Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-11-28

Els! !::; J; Z
DES MONIES, A.H
| .ASSSA G
CORRESPONDENCE E3 W
We have a-friend whose share Of tho
corn crop-one-half--during 1904 paid
him $13 per acre rent for the use of his
land.
Mexico has short crop of cereals
this year and proposes to remove the
tariff duties on grain imported. There
is nothing like hunger to give people
contempt for the tariff.
Fifty bushels Of good corn from the
acre of 500 land is very good propo-
sition when. it sells for 80 cents BUSH
ell, for it leaves a net profit of over SIS
per acre, and this is good rate Of in
terest on 500 land.
1t costs about $40 to grow ton Of
broom corn brush, and as it now sells
for about 500 per ton It IL ono Of the
paying crops. The great trouble con-
nected with the growing of this crop
is the difficulty Of securing the help at
the right time to care for it.
Just as soon as q man is placed in
country where 1t is summer all the
year round, where little clothing Ia
needed and food supply Is easy to
get, just SO soon he becomes lazy and
no count. It has always been this way
and always will be. Il IL always and
ever work, and hard work. which makes
the man.
Where brcechy boil breaks down 4
lawful fence along the right Of way
of railway company and IL caught
by train and killed, Ii the company
liable for the value Of the animal7 In
law it is not, but most companies
in such cases would rather pay than
bother over lawsuit to recover dam
ages. In all such cases the bull nearly
always brings moro than he would at
any well advertised sale of pedisreed
stock. *
The crow is largely scavenger, an
unclean bird. "A dead animal never
gets too dead for it's appetite, and
nest full Of eggs partly incubated is a
titbit for this black cannibal. All birds
fight and make war on the crows, and
with good reason. Wherever crows are
plentiful there all other birds are few.
1t is only insectivorous IN its habits by
compilation and belongs to the carniv-
ora in an ornithologtcalsway. Crows,
rabbits and sparrows are pests Of our
modern civilization and should be de-
stroyed on sight.
Tho crop losses Of the west and
northwest this season have been al
most entirely from water and not from
frost or drought The great need Of
this section is to get rid Of Just such
an excess Of rainfall a. We have had
this year. Millions Of acres Of corn
were ruined BY having wet feet during
June and July, preventing proper Guilt
walton and retardin9 development at
a critical time; another million. acres.
of small grain were. drowned out. The.
truth is that hardly farn can. be
found where more or less
underdrainase would not pay. Z hun.
dredfold. The profits Of ths year could
well be invested IN tits cert It work.
We always IKE 70 Aavs tie wi1ter
come on gently and sasy. tie nights
q, bit coi4ss each week - the
sun sinks 4 little farther and further
south, tho hrst snsw Just . srunkls.
soon to melt away, H. t1ess gradually
shifting from their sunnse Sreen to
their winter browns and SSays, have
the wild fowl work slowly south and
taTy awhile and have nature leisureiy
90 about preparing for the long cold
winter and not have an idesl Indian
day wind up with roaring
north wind and big SHOWS. catching
everybody unprepared and sending the
wild fowl at q hundred mile an hour
clip toward hesouth country, the mer.