Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-24

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The farm work of 1904 should be wei
planned out this winter.
Labor unions have in many cases SC
wound up the handspring Of commerce
that they have broken the spring and
the clock has stopped.
We are now coming to the time wher
the man who is out Of debt can take
solid comfort. Small matter to him Il
banks do break and Wall street has
financial fits.
The corn crop Of 1903 is valued BY
the department of agriculture at 5000,
600, 900, the wheat crop at 1922, O0O, 600
the oat crop at $S03, OOO, 600, the hay
crop at $542, 600, 900 and the cotton cror
at $500, 900, 900.
Ten years ago the United States pro
duced only 100000 pounds of rice
This year the crop will total 300, 900,
600 pounds, and from now on we shall
be exporters of rice just as we are oil
other cereal crops,
If the butter in your creamery only
grades so or thereabouts, the cause
may very likely be found in the fact
that too many hired men are squirting
milk on their hands when they mill
the cows--just case Of cause and eff
feet that's all.
A farmer noticed his hogs eating dry
cornstalks and wondered why they
did SO. 1t should be noticed to hin
that If he would put some of his corr
into silo he would have very valu
able winter hog feed. Both the brood
sows and the shotes are very fond Of
silage.
A buttermaker must needs be ma
gician to make fine grade of butter
out Of some Of the cream and mill
furnished him by some pretty respect
able patrons. 1t is terrible thing tt
charge nice people with being dirty, but
If the buttermaker has any regard fol
his reputation he must do it not infre
quently.
When some whippersnapper OF {
clerk Is promoted to a 5000 position II
some government department, it is con
sidered of sufficient Importance to be
come part Of an Associated Press re
port and be published in all the daily
papers, but when bricklayer or stone
cutter or carpenter cleans up as mucl
or more in a year nothing is though
of it.
It matters not what vocation young
man may follow he will always fine
that the better his education the more
successful will he be. A college educa
ton will make him better farmer, 8
better miller, a better auctioneer, 6
more successful manufacturer, as vel
as a better lawyer, doctor or parson
The ignorant fellows are hereafter al
ways to be found at the tail end of The
procession.
There is one pitiful side Of what Il
termed the unparalleled sport the hunt
ers have enjoyed this fall on the lakes
and marshes Of the west and In the big
woods Of the north country. Thousands
of men have been engaged for weeks
In the killing Of wild fowl and deer
but for all the game which was secur
ed there was almost as much more
which was lost and left to perish from
wounds, slaughter pitiful to contem
plate.
The most useful, the most reliable
and the most profitable Of all domestic
things are the cow and the hen, whose
products are always salable and al
ways disable by the family. You show
us q man who takes good care of 9
dairy or one who gives his poultry in
telligent care, and we will show vol
man who runs no store bill and keeps
square with the world. This is only
text, but it really contains the whole
sermon.
It never pays to make scavengel
out of the milk COW. She should bt
treated as the lady boarder who pay.
a fancy price for her board. If farm
scavengers are wanted let the hogs anf
the sheep do the work. Give the colt
and the steers the lee side of the straw
stack and the rummaging over the
stalk field and the dairy COW the warn
barn, the well balanced and abundan
ration. The better her board the more
she is willing to pay for ii,