Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-07

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Georgia is coming to be the great
peach producing state of the Union.
An October fly Is more annoying and
persistent than candidate for office.
If one ear of corn weighing sixteen
ounces is produced on each hill, yield
Of nearly fifty bushels to the acre will
be secured.
If a willow tree is allowed to grow
within thirty feet Of tile drain, it
will soon fill the tile with fibrous roots
and render it worthless.
We would not plant the Wallbridge
apple. 1t is very slow in coming into
bearing, and when it does white tur-
nips are more easily raised.
Strange as it may seem, the state Of
Mississippi is taking as state more
active measures in the line of road re-
form than any other state in the Union.
The Wealthy apple is today the lead
Ing standard apple for Minnesota, the
north half of Iowa and such parts of
the Dakotas as are adapted to fruit
culture.
Broom corn market Is freaky this
year, the price of the brush having
jumped up from $55 to $40 per ton.
with a probability of still further
advance.
Quality is often sacrificed for size
in the breeding of our domestic ami
mails, but this does not apply to pug
dogs, for the smaller they are the
meaner they are.
At the prevailing price of pork it will
pay to take extra care of the,fall pigs
this coming winter. The September pig
can easily be made worth $12 by next
April if decently cared for.
Any dog over the age Of ten years is
best humanely chloroformed and bur-
led, for there is no bigger nuisance or
more distressing animal to have around
than an old and used up dog.
A man cannot be very successful in
bringing up boy unless the boy at
least respects him, and if boy loves
and respects his father it is not much
Of a trick to turn out good boy.
The native wire grass Of the Florida
low lands will fatten cattle for two
hold their own for four months and
half starve them the remaining six
months.
Give a horse what water he will
drink, and he will live twenty-five days
without food; he will live seventeen
days without either food or drink and
only five days with food and deprived
Of water.
Eight hundred thousand bushels of
cranberries are produced this year in
this country. We do not know how
many turkeys are raised to go with
these cranberries, but not less than ten
to the bushel.
Continuous cultivation of orchard
trees during June, July and August
will make success Of fruit growing
in many dry belt of country where
the man who plants fruit trees is call
ed the community fool.
Missouri held Its first state fair this
year, and if the hog which carried off
the sweepstakes premium was correct
ly photographed there is room for some
missionary work in that state along
the line of improved breeds Of hogs.
1t is the difference in the breed.
While a good horse is worth $3.50 al
most anywhere, the stock men of
Wyoming are going to have a grand
round up hunt soon and shoot all the
wild horses they can to be rid of them.
We note late price list quotation Of
flowers in one of our large cities-vio-
let's, 80 cents bunch; carnations, so
cents dozen, and American Beauty
roses from So to S. per dozen. 1t costs
something to court girl in orthodox
style in that city.
From faroff Manitoba comes the
report this year of good crop Of the
following varieties of apples: Wealthy,
Hibernal, Patterns Greening, Annisett
and Blushed Calville. There was a fine
crop of plums on Cheney, Wyant, Rol-
lingstone, Bixby and Manitoba.
And now comes a genius who claims
he can extract oxygen from the air in
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