Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-10-10
! Thanks for the prospect of a fine crop
of turkeys and cranberries,

+ Thanks for the prospect of a fine crop
of turkeys and cranberries,
s.The present drought In England is
the most protracted and severe of any
the country has ever known.
u The latest estimate of the spring
wheat crop Of Minnesota and the two
Dakotas is $1,000, 900 bushels.
f7KMissouri man lately sold the fruit
on ninety acre apple orchard for
$s,0OQa Few crops can beat this. =
And now comes man with seed
less watermelon. This is all right, but
how. is this melon to be propagated3
a -
T. Tie forage on any field Of fairly good
corn is worth, il shredded, not less
chan $15 at the present price of hay,
One man located in the woods of
northern Minnesota has potato crop
this year which will bring, him lin the
I sum of $4,000. sslsa,;Isse
natH pou1tryman who lives in city
tells us that It costs him rs cents to
Keep hen in town for one year, where
he has to buy. all the food consumed by
her ~. az
+ Forty-ttree million Russians living
in the interior provinces of that coun-
try are on the verge Of starvation ow-
ing to continued drought and crop fall
Wres.
{tAn Investigation shows that there
are but six varieties of the timber
growing in the Philippine Islands of
any value FOE export purposes as cab
dnet woods.
tFIt seems that King Corn Phillips
comes out Of his assignment deal in no
sort Of shape to go on with his corn
growers combine, whereby the price of
this cereal was to be permanently rails
ed. 49,.
E We note that twenty-six hogs raised
in Kansas on alfalfa and just topped
Off with q little corn sold recently for
.$25 per head. There are great posi-
bilihes connected with hogs and all
falfa.
1t will be out Of place and bad form
for the boarder to make any sighting
remark about the prunes on his bill of
fare this winter, for prunes, with po-
tat0es, have passed into the list of lux
uries. :.
! Petty thieping has taken new turn
&his season over much Of the country
I'm midnight raids upon the potato
fields A man whom we know had an
eighth Of an acre cleaned up in one
night recently. -, i.
THE packing house trust Of Chicago
Isl q farreaching organization. Last
gear they added to their meat inter-
ests poultry and eggs. and this year
they have buyers out seeking to control
the apple crop Of the west. e..rc..--7..
4, r .
ElA Minnesota farmer during the ex-
Sessively heated harvest season of this
year humanely left his horses in the
barn and hitched his traction engine
On to his harvester, cutting all his crop
of small grain by steam power.
ETA farmer in a western state conclud.
ed that he would raise a little less corn
and grow some STRAWBERRIES, so he set
Dut four acre patch last year and
ahis year sold $4,000 quarts from the
field, for which he received $1,000.
4 Improved methods of handling fax
fiber result in eastern buyers taking
the whole crop from the farmer, seed
and fiber unthrashed, they baling it
and shipping it to the mills in the.
east. The price paid per acre was 500.
y 1t has been proved a possible thing to
make millionaire out of just a COM
mon, everyday farmer engaged solely
in tilling the soil and producing crops
and stock. Missouri has one and ILL
nois two or three such agricultural
plutocrats.
Some potato growers insist upon hill
ing up their potatoes, while others give
the crop level culture. This season Of
drought the hill system proved almost
fatal to the crop, while potatoes deep
planted and given level culture are a
good crop.
Three logs of African mahogany,
twenty-five feet in length and thirty
two inches in diameter, sold recently
i'll London for the sum Of $500, and
two other smaller ones brought ST.
FILES. or $1,000 per thousand feet.
board measure. - 500
Common prairie hay baled is selling
for about $40 per, ton in nearly all
western cities and scarce at that. In
northern Minnesota are hundreds Of
thousands of tons of this sort Of, hay
to be had for the cutting. and a lot Of
men are now busy cutting this hay,
baling and shipping it and arc making