Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-17

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The rain falls on the just and the I'M
Just, but it sometimes happens that the
just fellows get more than their share
s of the hail.
Railway ties which used to sell for
30 cents are now worth 10 cents and
are increasing in value every year.
When they are worth $1.40 each the
steel tie will displace the wooden tie.
Prices for labor and material are SO
extravagantly high that world Of
contemplated building and improve
ment is blocked, being held back pend
ing more favorable conditions for such
work.
California raises the most barley of
any state. 1t is there used largely as
a horse food in place of oats. The Gal
latin valley in Montana produces the
best quality Of barley, all Of which is
reserved for the brewers at high prices.
( The Wolf River apple, because Of its
large size and fine color, attracts more
attention and is the subject of more
newspaper items than any other apple
grown, and this, too, when it is the
most utterly worthless apple which
ever grew on tree.
A few chickens-say fifteen or twen-
ty-may be kept on the average town
residence lot with profit, provided one
will give them the right sort Of care
and food 1t is worth something to
have plenty of nice fresh eggs and
what spring chickens family can use.
We know of country school which
Is being conducted at an expense to
the taxpayers of S3S per month where
nice little schoolma'am has only two
scholars to teach. In such a case there
certainly should be consolidation, prop
agation or some other kind Of "ation"
put into operation.
Turkeys are said to be scarce this
year and they are sure to be high
priced. Chickens can well be used as a
substitute for the Thanksgiving din
nor for, not one person in ten can tell
chicken meat from turkey il he will
shut his eyes when he eats it, and then
it is just as easy to feel thankful over
u rooster as a sYbbler.
Supplies of gas and oil are in no
sense permanent. While some fields
/ last longer than others, the best soon
plays out. This fact is very disturb
ing factor with all manufacturing in
terests dependent upon them. In the
long run it will be found that those To-
calities having large supplies of coal
will hold the control of the manufac-
turing interests of the country.
The value of groves or belts of tim
There is the practical value-fuel for
the farm, shade for the stock, home
for the birds, which we count our best
friends; then there is value in the
grove as a inodifier of climatic ex-
tremes-hot winds in summer and
billiards. in winter, and an aesthetic
value in that the farm is thus beauti-
fed and the country landscape thus
made more attractive.
A farmer in central Iowa imported
his seed oats this year from northern
Minnesota and, sowing them side by
side with oats of his own raising, got
nifty bushels per acre, while his own
seed gave him only ten bushels per
acre. This is a good object lesson
showing the value of changing seed
and in the case of cereals getting the
new seed from northern latitude. 1t
is little practical fact which is we'll
worth noting and needing.
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With almost any sort Of crop quail
lily counts for more than quantity.
I. ~ ArAc ID Always UOO llltle OIL Cue UeSC
things produced. A choice steer will
bring $3.50 per hundredweight, scrub
which has cost just as much to raise
only $3.75, barrel of choice apples
or a basket of peaches from trees
which were properly thinned will bring
three times as much as the average
product OF tree allowed to oyerbear,
the well bred and well broken horse
will sell for three times as much as
the common plug, and SO all along the
line. 1t always pays to raise the best.
IL sometimes pays to raise the poorest,
but not often.
In section of northern Minnesota
the farmers have hitherto raised no
crop to speak Of save spring wheat A
man from central Iowa went up there
and bought farm. he put nearly all
of his 200 acres of tllable land into
oats and corn this year and bought