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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

We have raised the young Of the
Canada wild goose by securing the
eggs from the nest and Matching them
under hen, but we were never able
to get these geese to breed in confine-
ment. though they would hybridize
with the tame goose from the male
side. Such hybrids are infertile. Wild
geese thus raised never lose the migra-
tory instinct and are always restless
In the spring and fall apd have to be
watched or they will go off with their
wild relations.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

The column Of heated air rising from
q barn just filled with newly cut hay
forms q good conductor for the. cleo
trio currents during storm and ex-
plains why barns SO filled are so fire.
quently struck by lightning.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

Every summer a statement gets afoat
in the papers to the effect that punches
of red clover blossoms hung up in a
room will keep the flies away. This
is one Of the harmless fakes which an
intelligent people are wont to pass
around. Western flies grow fat on red
clover bloom, just as do western hogs
and western beeyes. Good screens at
doors and windows and fly: poison are
the only remedies which count.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26
ECONOMICAL PROGRESS.

Eastern farmers develop an agricul-
tural virtue from sheer force Of cir
cumstances which, could it find a foot
hold among those Of the west, would
do much to add to the prosperity Of
the western man. We refer to the prac-
tice Of economy in the matter Of little
things-the looking after the small
economies Of the farm and the avoid
ance of minor wastes. An eastern
farmer once said that the wastes Of a
western farm would easily constitute
the profits of an eastern one. When
land is cheap and labor high, much Of
this western waste is absolutely UNI
avoidable. Then the soil was SO rich
and productive that the very excess Of
crops naturally fostered q wasteful
method Of caring for them. Thus the
straw was burned in the field and the
cornstalks left to rot, while hay was
put up in poor, leaky ricks with 60
devil, because this way required but
minimum Of hand labor. Fifteen
and 20 cent corn makes men careless
in the matter Of feeding it when one
man and team will raise 1900 bushels
Of it with As days work. But as the
value Of the western farm increases
the eastern virtue of saving can be
applied to the management of the
western farm with much advantage.
In fact, it must be SO applied If even
the good western farm Is to be made
profitable. We notice q marked i'm
provement along this line during the
past few years. There is but little
machinery now left to winter in the
field, barns are taking the place Of old
sheds for stock and the storage Of the
crops, wet spots are being drained and
waste corners Of the farms being util-
lied, more Of the products Of the farm
are being converted into finished prod
ucts on the farm, and year by year
western wastes become less and less
noticeable.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26
Loyewell,s Pond.

One of the most fierce and sanguin-
airy fights between the Indians and the
early American settlers occurred at q
small lake near the village OF Frye
burg, Me. Led by Capt. John Lovewell,
from whom the pond derives its name,
the colonists succeeded in repulsing the
savages, after great loss of life. Their
bravery has been commemorated ia
tradition and poetry.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

It is said that the labor organizations
Of the country are opposed to the pro-
posed legislation touching cleo. This
is q shortsighted position for labor
to take. for just as soon as cleo is COM
PEELED to be sold as cleo and ceases
to pass as genuine butter the price Of
1t will decline so per cent. It Is GER
tainly for the laboring mans interest
to get his oleo as cheaply as possible.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

We find the Hibernal one Of the best
Of stocks for top working. This apple
is probably one of the very hardest
grown and by being top worked will
insure the growing OF several Of the
less hardy varieties Of apples in that
territory where, on their own roots,
such varieties would not be hardy.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

The old way Of doing things is not
necessarily the best way. The world
has moved very fast during the past so
years, and new ways and new methods
are in vogue for doing almost every
thing. We have a proper respect for
old things, but have little patience
with the man who insists that his
grandfather's way is the best way.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

We have seen 1t stated that union
could not be effected between the wild
black cherry and scion of the COM
mon orchard cherry. This is a mis-
take, for near to where the writer lives
is a vigorous Early Richmond cherry
tree, now Is years old, which has
borne very fine crops of fruit which
was grated on to small wild black
cherry tree.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

It seems strange that a bolt Of light
ming can make its way down through
a barn filled with hay, shattering the
posts and tearing out the side Of the
barn, and still not set the hay on fire.
An incident of this sort came under
our observation recently.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

Improved methods of shipping live
stock to foreign countries have very
greatly reduced the losses of stock in
transit. OF 1895 head of beeves
shipped to England last year only 11s
persisted during the voyage, and of
BOAST head of fat sheep the loss was
only 223 head.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

