Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-11

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Farms located on rural mail routes
are proving to be worth about So an
, acre mere than those not reached by
this new postal service.
The small boy and the corn shelter
do not get along together at all, and he
should be made to let these machines
alone if he would save his fingers.
All fertile acres in the corn or wheat
belt will increase i'll value year by
year until they touch the $40 mark.
This Is just as sure as the sun is to
to shine or water to run down hill.
Whenever politics in any form gets to
the front in farmers institutes it al
ways insures the failure of such insti-
tutes. A little religion doesn't hurt them
a bit, but politics must be kept out.
A man can perhaps carry q little
more whisky and carry it little lon
ger on a farm than he could in bank.
I but it is just as sure to round up the
granger at last as it is the banker.
Take no thought for the morrow,
Tor the morrow will care for ITSELF"
may be good motto for the phi
losopher, but practically applied on
the farm will end in a foreclosure suit
as sure as shooting.
Elgin dairymen buy cows in Iowa,
bran IN Minnesota, corn in Kansas,
and by working this combination on
Elgin farms have made themselves
wealthy and their farms more fertile
than they have ever been.
We notice that capital is being in
vested in Carolina tea plantations,
where, under the experimental work
of the agricultural department, it has
been demonstrated an excellent quail
ity of tea can be produced.
The United States is now the leading
export nation of the world in the value
Of exports, passing England the past
year. American exports for 1900 We're
of the value of 81 .453. ola. $50 and those
of Great Britain $1,41S,34S, 600.
Every woman is entitled to the priv
ilege of having at least one club con-
nection. The many need it for mental
Improvement and diversion and the
Few the benefits of club to keep some
ugly old man inside the traces.
Share rents paid for the use of west
ern farm lands have netted the owner
of the land the past year from 10 to 20
per cent on his investment, this state
ment based upon two-ffths share of
the crop as the landlords rent.
There is possible market in Eng
land for an immense amount of fruit
jams and preserves. The Englishman
always likes his jam for breakfast and
uses large quantities of it. A market
for much of our surplus fruit may be
found in this line.
The inheritance taxes accruing to the
federal government and the state on
the estate of recently deceased Chca-
go millionaire aggregated $296,OOO for
the state and 100000 for Uncle Sam.
This is sample of taxation of which
all poor folks approve
The butter producing value of a COW
is more often determined by the num-
<ber Of pounds of milk she will give in
ayear than by the butter test of her
MINK. Few cows that give less than
5,O00 pounds of milk in year are
worthS keepingsas dairy cows.
Two, pots of English violets at the
writer's home have furnished won
derful supply of these much priced and
fragrant flowers nearly all winter long.
The secret of securing such profusion
OF bloom has lain in the dipping of the
plants in hot water once week.
A cow that will make 300 pounds of
butter in year is better worth $T5
than one that will only make $50
pounds is $40, for the reason that the
last named cow will hardly pay for the
food, she eats. while the first named
will give her owner handsome profit. 4
If butter makers feel disposed to
kick at the low wages paid them In
this country = about $50 to $40 per
month-let them console themselves
that they are much better off than
their colleagues in New South Wales.
where good butter makers are paid
only $25 per month.
Thousands of farmers in the middle
west are up against the problem of how
IN 100 CT0 land and maka it ,,roHfobla