Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-05
Told toaT Traveller

E. E. Valentine Of Webster City, re-
mayor BY a mass meeting of 800 or 400
citizens. takes great deal OF pride
in mentioning what this prohibition
town has done in the way Of public
improvements. They built sixty-tive
new residences. They are finishing a
new $4,000 school house, the archi-
| lecture of which other towns will do
we'll to examine before building. A
new $4,000 NJ. E. church has added
much TO the appearance of the town.
Nineteen blocks have been paved dur
ing the past year and the blocks are
laid out twice as long as in Marshall
town. The town has 800 telephone ex-
changes. All in all, with previous I'M
provements, Mr.. Valentine claims a
remarkable growth for a town of it's
size.
Chris Ottosen, of the pure food de-
partment, puts up an ingenius argu-
ment concerning oleomargarine. He
claims that it is really for the best in
tereStS of the poor man. i. e.: the av-
erage consumer, to seep the laws con-
corning coloring as they are at pres
ent. He says unquestionably if oleo
is artificially colored the price will
go up, just what the manufacturers
want. That at present the white oleo
sells for better price than other pro-
Ducts of like nature that receive some
yellow color from cotton seed oil. He
claims if oleo is artificially colored.
not only will the price of cleo go up.
but butter viii go down, therefore the
farmers will make less profit and not
spend as much money with the store
keepers. All Of which is good logic, but
all this to have his oleomargarine col
ored with exactly the same article as
butter.
E. S. Thayer. formerly landlord of
the Long hotel Manson, has gone into
the chicken business on an extensive
scale, on a thirteen acre farm at the
edge of the business part of town. he
has now about 500 White Leghorns
and Rhode Island Reds He says as
egg producers and non-SetterS these
two varieties are ahead of all others
He has been getting 60 cents a dozen
for eggs all winter by sending his eggs
by express to New York City. Another
thing he mentions that will be news to
some, is that his white eggs sold for
60 cents a dozen and brown eggs only
Drought 40 cents in the same market
at the same time. He showed the
writer rooster and two pullets, White
Leshorns, foT which he paid $50. he
has invested. say $500 in buildings and
five acres for the chickens as runs.
During the winter he feeds sprouted
cats and twenty pounds day is half
of their entire feed. He says it pays
to pay big prices for good stock.
There's Blue Leghorn that cost me
s15." Eighty per cent of all his chick
ems are Leghorns. And if it pays to pay
good prices for fancy stock, it also
pays to sell at good prices He has
SCI. and last spring got IS cents
tired merchant down in Connecticut
that keeps 10000 White Leghorns on
one played out farm in the Nutmeg
state, and makes money too. He says
this ole Yankee hos got it down so
fine, that 10000 Leghorns produce 49,
600 each year fed and labor to be de-
Quoted. Mr. Thayer mentions that the
sight of this large number of pure
white birds is worth going miles to see.
The feed is hauled out by the wagon
load. and disappears as fast as wag-
on load of corn to hundred Iowa hogs.
MIR Tiiayer has also a fad for the
Guernsey breed of cows and pointed
out COW he had just shipped in at a
cost that was a hair-raiser. He says
the Guernsey has all of the good quail
ties Of the Jersey and more than dou-
bles the quality of rich milk of the Or
binary Jersey COW. Fortunately for
this chicken enthusiast his wife shares
in his interest in the chicken business.
which strikes some of US old fellows as
more than discounting any suffragette
deal in the United States or England.
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