Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-03-06


| There is no power given COW by
which she can convert the impure
water furnished her, into pare milh.
The food and drink of o cow must be
pure and healthy. if you would expect
the milk. butter and cheese TO be sweet
, and natricious.
Farmers should read good agricuI-
tural works, and interchange thoughts
|. with their Intelligent heighbors, and
tthey wifi live longer, enjoy more, be
more useful, and have more properly
| for their children.
Hot beds can be easily aud cheaply
constructed. Now il the time to be-
gin, Spring is approaching with all
I its busy scenes. and il prepared now,
a plenty OF early lettuce, and tomatoes
can be had,b any farmer
- Everything on farm, as well as
elsewhere, should be done by system
well planned, Now is the time for the
farmer ~ study and plan, aud he will
soon be ready 10 carry out the wisest
arrangements. And while he is plan
ming he should be careful TO see that he
has the right tools aud implements 20
execute MS plans.
Almost any farmer can make corn
marker, a hoe handle, a pig trough,
farm gate, &c, and now is the time 10
attend to these things, and not wait
till the busy season of the year, and
| lind everything out of repair. Look
over your entire list of farm imp,e-
ments and see if they are ready aud
ample for the summer campaign.
Harness shonld be attended TO these
days. Take il all to pieces, wash with
! soap and soft water. and before fairly
drv, apply literally with any good hsr-
ness oil. Meats foot oil is the best.
Put in ii small quantity Of lamp
! black, and rub thoroughly with
WOODEN cloth. This should be done q,
least once year.
| Error is prevalent IN the world. A
/ man that is not smart enough. for
banker or 4 merchant. will never make
good farmer. A live farmer must
he wide awake about his finances as
well as his commercial affairs. Farm
ers study Your profession. and the
world win respect you.
To head the the railroads, feed more
grass, and raise less corn and wheat.
Make a survey of what you buy each
/ year. that might have been raised on
Your own place, and see ii transporta-
fion may not be saved on various ar
sficies.
4 Now is the time TO thoroughly clean
your seed wbeat--see that II is clean
of foul seeds, oats, and barley. Look
about among your neighbors and see
it they have not got better variety
! than yourself. which they will ey
change. Or let tew live farmers
unite and send to distant parts of the
! country for new and improved varie-
ties. This, ii done this spring must be
done nov.
/ San Francisco had niue murder trials
before her courts ut the latest date.
4 A Paris tky.l man, who has way
of drinking half a gallon of pure Rour-
bon whisky, then sweetly sleeps on
for four days, Offers TO bet one hundred
dollars that he can outsleep any man
in the State.
/ A man in Terrc Hsute. Ind, has a
little private armory Of his own, con-
sisting OF one musket carried by his
!. grandfather IN the Revolutionary wsr,
another carried by his father in the
war of 1872, and third carried by
himself in the war Of the late Rebel
lion. sise s
4 Saidn tipsy husband to his wife :
,k"You Observation-Disclosures me !.
Twas woman that first tempted man
to eat forbidden things" .Woman
may have tempted man 20 eat forbid
/ denthinss,' said his wife. s.hat llc ock
10 drinking III his own accord =