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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
How to Make $500 Land Pay.
[Grundy Democrat.

A farmer asks. how can we make q
5000 per acre farm in Grundy county
pay interest? There are at least 1000
farmers in this county who can answer
that question from their own expert
ence. Any one of these farmers will
tell the farmer who wants to know
that he must farm right. He must run
q farm on the same basis as a sue
cessful merchant runs his business.
There are merchants in the county
who do business in a building that
costs them $3.50 year. There are
other merchants whose rent is $1,000
The merchant who pays rental OF
$1,000 probably makes a bigger net
profit in the year than the one who
does business in a building that costs
him but $3.50. The business must pay
the rent. 1t does and will pay II II II
is run as II should be. The 5000 farm
will make a profit for the man VINO
owns it and who is on it if 1t is run
as it should be.
One of the thousand Grundy coun-
~ farmers who makes nigh prlced
land make him a profit raises good
grade of livestock. His hogs are not
of the razor back variety and ne takes
care Of them. He milks from ten ia
twenty head of COWS the year round
and none Of them are scrubs. "A COW
that gives a gallon of thin milk day
eats as much as the one that gives
three gallons of a better test Of milk
The one Is a money losing Cow, the
other is money maker. The money
losing COW belongs to the butcher. The
mate to the money making COW be-
longs on the 5000 per acre farm. Two
hundred dollar land will raise a $2l
corn crop each year for the farmer
who knows how to raise corn. Farm
machinery is high. 1t costs more money
now than it did when our land sold foI
$50 an acre because we need more OF
| it. And because the farmer has more
| money invested in farm machinery no"
than he had twenty years ago is goo0
reason why he should take better care
of it. More farm machinery goes te
waste on the average Iowa poor farm
er.s farm because it is left out in the
open when not in use than Is needed tc
| do the farmers business. Machiner,
| that is used a month in the year anc
! is left to stand in the rain and sun tns
other eleven months is as badly dam
aged as if it were in use all OF tne
time. An exposed automobile tire car
ried on a car suffers nearly as mucf
as the tire that is running. Farm ma
\ chinery is affected the same way.
| High priced land accomplishes a
| least one good purpose. 1t Will eitnel
make a good farmer out OF the pool
farmer or it will put him out OF busi
ness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
currant Blight.

Bulletin No. 357 of the New York
agricultural experiment station Gen
eva), announces the failure of sum
mer pruning to control currant cane
blight or currant cane necrosis. For
eight years every cane showing in
jury in parts of currant planta ton
was cut out, the inspections by the
station botanists being frequently and
carefully made. but no diminution of
the disease could be observed, and the
quantity of fruit was lessened on the
treated plants. This disease is prevail
ent in some parts of the Hudson VAL
ley. and the bulletin will be of interest
there principally. tho perhaps not OF
profit except in that it shows what not
to do.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
ors. or by the sheriff of the county.

ors. or by the sheriff Of the county.
So far as the law is concerned there
had been q stringent law against the
carrying of concealed weapons proc
tically from the beginning of govern
ment in Iowa It's penalties were also
severe. But search the dockets of the
state and the cases of fine or impris-
onment for this crime will be aston
ishingly hard to find. The fact is that
whoever cared to do so packed q gun
under the noses of the peace officers.
From the banker to the hold up man
who chose to carry a gun carried it
practically with impunity.
What are we to expect from this
new lawo Surely 1t has been in force
long enough for at least a few illicit
pistol toters to have been picked up
by those charged with enforcement Of
the law and the keeping of the peace.
No person under IA is permitted by
the new law to carry any kind of fire.
arm. This ought TO cut out the youth
full marksman with the 20 rifle, that
CHEEKY child who sprinkles the neigh
borhood with possibilities Of sudden
death. But has it, will 1t?
Decent men who feel that weapon
is needed for protection will take out
permits, some of them. The crook, the
crank. the boy matriculating in the
el; no in.n
pocket without the Formally OF calling
on the authorities. They will keep on
doing 1t go long as the quiescence OF
the peace keepers makes them quasi
partners in the crime that attaches TO
pistol toting.
1t is idle to say that tine police can
not search every man who goes along
the streets" Admitting so much the
officer who knows his business is pref
ty we'll informed as to those who are
likely TO tote pistols and dirks in vi
cious purpose OF youthful bradado.
There isn't occasion for general search.
But that is no reason why a goodly
number of pistol toters should not be
rounded UP.
Old General Joe Hooker expressing
his opinion Of the cavalry service rem
dered him. once wished he might see
a cavalryman who had been killed in
action" The average citizen would be
glad to take note OF even d single ar
rest of pistol roter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10

