Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-14

dated and easily hauled by q single
team the remaining distance to market
over the improved highway.
In one section Of the country where
oxen are. still used teamsters were OBJ
served to bring their loads over the
dirt roads with two or three yokes
of oxen. When the beginning OF the
good roads was reached. the teamssers
would unhitch the extra animals and
finish their journey with a single yoke.
CALF TELLS FEEDING STORY.
Robert Bourne, DsNitt Lad, Lets AMI.
NAL Tell it, Own Biography.
The story of calf, told IN its own
words by Robert Bourne, a Dewitt lad.
who fed his animal in six months
of $50 pounds to a weight OF $40
pounds, with total gain in weight Of
ass pounds, a daily gain Of rs pounds
at a cost Of $500 and a profit Of $2S.41,
comes to Iowa state college.
Il was born Sept. 20. 1915, and only
stayed with my mother few hours"
says Roberts calf. Il soon learned to
drink milk out of pail. After = while
they gave me different kind Of milk
that wasn't SO good and some hard.
yellow stun which they put in box.
When the weather got cold was
taken from pasture, put In lot ana
fed hay and some corn cob meal. The
boys always kept saying, Willie, eat
up the rest OF that feed
y finally found there was to be a
show and II got fat I would be sent
there, 50 i ate all the grass could at
meal times and all the grass I could
hold between times. was weighed
the 18th OF April and again the 18th of
May. / must have done pretty we'll
for the boys seemed pleased and said
Ia had gained 12s pounds, which cost
SOFA pound. They gave me more
feed and got fatter. was weighed
in June with 90 more pounds on my
ribs, which cost them $.035 a pound.
After it got. hot the flies got bad and
it tbok all my energy to keep the flies
from eating me up. When I came to
be weighed again had gained. only As
pounds at cost Of 500 a pound.
when it was time for the show l
was weighed again and the boys seem
ed satisfied with my gains and said
of the boys said my feed had cost him
sa5.os and that was worth S3S at the
start. which made total of $500. I
will make him profit OF s2s.H for the
6 months period"
3,1s1 Self Feeder Calls in Months.
OF $500 requests received at Iowa
state college from October. 1915, to
June, 1916, for blue print plans Of farm
structures. 3,1s1, or more than one
half. were for self-feeders. The next
heaviest demand was for hog house
plans, 572 asking for these; 212 poultry
house plans were sent out. 126 for gen.
eral barns. 81 cattle barns, % horse
barns, IS dairy barns, A sheds. 4 farm
shops. Is garages. 50 silos, % silo scat
folds, 10 water tanks. 50 corn cribs. AZ
seed corn houses. 152, farm homes, 90
ice houses. Is ice and milk houses. 80
milk houses, 81 smoke houses, "a. ap-'
pie storage houses, fruit cellars,
concrete corner posts. LIZ septic tanks
and 1876 for live stock equipment.
Goes Limit On New SeH-Fssdsr.
c, A. Arnold, OF Klemme, Iowa.
thinks you can't get too much Of a
good thing and so he is going to build
a self-feeder so feet long he writes the
agricultural engineering department at
Iowa state college. The feeder will ex-
tend the full length on one side OF the
bottom OF double corn crib. Grain
spouts will come down from the bins
overhead to the self-feeder below.
Tankage and supplemental feeds win
be fed in small separate self feeders
scattered in the lot. Mr.. Arnold feeds
ahcu. 90 hogs. III ] couldn't have a
self feeder, I'd quit farming" he de-
clares.
Brief Farm Notes.
Clean SKINNED milk is valuable
food. but 1t should be sold as SKINNED.
The melting point Of asouthern-made
butter is higher where cattle are fed
cottonseed products.
In 1905. out of the total road and
bridge expenditures. s2o.Ooo,oo0 Of the
$50. 600 600 was paid in labor+-that Is.
worked out on the roads.
The so-called guaranty legend. on
packages Of foods and drugs does not
mean that the United States govern
ment has passed on the quality of the
product.
Concentrated cider which keeps bet
ter and is much less bulky than the
| ordinary product, can be made by freez-
ing and centrifugalizing. which elimin-
ate water and leave behind sugar and
flavor III
The sense of direction in migratory
birds is as marvellous as 1t is myste-
| rious. The familiar inhabitants Of our
| dooryard martin boxes return the next
year to these same boxes, tho mean
| while they have visited Brazil.
That valuable meal for feeding cattle
and poultry can be recovered from
wastes at fish canneries has been de-
ternined by Investigations Of the de-
partment Of asriculture's scientists.
o'DoNNELL TO De TRIED.
Murder Case to Be Heard at Fort Mad.
ison This Week.
Fort Madison, Nov. 13.-The Novem-
Der term OF the district court, which
convened here today, probably will be
1 the most interesting one in the state
| In point Of Importance Of the cases
set for trial. Chief among them is the
| retrial OF Martin Matthias O'Donnell,
now in the state penitentiary at this
| city. O'Donnell was convicted OF the
murder of his wife at Keokuk and SEN
fenced to hang. The supreme court
remanded the case last summer after
the appeal had been delayed for a year
OF next Importance is the case OF o.
E. Herminghausen VS.. A., P. Brown
| The plaintiff is an attorney here, the
defendant the city's mayor In a fra = :