Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23

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TRIBUTE TO IOWA. .
Iowans who have been lax In their
enthusiasm for their state and who
have avoided or neglected opportun'
tiles to boost it, should notice how
the state appeals to others who 90 not
live here but who can see from dis
lance what many Of us fail to see about
US. The wonders of this state are such
that lowans have more real excuse ana
reason for indulging in little boastlng
than any other state in the union.
Following is tribute paid to the state
by the National Tribune, Washing
ton, D. c., publication, shortly after
an encampment of civil war veterans
at Burlington had focused attention
hero for time:
Americans should cease looking
abroad for illustrations of where the
kindly earth laughs with the most
abundant harvests.
For 5000 years mankind has locked
upon Egypt as the most bounteous neld
OF food for man. The narrow valley OF
the Nile fed majestic Rome for cen.
turtles. But the II mile wide strip OF
arabic land along the ancient river IS
not in it alongside 1owa's imperial
sweep of black, deep soil, reaching
down to the stimulating limestone.
Iowa will raise more corn In couple
of her congressional districts than Jo-
seph stored up in seven years OF rat
ness against the seven lean years that
he had interpreted Pharaoh's dream to
mean as forthcoming.
For centuries the Banat OF Hun
gary has been regarded as the gran
.ary Of Europe" Great wars have been
fought for it's possession, and 1t has
ruled the prices in the grain markets
of the world.
A peasant, being shown the price
less jewels Of the Austrian Imperial
regalia, remarked that they were NOT
all together worth one good rain on the
Banat"
Yet the Banat has: an area of only
10000 square miles, or less than one
nth that Of Iowa, and, acre for acre.
will not raise bushel of grain more.
Iowa has 56,025 square miles OF terri
tory. or more than one-fourth the size
OF France. Germany or Austrla'Hun-
gary. She is almost exactly the size
Of England and Wales together.
Most wonderful, nearly every acre
OF this kingly area Is of the richest
possible soil, needing only the tickling
OF the live farmer to laugh IN aound-
ance. for man and beast.
Iowa carries less dead weight than
anv other similar stretch of country
in the world. Farms take up 94.4 per
cent of it's area, and 86.5 per cent OF
the land is under actual cultivation.
And such cultivation! Think OF pro-
duction of 339 100000 bushels OF corn
in 1918, or nearly four bushels 1or
every man, woman and child in the
United States, or about $50 bushels
for every man, woman and child IN
Iowa! Besides this, her fields produc-
ed 1885, 900 bushels Of wheat, l6S,3oo,-
600 bushels of oats, 1900, 900 bushels OF
potatoes and 4,440,000 tons of hay.
Neither man nor beast need 60 hungry
IN Iowa.
Iowa farmers not only till their land
according to the most advanced IDEAS
in agriculture, with an acre product
not surpassed and rarely equaled any.
where else, but they are advanced
economists in realizing on their pro-
ducts. They go as far as possible TO-
ward what scientific writer's term the
finished products"
There would be little profit in sell
ing oats, corn and wheat at market
prices from land worth 5000 an acre.
Therefore they convert their hay ana
grain into beef pork milk, butter ana
cheese before they finally pocket the
proceeds.
Therefore Iowa farmers live in fine
houses, with hot and cold water IN
every room. They take their famlles
in high priced automobiles to churches
of Gothic architecture, and their wives
have nervous prostration, slit skirts
and other qualifications for the smart
set.
It is not wholly to her wonderfully
fertile soil. benignant skies and aoun-
dant rainfall that Iowa owes her great
wealth and prosperity. She was for.
tunate in attracting high class OF
neople as pioneers. The fame of the
marvelously rich lands lying between
the Mississippi and Ohio rivers spread
RAPIDLY through New England, New
-v--L Pennsylvania. New Jersey and
MARYLAND and drew thither rapidly
increasing migration of young men and
women of high character and capabll-
ity.
THE MOSQUITO BITE.
Did you know that the mosquito does
not terminate malaria, that it catches
malaria by biting person having thai
disease and that you may catch it when
you are bitten by Mrs. Mosquito? Al
though it is true that not all mos