Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-29

Ue IuTulSuGU III dUuuuuuCe 10 every
flock Of poultry kept in captivity.
When allowed to range they get these
things or their equivalents.
Foodstuffs will hereafter have to
wear their everyday clothes as re-
suit of the pure food bill lately passed
by congress. While they may not be
so attractive to the eye. they will with
out question he more acceptable to the
palate.
A lesson that experience teaches be-
fore one advances far in life is that
things that are really worth while,
both in the line Of material acquisition
and development of personality and
character, are only attained through
sacrifice and an expenditure of CORE
spending perseverance and hard work.
Owing to light hay crop the coun-
try over farmers In number of local
tiles in the corn belt are planning this
year to shred and bale large quanti-
ties OF corn fodder for shipment to the
larger markets. Both horses and cat
tie do we'll on the shredded fodder,
while feeders will find it cheaper
substitute for the tame and wild hay.
Those raising oats this year from
which they are likely to save seed
should take note as to the presence Of
smut. Some fields we know of this
year have as high as 10 per cent Of the
seed is saved from such fields thor
ough treatment with formaldehyde
solution should be given next spring
before the grain Is sowed.
It must have been an all wise Provi.
dence that, anticipating the social and
financial inequalities that were to arise
with the passing Of centuries, placed
the greatest gifts to mankind-fresh
air, sunshine, the song birds, the beau
ty Of the natural world and the bless
ings of the home ties-within reach Of
all. Only in rare instances can money
buy these common blessings, and just
as rarely Is it that the lack of it will
take them away.
Tests recently conducted by the de-
partment of animal industry at Plym-
outh, Wis, in the matter of curing
cheese show that score Of 50 per
cent was made by cheese put into
cold storage at 80 degrees F. i'm
mediately on removal from the press,
while the lowest scoring, 81.4 per cent,
was made by cheese kept in the fac.
tory cooling room during the whole
period Of curing. A milder favor was
also obtained with the cold storage
treatment.
AS people we are only just wax.
ing to the enormous loss that is annu-
ally sustained through hauling products
to market over poor roadsa loss that
is none the less real because it is one
that is usually taken for granted. A
speaker in Missouri good roads con.
vention recently made the statement
that farmer can get to town over
good roads with thirty dollar load
of produce with less wear on horses
and wagon than he could with ten
dollar load over poor roads. With good
roads he holds that time required for
marketing produce would be reduced
two-thirds.
The state of Minnesota has paid out
| 100000 in wolf bounties during a
period Of thirty-six years, but in spite
| tiles to protect the live stock interests
of the state the number of wolves seem
to be increasing rather than diminish
| ing. The conviction Is growing that, In.
stead of serving as an incentive to ex
| terminate the pests, the bounty is look
ed upon as graft for lot of shiftless
woodsmen and hunters, who 50 manip
ulate matters as to have steady
source of income from the business
1t is thought that If the bounty were
removed entirely those suffering the
| most from the inroads Of the animals
| would undertake the destruction Of the
brutes without any bounty incentive.
The department of agriculture annu
ally spends $11 100000 to carry on Its
far reaching and useful work, and with
the employees who will be added tc
its working force under the new meat
inspection law the total expenditures
are likely to exceed by good deal the
figure named. With the employees
named, in addition to the increased
force required in the work Of exter
minating the cattle fever tick and the
gypsy and brown tailed moths and the
investigation Of dry land farming, the
department will have payroll Of 5000
persons. whose average salary is les:
than 5000 year. Over 100000
pieces of literature are distributed eact
year, and this amount will be largely
increased as new lines of inyestiga tior
are taken UP. Judging from what Il
has already done In the past and Il
carrying out in the present, the future
work Of the department would seen
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