Some things do best let alone: for
instance, blackberries and polecats.
We really believe that the more we
have cultivated and fused with the
blackberries the worse they do. The
best and the most berries seem to come
from the stray vines which pre-empt
some fence corner and are never touch
al Il
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

There are still any quantity of pretty
good dairymen who believe that the
food of cow affects the quality OF her
milk. On the first thought it seems
perfectly natural to assume that this
would be the case, but careful expert
ments prove that it is not so; the ra.
ton does determine the quantity, but
does not to any appreciable extent af-
feet the quality Of the milk.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

One pleasant evening lately every
body was out driving, and as horse aft
er horse passed by we noticed that
hardly one horse in 20 was physically
sound, Of attractive appearance or pos
sessed Of a smooth and easy gait. The
most graceful moving horse in the lot
was fast walker. Few men realize
how much Is lost by the failure to
properly break in horse.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

When the granger's wife elopes with
the hired man, as sometimes happens
in haying or harvest time, 1t makes bad
work. There are the runaway pair to
chase up, a new hired man to be got.
the crops spelling in the field and rou-
BILE all round.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

Thousands Of bronchos have this sea-
son found purchasers all through the
central west wherever the raising Of
the draft horse has become a general
thing. If these bronchos are used for
the work for which they are well fitted
and not bred, it will be all right, but If
they are used for breeding purposes
they will degrade the horsedesh Of the
west where introduced
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26
BY ]. S. TR1GG.
>@l~ee@-,
COPYRIGHT, 1900. BIZ !. g. TnIGG, ROCKFORD, IA.

Why should people who knowingly
buy and use oleomargarine as a substi-
tute for butter pay from to 10 cents
more q pound for the stuff just for hav-
ing it colored to resemble genuine but
ter when without the coloring 1t would
taste just the same and be just as good
OF just as poor?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

When the tramp calls for hand out
this summer. tell him to go to Kansas,
where several thousand men who are
willing to work are wanted at So per
day to secure the big wheat crop.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26
There are two lessons which the west

There are two lessons which the west
'ern farmer is very, very slow to learn
one that he can't afford to grow ton
Of timothy hay to the acre and let his
cornstalks go to waste, the other that
If he would make his cows profitable
he must look after the ration which he
feeds them and give them such ration
as will produce milk and not fat.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

We have sharp spud made Of an
old file fastened in long handle and
find that by putting in odd minutes
with it and the dandelions we can keep
the lawn well rid of them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26
Time ana Money,

Guest-Whatl Five dollars a day!
You only charged me three when was
here two months ago.
Hotel clerk-I know, but the days
are longer now. Philadelphia Record.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

A South Dakota farmer recently
planted 40 acres of corn in AZ days
with one team and check row planter.
Affidavit furnished Vermont farmers
if necessary.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

Not. one horse in 20 is trained to be a
good walker. and the average horse
is really but little better than good
shuftler. A horse, If properly trained
when colt, can be taught a walking
gait of five miles an hour just as well
as not,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26
same Old story.

Beggar-Kind sir, don't know
where my next meal is coming from.
Overfed-Ha! Same old story, I
presume. Cook left and wife don't
know o frying pan from an orchidl-,
Judge. !,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

There are 40 varieties Of frogs in
America, and the hind legs Of all of
them make very dainty morsel when
properly cooked. The meat is more
delicate than that of spring chicken.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26
Recognised HI. Opportunity

Ada (pensively)-I hope you'll in
vite me to the wedding when you get
married.
Jack (boldly)-Tll invite you before
I ask anyone else, and if you don't
accept there won't be any wedding
Detroit Free Press.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26
Got Even with Them.

Novelist-Those confounded critics
slated my new novel most unmerci-
fully.
Friend Well, you have your re-
venge. They had to read the book
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

A nice fat wether weighing $50
pounds is now worth on the London
market about SIS. The Englishman,
who must have his mutton chops, finds
them an expensive ration.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26
The old Bachelor,

An old bachelor says the only thing
that can equal the warmth Of wom-
ans love is her temper. - Chicago
Daily News.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

A, prominent agricultural paper adj
yocates the planting Of the poplar as
a timber tree. This is a mistake.
There are q dozen better trees than
the poplar for timber planting. The
wood Of the poplar is Of but little value
for any purpose save for the making
Of paper pulp.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

3 The corn crop, If cultivated shallow,
cannot be worked too much up to the
time when the brace roots start.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

No nice lawn is complete without
a bush or two Of Spirea van houtti.
It is hardy nearly everywhere and al
ways thing Of exceeding beauty dur
ing it's season of bloom.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

The state Epworth League conven-
ton will be held in Des Moines October
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26

By this time the baby had developed
epad, healthy cry that could be east
ly heard through the roar of the storm.
Kirk looked doubtfully at the stew
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-31
THERE IS No DEATH.

