Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-02

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The great Kankakee marsh in Indi-
ana is being drained and converted in.
to some Of the most valuable and pro-
1 ductiye farms In the state.
In no line of farm work is the mat
ter Of cooperation so Indispensable as
among fruit growers. 1t is almost i'm
possible for man to go it alone in this
business and find profitable market
for his fruit
4 Greater miracles in agricultural de-
yelopment are being wrought out by IT.
rigatiou than have ever been accom-
| plished by drainage. Irrigation under
| government control is literally making
the desert to blossom as the rose
More and more men are finding out
the intrinsic value of a small piece Of
land intensively cultivated as an aid
to the support of a family 1t is really
surprising what a little piece Of land
can be made to produce under an in
telligent cultivation.
Latitude makes great difference in
the keeping quality Of apples. Thus, il
| a Wealthy apple is raised in Missouri 1t
becomes simply a late summer or early
fall fruit, while if it is grown in cen
trail Minnesota it may be kept through
the winter without trouble as a winter
fruit.
A friend who planted two acres of
soft maple on q go6d piece of land
twenty-five years ago cleared the tim
Der off last winter and secured 100
cords of wood. While this was not
very large return upon his investment,
it proves that there are millions Of
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with timber, because as such land is
now used it does not pay as well as tho
timber would.
| Men engaged in working for other
men on fixed salary very often find
| themselves in position where the
4 work forced upon them is too much for
4 mo- ot 1rrl, fS,y.
most men SO situated the natural tend
ency is to do only SO much work as
they think is fair stunt and let the
rest go, while here and there will be
| found man who will cheerfully Shout
der the additional burden and for
awhile uncomplainingly do two mems
work. 1t is worth noting in this con-
nection that when promotion is to be
made in the force some way it is these
men who usually secure it.
A friend wants to know what he had
l better do with a balky horse. He says
that if he tries to trade him off and tells
the truth about the horse nobody will
take him, and that if he sells him and
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afterward to his sorrow This is true,
/ however-some horses are balky with
some men and not with others the fact
being that it is the man and not the
horse which Is balky. We have at diff
4 ferent times owned two balky horses.
1 One we cured by wrapping a piece of
i plug tobacco around his bit when the
1 II rtb lot iyJ,1
have who bought him knowing his bad
habits. III Germany the best thing to
| do with such a horse would be to con-
vert him into sausage.
Wild game, from being forty years
ago the poor mans necessity and one
/ important source of his food supply, is
/ fast becoming the rich mans luxury.
We can recall the time when ducks.
geese, prairie chickens and fish We're
such common and everyday articles OF
food that the people got tired of the
sight of wild game, whether dead or
/ alive None of the almost endless
amount and variety of wild life then
so common now survives save the few
/ ioNls (WHICH Cal NY
4 year become fewer in number and
more difficult to shoot This condition
prevails Notwithstanding game. Of all
kinds is protected by law in AL the
states. The truth is that wild game.
like the Indian, cannot stand civiliza-
ton.
A hundred years of occupation and
cultivation by man have about ruined
the productive capacity Of the soils Of
many of the eastern states, have SO bad
ly impaired their fertility that even
with the stimulus Of commercial fer
tilizers they will no longer return q
I. profitable crop. The same destructive
process is at work i'll a marked manner
In the southern and north central states,