Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-05
THE COUNTRY HOME.

THE COUNTRY HOME.
We recently passed a small FARM
which, according to our idea, was al
model place. The farm home wasSM
story and half house neatly paintad%
as We're the fences, barns and outbuild8
ings; fences were all on straight llnes,a
{ home yard was fenced to keep out the
pigs and chickens; there was cleans
i we'll arranged small fruit and vegetable
garden; the poultry was of the White
Rock sort, we should Judge; anyhow1
/ the birds were all of one uniform col6N
and showed good blood: the corn in tl}as
field which adjoined the home lot wass
cut up, neatly shocked and good for
sixty-five bushels an acre; number
of well built stacks of small grain
were waiting the thrasher in the barns
yard; a machine shed housed all the.
farm tools; the name of the farm and
that of the owner We're neatly painted
on the gable end of the red barn ill.,
! stead Of some tobacco or cheap clothes
advertisement; we noted about fifty
well bred Shropshire sheep and couple
of draft brood mares with colts out in
the pasture; the fall blowing had all
been done early in August, we judged
from the looks Of the fields; small
building near the house contained a
gasoline engine which pumped all the
water for the stock and the house,
shelled the corn, turned the grindstone,
ground the feed and sawed the wood.
We did not of course have chance to-
see what was in the house, but we will
venture that 1t was mighty nice place
TO live, for the vine over the porch and
the good wife shaking the tablecloth on
the steps almost invited one to enter and
feel at home. Without doubt there wasg
piano i'll the parlor and plenty of good.
reading matter and at evening time ass
! the days toll was ended happy family
| gathered around table spread with
the best things which such a farm af-
lords. There We're peace and content
ment in that home or we are greatly
| mistaken. 1t is pity, such homes are.
| so rare. when they might be so easilyl
built up on our farms That there are;
| not more is because men either do not
know how to do it or because they arer
foo creody and o1orio;c,,a -. ,.4...
for now, ocres ~ loao,,sa ~. .u1 ,Iss
no taste FOR Moo +hi,,as ~, Al az
liouor too we'll AnSbo. Az 49, IT,
need Of the country 10 for rnora hcraas
of this tyne and bavino t,,en, tho ,,o,,sy
and girls would not ha crozy hor+ e.,
city life The nan who builf,e srch q
home for himself in the coupt,.v does II
patriotic &c. - .,.on (; c,nt..:,,,tinp ia
his own M -; ~. :. .St interests
TRIES SO. g. - f;..@Ti%G.
A 81 ;I;l ',-'.-r q; /, -" 5;tt about a
do.ci, sl.., y. o.,,t,. is.al trees on
the some IA !, ! IL : 80, ,G.,tind his
city !lv.ns. a q v.-.is -, :p!!d tell
him wha. u tasjn; sect. AS he
lives in II I. ,2h "a ,5vn lie must
have some ~. = +, l." 4 i. of lati-.
/ tude in his Secretion TIC American.
elm is justly ritel as oHr OF the best
of trees for ci;.r condition. though we
/ find it will not cl; .u..e the effect of coar
! smoke as well Us the hA.,l maple, the
| Eastwood or linden O. tie sycamore.
| Is the best of all sl,afle free, whether,
/: In town or country. for tllcre ;s n sym-s
metry Of habit u richness AMI nrofusea