Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-09

Going to grass will prove the Sc
cret of success for many man in an
agricultural way.
The Alberta country Is showing up
as great winter wheat country, the
most important discovery yet made
there.
While the deciduous trees may be
safely Tansplanted In the fall Of the
year, nothing but failure can be looked
for when evergreens are SO treated.
Set out In the fall they will surely die.
The cement crosswnik for city streets
is supplanting all other kinds. It 10
cheap, durable, easily cleaned and
every way satisfactory The stone,
brick and wooden crosswalks will have
to go.
An acre Of good blue grass pasture
will make So worth Of beef In year.
AS this return can be secured at the
nominal expense Of sailing the stock
and looking after the fences, 1t makes
such land worth at least 500 per acre
There Is a close alliance between fur
coats and bank deposits, the gentle
men who wear these coats now being
able to draw their checks in four f1g-
ures. The time was, and not so very
long ago, when they could not afford
to buy a fur coat and when the only
business they had with the bank was
to secure If possible the extension Of a
loan at 10 per cent
If one has Land which he must rent,
il such land is getting worn out and
weedy, II cookie burs are more thrift
ty crop than corn, the best thing to do
is to get the land into grass, and, while
tho rent it will command as pasture
will not be more than half what it
would for cropping purposes, there is
this to be considered that grass will
kill the weeds and gradually restore
fertility to the soil.
When the electric arc light was first
introduced it was assumed that for
municipal illumination the higher up
the lights were placed the better, and
the first arc lights were placed in lofty
towers. Experience proved this thing
all wrong, and now the lights are plac-
ed near the surface Of the ground, near
to the people. This suggests that II
man desires to have his light shine
he will best succeed by not elevating 1t
too high.
II you want to get breed Of hens
that won't want to put in the good
part of the summer sitting get the
Leghorns. II you want lots OF eggs
get Leghorns. If you expect to make
much money from chicken meat do
not get them. II you do not want the
farm homestead, garden and orchard
all stratched up do not get them. but
Just for egg production alone and
where q large number Of hens are kept
and have to shift for themselves there
is no breed equal to the~Leghorn.
A friend recently tried to justify the
growth Of weeds In his cornfleld on the
ground that while they did not look
good they still, when plowed under,
returned to the soil an equivalent In
humus for all other elements Of fer
tility taken by them from the soil.
This is a false reasoning. On the same
ground there would be many people
whose existence in the world could
only be excused on the ground Of the
value OF their remains for fertilizing
material. The soil and the world are
each the poorer for producing both the
weeds and the worthless human.
Western banks show constantly In
creastng limos Of deposits. It Is inter
est1ng to trace out where this accumu-
lating wealth originates. We find that
It is mostly agricultural wealth, that
it is farmers who own the stock Of the
bank, largely form The directory and
whose money 1t Is which forms the
large line Of deposits. Tracing ont
where and how they get this money,
we find that the largest contributor is
the hog. then the COW, then the steer,
then the hen. We also find that the
grain raiser and the grain eeller only
rarely has any bank deposits and that
what he makes one year he Is almost
sure to lose the next
A young farmer friend Of ours re-
Gently married city girl who YVES
bnssfully ignorant Of everything per-
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