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

The more nay, particularly Clover
nay, can be cured under cover-in the
,ock, in the field or in the stack or |
now--without damage by heating, the
,weeter, more nutritious and better will
It be. Hot suns, dews, winds and rains
make short work and bad work with :
what might be good hay.
Twelve hundred registered Here /
ford cattle have been sold since |
Jan. 1 at an average price of $240 per !
head. Good cattle have never been in
grenter demand than at the present
time Stockmen are getting on to the
fact that it costs no more to keep
well bred animal than a scrub.
The ignorant. dirty, slouchy butter
maker is fast finding that he is out of
a Job The man who has taken spe-
cial training at our agricultural schools
and understands the science of milk is
the man who is wanted to make the
butter Good butter may be made by
guess. but mighty little nowadays.
At this season of the year, the last
of June, house and barn cats are busy
foraging in the fields and groves. They
are after the young birds. which for a
day or two after they leave the nest
are an easy prey for these providers.
We sometimes wonder which of the
two is the bigger pest-cats or rats and
mice.
1t is quite likely that the fuel sup
plies of this country will undergo a
very marked change should the recent
discoveries of fuel oil prove to be per-
manent in their supply. Oil as fuel
has many advantages over coal in that
1t costs far less to transport it and pro-
duce it, is smokeleSs and a self feeder
for all furnace work.
Here is fashion note for the young
mars on the farm: If you are a hard
worker and are well tanned up. as you
are quite likely to be. you will look bet
ter dressed if you Wear colored rath-
er than white shirt and collar. and
mind that you let gaudy neckwear
alone. White and brown and scarlet
or purple and brown never harmonic.
Foreign nations are WisDng that
America should feed the world and fur
nish cotton to clothe it. but are most
vigorously Kicking when we propose to
furnish them all sorts of manufactured
goods at prices less than they can pro-
duce them for and of better quality.
1t will do them no good to kick, for
they are dependent upon us for their
| bread and butter.
| There has been evolved this year q
| very distinct and marked advance in
/ the science of roadmaking by the use
4 of the traction engine as motive pow
er for graders. Wherever tried it has
proved n mat marked success. Why
not go one step farther and use the en-
CINE to haul the gravel to make a fin
4 ished highway? We look to see thi
the next step.
/ The work Of many a housewife Il
greatly increased just because the fam
the frying pan and the baking powde
biscuit. Young lady. if your lover tell
you he wants hot biscuit twice day
don't you marry him. The chances ar
that If you do he will have dyspep
STA or Bright's disease before he Is d
and be so ugly you will want to G.
home to your ma.
We note with good deal of salts
faction that a grain and stock buyer 0
q certain western state who for som
time had been menkeying with hi
scales and offering to sell to other buy
ers a device which would make it cas-
for the buyer to rob the farmer ha
been rounded up by Uncle Sam an
made to ante up $1,000. He ought
have been given chance to have r.
pented of his meanness in the pen
Tertiary.
When fat hog year old sells ft
$50 in the corn belt, as now, it is L
; wonder that grangers pose as pres
dents of national banks. The $40 he
. Is in the same class of wealth pr
: ducers as oil wells and pay dirt in
gold mine. The grunt of satisfactic
given by the hog as he lies down
snooze is not to be compared to tt
grupt Of satisfaction on the part of Il
granger as he cashes the check receive
8 for the hog.
The average creamery will disbur
} to the farmers which patronize
about $4,000 a year. This sum
about equal to that which 20 avera,
quarter section farms will produce OF
: year with another. Where there
: help to milk and care for the cows Il
0 dairy business is the safest foundati'
= for all northern agriculture, and.
J. anything. this statement will app