The sunlight giitiers keen and bright.
Where, mites away,
Lies stretching 10 my dazzied sight
A luminous belt a misty tight
Beyond the dark pine bluns and wastes
of sandy gray.
The tremulous shadow Of the seal
Against Its ground
OF siivery light rock, hill and tree
6ui as a picture. clear and free.
With varying outline mark tho coast
for miles around.
draw a freer BREATH seem
Like AN / see
Waves in The sun-the white winged
gleam
or sea birds Ia the slanting beam
And far on sails which fit before the
south wind free.
So when times veil shall fall asunder
The soul may know
No fearful change, nor sudden wonder.
Nor sink the weight OF mystery under,
But with the upward rise. and with the
vastness grow.
And an We shrink from now may seem
No new revealing;
Familiar as our childhoods stream,
or pleasant memory Of a dream
The loved and cherished past upon the
new life stealing.
John Greenleaf whittier
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-31

They Have Had Their Day on The Plains
Of this Far West.

They Have Had Their Day on the Plains
OF the Far West.
Passengers on the "a" system who
have ridden the better part Of a day
through western Nebraska and east
ern Colorado will remember the prairie
dog He is numerous in that section
Of the country. He lives in villages
and the villages are as close together
as the villages Of certain parts Of Eur
ope, says the Des Moines News. But
the prairie dog has had his day. The
agricultural department says he must
80. Mr.. Wilson has decided that the
dogs kill the grass and ruin good graz
ing land "Tama Jim" has little OF the
love Of picturesqueness in his make
up. He is eminently practical and his
philanthropy is OF the type which
seeks to make two blades Of grass grow
instead of one. Therefore he proposes
TO relsgate the prairie dog to the pic
ture books and to the stuffed specimens
Of the museum along with the bufalo
Mr.. Wilson's chemists have discovered
mixture that VIII make whole VIII
lagos fight for the first bite, buf which
at the last oiteth Ike serpent and
stingeth like an adder. Under its In
fuence the hole that knows the prairie
dog will know it no more forever. The
frisky, nervous, barking little beast
will join the innumerable caravan of
prairie dogs who have gone before.
There will be more grass when the
prairie dog is gone. and therefore more
cattgs. There will be less break
ing Of the legs Of cowboys ponies and
the rattlesnake win live alone in the
hole until the summons come to him
also.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-31

golden-haired Loreiei to Madonna
with a nimbus about my head Some
OF .hose pictures are in famous col
iections now, but 10 those days few
people found their way up the steep
studio stairs. where We sat anxiously
listening for the footsteps Of the buy
ers who never came.
Then Arthur fell IN. and cheap and
Inexpensive as our living had been.
that little was more than we could
afford. Piece by piece the quaint old
furniture and the bric-a-brac and the
souvenirs Of his old student days in
Paris went to the auction room, and
/ endured daily that Gethsemane OF
the woman who sees the man she
loves losing hope, and courage, and
faith IN himself
Poor little girl, he would say. fol-
lowing me about the room with his
greet sombre eyes. TO think / have
brought you to this. and when I as
sured hin passionately that would
rather starYe with him than feast with
another, he only answered me with
wan smile. sadder than any tears.
AT last the doctor said that be must
have change Of air, and then it was
I bethought me OF my long-forgotten
Southern inheritance. Poor as it was.
II would at least furnish us a shelter
and the warm winds that / prayed
might WOO Arthur back to health.
The FIRST tender green Of the spring
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-31

