Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-18
THE BETTER WAY.

VIC navy di inquiry lIoh q JouAis
man aged 20. He is a representative
western farm boy, has always lived
and worked ON the farm and availed
himself of such educational advantages
as the local country school afforded,
He says he expects to stay with his
father until he is of age and then COM
mence life for himself. He owns a
team of horses and has saved UP $50
in money. He wants us to tell him
how he can work it so that he may
best succeed as farmer and says that
he would like to raise good stock, grow
way than he has been brought up to.
This is another Of those hard ques-
lions which folks seem to like to fire
at us. SO much depends upon the
young man himself, the locality where
he may settle down for business and
Sunday evenings. Ii he locates where
land is worth from $50 to $50 per acre,
he will be compelled to put more brains
and science into his work than if he
takes a homestead on some frontier set
Element. If he is to work high priced
father did, we would advise him to go
to one of the many excellent agricul-
tural colleges and spend what money
he has got in acquiring a knowledge
Of the technical and scientific agri-
ture. This would include farm me-
nbopins hroodipsr onI
care, soil physics, fertilizers, animal
diseases, drainage. rotation of crops
and a hundred and one practical and
valuable things which he can turn into
dollars later on in his farm work Two
winters or so used would easily make a
$40 month man of him if Eeewished
to work for some one else. or, should
he go into business on his own hook
and rent q good farm. for instance, he
would be almost certain to make a
success Of his work. 1t is not so much
the practical knowledge acquired as
the result of such course of study,
though this is almost invaluable, as it
is that such an effort is an eye opener
for the young man, disclosing to him
the possibilities of his profession and
awakening in him an ambition and de-
sire to know more and occupy higher
place in his profession. He may not
do this, but instead marry, rent q farm
and settle down to work in the old
fashioned way and perhaps succeed in
way. but he will be broader. wiser
and more successful man to do as we
suggest.
TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY.
Enjoyable living is very largely de-
pendent upon temperature and humid.
ity. Temperatures above 80 and below
zero are each endurable only as man
makes special effort to adjust himself
to such conditions. The happy mean of
temperature is 10, at which point man
thinks nothing about the atmosphere
A few islands of the sea and limited
section of great elevation Immediately
| under the equator enjoy 10 the year
! round. but the best and most forcefu
| types of humanity are found where the
i rnei1TIoHIeUr1cuI extremes nave the wld
| est range, the effort required by MAI
toadopt himself to such radical changes
/ seeming in some way to develop his
| best qualities. The question of hui
/ Nudity is also an important one, fol
where there is great excess the con
ditions for men are as unfavorable as
where there may be a great deficiency
| in either case the extreme so affecting
vegetable and animal life and growth
that a living for man is hard to obtain
The happy medium as to humidity is
found in a three foot rainfall during
the year.