Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-11-20

From the Register.


Young stock lie too often neglect
cd too long in the fall without shell
ter.
One reason of hard times is that we
waste and throw away what would
feed some other nations.
The Ottumwa oat mill commences
business this week, making LOCO bush
els per day into Scotch diet.
Iowa, with a population of l,5OO,-
600, can carry as many cattle as
England with her 100000 popula-
ton.
The Board of Supervisors of Bre-
mer county reduce the pay of deputy
county officers from $3.50 to 50 90 per
day.
In many Of our farmers homes,
when the days work is completed,
what has the farmers son to interest
him?
France, after all, is q pattern in
many things to the world. There, az
a rule, everybody works, and every
body saves.
Personal thrift is necessary to ma
tional prosperity, and there is no q bid-
ing thrift which is not based upon
frugality.
Should man complain Of getting
only 81 per day, when it will buy him
more than double that amount did
when he received 80 per day?
How good it is to be independent
And yet no man can be thoroughly
Independent, unless he obey the in.
junction, "owe no man anything"
The hog-cholera-cure men are about
as numerous as the lightning-rod
men used to be. You cannot be toe
careful in dealing with such individ.
uals.
According to shippers figures l5O,.
GOO bushels of onions and lOOOO(
bushels Of potatoes have been mar
keted in Davenport since the LIST O
September.
Up to the year OF 1873 we wer;
learning the sad lesson of living be
yond our income. Now we have L
learn the profitable lesson of liyinf
within our income.
One of the great troubles of tn,
times is the foolish practice of buy
ing so many things not for our owl
comforts, but for the eyes of others
When this disease is cured better
times will come.
By careful inspection, this week
of at least two hundred papers o
Iowa, it appears to be the determine
ton of the mass of hog owners no
to send forward the hog crop unit
prices advance or the corn crop is ex
hausted.
The hog cholera, which has been g,
prevalent in the Western States, O
late, has extended to Western Cana
da. The disease broke out at Lamb
ton, where cholera Of the most VIC
lent type, and scores of hogs are dy
ing from it's ravages.
The Mills County Journal report
that information from various sourc
es, and of the most reliable character
indicate that the corn crop of Mill
county (and that means of Western
Iowa), will not come up by one-fourtl
to one-third what was expected of i
a month ago.
There is profit in breeding mic
carriage and draft horses. As gen
eral rule it costs no more to raise
good colt than poor one, while th
former will bring two or three time
as much as the latter. A dark stabl
is a very poor one to keep a youn
colt.
When farmer finds he is one yea
behind hand-that is, living this yea
on what he will raise next-be shout
at once call halt and begin q ne,
system of living. Live within hi
means and establish a sinking fun
that is, savea little each year to r,
iuce the suspended debt.
The credit system lie q curse to eve
rybody, and to no class is it create
curse than to farmers. Workin
year after year to pay, "dead horse
is the Greariest of work-it is worl
ing without hope. When farmt
looks upon his growing crops with
; knowledge that they belong to h
creditors and not to him-that he h,
already, even before the harvest b,
ripened, spent them, it must have II
effect to make him poor farmer an
!, less efficient man generally.