Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-14

New milk and rats constitute bal
anced ration for the barn cats. See
that they have the milk if you want
them to catch the rats.
Well, there is this comfort anyhow
good crops almost always grow where
the bad roads are. 1t is easy to have
good roads on poor soils.
Skunks do not hibernate as do bears,
but will come out of their dens on the
river bank during the milder days Of
the winter in search of food.
We came across small western
town lately where creamery made
butter to the value of $4,000 each
year. That community was rich.
A dairyman in southern Minnesota
dried up his cows by feeding them po-
tatoes. Why? A totally unbalanced
ration, woefully deficient in protein.
Glover is not only fertilizer, but
subsoiler. Glover roots penetrate deep
ly into the subsoil and as they decay
certainly open up the subsoil for the
use of other crops.
1t always Injuries milk to be put in a
closed can before all the animal heat
has been taken from it. Every one
handling milk should know this, but
good many do not.
The rural mail route. the farm tele-
phone and the Capitalization of the
country schools are three agencies
which are going to do much TO change
things or the farm.
A crop of white beans raised among
the trees of a 20 acre orchard is not
only a good thing for the young or
chard, but pays about as well as any
crop raised on the farm.
We are asked how few cows will Jus
| tify the use of a farm separator? We
should say 10. though we know of
/ dairymen with only ten who think that
they could not get along without one.
| We have a weakness for q porch over
/ the front door of the home and for a
I pretty vine to trail over the porch .
! clematis, q creeper, Rambler rose or
even just common old morning glories
1t is said that the United States Sc
cures 500 varieties of timber more or
/ less valuable in the new island posses
I sions. and we are quite likely to get in
troduced to 500 different types of abo-
/ riginal cussedness also.
One ton of well cured clover hay is
worth as a milk producing food almost
/ as much as two tons of equally we'll
| cured timothy hay, and one pound Of
| clover hay fed work horse is worth
almost as much as one pound Of oats.
The white turkey is much tanner
and more domestic bird than his bronze
relative. He will neither wander so
far from home nor roost so high, this
because the bronze bird is much more
closely related to his wild cousin.
Where the corn crop averages about 80
! bushels an acre the crop can easily be
4 doubled by giving the land clover ro-
tation once in four years. The differ
/ ence between profit and loss in operat-
/ ing such land can be found in the fore
going statement.
Any man can make $40 day for
three days put in on extra disking and
1 dragging of almost any ten acre field Of
corn before planting. This matter of
1 giving land extra work and prepara-
ton before planting crop of corn is
| not as well understood as it should be-
i If man wishes to raise $1T5 horses
to sell, he had better dispense altogeth-
err with barbed wire on his farm fences
where the horses and colts run. A
/ barbed wire cut which will in no man
ner injure the horse for usefulness will
always take $25 off him when he is put
on the market.
The farm separator calf is always a
/ healthy calf. He is never troubled
with Indigestion, scours. loss OF appe-
tite or lice. There is vital and health
giving property about the milk fed
warm from the COW which can never
be impaired to it artiiicially after it
has once become cold.
We never knew man to have very
good lupk with tha mamnoth nlove. n G
a hay crop. 1t is too coarse and is apt
to lodge when the big stems become
mildewed and unpalatable. AS fer
tilizer. the green crop to be plowed
under, it is better than the medium
clover and is all right for pasture.
So great is the fertilizing value of