Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-02-14

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Thoroughbred bulls have done more
to civilize and develop Texas than any
other agency.
Ii the farm is getting too rich to
raise small grain, rent it. That will fix
1t in short order.
The agricultural department of Kan
sas advises against the growing of the
sugar beet in that state.
A Missouri apiarist claims to have
taken eight tons of honey last season
from 80 stands of bees.
We have tried to locate the biggest
corn huslling lie of the season and
think that Iowa claims the prize win
ner.
1t is hard to see why the users Of
oleomargarine are willing to pay two
prices for it just to have it colored in
imitation Of butter.
The value of manure depends very
largely upon what the stock is fed.
heterogeneous foods make far better fer
tilizer than do carbonaceous ones.
You should make veal of the Jersey
steer calf il for no other reason than
that some sucker viii! try to make a
beef critter out Of him later on If YOU
don't.
All kinds of nursery stock will be
higher this year. We do not object to
the increase of price if the nurserymen
will only give us the sorts we think we
are buying.
1t Is worth noting that all the coun-
tries of Europe where agriculture is in
an advanced stage are giving very
sugar beet.
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The Asiatic breeds of poultry are the
only ones worth caponizing. To at
3aempt this work with the small breeds |
ds like trying to make beef critters out
of Jersey steers.
The bur oak tree best survives the
effects of settlement and cultivation of
any of our native forest trees, yet even
the bur oak will not endure the con-
tinuous tramping of stock around it's
roots.
Quite a number Of feeders in the
west are working out the problem Of
feeding 80 cent corn to AZ cent steers.
They will know all about it when they
sell and sugar off and will never try it
again.
Saginaw. Mich. in 1884 In the &C
years since that time the splendid for.
ests of the North American continent
have fallen victims to the insatiate
NAV of these mills.
"A couple of Tennessee farmers re-
Gently fought to finish, both being
killed In row over the ownership of
an old corn planter. The line fence or
the want of 1t has usually been the
moving cause of this class Of scrap
ping
The happy combination of oatmeal
and whisky which developed the canny
Scotsman does not work well in this
country. The tendency is to reduce the
oatmeal and increase the whisky ra-
ton, throwing the ration out of bal
ance.
i In a general way it may be said
that 1t is always easier to get rid of
surplus water from a tract of land
than to counterfeit lack Of moisture.
Drainage methods are comparatively
simple when compared with any means
of irrigation.
Choice separator creamery butter has
come to be standard Of excellence for
all butter. Time was when Herkimer
and Delaware IN. W butter made in
June and marketed in winter was the
standard, but that sort would now go
for soap grease.
We saw recently five acre block Of
very handsome and thrifty black wal
nut trees set out about 20 years ago
by some progressive man. These trees
will become as the years go by better
and more enduring monument to this
man than he could buy for $1,000 Of
any tombstone agent.
The Chicago university, the favored
recipient of almost untold wealth from
the Golfers of the rich men of the coun-
try, is busily engaged in demonstrate
ing upon how small sum Of money a
live human can subsist in this country
and has got it down to Is cents day.
The Lord save America when any such
problem will have to be seriously con-
sidered.