Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-11-28
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BANK
Under Stall Control and Supervision
Capital, 100000.
Corner Second and Market Streets,

apparent net balance of trade during
that time amounting to 5000, O0O, 900
after an adverse balance against man
ufactures and other products not agri-
cultural, amounting to $543,OOe, 900,
has been Offset. The manufacturing
industries that depend upon farm pro-
ducts for raw materials employed
2,154,000 persons in 1900 and used q
capital Of $4,132,0O0,000. Within a
decade farmers have become promi-
nent as bankers and as money lenders
throughout large areas, and during the
last five years prosperous conditions
and the better directed efforts of the
farmers themselves have increased
the value of their farms 33.5 per cent,
or an amount approximately equal to
IS, 133, 000,O 900.
Gamblers In Produce Denounced.
In discussing the work of the divi-
sion of publications the secretary
points out that the terms of the law
requiring the department to diffuse in
formation of value to agriculture are
mandatory and the most economical
and available means of diffusion is
through publication
Referring to the work of the bureau
Of statistics the secretary says that
the development of organizations to
temporary changes giving unnatural
advantages to price manipulators has
led to the need for a strong and i'm
partial agency to make comprehensive
reports of actual facts relating to
prospective crops and yields that all
concerned may know how to buy and
sell. He describes the various pro-
cesses of crop-reporting, the condi-
tions. under which and the methods by
which these reports are made.
Change In Handling Crop Reports.
The secretary states that as the re-
suit of gross breach of trust on the
part of one Of the officials an entirely
new method of handling these reports
is being devised, which he believes
makes it practically impossible for
such another breach of confidence to
occur. He reports the prompt dis
missal of the culpable official and the
transfer of the whole matter to the de-
partment Of justice. with view to
the prosecution of the guilty party.
He, expresses regret that while the
department handled the case of its
own official with vigor and prompt
ness, no corresponding action has SO
far reached the traders end Of the
line :,
Where" the secretary says, gam
blers interested neither in production
nor in consumption disturb values to
the injury Of both and make loud out
cry when creatures of their kind bride
officials to betray confidence for the
love Of money, the responsibility for
this leak is shared by everyone who
to get money without work CANDLES
In farm products.
when this form of industry ceases
these parasites who tempt department
officials will have to work for their
bread"
He reports the assignment of AS.
sistant Secretary Hays to take charge
Of the work of the bureau of statis-
tics for the present
Farm Prosperity Just Beginning.
The report concludes: Great has
been the work undertaken and &C.
complished by this department, graft
flying as have been the results be it
remembered that we are still at the
Threshold Of agricultural develop
ment and that the educational work
which has led to such grand results,
has only been extended as yet to a
portion of our agricultural population.
There is not an intelligent, patriotic
citizen in the union who will not say
with his whole heart, Let the good
work go on"