Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18
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BY j. S. TR1GG.
coPYR1aHT 1890, BY }. s. rR1Ge, Roc11FonD, IA.

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Fancy Christmas beeves sold at Chi
Eago this season for $S.25 per hundred
weight, bringing $126.72 per head.
a white oak log AZ feet long and 40
inches in diameter at the small end
was recently cut in West Virginia and
brought $240.
The winter Of 1889 very forcibly
directed the attention Of fruit growers
to weak roots rather than to weak
tops on their orchard trees
The outcome of an indiscriminate
mixing of Jersey, Angus. Shorthorn
Hereford and Holstein blood is the
very WGisI type OF SCRUB.
A cheese is good deal like boy
more depends upon how it is cured
and ripened than it does as to the ma
terial out of which it is made.
When a man brings load Of loose
( grain to market in a lealSy wagon box,
1t is fair to assume that the wagon box
is not the only leaky thing on his farm.
1t is well to remember that all the
leading breeds Of cattle have been de-
veloped along special lines. The all
purpose "critter" has not yet been born.
:
Seed corn is so very easily robbed of
its vitality that really the only com
mon sense and safe thing to do is to
thoroughly test all seed before plant
Ing.
With the resources of the country as
they are today the American citizen is
entitled to 25 pounds of sugar for 81,
and we believe that inside of five years
he will get it.
II the barnyard is SO situated that
the rains wash it and run the washings
down the hill, run the liquid manure
on to the garden or the small fruit
Don't let 1t go to waste.
One way to secure good neighbors is
TO have good line fences. Another way
Is to observe the golden rule If you
cannot or will not observe the latter,
+ you want to make the line fence extra
good.
We have not heard anything of late
Il about the milking machine. Three
years ago it was claimed that by this
+ time the cows would all be MIXED by a
man turning the crank of machine.
tits better as it is.
bring 500 each when 10 days old,
whose colts bring from $500 to $500 at
year old, whose buck lambs bring
him $40 each. He was raising pure
I blooded Shorthorns, Shire horses and
Shropshire sheep.
On the well managed farm the poul-
A try money should be the exclusive
property Of the goodwife not to be
spent for groceries altogether and or
binary household expenses, but to be at
her disposal as she may see fit. An in
come Of 500 per year may be easily
thus obtained by any bright woman.
The average horse gets ten whacks
with the whip on his back to crafty
the anger or the whim of his driver
Tor every lash given where it is de-
served and needed. OF all the cruel
blows given horse for which there is
absolutely no justification those given
when he stumbles are the most I'M
I oustifable.
"a stylish. well bred horse raised in
southeastern Iowa was bought and
properly fitted up and sold in Chicago
for $4,000 no. long since. The man
who raised this. horse got perhaps 5000
for him, and the man who fitted the
horse up and brought out his good
4 points the $4,000. There is money in
knowing how to do things.
AT certain town of northwestern
iowa, the country surrounding which
Is unsurpassed for dairy purposes, dur
ing the holding of the county fair this
! fall not pound Of butter was to be
had for love or money. The farmers
there let their calves suck the cows and
fabricated their inner man with fried
pork. Chance for a creamery mission
airy mp there, we should think.
"a My white hand with diamond
ring on the third finger is not unnatu-
rally a possession which the average
woman would be glad to have, but such
bands are not the ones which feed,
dress and spank the American boys
who are making the nation great. The
womanly hand which is thus shaping