Iowa State Register and Farmer (Newspaper) - December 22, 1905, Des Moines, Iowa FARMER Published weekly a and Court a by FRIDAY DECEMBER 22 1305 TERMS OF Single subscriptions one s subscriptions tUree Three subscriptions one or more for one year 30 Register und Farmer ons arc paid in advance i he stops at the end of ths time for Jt is paid No bills are ever -ent to our subscribers because they never owe us anything on subscription New York Building Payne Young Managers Chicago ing Payne Young Give postoffice address in full ing county and state In of address give both old and new ad- dresses Watch the label en paper It tells the date to which your subscription is paid Money may be sent by Order Express Money Order Registered Letter or Draft at our risk Rates to Postmasters and Publishers sent on application Copies sent Free Address IOWA STATE REGISTER FARMER Des Moines Iowa Page Comment Page Comment Con- and Country Life Page Life Continued Page Page Page Department Page Farmers Institute Page Home Circle Page Boys and Girls Page Story Page of Page Department Page News Page Crop for Page Notes Page Page Page Page Advertisements Page Christmas is a great shifter of bank accounts The Panama canal bids fair tc be like the with us Funk's indorsement of Perkins ought to neutralise Blythe's at least What the president did not say about tariff revision would Lave made another words The politician and the pass are to be of the best things which ever happened to the country No man is a safe man for governor believes that the majority of his party is wrong on the vital questions of the day Some way it seems all wrong to have converts of these professional evangelists quoted at from to per head Senator Mitchell was indicted tried aad b7 the courts for Ing and then died Senator Depew has been indicted tried and sentenced at the bar of public opinion and still though so far as reputation and future usefulness are concerned he too is as lead as Julius Caesar A sure way to gel rich in this try is to wear your shirt your rants live on rice run a laundry It never The canal will afford the for the making or breaking P good many reputations during the next twenty years It may be expected that Senator Morgan will be in a sort of I told you so at this session with reference to the canal George D Perkins is made a rifice on the altar of republican tional strife look out for a fight to a finish and a lot of gory scalps Mr Dougherty the educational financier of Peoria is now engaged in the exhilerating occupation of ing broom corn at the penitentiary It is a fortunate thing that Mr Jack London's books are better than he is as the many can read and only the few have to know him personally The adjustment of the problem of railroad control should not be with the political fortunes of any man It needs a broader ment The problem more studied than any other in this country is how to get a living without putting in some good honest hard-working work Senator Burton's salary still runs on in spite of indictments trials and convictions but then he probably needs the salary worse now than he ever did before Abe Funk's opinion of ox yokes in connection with picture is of interest only less so than would be his opinion of political yokes of the prevailing style It would have taken a million els of corn in 1895 to have paid for the picture at the head of the capitol staircase We had corn to burn that year it will be remembered Man at Corning had a lot of sick hogs lost thirty but the disease proved to be a chirographic and not a bacterial trouble for after he gave them each a new pen they were all right The gulf roads are offering a real competition in rates for shipment of western products The Milwaukee road lately made a deep cut on com rates to the Atlantic seaboard to meet the rates made by the gulf roads The effect of the tariff on hides is to increase the cost of a pair of shoes just about 7 cents If we had free trade we might get the same shoe for but probably would not have the money with which to buy them We know of a case where a pretty good sort of a man got so raad be- cause he could not drive an old sow into the yard that he fairly foamed at the mouth and had to have a doctor to get him out of the fit We did not worry very much over the man or the old sow but did wonder if si woman would not have a rocky time living with sucb a man We have known a few farmers turn over into tax dodgers just as soon as they got the mortgage paid and were able to get one on another man's farm Calling good as the product of the average acre of Iowa corn this year the farmers have just finished picking cars each one picked by hand A suit of fourteenth century armor such as the knights wore in their frays would be about the right sort of a suit for the men who go deer ing in the northern woods The man with the hoe the man with the cradle the man with the bucksaw aud the woman with the needle and the dash churn are fast becoming relics of a past age When a reformer so-called wants a public office his sincerity may ways be seriously questioned St Paul John the Baptist and arola were not built that way Sight There are no hired from any of our which is to be regrett were it would be some in the burden of more heathen It is the sunshine which puts the beautiful color on the apple and the foliage of the forest in the fall and just so a bright and cheerful way with men puts rich coloring on all persons and things with which they come in contact Every year there is some so called scientist trying to scare folks with the statement that next year the country is to be overrun with the seventeen year locust While there may be such an insect we have never in forty years known it to do any harm To us it looks entirely fair and proper to have the minority party in Iowa represented by one member of congress and Congressman son cannot hold the Second district without a gerrymander of the Third district type let our friends the have the district A party or a man may be good and still be a hog If the peat beds of the they are very be used to produce a valuable fuel at a cost price of not to exceed a dollar a ton when pressed and dried the west can scon show the coal barons of the east a new trick It is claimed that this thing can be done and is be- ing done The inordinate love of the dollar too often makes men unpatriotic and disloyal to the town and community in which they live save a little they will send away from home for supplies refuse to patronize their neighbors refuse a dollar towards public Improvements in their own town belittle and degrade home en- arid yet be the first to ad- vance the price of their property as a result of the patient self-sacrificing work cf others Loyalty to your own town is just as commendable a type of patriotism as one can find aad no matter how much your patriotism boils over ou the Fourth of July in a general way if you are disloyal in little things to your own town you are a poor citizen of the republic you are like him who make long prayers in the church and jaws his wife and neglects his children at home SHOULD KNOW WHEN WE ARE WELL OFF In MI economic way it has a hard and a long struggle L- get the relations of producer aud consumer of labor and capital of employer and employee as well and equally ad- justed as they are and still there are eome fretful and uneasy to whom a tariff tax of 5 cents on a pair of shoes is a constant worry and who think the country is going to the because the roads have to pay a ton for steel rails This sort would want to improve the architecture and climatic conditions of heaven and let contracts for angelic wardrobes to the lowest bidder Great thing for a man or a country to know when he or it is well off Some men and some countries never do WEALTH IN AGRICULTURE Professor Andrew M Soule of tti college has Wilson's example a report of the agricultural rest es of this country so as not to repel by a mere array of figures but to attract by comparisons Professor Soule believes we are too prone to think that our country owes its wealth and greatness chiefly to its manufactures Ke gives some In- figures In there were persons engaged in ture and in manufactures There were manufacturing establishments with a total of a large portion of which was watered The net value of the manufactures de- ducting the cost of crude materials was The value of farm products and live stock in 1893 was The particular field in which Soule finds there has been the most profit in the past and in which the young man's chances are brightest for the future is stock raising In according to his statement there were domestic animals In the United States of which were classed as dairy cows which re- turned a yearly profit of at least to their owners This amount it is estimated might be most doubled by scientific feeding Professor Soule contends that it Is this live stock industry which has not only made Chicago but maintains it as the western metropolis If Chicago were to be deprived of this trade its commercial importance would quickly The wholesale trade of that city -In 1304 was The live stock transactions aggregated poultry products butter and eggs slaughtering and packing The gate is After having proved his case so well statistically there is little need for Professor Soule to dwell upon its other phases He argues however for a return to the simple life the farm life and finds this appeal to tfco pocket book Uie most effective of all the arguments that could be urged
