Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-25

in favor Of the leveling Of the dirt road
after rain, and it Is that, there being
no track or runt for wagons, travellers
will not drive in each others tracks,
but will spread out, SO to speak, and
thus help roll the road and keep it in
good shape.
The man who lives on the latlands,
where he sometimes loses a crop by
reason Of too much moisture, has this
for his comfort-that no amount Of
rain can wash away the fertility of his
farm, while his neighbor on the billy
farm will lose in wet season more
fertility than would grow two big
crops.
In town Of thousand people we
noted the other day a freight car being
loaded with manure, which was being
hauled from the town barns to be TAX
en- out and dumped somewhere on the
right of way of the road to be rid of 1t,
and this when it was worth dollar a
wagon load to put on. cornfeld ad-
Joining the corporation. Some men
cannot see.
II we had a fat, wet farm where the
crops would wholly or partially fail
during wet season and could do it in
no other way we would sell so much Of
the land as would enable US to thor
oughly tile drain the remainder. There
orr h1r 4P 20 oil 20
country who could make good money
by following out this suggestion. The
partial loss Of a crop for two years on
this type Of land will easily pay for Its
redemption by tile draining.
The trouble connected with using
seed corn, only 70 per cent Of which
will grow, planting more than three
kernels In hill to Offset the poor seed,
Is that one always gets an irregular
stand, because the good and the poor
seed cannot be exactly apportioned to
each hill, so it comes that some hills
will be entirely missing, some will have
six stalks, some one, when to get the
best results just three kernels of strong
terminating power should be got in
each hill.
Every fifty years there was year Of
jubilee for the Israelites-a year when
all deals were squared up, debts can
celed, slaves freed, old scores wiped
out and every fellow took fresh start
"a sort Of national bankruptcy affair.
Some men would like year of jubilee
now, but It would do them no good,
for this sort never profit by experience
and would go right ahead to the limit
of their credit getting into debt again.
No equitable division of this worlds
goods would ever keep them square.
| An old farmer in Indiana who had
spent long lifetime in clearing up
one Of the heavily timbered farms of
that state reserved little piece of the
original forest on corner of his farm
which was cut off from the rest of the
land by small creek. The past win
ter he sold some walnut trees on this
land for $3.50 each and quantity re.
marked that he had worked hard for q
lifetime to make himself poor, for II
b had done nothing and let his trees
alone he would now be very rich
man.
The grain dealers Of some Of the
western states are up against new
type Of competition. The farmers Of 8
given community organize an incorpo
fated company, two or three hundred
of them, each taking one or more
shares of stock in the company an6
being restricted to just one vote. Ar
elevator is built or purchased and ar
agent employed to receive and shir
their grain. If in competition with 6
private concern, the same price is PAID
for grain and the company joins the
state grain dealers association. This
the farmers have most unQuestionet
right to do, but the Joke comes in Xix,
this-all the grain raisers Of commu
nifty being members, there is no grair
left for the other fellow to buy. This
plan is growing, for whatever prof
there may be connected with the grai1
! business goes back to the members IL
the shape of an annual dividend.