Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-10-24


The thousand pound gearing steer
fatted for baby beef is n sixty dollar
prcdEct which should be more common
than it is On all farms where biuc
grass, clover and corn will grow. 70
prodrcc him nothing is better tia. q
high grade roilcd Angus
There arc much pleasure and G3any
good things to be got out OF fall gar
den. The, writer planted string beuns.
turnips, seed onions. radishes ard let.
tuce the list OF August, and on Oct. /.
there being no killing trost, Md an
abundant harvest from the seed sown.
One-third of ths western dairymen
do not obtain from their cows AS much
as the food eaten by the cows costs.
In a test made with 100 patrons of 4
creamery thirty kept their cows at q
loss. one farmer received S235 for each
dollars worth Of food fed and the poor
est stick in the lot only GO cents.
If you want to keep your hired man,
do not give him the kicking cow to
milk. Milk her yourself if you are fool
enough to keep her and commence
singing MY soul. be on thy guard"
when you grab the pail and the milk
ing stool if YOU ever hope to shake
hands with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Where there are two or more men en-
gagged in the work of the farm it is an
excellent way to assign the doing of
the Sunday chore work to each in turn,
leaving those Off duty to have the day
to themselves. This is better than
division of labor, because chore work
and Sunday cleanliness and clothing
do not work well together.
When the public ideal of an agri-
cultural fair centers around the sensa-
tional in the amusement line, such as
midway fakes, dropping live dogs at
tached to q parachute from a balloon.
locomotive collisions and bullfights, it
We're better that the people stayed at
home and kept right on milking cows,
feeding hogs and doing the fall plow-
ing.
OF all the small fruits we find the
blackberry the most difficult to raise.
A friend tells us that we take too
good care of it and that if we would
set out a patch on the north side Of
some grove and just let it entirely
alone we would have all the blackber-
ries we want. He says the blackberry
is just like an Indian-can't stand civ
ilization.
The grade Of certificate held by the
pretty country schoolma'am has moth
ing whatever to do as affecting her
chances for exchanging it for marri-
age certificate after she has taught
about q year and half. In fact, as
we have noted it, those with a third
grade certificate are likely to go off
first, for beauty and brains are often
| strangers.
| The Virginia creeper as decorative
house and porch climber is just now
(Oct. ~ in all its beauty. No tree or
shrub will give for a brief season a
more rich or bizarre display of col
or, shading all the way up from a
blood red to maroon, scarlet, orange
and yellow. A festoon of it on north
side of your house will be whole flow
er garden for color and beauty.
If you want some nice currant bushes
to set out next spring, cut this years
growth of wood from the old bushes
| the new shoots which have sprung
from the roots-and stick them in a
box of damp sand. which keep in the
cellar. When spring comes, they will
be rooted and ready to set out. This
rule applies to any and all plants
which may be propagated from cut.
tings.
/ Just as soon as man gets to regard
his cow as a machine instead of pen,
sion bureau the better results he will
obtain. Like the ancient Hebrews, who
We're required to make bricks without
straw, SO large per cent Of the cows
are required to make milk without
proper food. Cows can make milk out
of straw just as the Israelites coulG
make bricks without it, but it is g
hard proposition.
There should be weekly gathering
lop ., tyNt ,v
country community during the wintel
months. 1t may be literary, musical
terpsichorean or. just simply social. Thu
4 more tie people of a neighborhood Sc,
Of each other the more they will thinl
Of each other-that is, generally speak
ing. Then the chance is thus given TO
the boys to go home with the girls, ant
that's worth considerable.