Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-26

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1t is au fait now in select social cir
cbles to refer to charming girl as a
potato and not as a peach.
A Texas steer weighing 1900 pounds
sold on the Chicago market recently
Tor S132, or cents pound.
Short though the corn crop Of the
country may be, there will be more
than enough to make all the whisky.
Once in awhile we come across some
road supervisor who does his work so
faithfully and well that his constitu-
ents concede him the office as long as
he lives.
A state supreme court recently gave
the opinion that country justice Of
the peace did not have to know very
much about law. This was well stated,
for mighty few of them do
The Irish potato remarked to the
sweet potato lately that for once in
their lives they were trotting in the
same class in the matter of price
vans and murphies alike at cents
pound.
We feel safe in predicting that there
will be no corn burned for fuel in any
I nc RI pf ba ba inc int
And yet in 1896 corn ut 10 cents a
bushel was cheaper fuel than soft
coal at Sc per ton.
If you have boy under sixteen who
has acquired the cigarette habit, lick
it out Of him. 1t is no use to spare him,
for he might just as well be killed at
sixteen as live to die of palsy and
idiocy at twenty-five.
The onion is never quite so attrac-
tive to us as when we get sniff of an
onion stew in some neighbours house as
we so home to dinner, for as mean a
root as is the onion it has good many
fascinating ways with it.
We noted lately the case of cream
cry which cost the stockholders $4,000
but short time ago being closed out
ut sheriff's sale and bringing only S425.
Creameries depreciate in value pretty
rapidly when they are not used.
Sheboygan county, Wis, maintains
1O5 cheese factories and but one cream
cry, and this is preparing to make
cheese instead Of butter. 1t would seem
as though the calf would have pretty
hard road to travel in that county.
1t may be that the best place to look
for seed for next years crop Of corn
will be in the cribs containing what is
left Of the 1900 crop; but, be 1t there
or in the fields of this year, every man
should look sharp for his seed corn for
next year.
The peculiar climatic conditions of
the past summer favored the man who
planted poor seed and planted his corn
late. Because he wins out this year 1t
Is no reason why his example should
be followed, as he would fail nine years
out of ten.
Tea culture, ostrich farming and the
growing of dates are three new things
which are attracting the attention of
progressive agriculturists. If we can
only succeed in raising the tea and the
ostrich plumes, we can depend upon
our nice girls to make the dates.
A new attachment for moving ma
chimes, sort Of dropper or buncher,
seems to be a valuable help for certain
kinds Of work done by such machine,
such as cutting flax, clover for seed or
any grain crop which may be too short
In straw for the ordinary grain har-
vester.
Farms abutting lines Of country troll
ley systems are going to be very de-
sirable property. They will become as
attractive as any suburban residence
section Of our large cities and because
Of their ready access to market will
promote the best types Of diversified
agriculture.
Tor the months Of August and Sep
TENDER there is nothing that will make
pork so cheaply and so rapidly as a
field of rape and sweet corn, supple
mented with ration of skimmilk for
the pigs. This is one Of the really good
things which every man growing hogs
should know and carry into practice.
One of the poorest things which this
country exports Is one of these hog, oil
Or mining millionaires who tours Eu-
rope with money to burn and disgusts
a cultured and ancient chivalry with a
blokish, barbarian effrontery-a get rich
quick libel on all that is graceful, polite
nnd courteous in American citizenship.
Agriculture remains the one business