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

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The potato crop of 1901 is the poor
est ever raised In America.
England raises ,GG4 500 acres Of tur-
nips, most of which crop is eaten by its
2G,o00,000 sheep.
The Jersey bred male calf is vealer
by predestination, and ten weeks
should mark the limit of his earthly
existence.
If only boys would take as kindly to
buching WOOD as they do to bucking in
football game-but they don't and
never will.
AS wealth producers it is just now
nip and tuck between the oil wells Of
Texas and the corn and hogs of the
western states.
No living man can afford to risk his
eternal happiness by trying to milk n
kicking COW of the three pound of but
ter week sort.
A cord Of oak wood costing Sc when
prepared for the stove is much more
expensive fuel than ton Of Hooking
valley coal at the same price.
Enough sugar beets will be harvested
this year in the southern part of Michi-
gan to produce the sugar needed to
supply all the people in that state.
If persistent layers of large white
eggs are wanted, try the Houdans.
These fowls are opposed to sitting on
general principles. They, further, are
very desirable table fowls.
The quality Of both the winter and
spring wheat raised in this country the
past season is exceptionally good. The
drought which cut short some of the
other crops contributed to this result.
Wherever corn is extensively raised
COWS MIXED and uhogs fed there the
silo has place. for a winter ration OF
succulent food can thus be provided al
far less expense THAI by the growing
of any root efopsH q Y
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Bad roads are popularity supposed tt
be muddy roads. but in many sections
of the country the bad road is sandy
one and is the worst in dry weather. A
top dressing Of clay is the best cure
| for this sort Of bad road.
Skimmilk is worth 80 cents hun
dred pounds to feed the little pigs
| which, when six months old, will sci
at 81 per hundredweight, or more thar
half as much as the whole milk viii
bring to put into eight cent cheese.
France has seventy-fve dogs for eact
thousand of it's population. In the local.
ty where the writer lives there must b.
not less than $50 to each thousand, ant
the hides of nine-tenths of them wer'
intended by the Lord for glove stock.
| 1t is claimed that concentrated lyt
J placed along the runways of rats will
get rid of the pests. The I've sticks tt
their feet and burns them. and ther
they 60 to licking their feet, which il
too much for them. This is worth
trying.
If country folk would visit with eacl
other more, they would not give tn
peddler, the politician and the fax
agent so warm welcome. When per
sons have been left alone for week
they will welcome most any old codge
who comes along.
We are asked what becomes of thu
pork made from the old stays ant
700 pound old hogs disposed of in thu
packing house markets. The sailor
on the high seas get them, thus NIGEL.
illustrating one of the practical use
Of the American navy.
A cheap tread power, so arranged
that the bull will have to mount it ant
work it in order to reach his food, will
almost surely take the. devil out Of him
If the power is attached to pump
ha will do better and more reliable
work than any windmill.
One COW is just MS likely to be cheal
at SIS as another is at $50. 1t all de
ponds upon the cow. a COW which will
make 400 pounds Of butter in year il
cheap at that figure, while anothe
which will only make a calf and ma
nure pile is dear at third Of the mon
ey.
A Missouri landlord who had nun
Der Of tenants and whose land was lo
Gated where the drought did its wors
work the past season made out re
ceipts in full for this years rent AM
sent one to each Of his tenants. Thi