London, July 1o.-The report that
Ellen Terry. the famous actress, was
separated from her husband, James
Carew, gained wide circulation. but
was denied by her Miss Terry ana
James Carew were married in Pitts
hurgh by a justice Of the peace op
March %. 1907. The marriage was not
made public until early in the follow
ing May, after Miss Terry had sailed
for England. Mr.. Carew had been MisA
Terry's leading man in her American
engagement of that year. Mr.. Carey
is Al years old. Miss Terry Is SO. MISC
Terry had been twice married before
Her first husband was George Fred
erick Watts, the painter. whom she
married when she was very young ano
from whom she was separated soon
afterward In 1868 she was married tc
Charles wardell, an actor. who dteo
some years ago.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
the needed amount for the tools they

the needed amount for the tools they
need.
Now. it has always seemed to me
that if any particular machine would
save me work and get the farm work
along faster and do it perhaps better. l
could not put money to better use than
to buy the desired implement. Let's
look at it in this way, for instance.
We are hiring, say. three hands in hay
ing. paying them 81 a day. Now, If we
had horse fork and hay carrier that
would take the hay from the wagon and
put 1t away back in the barn. we would
not need the third man. That would
save US " every day, besides the work
in the house and the cost of the board.
The money we would pay that third
man would soon come up to the price
of the hay-tools; and after they were
paid for We would have them to use a
good many years. We might say the
same thing about a hay-loader or a
potato digger or any other tool that
would do work quickly
When we came on the farm, about a
quarter Of a century ago, an old man in
our neighborhool was still cutting ali
his grass by hand. paying from $3.50
For good while this same man had his
hay raked by hand. His reason for
doing this was that he thought the hay
was better cut and raked by hand.
There would be more dust, he thought,
in the hay cut and raked by machinery,
and that would affect the health Of the
cows.
1t is all right, Of course. to look out
III, ~. -,
matter of fact, it was simply notion
that hand-cut hay was a bit better
than that harvested by machinery. Blu.
the thing that drove this good old man
to farm machinery was the advanced
cost Of farm labor. 1t cost him good
deal more to get his having done the
old way, and by watching other farm
ers who used machinery and asking
some questions he learned that he was
standing in his own light and really
wasting money.
What that man did every man does
who does not have the needed machin-
cry to do work economically and In
season One of the first tools we got
was drop reaper. We realized that
that simple machine could cut grain a.
a rate that we never had been able to
do It with a cradle. And that reaper
did save us more money and hard work
than any tool Of similar cost we ever
had. 1t spoiled us as Graders into the
bargain. 1t Is the hardest kind OF work
now to cradle one swath around a
| field 10 make it ready for the binder.
But the binder beats the drop reaper
all hollow. With that, two or three
men can do in half day what it would
take a dozen men days to do the. old
way
So when we come face to face with
this question I feel that If we can be
sure that there is to be saving in
| time and labor we can not afford to be
without the machine which will help
us to do it. If $50 put into power
saw will enable us to cut more wood in
day than we could the old way in
| week, and do it SO much easier, then
think we had better get the saw.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
Can We Afford It?

