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

2lR There is altogether too much old
- buck mutton disguised with mint sauce
EA@-f passing as spring lamb
VI The hired man who smokes around
>,W the barn and sheds is a $25 month
TTNbM menace to the entire homestead.
Game is becoming SO scarce that the
NJ town sports find good deal Of fun in
18Th shooting goDhers, practice in which
II they should be encouraged.
TO- tA.tE Los Angeles has creamery three Of
c,TEbt whose patrons received checks for
NTl April milk amounting to $591.96
~ $s3o.50 and $9s2.O2 respectively.
MM AS between keeping the milk cows in
;ssS.,A the yard all night during the summer
lItSA and allowing them the run of the pas
1NSss8 ture the latter is by far the better.
horse never gets over blow on the
as hard head given in a moment Of anger by
rs. some fool driver If the horse must be
licked, lay It on behind and not in
,r 1900 front.
e grow
Where a field is very foul with weed
seeds and 1t is wanted for corn crop
leep in 1t is better to kill most of the weeds
lrought before the corn is planted even if the
planting is done little late.
a gen. drive of even fourth Of q mile is
trade an injury to COW with full udder
e kind When this drive is made. sometimes
Is than with the cows on a run and dog after
them, it becomes very costly business
before If each state In the Union could COM
he ami mand the services of as practical a
aby be man to have charge of it's agricultural
t done interests as the state of Kansas has in
spring Secretary Coburn, 1t would be of I'M
told value to the country at large.
E found Asparagus should be cut when three
} be al inches high and then cut three inches
made below the Surface Of the ground. So
X years cut it is at its best If allowed to grow
worth to a height of six or eight inches It
then becomes simply green's and not
asparagus.
ter can
e week We do not try to grow all the nice
The flowers for that would take up a per-
o work sons whole time. We find that roses
the aid cannas, dahlias. pansies. geraniums,
coeus and chrysanthemums are among
those which give the largest return for
pounds the work put on them.
Of Ala
cotton Owing to very severe drought dur
pound. ing the spring and summer of the year
ee why 1863, which effectuaIly estopped the
growth of any vegetation whatever
upon the prairies Of what is now North
emade Dakota the wind flower tho f;rst bor.
nome binger Of spring. came up and bloomed
lunch- the last of August instead of in May.
,ething
on the Tho steta of Nar, yo-- 10, lev,
prohibiting the killing of horses for use
as food for man. When meats get
robins certainly win this low will ho,o ~ ~
iety Of amended A large fore,gn horn oon-
year Of tinpent of tho nonr,otion ~ ,,,,. ,orao
3. This citias hoe M nrai,d,oa lice
ipe'ent against the use of horsefesh for food.
+h.n story comes to US from Tama coun-
MOI ron- ty, Ia. to the effect that the hens in
~ a that section are getting to build their
=. oor nests In the trees like the birds, an
boiler 90 - SIG oiu oluus seiee.'As Tue .op
o snon. OF q cottonwood stump. cut off seven
feet from the ground and hidden with
a new growth, as place to make
,o,como nest and bring off a lively brood Of
-, chickens.
lid his ro,o Mo-, ,,.,,., u.,.,, 49, 100000.
lily nest olosol, hordo ro 49, e.os4 liz.
q very ,,, IL - 80, 80 , -. -. - ~,
e quite ~ +,,rao aao.aas s,eea.s - ~ wv
g their noro+,,ra +hnn ,,o,.as ~, AZ. s,se..n.
to them between success and failure.
t been ~ - w wy uo' eo.nPe!Ieu " IT, we
tx wal e.. az t.aus " ~ 'he fiorioa pan
IS, and t,, Dluns stuuuse n,es ~ .he orcn'itu
Is such - s., ea.. fo'lunateiy Tue oahSer was
and set saAetS passeu'
would W. ,,,,,,,a ,u.o =. 49,
sum Of Yo,na ot s,,oo,,,nn enNa "a .he
dairy cow. We are aware that analysis
pants az ~. 'f'i'ns u'uerehce oet"een
Calling .ne ~. Vaiue u many iooos
to the "n.'ne, teu sieeE VI ory' Out the COW
W done ~, ~. nane 2 n'o'e sup'ie dnaysis wien
es with on. , a.,Sinp's " convert 'nese LOCUS
Is need .ito uiiiA Nulure arranged lhat 1ne
han on .o ,s hnouiu give i,'ia anu cure iof her