crop of
all soil products, except potatoes, and
the value of the years output is far
in excess of any other year in the
history Of the state.
Corn-The average yield per acre
for the state is 34.9 bushels, making
a total yield of 329.343.OOO bushels,
or 92,O25,000 less than last year But
the total value of the crop exceeds
that of last year by $42,612,756. The
average price per bushel at the near
est station on December l was SO
cents, making the aggregate value
$194,311, 800 The condition of the crop
is fully up to the average and practic-
ally all of it has been harvested.
Oats-Area harvested was 1921 400
acres; average yield, 94.2 bushels per
acre; total yield, 164.S51. 900; aggre-
gate value at "a cents per bushel,
$56,O49,34O. Last year the average
yield was 44.4 bushels per acre; total
yield, 2O6,949,7OO bushels; average
price q cents; total value, $55,S76,419.
Spring wheat-Area harvested, 1865,
300 acres; average yield, ISL bushels
per acre; total yield, $50, 200 bushels;
price per bushel, IS cents; total value,
$4,132,6
Winter wheat-Area harvested sos,
740 acres; average yield per acre, 23.1
bushels; total yield, 11,693,9OO; aver
age price, II cents per bushel; total
value, $9,O04,3O3.
Barley-Average per acre, 23.S bush
els per acre; total yield, 8,756,3OO
bushels; average price, So cents, total
Rye-Average yield, 1873 bushels an
acre; total crop, 1,274,5OO bushels;
farm price, SO cents; total value, 81,
640,S39.
Flax Seed-Average per acre, 100
bushels; total product, 223,490 bush
els; total value at $1.36 per bushel,
$3O3,946.
Potatoes-Average yield per acre,
ALB bushels; total yield, $685. ITO
bushels; total value at S5 cents per
bushel, $4,702,344.
Hay me)-average yield Is TONS
total yield, 100000 tons; average
price, 1898; total value, $39,S22,279.
Hay (wild)-average yield, 1,3 tons;
total yield, 91O,205 tons; average price
$3.50; total value, $S,009,SO4.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-12-17

No class of goods is so transient and
tickle as holiday material If stock
is carried over until another Deem
Der, style changes may make big
sacrifice necessary. Onr advertising
columns will help you to clean it up
while the sales pay profit.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-12-17

which the body can use to great advan-
tage. Fruits help keep the digestive
system in shape.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-05-24
GIVEN $3.50
FOR LOST EYE
jsseph Ulman Gets Verdict
Against Roosevelt Plant

For the total loss of his left eye
and for a fracture Of his right Jaw
bone, Joseph Ulman, formerly an
employe of the United States Metal
Refining Company, of Roosevelt,
was given judgment for S2,520, or
$3.50 for 400 weeks in the court of
common pleas at New Brunswick
yeterday. Mr., Ulman was repre-
sented by Thomas Brown. The
money will be paid In a lump sum.
In April, 1912, Ulman while work
ing at blast furnace at the metals
company, received his injuries. A
workman passed by his furnace and
threw some cold water into a bed of
molten metal, which caused an ex-
plosion, which totally destroyed Ul-
mans eye and caused the fractured
jaw bone. The company paid him
one-half of his wages until he was
able to be about, when they cut off
this revenue. Mr.. Brown was then
retained by the workman to bring
suit against the company.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-05-24
GYPS|ES MAKE
A QUICK LEAVE
Not One Camp to be Found
on This Section of the
County Today
RESULT OF THE ARRESTS
Police Claim Fortune Telling
is Simply Means of Extort-
ing from SuperstItIous
RESULT OF THE ARRESTS

AS the result OF prosecution of
two gypsies here this week there Is
not Gypsy camp anywhere in this
end Of the county, according to Chief
of Police Patrick J. Burke. The au-
thorities are pleased with the effect
this case had, contending that for
tune telling should not be permitted
because 1t WAS simply means OF ex-
torting money from the poorer class
es, which include many superstitious
people.
Following the arrest and prosecu-
tion OF Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Towns
ley two Scotch Gypsies, on the tech
nical charge of disorderly conduct,
but in reality for practicing criminal
abortion. DR.. William e. Ramsay ex-
pressed pleasure that they had left
the city for other parts. He said the
crusade would be continued against
all other quacks who would venture
to these parts and maintained that
Gypsies and all others who tell for
tunes for money, should not be per-
mitted in the county. He hailed the
extortion methods as criminal, es-
pecfally so because they effected
mostly the poorer classes.
Chief Of Police Burke spoke In a
similar way concerning Gypsy for
tune tellers. He declared they should
not be allowed to erect their camps
anywhere in the county, and was
proud to state that the morning af-
ter the Townsleys had been fined $50
each for telling fortunes, there was
not Gypsy camp in this end of the
county.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-05-24
State ltilitv Board Hands Down
Decision Today Cops andFiremen
Carried Gratis When on Dutv
UNIFORMS ARE NOT REQUIRED

