Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-17

hC Soio clOloSC CS5 luCh dIS al AuSh
this year and will realize profit of
about 81. 90 per case on the eggs carried
over by them.
The hens of America are worth $780,
100000. They produce annually eggs
worth $175, 100000 and chickens which
sell fog s1ao.ooo,ooo.
1t has taken 20 years to remove the
English Aprojudice against American
meats. Today English grown beef is
being put on the English market as
American beef.
The value of all farm crops produced
in the state of Iowa during 1900 is
1929, S05,05S. If the state produced
this much gold, it would be rated as the
worlds Ell Dorado.
Only 81 per cent Of the human race
have any knowledge whatever Of the
value Of corn as food for man. The
other two-thirds Of the race depend up
on rice, rye and bananas.
A friend of ours has raised nice
crop of Jonathan apples this season
from a top grated tree in his orchard
in southern Minnesota. This graft
was made upon a Hibernal trunk and
root.
Where we see country church with
out horse sheds we incline to the opin-
ion that amen" responses to the pas
tors prayers and collections for the sal
walton Of the heather are all out of
place.
The roots of hill Of corn will spread
yer an area six feet in diameter and
into the soil to depth of
over four feet. 1t is thus easy to I'M
derstand why corn acts as it does when
1t is planted too thick.
There is no doubt that the pasturing
gions of the west by sheep is in every
way detrimental to tree growth and
development. Young trees simply can
not grow where sheep run.
Iowa has a system of travelling libra
ries, each library being an assorted col
lection Of books, so in number, sent out
by the state librarian and obtainable
by a very simple process for, circulation
in any country community.
Shredded corn fodder is not q success
for sheep feeding. A friend of the
writer who is preparing 5000 sheep for
the spring market has had to abandon
the use Of shredded fodder as rough
age ration for them, as they utterly re-
fuse to eat it.
A lady friend Of the writer who is
the wife of a dsiryman who supplies
the milk of a dairy of 20 cows for the
Chicago market told us lately that at
the contract price for the milk the but
ter fat contained in 1t brought them As
cents per pound.
When John Deere invented the hard
ened steel moldboard FOR the American
plow, he did RS much for American ag-
rfculture as did Sir Henry Bessemer
Tor the transportation interests when
he invented the Bessemer steel process
of making the steel rail.
The agricultural department is TAX
ing steps to get rid Of the prairie dog
settlements of the western states. If
the department will take some steps to
limit the number of real dogs in the
more civilized portions of the country,
3 it would be still better work.
No lobby working on congress in the
interests of some great corporation ev-
er got in as effective work as did the
farmers of the country on the con-
gressmen on the oleomargarine bill.
The vote In the house showed that
most of them had heard from their
country constituents
We are wont to think of Denmark as
q poor little country made up of noun
tnin ranges, forests, fish, fiords and
poverty; still we note that it exported
the past year 129,0O0,O00 pounds of the
best butter in the world, worth not less
than 500, 100000, besides a large
amount of fancy cured bacon which
brought a big price.
We noticed man burning over his
lawn and thus getting rid of all the
dead grass AID leaves on his place, and
this just as winter set in. This was a
bad mistake. The grass roots and all
! kinds Of shrubbery are greatly benefit.
ed by having all the protection possible
for the winter season. 1t is soon
enough in the spring to do this work.