Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-02-13


work duplicated.
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The following twelve paragraphs
are worthy OF place among the most
valued rules that should govern a well
regulated farm:
1. When fruit tees occupy tho
ground nothing else should except
very short grass.
2. Fruitfulncss and growth Of the
tree cannot be expected the same year.
3. There is no plum that the curcu-
lio will not take. though any kind
may sometimes escape for one year il,
one place.
4. Pear blight still puzzles the great
est men. Tho best remedy known is
to plant two tor every one that dies.
D. If you don't know how to prune,
don't hire man from the other sidc
of the sea who knows less than you do.
8. Don't cut of big lower limb
unless YOU are renter and don't care
what becomes of it when your time is
cut.
Z A tree with tho limbs coming
out near the ground is " orth two trees
trimmed up five feet, aud is worth
four trees trimmed up ten feet, and
SO OIL until they are not worth any
thing
:. Trim down, not up.
.. Shorten In, not iebgthen out.
10. Trim off the limbs while they
are small.
IL. If you had your arm cut off, YOU
would feel 1t to the hearts tree viii
not feel, but rot to the heart.
IL, When anybody tells you of a
gardener that understands all about
horticulture and agriculture, and that
he can be hired, don't believe word
OF II. for there are none such to be
hired. Such man can make more
than you can afford To give him, and If
he has sense enough TO understand the
business, he will also have enough to
know this.
Food of Farm Laborera In Europe.
1t 10 pretty generally known that in
Ireland the farm laborer cannot afford
meat In HE diet, and subsists mainly
on the potato and not few of US have
read how rice is almost the sole food
Of teeming millions in India and Chi
ma. But q great many in America are
not aware how extensively this depri-
vation OF flesh exists in some of the
most famous nations and farming dis
trtcts In Europe.
Here is the daily customary .rations'
OF the eturdy laborers who gather in
these mStchless waving fields OF wheat
and other grain, as given by Stephens,
In his Book OF the Farm" Break
fast oatmeal porridge; dinner, bread
and beer; middle Of afternoon. drink
of beer; supper, oatmeal porridge.
According to Michelet, the French
historian and philanthropic writer,
meat has for some time disappeared
from the food of the French lsborer,
Partisan as well ss country. He even
adds, that the laborer who raises wheat
In France only gets to eat bread made
Of the coarse wheat meal. since the
frst and second qualities must 20 to
pay taxes. rents, &c.
In proud old Spain, the peasant is
only able to eat, In lieu Of slice of
beef, mutton or bacon, a slice of onion
with his bread. The Russian serf
must appease HE hunger with the ns-
tional "black" bread. For long months
ia the year, the Syrian must live on
fgs, melons and vegetables; and the
Moors and the Arabs of North Africa,
on dates; and the Italian rustic 10
driven to explore the mountain wilds
for chestnuts to store up for his winter
food.
King Henry VIII. thought il quite
kindly and royal to utter the wish thst
England might go on prospering until
every one Of his subjects could afford
"a chicken la his pot