Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-02-06
FARM AND I{OIsEHoLD.
PARAGRAspns.


Ii the droppings ofcattle in pasi1ras
are spread out, their value is increased
tenfold.
The farmer who plows deep, man
ures literally and keeps down weeds
will prosper.
The cultivation of the soil is fast be-
coming science, and one that is OF
more value TO mankind than any 9TH
er.
The increased price of the great ag-
ricuitural staples does not keep pace
with the increased price of produc-
ton.
Profit from keeping stock comes
from the food digested and assimilat-
ed in excess OF what is required to
support vitality, and the more we can
get single animal TO digest and as
simulate, and therefore convert into the
desired product, the greater win be
the profit.
apples, pears, and peaches contain
from 81 TO 86 per cent. Of water, and
most other fruits the same. Grapes
contain nearly twice as much sugar as
apples, more than twice as much as
currants, three times as much as rasp-
berries, and five or six times rs much
as apricots and peaches.
Feed more grass These three words
contain and explain the entire theory
of that practice by which any one can
make hog rsising-barring the chole-
ra--as profitable az the raising Of any
other kind of stock, ii not more 80, on
account of their ready sale in any mar
ket everysyear.
Joseph Harris claims that he can
make cheaper pork out of late fall pigs
than out OF spring pigs If well VIM
tered. being young, they will consume
little corn they win keep fat on clover,
during the summer, and very little
corn during the fall will make them
ready foi market. HE plan is to give
them sli the cooked corn-meal they
Win eat until they they are four months
old.
The following is said TO be sure
test of horses age: After horse is
nine years old, wrinkle comes over
his eyelid, at the upper corner of the
lower lid, and every year thereafter he
has one well defined wrinkle for each
year of his age over nine. II for In
stance, he has three " rinkles he Is IL
years old.
WEDDING CELEBRATioNs.-A IL young
men and women who contemplate a
speedy marriage, should know that
TO keep within the requirements of
! fashion--they must, in a long life. of
! wedlock, celebrate their wedding an j.
niyersary a great many times. How
! ever we sincerely trust that the publi-
cation OF the following list will not
! deter any approaching nuptials -
/ Three days--Sugar. Sixty days--Vin-
| cgar. First anniversary--Paper 9th
! anniy ersary---W W ooden 10Th anniver-
sary--Tin. 18th anniversary--Crystai
\ versary--Siiver. Both anniversary
Cotton. S5th auniversary--Linen.--
10th anniversary -Woolen. 18th an
niversary Silk. S0th anniversary
| Diamond.
A lady about to marry was warned
that her intended, although very
| good man, was eccentric. "Well,s
said she, ,'if he is very unlike other
men, he is more likely TO be a good
husband"
Dear me, how fiuidly he talks said
Mrs. Partington, recently at q temper
ance meeting. Il always rejoice when
/ he mounts the nostril, for eloonenca
warns every cartridge in niy body
At Sunday School examination
the question was put by minister -
Who loves all men p II know, str. ;
shrilly shouted little fellow, INV
sister Maggie
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