I'VE won because we were right
said Chief of Police Patrick j. Burke
this morning after having heard of
the decision handed down by the
Board of Utility Commissioners yes
terday, whereby the policemen an
fremen of Perth Amboy are permit
ted to ride free on the Public Service
trolley cars within the city's limits
whether in uniform or not The new
order will go in effect June 12. The
matter has been pending a long time.
but the first recent action taken was
when Joseph e. Stricken filed a COM
plant against the trolley company
for the city of Perth Amboy, charg-
ing that the company was violating
the franchise of the city in reference
to the free transportation of police
men. The flremen are also glad that
the matter has been settled. Chief
Burke went to the office of Mr..
Stricker today and grasping his hand
said you have won great fight for
us. / thank you on behalf of my
self and the members of the Perth
Amboy Police force"
The trolley company fought the
contention of the city on the uncon-
stitutionality of the act of the legis-
lature OF 1911, providing for the free
transportation of uniformed police
men, the legality of which is still
pending in the courts. But Mr..
Stricker fought on the grounds that
the city's ordinances compel the troll
ley company to carry officers free
while on duty whether uniformed or
not, on which the board rendered 8
favorable opinion yesterday.
Part of the opinion handed down
by the commissioners reads: "An
officer regularly assigned to day
patrol may fairly be regarded as not
on duty when he has returned home,
and we do not see that unless he Is
especially summoned for special SER
vice, such an officer is entitled under
/ the ordinances to free carriage there
| after on that day, nor until he is re-
porting for regular work on the fol-
/ lowing day"
The opinion suggests that the
showing of police badge would
serve to identify an officer by the
trolley men.
The opinion is construed by M.
Stricken to mean that even If an of
ficer has gone home from his turn
at post If he be summoned by any
one in his official capacity that he
would then be entitled to free trans
portation, and that even after he has
returned home, If he decides that
from some information that he can
locate a violator of the law that he
has perfect right to use the trolleys
in so doing.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-05-24
BADLY INJURED
BY AUTOMOBILE
Herbert kroegsr of the West
minister Run Down In
Lower KearnY Ave.
AUTO OF W. R. VOORHEES,
Goiaq to Assembly Dance
When Struck Umbrella
ObscHred view Of Ap-
preaching Car
AUTO OF w. R. VOORHEES,

While on his way to the assem- bly,
dance at Goodwill hall last night,
Herbert Kroeger, of the Westmin-
ster. Just after leaving the curb to
cross Kearny avenue near his home,
was run over by an automobile, and
Is confined to his bed today with sin
juries that may prove critical No
bones were fractured, but he has
severe bruises and contusions, and
1t Is feared that he Is injured severe
ly internally. The automobile was
driven and owned by Wilson R. Voor-
hees, proprietor of the Voorhees, gar
age.
Kroeger. who is about twenty-five
years of age, had Just left the curb
on the Westminster side of Kearny
avenue, when he was struck by the
machine. He had an umbrella to
shield him from the downpour of
rain. and 1t partially eclipsed his
view. Mr.. Voorhees,, who was going
to stop his car near the Westminster,
was coming down Kearny avenue Mt
a moderate rate of speed. The night
WAS dark, and the trees obscured the
rays OF the electric lights. Before he
saw the young man he felt his ma
chaine strike something, when he i'm
mediately shut of the controller, but
not before Kroeger had been knocked
down and the rgtht wheels of the
vehicle passed over his body. Mr..
Voorhees, helped him into his auto
mobile and removed him to his homo
where Or. George W. Fithian attend
ed the victim.
The young man has contusions on
his right knee and is badly bruised
on the lower part OF his body, which
will not prove serious. The only ap-
prehension is az to his internal in
1uries that might have been caused
One OF the young mans sisters, who
Is trained nurse, after having been
notified, arrived here this morning
from Connecticut. 1t was thought at
first the young man was in a critical
condition and word of the accident
was sent her.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-05-24
TROLLEY COMPANIES PROMISE TO
CAREFULLY CONSIDER PETITIONS
!, FOR EXTENSION OF LINES IN CITY
Plans are Talked Over al Conference
with Citv Officials Proposed
Route is Gone Over Later
NORTHWESTERN PEOPL LEHOPEFUL

Representatives of the city, Board
of Trade and Western Improvement
Association were assured by officials
of the Public Service Railway Com
pany and the Jersey Central Trac-
ton Company that the plans sub
mitted to them concerning trolley
extension to the northwestern SEQ
ton of the city and the double track
ing of State and Smith streets,
would be carefully considered as to
their feasibility as a practical prop
oaition for the trolley companies they
represented, and that the Board of
Trade would be notified shortly as
to their decision In the matter at a
conference yesterday afternoon. The
trolley officials were given def
mite understanding as to, what the
residents of the northwestern sec
ton Of the city desire in the line
% trolley facilities.
The Public Service company was
represented by Division Superinten-
dent J. ]. Gettings and Assistant
General Counsel ingalls,, and the
Jersey Central by Division Superin-
tendent ]. r. Brown. The city was
son, Alderman william G. Wilson
and City Attorney c. G. Hommann: !:
the Board of Trade by Directors
Robert l.. Fowler and John Dubois,
Albert Leon, David ]. Kaufman and
Secretary Ivan H. Wise; the West
ern improvement Association by
members of the following committee,
who have charge of the extension of
trolley service to the northwestern
section of the city; NJ. Momberg, E.
Koyen, Rasmus Hanson. A. Zeltman,
PaI Woitscheck, NJ. J. Dinesin
ChrisEian Anderson, L. -Lauritsen and
M. Madsen. Others interested in
1she trolley extension were present.
Mayor Garretson opened the con-
ference and stated that 1t was an
informal meeting for the promoters
OF the trolley extension proposition
to get together and discuss the fea-
sibility of same. He stated that the
members of the Western Improve
ment Association would describe the
course that they desire the new troll
the exact proposed route, which was
ley line to take.
Maps were then produced showing
also shown on blue print that was
brought by Albert Leoen, who ap-
peared in behalf of both the Board
of Trade and the Western Improve
ment Association. The following
route was described as desired by
the residents in the northwestern
section of the city for the proposed
additional trolley service: Begin
ming at Smith street and Fox Hill
road north over the proposed Con-
very place bridge, which 1t is be-
lieved will be constructed over the
Lehigh Valley railroad In the near
future, to Brace avenue, to Amboy
avenue, north to Thomas street, to