Every year We come face to face with
the question, "Shall we get this or that
piece Of farm ma chinery?" writes E. L.
Vincent in farm publication. And 1t
is quite serious problem with good
many what to do about it. They may
not have the money they feel that they
can put into these machines, and they
do not want to get in debt for them.
So they try to work along another
year." hoping that by that time they
will be Ia better position to invest
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
BETTER THAN EVER
Huntington Hawk-Eye.1

The good folk at the state coiiegs at
Ames now speak Of reaching 100000
Iowans this year. 1t is grand idea,
that of taking the college to the people
II the people can not come to tine col
lege. They have something Of the kind
in some of the countries OF the old
world. II is making marvellous pro-
gress, for not more than twenty years
ago the Iowa college was looked upon
by many Iowans and especially by the
farmers. who would have none OF 1t.
Whisl again demonstrates how the
dear old world is growing better and
wiser all the time, for now the farmers
trun out Ell :::asse when an Ames man
is to speak or demonstrate something
In the neighborhood. and Ames IL now
reaching 5Se,e29 lowanss We are ap-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
AS TO PENs1oNING "REBs."

webster City Freeman Tribune.]
1t was suggested at the Gettysburg
reunion that a pension should be paid
by the United States government to
needy confederate soldiers. Tha, senti-
ment is fine if intended TO show that
the animosities engendered by the war
are obliterated, but it would be wrong
in principle for government to pen
sion the men who tried to destroy it
The less talk there is of pensioning
confederate soldiers by the general
government the better will 1t be for all
concerned. Such talk if INDUCED in
seriously will create bitter opposition
IN the north and will go far TO re-
kindle the hatred of former days. Cut
it out and cut ii out quick.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
When Animals Arc Old Enough For
Mast.

Age Of the fish OF very young ami
mails frequently lacks flavor and is
watery. An old animal, properly fat
tened and IN good health, would be
preferable to young one in poor con-
dition. The meat from young animals
nearly always lacks flavor. Vhe best
meat vii be obtained from cattle chat
are 80 to 40 months old. tho they may
be used at any age If in good condi-
ton. A calf under 6 weeks OF age
should be used for veal. and is at Its
best when about 10 weeks old and
raised on the COW. Hogs may be used
at any age after s weeks, but the
most profita Bile age at which to slaugh-
ter is to IL months. Sheep may like
wise be used when to months OF
age and at any time thereafter. They
will be at their best previous to reach
ing 2 years of age, usually at to II
months.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
FARM RETURNS.

lCharleS City 1ntelligencer.]
NO man should be permitted to
farm more than half section of land,
says E. G. Dunn, who ran for COVER
nor on the democratic ticket last year.
! in regent lecture before farmers
institutions in Monona county. We
interpret this to mean that Mr.. Dunn
believes in more intensive farming
that is, farmers should work fewer
acres and work them more. This. in
view of the fact that Iowa farm lands
are constantly advancing in price,
seems to be the solution of how to in
crease the income from the farm so
as TO meet interest charges. AS we are
farming today the income from the
acres farmed undoubtedly does not pay
a large interest rate the only recon-
mendation for investment in farm
lands being that money thus placed is
perfectly safe. Ii must be admitted
that money placed in farm lands OF
Iowa is safe investment but why
should not steps be taken to make such
investment remunerative as we'll a
Waterloo manufacturer. who also is in
tereSted in farming and stock raising.
claims to be making his land pay in
terest on valuation of $1,000 per acre.
This gentleman Is not raising corn.
small grain and grasses exclusively,
but is growing fine stock and engag-
ing in dairying, hence we are inclined
to believe that he is very nearly telling
the truth about the returns obtained
from his farm investments. But let
that be as it may. there are more OF
our farms not paying a fair rate Of in
terest. on an investment OF 5000 per
acre and it is to such as these that the
admonition of Mr.. Dunn should appeal.
Fewer acres and more intensive farm
ing of these acres is going to be the
slogan Of the farmer Of the future, we
verify believe.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
rheumatism and tn. Heart.

Don't overlook the grave fact that
rheuma tism easily settles in the heart
and disturbs the valvular action. The
cure consists in removing the cause.
Foley Kidney Pills so tone up and
strengthen the kidney that they keep
the blood free Of poisons and uric acid
CRYSTALS, that cause rheumatism, swol-
len Joints. backacke, urinary irregu-
larties. and disturbed heart action. Try
them. Mcbride & Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
WOMEN INSPECTORS.
burlington Hawkeye.l

lBlrlington HaWkeye.I
Among the new laws which were
adopted by the last legislature, and
which have not yet been printed and
therefore are inaccessible to the gen
eral public, is one ordering the ap-
pointment Of woman as factory in
specter. AS long as we have to have
factories and have to I'LL them with
girls and women, it is surely the prop
er thing TO have at least one woman
to inspect those factories and note the
conditions, and observe just how much
IS done for the workers in regard to
sanitation, etc. 1t is just possible that
the right kind Of a woman might do
very valuable work in a position of this
kind. There will no doubt be plenty
for her TO do who wants to do and
knows how
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
pr Iohnson,e .RehuIke.

