Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-04
Agricultural Items
O. +. Clarkson In State Regieeer.
Poverty is no bar to marriage
both will work and save,

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o. r. Clarkson In State Regieeer
Poverty is no bar to marriage if
both will work and save.
SONG OF THE COMMUNE
Down with the rich man!
Make him divide!
Give US his money
or give us has hide"
1t is q good doctrine yet: "He that
would eat the kernal must first crack
the SHE'LL
A mortgage on your farm, and yet
you hire man to do your work, and
you go to town.
Don't go to law unless you have
nothing to lose; lawyers houses are
built on fools heads
We never knew. or even heard of q |
farmer, who kept out of debt, going
into bankruptcy, or even com planning |
of hard times.
Labor; nothing can be had for
nothing whatever man achieves, he
must pay for it and no favor of for
tune can absolve him from his duty.
The reason why working men, as a
class, do not get ahead fas,er-are
not more independently that they
have not learned to save their hard
earnings.
When commencing your agricultu-
raj life, remember that industry, econ
omy and integrity will insure success
and form the best capital that can be
employed.
The Marshall Republican reports
the flax acreage in that county at
about 5000 acres, and the Weld
per acre about ten bushels, worth $780,
600.
Even at the present prospect of pri-
ces. we believe it best for farmers to
get their hogs ready for market as
soon as possible this fall. Be ready
by early November.
The earth is not in the habit of 60
ing into bankruptcy. Trust it. The
soil is the safest object of labor or cap
ital. 1t does not embezzle. 1t does
not speculate. 1t does not refuse to
pay it's debts.
The Boone Sentinel says Mr.. Her.
ron, of Story county, received last
week an order from one of the larg-
est commission houses in Cincinnati
for sample lot Of one hundred of his
best full cream cheese. Thus is the
credit Of Iowa rising.
American wheat and American coal
have received gold medals at the Par
is Exhibition. Mccormick reaper,
Wheeler Il Wilson Sewing Machine
and the Pullman Palace Car have
also come out Of the Exposition victo-
rious.
Crawford county has the largest
number of sheep Of any county in the
!. Ninth Congressional District-.up-
. wards of 5000 head.
God makes no promise in the Bible
nor in natural economy, of help, food
or raiment to the indolent.
The hot weather Of july and Aug.
ust spoiled large quantities of
cheese in warehouses. Nothing in
the history of cheese in the United
States has had parallel to it. Some
good men have been entirely ruined
by it.
,, As soon in the fall as bulbs can bt
,, obtained they should be planted
, though this will not generally be tn,
: case till October-but it is as well t,
bear in mind that the earlier they
, are planted the finer they will flower
3 The blackberry, 80 well known a!
luxury for the table, should be mos
| highly estimated for its medical quail
: tiles. 1t was evidently designed b,
g the Creator, in part, rs q preven,iv,
g and curative of diseases common a
] the time Of its ripening. just the,
Z bowel difficulties are common, TO
e which this excellent fruit ia one q
q the best remedies.
Look at the hundreds of thousand
!, of people that have persisted Of fam
= inc in China this year, in Iudia las
year, and in Persia the year before
: and remember that if these countrie
. had possessed the facilities of rail
! road transportation and the labo
. saving machines which would hav
: enabled them to increase fthei
!. agricultural productions, such q cal
\ amity as widespread famine coul,
not occur.
{ The brain needs good food as wei
{ as the body. Neither can grow or re
9 main strong and vigorous without il
o Brain growth on the farm should no
be neglected. Books, papers, schools
n churches, public meanings nf all kinds
L W ysh ~ hy1I r1v n hRo in
= Keep it improving.
The world is on the march. Kee1
step with the music. The old horse
. power, the old corn-sheller, the ole
. tanning mill, the old grist mill, an,
II a thousand other old things worth
. and honored in their day, are kindly
9 though reverently asked to step on
l. and down and take back seat
I. Their day is gone. Their time has ex
e pired.
=. The number Of hogs in the United
y States is 25,276,000. Iowa has tn
q greatest number-3,300,OOO Othe
States follow in order as follows
Illinois, 100000; Indiana, 9, 1856 600
Missouri, 1874, 800; Kentucky, 1904,
300; Ohio, 1886, 100; Georgia, 1,3GO
zoo; Texas, 100000; Tennessee, l,
q 026, 400. No other State has million
n A tramp in Grant county, Ind, be
:. ing refused meal of victuals, &c
: fire to the barn of David Nherry an,
II burned it up. 1t burned up also IS,
' 600 worth of horses, grain and mach
!. merry. The scoundrel was capture,
\ and is in Jail. The county will hav
4 to pay an attorney heavy fee to dc
!. fend him. How long will humanit
!. suffer such things?
o An Indianian of Greensburg, visit
l. ing Vinton, writes home thus: II
l. is said that there is no place lik
Q home This kind Of stuff will d,
II for the MUSES. and those fellows VIII,
o lounge about the streets of New Yorl
!. City and Boston, drink whisky ant
Q write poetry, but it is evident to my
II mind that the chap who wrote tn
above quotation had never visited
o Iowa.
: The calling does not make the maj
. but the man makes the calling. Whel
: only educated men are farmers, agri
g culture will take its right place. not a
. the meanest drudgery, but as the no
; blest science.
: Nagrancy must be made a crime, o
!. the present system of rural husband
q ry will have to be abandoned. Thes,
men who now constitute only fes
n tering spot on society can and mus
b be made to work. Our whole societ,
o system depends on ii.
1t is said by farmer who has tried
the experiment so often as to be sur,
. of his ground. that buttermilk poure,
= = over the back of q scurvy pig will en-
= tirely and speedily remove the scurf
. The remedy is simple Almost ever!
.. farmer can boast of of one or NOR
;, scurvy pigs, and if buttermiIk vii
!. cure It, it should not be spared.
Didn't Mean Anything Bad.
, From the Springfield Republic
1 Nobody supposes that Presiden
!, Hayes had any wrong intention what
a