Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-05-16

consumer instead of a producer, and
THIS increases the opportunities of the
FARMER. This means better prices for
the same crops.
The farmer above all other men who
work for living fixes his own hours
Of labor and of leisure.
Don't get frightened because land is
nigh. We have found all the corn land
there is in the whole round earth, and
there is not enough of it to go around.
IL VIII never be worth any less money
than 1t is to-day, but in my Judgment
IL VIII increase in value far beyond the
highest conception of most of us. The
population is sure to increase; we are
constantly finding new uses for corn
and the demand for it will be i'm
creased. You will never see any more
cheap corn, in my judgment.
I'VE have taken hold of the arm of
the scientist and are studying along
With him. The scientist is the only
man on earth who demonstrates:
therefore he is the only man who
knows absolutely what he is talking
about. Nature works by law and YOU
can rely upon that law
1T is the business of the scientist to
teach us why Nobody has ever been
satisfied until he has learned WHY. and
nobody ever does very good work at a
business until he has learned WHY
Why! And here we have in Illinois a
great agricultural department made
possible by the national government.
sustained by our state authorities. to
teach us why Any man in Illinois can
learn what his soil lacks to restore it
to its original fertility. It won't cost
him anything to do it. Now, is that
not worth doing?
There is no country on earth where
the hand of man has titled the soil long
and continuously that he has not ruined
it. And If we here in. America shall
teach the world how to use the land
without abusing it we will have writ
ten new page in history and will
have made ourselves a name that will
live forever, not only as agriculturists
but in the history of the progress Of
the world. Why not do it?
1T is nerve-racking business when
we fight humanity. In a lawsuit, even
when the ends Of justice have pre-.
vailed, one side goes home licked and
in sorrow. But if you go out and bat
tie with nature, working in accordance
with her laws, doing your best and
learning the method by which you may
make an old, Worn-out farm producing
twenty-seven bushels of corn per acre
produce eighty bushels to the acre you
have defeated nobody. you have made
nobody feel bad. On the other hand,
you have helped yourself and taught
your neighbor to do a great good for
his country.
IF you raise a better colt or better
hog than has ever been raised in your
neighborhood before, you have helped
that whole township as we'll as your
self.
Il tell you we are just playing with
the business of farming; we have not
begun to do business yet; we don't
know what heritage we have here.
1t is the youth of the land that must
make this development. The professor
is on the right track; teach it to the
children. Teach it to the children!
That is where the power of the nation
resides. The schools of Illinois will
make the thing go. Sooner or later we
will get these great subjects drilled
into the children of the day."
A bill for opening to sale 5000 900
acres of land in Oklahoma is being
urged before congress for passage by