DR.. johnson was once in company
with a gentleman who Affected 70
maintain Dean Berkeleys strange %
sition that nothing exists but - Per
ceived by some mind" When the Genp
tleman was going away Dr.. Johnson
said to him: PRAY. sir. don't leave
US; for we may, perhaps. forget %
think of you and then you will cease
to exist"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
CATTLE FOR 5000 ACRE LAND.


Mr.. c. +. Butler, of Springville. q
capitalist and farmer. in a letter
written to this paper. tells some inter
esting things for the benefit of those
who want TO make money out of the
cattle business. He thinks that cat
tie are not going to be cheaper, not
in the near future. He says that on
his farm they are producing their
own feeders, instead Of buying feed
ers in the markets Of the west. They
do this largely because the feeders
that come into the market are not
good feeding cattle, they are apt TO
be scrubs, on which even good Iowa
corn does not put fat in profitable
quantities.. They keep big herd OF
Durham COWS, for the sake OF rails
ing calves and they raise calves that
weigh, some of them, over thousand
pounds at the end Of the first year.
That is what is called baby beef
They do not kill the calves. They
make beef out of them. To grow a
thousand pounds of beef at present
prices, that is what makes beef grow
ing profitable even on 5000 acre land.
Blu. the growing Of ordinary scrub
cattle can not possibly be made pro-
fitable on such land, nor on any other
kind Of land. no matter how cheap 1t
| NAV be. It costs no more to produce
thousand pound steer in twelve or
| fourteen months than 1t does to raise a
500 pound steer Three years is nows-
DAYS too long to mature steer. IT
costs too much to keep steer that
long. The job ought to be finished in
two years. or under. 1t can be done
by following the Butler method prac-
ticed near Springville. which Is only
few miles from Cedar Rapids.
The same remarks were recently
made by another observer in regard
to dairy cattle. There are still too
many farmers whc are wasting time
on a gallon or SO day cows. What
is wanted for real profits is the three
or four, or more gallon day COW. I:
costs no more to keep that sort Of a
COW than to keep a scrub COW.
| All these are problems that are
! growing out Of our 5000 acre laud
We will have to continue discussing
them, for it Is continual discussion
that finally produces the results.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
WILSON SHOULD DUMP M'ReYnolDs,

Publication Of the suppressed report
of McNab to Attorney General Nc
Reynolds puts the incumbent of this
extremely important place in the cabi-
net in q mos, unsavorabie light 1t il
proof that the attorney general knew
knowledge OF the eaormity and out
Tageous character OF the case Several
Thousand words are devoted to a COM
plete resume Of the evidence which
discloses che Of the most fragrant vio-
lations OF law and a conspiracy against
young sjrls of respectable parentage
as shameless as any Of record.
sMcReynolds is completely informed
and with detail OF the ofense, the
character and record Of the men &C.
cused and Of the position into which
delay in prosecution would put the
officers charged with direct prosecu-
ton of the case. He is informed that
Strong ia,ln7arions from leading dem
ocrats have led me TO believe or az
least suspect" that political influence
was busy to have the cases postpon ed,
dropped or delayed for the purpose Of
weakening the prosecution. In short
the attorney general knew all abou.
the cases. the conditions and people
involved.
President Wilson without any man
ner Of honest doubt was deceived By
his attorney general. II Wilson knew
anything about the matter before the
order for postponement. That he was
deceived is evident from the curt fash
ion in which he dismissed McNab and
the later order to push the cases as
McNab had urged. The country is
ready and anxious TO take this view OF
the situation. But 1t Will lose its com
placent and trusting attitude toward
the president II McReynolds is to stay
in the cabinet while an honest prose
cutor Is dismissed with sharp tongue
ior refusing 10 De d party 10 d sys.ca.
ICED effort to delay and weaken prose.
cution Under the white slave law be.
cause the father of one Of the scoun.
drels involved happens to be a LEADING
democrat
Taft retained Ballinger after Balm
ger had been shown up. 1t was the
beginning OF the end of Taft. This
Caminetti case is the hole in the dixie
Of Wilson's popularity. He should pluz
1t with the political corpse Of Nc.
Reynolds. The country will stand by q
president deceived but it will neve,
hold to a president who condones DO.
Htical interference with the prosecu.
ton Of such men as Caminetti at the
demand of politicians.
McReynolos must get out. It is no
q partisan matter in any way but :
general demand on the part Of the peo
PIE. McReynolds must get out or tn.
stain Of his presence blot an admin
istration which the country has bee,
ready and anxious to. accept as clear
Z handed and sincere. That the Wilson
regime has been so accepted makes i
the more imperative that AcRevnold
shall 90. The last thing the publ
VIII stand Tor Is disappointment In it
own estimate Of president.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10

