Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-30

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The south is trying melons, peaches,
Bermuda onions and several other
crops in place of cotton, to the benefit
of the soil and the growers as we'll.
It is always hard to make us believe
that farm carries big mortgage
which has neat and we'll painted build
ings and carries well bred domestic
animals.
When fourteen ears Of corn will plant
one acre of ground 1t seems foolish not
to absolutely know that each ear Of
that corn is sound and reliable and of
high terminating power.
The adult apple tree is always CRATE
full for and responsive to good culture
and fertilization. Many people are
careful to cultivate and fertilize their
young orchards, but entirely neglect
the old one.
Occasionally one travelling through
the west will see big pile Of corn ~
ing out on the ground entirely unpro-
tected. Itmeans that the owner raises
too much corn or that he is dead shift
less, usually the latter.
It may be season when the question
of conserving moisture in the soil will
be one Of vital Importance to the crops.
The value of dust mulch produced
by constant surface cultivation is in
valuable for all cultivated crops. The
garden may really be watered with a
hand rake intelligently used.
The general health Of the American
people would be better If they would
eat twice as much corn bread, corn
cakes and other products Of corn as
they now do. Their stomachs would
keep In better trim and their teeth
would last longer. A steady fine -four
diet makes lots Of work for the doc.
tors.
Not less than $4,000 corn growers
in the state of Iowa will have listened
to the improved method Of testing seed
corn. by the time the last Of the trips
of the corn specials" over FIVE trunl
lines is complete 1t is confidently and
reasonably expected that this good
work will result in better stand anc
better crop Of corn.
Today the we'll bred sheep Is the
most profitable animal kept on the
farm. Mutton leads both beef and porl
in price per pound, while wool Is being
contracted for at excellent prices. Tht
right sort of sheep will this year re
turn 50 in wool product and lamt
which will sell for Sc when nine
months old Eight such sheep can b.
kept on the food required by one COW
and there is no milking to be done.
The cow alone Of all the domestic an
imals is able to utilize proftably farm
land worth $3.50 an acre and up. Tht
raiser and seller Of grain or hay can
not use such land; it is too costly fol
the production Of beef or mutton o.
pork, save as the hog is byproduct o.
the dairy. The silo is Indispensable OF
such land, as is we'll kept poultry. Cow:
make the reclaimed high priced lands
of Holland profitable. while the farm:
of the island of Jersey are mostly giver
up to dairying.
There must either be very marked
and permanent increase in the price O.
farm products or the land must be go
into much more productive state i
there is to be much greater advanc,
in farm values. We do not look TO
Increased prices for farm products
hence il land Is to be worth more |
must be made to produce more, ant
this may be done. The speculative val
ne Of farm land is now almost minus
quantity in oil the older and well set
tied portions Of the country. ana future
values will be based upon what til,
farm can earn.
/ In section Of the country wher,
oats, wheat, rye and barley all d.
we'll friend there living writes u
asking about the ACCESSIBILITY Of tryin,
speltz as a cereal crop. We do no
think he would find it desirable cro]
compared with the other cereal crop
mentioned. 1t is not as palatable
food as oats and will seldom yield a
we'll This crop has wide field o
usefulness on all the semiarid section
of the country, where none Of the &C
reals mentioned will do well for lac
of sufficient moisture, but not wher
they will grow and do well.