Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-13
HoLDEN,s CORN CROP.

81 twenty-five mlll1On DuSnolS OIL lnS
corn crop that puts Iowa ahead of her
rival, Illinois, is ere tied to Professor
Holden of Iowa State college. The
Pork of the seed corn special train is
Beginning to tell and scientific farm
ing is beginning to receive its due re,
cognition.
II 25,OO0,OO0 bushels of the crop of
400,000,000 bushels is to be credited
to Professor Holden, and it is SO done
by Secretary George A. Wells of the
Iowa State Grain Dealers association
in it's final report, this is condition
that ought to be needed by every corn
grower in the state Corn is still king
in Iowa and anything that is so import
ant to its increased production should
not be passed by lightly.
Iowa has one of the best agri.
cultural colleges in the union, but 1t
was long time before the man who
learned from his father how to farm
could be convinced that it was neces-
sary or even beneficial to go to a col
lege to learn how to SOW, cultivate ard
reap. and how to breed and feed. Col.
lege education was looked upon as
necessary for the professional man.
but there was a question in the minds
of the old agriculturalist as to the
advisability of sending the boy to a
state institution to learn how to farm
With an humble beginning the
school has grown. Along with it has
developed the farmers institute, and
there the older man learns that there
are some things he missed when he
was being taught how to till the soil.
and it becomes apparent to him that
an institution that devotes year in.
y stead of day or two to the subjects
of interest to the agriculturalists is
worth having
s Farming is no longer a business for
4 man who has made a failure at
everything else. Land is too high in
iowa for the slipshod workman. When
100 an acre is paid for farms, the
'st that is in them must be taken
=, And the taking out process can
go on forever. Something must
| t back. 1t is here that the man
as studied the composition Of the
70 has learned what will make
We land out of what has be.
rren, who knows when he has
enough or too much of one
product, makes more out Of
than the one who has sowed
ed in the old way that was
when lands were cheap in
soil is not all. The Iowa
tho merely raises and sells
only half farming. The most
ii manufacturer is not the one
rely makes an article and puts
market. Nor is the man con
most successful who only fur.
he raw material. More and
he factory men who use wood
wing timber lands, those who
5eel are buying steel mills.
hing they use in the M ufac.
article that it is feasll for
to produce they do produce.
,e most successful farmer is not
one who merely raises the grain
the one who feeds it, and sells not
IN alone, but beef and pork and milk
Or butter. So there is another side
where education is needed. 1t costs
no more to feed a thoroughbred calf
that is worth SIS when it is born, than
1t does to feed one that is worth 2
fifth that amount. But many farmers
Insist upon filing their farms up with
the latter.
1t costs considerable to stock farm
with blooded cattle or hogs, but t
can be begun on a small scale for
much less. Lessons in breeding and
feeding work together and the man
who has learned both is going to