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

A fair sized l0ad OF hoSS DrlnSS ID
500 today.
That grade bull should go into the
feed yard, for he will only disappoint
you at the head of the herd.
We do not see why the ferret might
not be used to destroy the pocket
gopher. Has any one ever tried this
scheme?
An oil well may spout for a time and
a gold mine pay few dividends. but
well cared for farm is as permanently |
dividend payer as the sun is 4 pro
ducer of heat.
You can put it down as fixed fact !
that il the cows commence to shrink in I
their milk yield during the summer
months there is something wrong with
their rations.,
There will always be a whole lot to
be learned about raising crop OF corn
80 long as the average man can produce
only 40 bushels per acre. or about one
third of possible crop.
A lady friend told us the other day
fhat She was going to set out straw
berry bed this fall. Don't do it. You
will get a better bed to wait until next
April and then set it out.
Could man invent some process
whereby the hest and power wasted in
the exhaust Of the locomotive engine
could be utilized it would mean for
tune for him of six figures.
Ffnanciers are wise enough to see
That farm lands situated within the
corn belt are likely to become, if, they
ere not SO already, the most valuable
agricultural lands in the world.
The wireless corn planter has proved
q failure for general use. On some per-
fectly level fields, free from stone. sods
or, ciods, it has done good work, but
fails where other conditions prevail.
Take it all round, good graham mush
is about as satisfactory ascereal break
fast food as any Of the patented wheat
preparations. and for the other cereal
products old fashioned oatmeal still
leads.
To some men ton of hay is ton
OF hay; but, all the same, one ton Of
bright, we'll cured hay cut at the proper
Season Is easily worth two tons of late
cut, storm spoiled stuff which is still
called hay.
! Ecunonaic discoveries have made it
pnssIhln for city to get rid Of its gar
Hage by cremation and utilize the heat
SD urpdured to maintain a steam pres
Bure of IS pounds on modern electric
blight or pumping station.
We have received the year book
iszned by the department of agricul.
tuTe. 1t Is the most valuable work
ever Issued by the department and. tic
a limited number, may be procured
Through the congressman of your dis
arict
There is nothing rabbit likes better
In tho winter time than blackberr,
brush. One winter we covered a lo
of blackberry bushes with straw. ant
the rabbits got In among them, and il
The npring there WIS not vestige OF
tho bushes left
on bids fair to do more for Califor
hia than either gold. climate or fruit
has been able to do. A large section Of
hhe state seems to be underlaid Will
1noss valuable oil deposits which wheI
utilized win greatly promote all manu-
featuring interests
Every farmer should have flag, bi.
enough to be seen from the highway
which he can hoist once in awhile, Il
aet Everybody know that the flag rep
russsts his sentiments and that he az
TrecIates the peace. security and pros
per5ty which the flag guarantees him.
Government statistics show that i
u4Sa 1t required hours and "a minute
TO produce bushel of corn in man
labor. while In 1905 the time require
had, by the use Of modern machiner,
been reduced to Al minutes and tt
eost OF this labor had been reduce
6rom 35A to 101s cents.
The Chinese will neither eat the fes
NOR drink the milk of the COW. One I
their pious queries is, "How can II
COW raise her calf If man robs her
t,er mIlkY while the American heath'
Ehas developed the COW SO that she Civ
mot only milk enough to raise her ca
hut enough to feed his kids besides.
The best thing that is going on
this country today is the agricultur
and mechanical regeneration OF Z
south. Out of the wreck and waste
war, the old time animosities well mi
extinct, the beautiful southland is Co
ding to its own--to time when all
rare endowment of climate and 81
Fural resources are combining to ma
IL one OF the fairest countries on earti