Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-31

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October II, 1908, at the postonice. "
tumwa. Iowa, under the ACT % W.
gress Of March 8. 1873.
THREE STORIES OF SUCCESS.
How to get men on the soil-men OF
the kind who would profit by it's 9
question of practical helpfulness that
comes up in every part of the land,
saws a writer In Worlds Work. Con-
tinuinR. he says that brief stories OF
what men have done may help, besides
heine of universal human interest,
and he quotes the following expert
ences Of three men who made sue
cesses on farms in the south as told
Nv the publisher Of a North Carolina
farm journal: I'D
'He moved from New Jersey, just
after the close Of the war, to the
country where the rest of his life was
spent bringing with him very little
capital. From the first he always kept
q pure-bred Jersey bull and q chester
hog Of the very best strain, and ne
not only bred good stock himself but
encouraged his neighbors to do so.
When he died, the average price or
the cattle In that neighborhood was
two or three times what it was when
he began his work OF Improvement
He made good bit Of money for him
self by raising good hogs, and 1t IS
difficult to estimate what his stock
has been worth to this section. His
influence was felt along all lines Of
farming. When he began as tenant
on the farm which he afterward
owned, the average yield of corn was
two and one-half to three barrels; but
in the last years of his life 1t was ten
barrels. When he died he had snug
bank-account, and fully three times as
much stuff was sold of the surround
ing farms as twenty-five years before.
at is doubtful if in any other occupa-
ton this man could have led more
satisfactory and fruitful life.
81 know another man who lives on
a fine farm in little North Carolina
valley. It was not fine farm, how
ever, when he bought it nine years
ago, for he paid only $12 an acre for
It: when he brought his father and
mother down from Ohio to see 1t his
wife overheard the father, after
tour of inspection, comment on it in
this fashion: Mother, never thought
we would have raised such "a fool.
Today that 24O-acre farm is worth at
least $50 (probably $3.50 an acre. II
grows big crops, which are fed TO
good live stock and thus marketed at
far above the average market prices.
The owner Is sure-enough farmer,
feeding the cattle, driving the teams,
digging bitches for tile drains-work
that has paid him 500 per cent on the
investment in one year-with his own
hands: but he writes for the leading
farm papers, Is in demand as an inst1-
tute lecturer and Is man Of &C
knowledged influence all over his
state.
"He bought the first two-horse
corn planter to his neighborhood. A
neighbor looked at it and said: l
thought Yankees we're hard workers;
Won seem to devote most OF your time
to keeping out of work CA man
walks after one-horse planter, but
rides on a twohorse machine.) The
neighbor didn't believe, of course, IN
doing more work than q Yankee, so he
bought two-horse planter, and others
did the same. This man showed his
neighbors, too, how to build up their
lands with very little commercial fertil-
tzer and how to convert to use the
little wet spots, the most potentially
fertile but the least productive parts
of their fields He is successful
man in every sense of the word, and
such successes wait in almost count
less numbers all over the south for
farmers who have progressive ideas
and sound business sense.
..In another part OF the same state
lives man thirty-fve years old who
has been farming for himself for
seventeen years. He started with
poor farm, poor tools, and very little
money. Yet the man who went from
our Office to see him a few months
ago rode out to the farm in an auto
mobile. found house with tele-
phone, water-works, and electric lights
and this is no town farmer but
= man some miles out in the country.
I'm fact, these conveniences are be-
coming so common in the country as
to attract little attention. I know OF.
dozens Of farmers who have installed
home water-works systems at costs
varying from $50 to $500; and with
these modern comforts farnl-life is be
coming attractive even to the city
bred man and woman. The farmer in
question, however, could have had
these things if they had cost much
more, for last year he sold $4,000
worth of farm products. His water
melon patch this year contained 200
acres, and he had as much in canta-
loupes. In the busy season he en-
ploys hundred men.
"Of course, his neighbors are better
farmers because of his example"
FADS IN FOODS.
DR.. Alonzo E. Taylor, professor OF
physiological chemistry in the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania, has taken up
the cudgel against the food faddists.
He assails "Fletcherism," declares
ic hapof,cio1 a "a