Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-26

There is world Of difference in the
texture of meats. That Of the old ami
NAL will always be fbrous and coarse,
no matter how well the animal is fat
tened, while that of the young animal
will be tender.
The second crop Of clover, If cut for
hay and not for seed, should be saved
for the milk COW, the breeding ewes
and sows. 1t is an excellent milk pro-
ducing food and can be fed to the anil
mails named to greater profit than to
any others on the farm.
Where the milk cow is out getting
her living in the stalk field and the
hen is roosting in the cottonwood tree
by the barn there the dairy and poul-
try business doesn't pay, and the mort
gage on the place is quite likely to be
sized up by the amount the owner can
borrow on his ldnd.
We give q constant reminder in these
notes up to the middle of October to
the effect that the seed corn for next
year should be gathered, hung up and
curing before that date. It is good
thing to test the seed corn, but it is a
sure thing to pick the corn by that
time and dry 1t properly, when every
kernel will terminate next spring.
It is opportune just now to say
word about the full planting of fruit
trees. The word is, don't do 1t, at
least north of the fortieth degree Of lat
itude. II the trees are bought in the
fall, it is better to heel them in and
plant in the spring. Northern winters
are apt to be very cold and dry and
Will, the tree having no hold in the soil,
simply freeze and dry out every bit Of
sap before spring.
The cost Of keeping the dairy COW
year in the eastern states Is at least
$40 more than 1t IL in the west. The
western dairyman has much cheaper
hay, cheaper bran and pasture, and he
gets the same freight rate for the ship
ment Of his butter In Iowa that his
competitor ON Vermont dairy farm
does. The western dairyman has a
snap is he chooses to avail himself Of
1t, but SO many dairymen have money
in the bank that they say they will not
milk cows.
The best fields Of corn which we have
seen this year are growing on the tito
drained and heretofore almost worth
less acres of the west. 1t promises q
crop Of seventy to eighty bushels to
the acre. 1t will pay far better to
drain your wet acres than to buy more
land. One can afford to pay 10 per
cent for the use of money If need be
to do this work, and there is hardly q
farm in the country where more or
less tile drain cannot be put in as the
best investment which can be made on
the farm.
The plane Of wages and living is at
high level in this country, higher by
far than in any other country, and in
these two things we are living entirely
/ apart and distinct from all the rest
Of the world. The common, unskilled
laborer the digger Of dirt, gets $1.75
to So for eight hours work, the farm
hand an equivalent Of $40 per month,
the railway brakeman $75, the engineer
$3.50. The most poorly paid labor Is
that of the schoolteacher and the par
son, and we have come to the time
when the constructive trades and pro-
LESSONS have in the matter Of compen-
sation run entirely away from the in
tellectual. This grade of wage and lly-
Ing which the people Of this country
enjoy will require no little care to
maintain and may easily be upset by
unwise legislation.
The modern refrigerating system has
wonderfully simpli1ied the handling of
all perishabie products. It has prob.
ably done more than any other one
Ahing to give an added value to meats
butter, eggs and fruits and to secure
q uniformity of price and supply. II
has done more than this. 1t has
| CIV Cu ul dOuSu fulue IO
Of acres of land upon which sucl
perishable products can now be raised
Eggs, for instance, which only 6
few years ago glutted the April, May
and June markets and which were al
most unstable, are now most eagerly
sought by the cold storage men at {
price which is very profitable to tn.
producer, thereby making the poultry
business a most profitable one for al
the people. While cold storage and it,
ally, the refrigerator car, have made /
possible to fasten upon the American
people an arbitrary and burdensom
meat trust, it still at the same tim
has so greatly enlarged the market 70
all other perishable products that w
can far better endure the exactions O
the beef trust than dispense with tn
cold storage system,