Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-02

ihe tree when transplanted. no mat
ter whether it be deciduous, evergreen
or fruit tree, should always be set from
three to five inches deeper than it grew
in the nursery or timber from which it
was taken.
Three million barrels of apples were
held. over in cold storage the past sea-
son, the largest amount of, fruit ever
SO held. AS applied to food products
cold storage has effected most re-
change
There is small fortune awaiting the
young man who will go into the north
wheat country, get section Of land
and proper outfit for growing the
crop and stick at it for ten years. 1t
Is not very attractive country in
which to live, and the business is work
four months and loaf nine months.
A good name counts for much. A
certain county in western state
which has established fine reputa-
ton for the barley which it produces
and which is known on the market by
the name of the county finds that FIVE
times as much barley is sold each year
under this brand as it ever produces.
The government has made a marked
change in the horses furnished its cav
airy since the war of the rebellion
Then cavalry horses seldom weighed
less than 1850 to 1000 pounds. Now
the broncho has largely taken the place
Of the big horse, this range animal
possessing more endurance and activ-
lty.
Many an acre of the most productive
land can be redeemed by $40 worth Of
tile drain. When we see man, as we
often do, busy blowing some hillside
badly worn, while at the foot of the
hill lies an undrained bog, we always
want to stop and have talk with him
and get him to seed his hillside down
and drain his bog and cultivate that.
Cyclonic conditions often develop
quite early in the spring in the middle
west Two or three days Of 80 degree
in late March or early
April will often set things going, SO
the normal temperature
that cyclone results Hot air alone
will never produce cyclone; neither
will cold air alone, but the mixing of
the two works on the same plan as a
seidlltz powder.
The late raid of the British army
Into the unknown kingdom of Tibet re-
veals in the sacred city Of Lassa, new
er before invaded by other races, a
curious people and curious condition.
Skilled labor is paid but 8 cents per
day, while unskilled labor is paid but
or cents. The prayer readers are
the best paid, receiving 10 cents per
day for ten hours steady work reading
prayers for other people.
The very richness of western soils
has In q way been destructive Of all
principles Of good farming. Men have
made living too easily, have not been
forced to consider how to treat the
soil SO as to insure the retention of
It's fertility, been ever tempted to work
too many. acres, always rating their
standing as farmers by the number Of
acres worked rather than by the yield
Of crops secured or the quality Of such
crops.
It is the competitive strife in bust
ness which gives the world its best
things, develops its best and brightest
men. While competition is cruel and
merciless, ever crushing out the weak
and the incompetent, cooperation,
which is its legitimate antidote, If
generally substituted for 1t would soon
head the human race toward degen-
eracy. Hard and severe though the
process may be, competitive strife is
absolutely Indispensable to the best de-
velopment of an American civilization.
It certainly looks like a most reason
able proposition that If man Is going
to pillow field, harrow it, plant it, Gull
hvate it four or more times he should
at least be dead sure that bis seed corn
IS good and will every kernel grow, for
It is not with corn as with the small
grains, which, If the seed be poor, will
still be often thick enough by the stool
ing Of such plan IS do grow, whereas
with corn Il L " seed fails there is
40 way for nature to make good the
loss. So small an amount Of corn is
required to plant an acre that every
effort to select and plant only the very
best is justified.
In some few communities the farm
ars, Influenced by broad minded pub
lie spirit, have banded together and in
a cooperative way have undertaken
the improvement Of the highways on
their respective farms independent Of
the work done by the road supervisors