Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-25

The two carloads of Christmas cattle
which topped the Chicago market for
1850 at $S.25 were Polled Angus.
None Of the cures for the ballsy horse
applies to the ballSy automobile. The
kame cuss words are used, however.
A lady friend Of ours tells us that
II frozen eggs are thawed out In hot
water instead Of cold the yolks will be
left soft, 80 that they may be beaten
hs well as If not frozen.
If you want lard hog, fatten him on
corn; if you want a pig for your own
eating, fatten him on meal made from
barley, peas and oats. Bacon from
pig sofatted won't all go to- gravy.
One fact has come to light with ref
erence to passing goat meat off for
mutton, and that is the goat must be
very young, or else the inherited fra
GRANGE of the billy will give the thing
dead away.
4 On general principles the good beef
animal need never be looked for in
those sections Of the country largely
devoted to dafrying. The COW has not
yet been created which will put fat
into her milk and on to her ribs at the
Halne time.
4 The Iowa courts have ruled that if
you plant trees in front Of your prem
Uses within proper limits on the public
highway no old road supervisor, street
commissioners, telephone or telegraph |
lime has any right to Interfere with
them. This is sound law.
The Minneapolis beet sugar factory
mas worked up an acreage of sugar
beets three times as large as that of I.
qS0S, this seasons work covering over
1000 acres. There were 4,34O,466
pounds of granulated sugar made and
5000 acres of beets will be ready for
the factory next season.
By the injection of certain chemicals
Into the roots of plants just ready to
bloom some interesting changes have
! been brought about in the color Of the 1
blossom. Thus an eastern gardener
has succeeded in producing a green
carnation and other flowers have been
radically changed in color
The extra value Of the hide of the
Galloway steer for conversion into one
of the finest robes which can be made
Ifc,
animals of this breed. This extra value
runs from $40 up. A Galloway fur
coat, trimmed with mink or beaver,
ts very hobby winter outfit.
A friend of ours told us lately that
he had stopped the ravages of the
cholera in his herd Of swine by giving
them.a certain medicine. Now, if we
were only sure that the hogs would
have kept on dying if he had not given
them this treatment But we are not. 4
That's the trouble with all hog cholera
remedies.
vs. An Iowa judge has recently ruled
that If milkman doctors his milk
with boracic acid or any other preserv-
ative and the buyer knows that the
milk has been SO treated the adultera-
ton is no violation of law. This is one
OF those decisions in which the law is
permitted to assist the people in legally
thinning out the surplus population
II A farmer in Illinois got caught thus:
He agreed to give farmland cents
a 1,o7 fn, oil fho
Inside of 10 hours up to 100 bushels
and the sum of 81 a bushel for all he
husked over that amount. 1t cost the
farmer $26 for the days work. 1t is
evident that there is good deal of
latent ability in the average hired man.
II "A 2-year-old Jersey heifer owned in
Wisconsin shows up the nice record Of
B96 pounds Of butter for her first years |
milking period. Her winter ration was
eight pounds of bran, gluten and oil
meal and good hay, and her summer ra-
ton was Of grass, with an addition of
three pounds of bran per day. She
gave during the year 6,794 pounds Of
milk. She is typical family COW.
K It has been recently discovered that
THE tide lands bordering on Puget
Mound will produce finer flower bulbs
tulips, hyacinths and others-than will
Holland, which country has had mo-
nopoly in this line for centuries. The
conditions on the coast seem to be Just
right to produce these bulbs in their
greatest perfection, and the business
of growing them is to be taken up upon
q larger scale.
One Of the worst results wrought out
by the department store is the destruc-
ton of real estate values in the cities
where they are located. A case came
under our notice lately where the es-
adjustment of such store in thrifty
western town had destroyed not only
the business interests Of street, but
had SO deprecated the real and the
rental value Of the business lots on