Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-05-01

union. She also has more pure bred
Shorthorns than any other state, and
has higher per cent of high grades
than any other. She has more Gallo
way breeders and more pure bred Gal
loway cattle than any other state.
Iowa not only stands first in the
number of her hogs, but also in the
number of pure bred animals. While
she has the most pure bred cattle of
any state, she also has the highest
per cent of high grades, over "a per
cent of her cattle, exclusive of thor
oughbreds, can trace their parentage
to pure bred parent, Illinois being
second with 16 per cent. We make
100,000,000 pounds of butter, produce
10000, 900 dozen eggs worth 100000,
sell $2000,000 worth of fat poultry,
and have stored for our consumption
by $4,000 colonies of bees, whose in
dustry is excelled only by that of our
people, 100000 pounds of honey, the
equivalent of eight trainloads of forty |
cars each 10000 pounds to the car.
The total value of Iowa farm products
last year was $274 100000 and the val
lie of her farm animals was $271, SD
| 0S4, which is the greatest in the Unit
ed States. Upon such foundation of
fertility of soil, or agricultural pros
perity and advanced animal husband
ny, what may we not expect of peo-
pie as Industrious and intelligent as
are our people? The future is fraught
with possibilities, and as great as has
been the achievements in the past
along the lines mentioned, we have
only entered upon the developments
that are within our reach and which
will be accomplished in the near flu
ture.
Perhaps you are now prepared for
this additional item of information.
Iowa has more banks than any other
state in the union, and from the best
available data more than one-half OF
it's banking capital is held by farmers
or those who have made fortunes on
their farms. These banks hold over
5000 100000 on deposit and OF this
enormous amount per cent is owned
by farmers, active and retired.
The relations of the people OF Iowa
with those upon whom they rely for
market has been most cordial. There
may be those who believe grain deal
ers can be dispensed with without
preiudicing the interests OF the pro-
Queer, but they live elsewhere than in
Iowa. We read that many years ago
in the midst of famine in canaan,
Jacob learned there was corn in Egypt
and sent his sons to buy. Under pres
ent conditions, the Egyptians, learning
there was demand for corn in Ca
naan would have sent their sons their
to sell; or more likely the Egyptians
. +br nj
1 the increased price which their pro-
2 duct commanded was a demand some
where which the grain dealer had dis
covered, and which the producer had
neither the time, nor the facilities, nor
the inclination, to seek.
S When the first wheat was transport
n ed by rail from the Missouri river to
e the Atlantic ocean, then by ship to l4iv.
| market it. 1T was then put in elevat
t ors, weighed out, reloaded, reshipped
l. again and again, and at great eN
d pense. 1t now costs twenty-one and
e one-half cents to take a bushel OF
e wheat from the Missouri river to Llv
n erpool. Within thirty months, by rea
d son of improved roadbeds, lightel
d grades. fewer curves, heavier iron ant
T. larger locomotives single engine vii
J. haul ITO tons as formerly, but 2S,OOt
L. tons: and the saving in expense O
10 TRANSPORTATION and handling and water
Is rates will insure the producer bettel
e. prices and the consumer cheaper 1000
l. Our people understand all this ant
n they are both contented and happy
G. They are building better houses; the.
n are planning better schools; they ar
rs putting more pianos in the par!ors
II more books on the shelves; more sun
u Ishine in the home and are adyanclni
d the price of their farms more and NOR
" rapidly, for they know the time is no
lie far distant when these lands will agar
Of double in value. They can now b
ID rented for cash, and will pay bette
ID income on twice their market valu
Of than government bonds at current quo
n which have come to the people of tn
Of Mississippi valley all professions, a
,a pursuits, all classes of our people hav
I'd contributed their share to this triumph
lie ant march and all alike should hav
s-ttheir share in the glories that haV
70 crowned their efforts. And to none
nj a greater mead of praise due than I
We the old pioneers who bid goodbye
nv the homes of their childhood back /
le New England on the shores of the HUI
e. son and in the Older states and VIII
+ settled in Iowa and laid deep the foul
ct dations of our civil and religious Iii
DO Ierty. They We're men and women {
pe strict integrity. formed in an hero
Va mold, and the high and imperial pos
oh ton which Iowa holds today is due
I'm their teaching, wisdom and educstic
!. and the grand influence for good pc
ed sessed by these people. In our pr
O gress of today let us not forget thes
is good people, but let us cherish the
IN memories as the richest legacy inheri
"a ed by us and ou1' children.
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