Birds are fast liYera Their activl-
ties are immense: their hearts beat
twice as fast as those Of man. the
temperature Of their blood would be
to IS fever heat To support such
Yitality.a a relatively enormous amount
OF food Is required; and this too 81
the most nutritious kinds. such aa
grain, seed or animals. Even great
er amount than is consumed by the
adult is needed by the young, fog While
IN the nest the rate Of growth IS very
great. AS an example Of this We may
take some recently published observa-
tions on the growth Of a nest Of young
song-sparrows. each day the brood
was carefully weighed and the increase
noted During the first day the aver
age gain in weight Of the nestiines
was forty-eight per cent, and in six
days their weight was very nearly
trebled. Such growth needed indeed
the constant attention Of the parent
birds. who. on an average, visited the
nest at intervals Of from two TO I'VE
minutes from daybreak tn dark. Take
our afty-four million pairs Of breed
ing birds within the state Of Illinois.
say that one-third Of these have young
at any one time. let the parents visit
the nest with food every I'VE minutesi
the basis we take Is conservative
enough. yet It means thirty-four hum
dred million meals furnished to the
infant birds OF the state each day dur
ing the breeding season.
Professor Treadwell has recorded
the case OF a young robin that he kept
In confinement and fed on earth-
worms. The weight Of the bird was
taken each day and also that Of the
food consumed. He found that It lost
in weight though he increased the
daily allowance from ten 70 fifteen.
twenty-four twenty-five and thirty
worms: It was not until the fourteenth
day when he gave 1t sixty-elght worms
Weighing thirty-four pennyweights
that the bird throve and increased IN
bulk. On that day the bird itself
weighed twenty-four pennyWeights, 80
that II consumed forty-one per cent
more than its own weight in twelve
hours.
The amount Of food that has TO be
supplied BY the old birds might well
inspire human parents with horror
and CONSERVATION. Yet 90 rapid IA the
growth Of the nesting, so intense the
vital FIRE within its little body. that It
is evident even this quantity would
not suffice unless it were Of the most
kinds OF the more es-
sential food constituents. such as pro-
teids and carbohydrates. fruits con-
tain a very small proportion and these
substances must be sought elsewhere.
and hence the yeang birds food must
Of necessity. and as proved by OBJ
does consist principally OF
soft bodied insects.-Prof. William
Praeger
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-31
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BY ELIZABETH NJ. GILMER.
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BY ELIZABETH M. GILMER.
Copyright, 1900: Daily Story Pub Coz
You will starye" said my aunt,
with melancholy conviction.
i love him, I replied. irreleYantly.
Love-" observed my aunt. philo-
sophically, "is an admirable sauce,
but a poor substitute for the main
dish Of life"
II love him" I repeated. as If that
were the only argument that mattered.
Unfortunately, said my aunt.
"hne can't live on love. no matter
how illimitable It isn't legal tender
with the butcher and baker and can
dlestick maker"
Yet it's the only coin that VIII buy
happiness" I answered, softly.
He's nothing but a poor artist,
my aunt added disparagingly
He had a picture hung on the line
at the exhibition last spring" l put
ia hopefully.
vi wish he had been hanged him
self, exclaimed my aunt with vicious
energy
II wasn't the first time that we had
discussed Arthur Farnum Indeed. for
the past three months-ever since /
had elected to throw myself away on
a penniless artist" as my aunt put it
it seemed to me that we had con-
versed on no other topic. My aunt
was sixty. and was twenty, and in
the two score years between us lay all
that life had taught her, end that
had still to learn. TO me, for instance,
life without love was life robbed Of all
the glory that made it worth living,
while she clung tenaciously to the be-
lief that one could get on very COM
fortably without love, provided one's
establishment was beyond criticism,
and ones frocks from Paris. 81
Yet in spite Of all ner worldliness,
my aunt had been all that was kind
and tender to me. she had given me
all the affection and the only home
had ever known. MY parents had
cied when ! was a mere baby. My
two sisters, much older than myself,
were married to grasping and selfish
men, who. In the division Of my faith
ers small estate, had ruthlessly pos
aessed themselves of the lions share,
leaving to me nothing but the old
homestead. a tumble-down old South
erHtmansion house, surrounded by a
few poor acres. l must have been
forlorn, indeed, but that my aunt
struck with the tawny gold OF my
hair and a certain childish grace, took
q fancy to me, and carried me back
10 her rich Northern home. where
grew up surrounded by every luxury
that wealth and generosity could give.
II she looked for me to make a wealthy
and brilliant match, and take my
place In that fashionable society 80
dear TO her own ambitious heart. It
was not unnatural, nor more than she