grain are, nevertheless, delightful ones.
In our latitude the cutting, Of grain
begins Just ~ the period OF longest
light between sunrise and sunset has
been passed. But while this is the case,
the heat seems to be rather on the in
crease than otherwise Yet the clear,
hery harvest is, after all, more desir-
able than the wet and cloudy one, which
lntereferes with. the. ripening process
and often brings disaster to the crop.
The social features of harvesting. OF
which we continue to read in nearly all
literary works. have we'll nigh vanished.
Ihere Is no place in a modern harvest
field for gentle and faithful Ruth, and
one would scarcely find an Evangeline
bearing
to the reapers al noontide
F1agons Of home brewed ale.
as narrated by Longfellow. Such char
actens and things are all of the past.
remembered only in scripture and song.
The average farmer OF today can cut
and put into stack a fair wheat. barley
and oats harvest in ten days time.
Many Of them have two self binders
and horses enough to keep the ma
chimes clicking night and day Con-
sidering the facilities for prompt and
speedy work, there is but small excuse
in these times for the habit of Sabbath
violation. SO common. The sturdy old
forefathers. who reaped with sickle
and later cradle. were generally re-
specters Of the day of rest If the hail
or the tempest beat down and ruined
their crop they accepted the aff1iction
as from the hand of God. but they did
not seek TO avoid it by garnering on
Sunday.
In the end the man who rests himself
and his animals is just as far ahead
His very composure serves him well.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
We All Fee, That way.

To the unthinking. senselooo
knocker who 10 nothing more than .
monumental nuisance that planks his
bag of bones upon everything scr the
common good that comes up. May
the bubonic plague grasp him.-Petar
luna Courier.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
SHOO FLY.
Iwehster CRY Herald.l

eDSItT CITY t1tTalU.J
Where" shrieks a bald-headed pat
riarch. do all of these Internal flies
come FROM The answer is easy-to-
wit: The topper makes the bottle f1y,
the ster ftaher makes the CAD fly, the
cyclone makes the house fly, the
blacksmith makes the fire hy, the
driver makes the horse hy, the grocer
makes the sand fly. and the boarder
makes the butter fly. The devil, Ct
course, has a monopoly of the mos
quito making business.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
SHOW US ONE.

Under the new law every person who
carries pistol, a dirk, pocket billy,
metal knuckles or. other dangerous
ara Offensive weapon must have a
permit issued by the proper author
sfties or suffer the penalty Of the law.
In commission cities these permits
ass $4,000 by chiefs Of police and may
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
Iona Newspapers
GREATER IOWA.
[SiOux City Tribune

The caption of this is the title of a
publication at Des Moines supposed to
represent all Iowa. 1t is entered at the
postoffice as second class mail. That
is. it is given the special newspaper
rate upon the theory that it is a news
paper.
In its issue of June l it devotes 500
of its 3S4 inches Of space TO one topic.
the state fair at Des Moines. 1t comes
mighty near being an organ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-10
Home Made.

my dear" said Mr. Wombat. lyon
look as fresh as budding tree in
YOUR new spring dress" "The COM
parison is good" sneered Mrs. Wom-
bat. Like q tree, had to make It
myself"