Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-13

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The oleo laws are just about as hard
to enforce as the prohihitory laws.
The cotton crop of Texas for 1906
was 2,43S,555 bales. worth to the grow
ers over $100,000,000.
There are 3S,o0O,00O fewer sheep in
Australia than before the great drought
began five or six years ago.
Il While the farmers do not as a gen.
eral thing approve Of board Of trade
gambling, they always feel more kind
ly toward bull on grain options than
they do toward bear
The cattle should be dehorned before
fytime, as much suffering by the ami
mails operated upon will thereby be
prevented. This work is best done
during the late winter or early spring
days.
In our own experience we have found
the common white cedar post to be al
most as short lived as the post made
of white willow. Cedar posts six years
set were too badly decayed to be worth
resetting.
The aged yellow legged rooster can
be best utilized during conference week
and for Sunday school picnics. The
family should not be required to work
him up unaided and without the aid
of religion.
\ 1t costs 35 cents per hundred pounds
ito produce cotton in the states Of Ala
iibama and Georgia. When the cotton
SO produced sells for 8 cents per pound.
as it does today, it is easy to see why
the darkies all are gay.
An Indiana man says that homemade
bread, homemade cheese and home
made cider make one of the best lunch
es known to the Hoosier. Something
probably depends, however. upon the
age and activity Of the cider. "
: Some one asks us why the butcher
birds are SO scarce and why the robins
are SO plentiful, when each variety Of
bird matches but one brood year of
about the same number Of young. This
is q question we do not feel competent
to answer.
= Nothing seems to burn easier than q
creamery where it is short on patron
age, overdrawn on bank account and
fairly well insured. Under these con-
ditions the slack coal in the boiler
room is almost sure to generate spon-
taneous combustion.
The crow blackbird Is not welcome
tenant of the trees round the home
when he takes a notion to build his
nest therein. These birds usually nest
in colonies, like the rocks. build very
rough and uncouth nest and are quite
foul In their habits while rearing their
young.
= No variety of wood has yet been
found to take the place Of black wal
nut for the making of gunstocks, and
the demand for this purpose is such
that the product of an acre Of land set
out 40 years ago to this timber would
bring the owner in very large sum of
money.
The patches on the granger's pants
have, by the evolution Of his calling,
been removed from the front to the
rear. So much of his work il now done
by riding the tools and appliances with
which he works that his overalls need
reinforcing in the seat rather than on
the knees.
If every farmer living on the black
prairie lands where gravel was accessi-
bic would make the patriotic effort to
gravel just 20 rods of the public high
way each year Independent of his reg
ular road work, what a lot Of good
reads we would have inside of ten
years! Every man could thus work
right in front Of his own premises.
4 Tests made as to the weight Of eggs
laid by different breeds of fowls show
ed that those Of the Light Brahmas
were the heaviest, weighing % ounces
per dozen: those produced by the Brown
Ieghorns were the smallest, weighing
IL ounces. II the latter were worth
1917 cents per dozen, the eggs Of the
5Brahmas were worth 211a cents If sold
by weight. The eggs Of the average
hen will weigh about % ounces per
dozen.
Don't be fooled because Of the low
rate of interest and the difficulty Of
finding safe investments for your sur
plus money into investing in any OF
the hundreds Of wildcat oil, option,
stock and mining schemes the pros
pectuses Of which fill the leading pa-