Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-10-31

One cow with diseased hoof, which
affected the quality of her milk, was
responsible for a loss of 8 cents
pound on the entire make Of a Wiscon-
II sin cheese factory for over thirty days,
u or until the source of the trouble was
SfDgl located.
II Everything points to still higher prices
m II for beef. The more money the Ameri.
lNl IL can citizen makes the more and better
!, beef he wants. We do not believe any
~ thing but a run Of hard times will ever
20 IA bring up beef production to equal the
rITTDI demand.
~ Through the west there has been four
- times as much corn cut up, bound and
A1 shocked as ever before. This forage
SrI will release an immense amount Of
SISS3 hay and thus become indirectly a SUBJ
TaySs3 stantial source of revenue to thousands
1901 OF farmers.
pea will A good many Of the Illinois men who
sold out at 500 per acre, expecting to
buy just as good farms in Iowa and
he mar southern Minnesota at $50 an acre,
" Rose were not quite quick enough and found
out that the last named farms have
jumped in price to $40 and $50 per
as sug- acre.
tone up
was moved easily a hundred miles
bought nortn the past season in all the west
ia these ern states and large crops raised where
1t had been thought impossible to grow
this fruit. Perhaps the peach belt will
a pool follow the corn belt in its extension
Int we north
A feature of the dairy interest in Nor
rv com. way consists in placing dish of por-
ly sized iiuse VI liie .iliesnolu oL the co" Darn
8 at tho On Christmas morning. While this
smacks of superstition, it is still better
than swipng old bossy with the fork
mes up handle on DAYS which are not rated as
to the holidays.
elk does
One reason why the south does not at
tempt to raise its own corn Is the great
at 121a difficulty in keeping the corn when
s likely raised. The moist, warm fall and win
lst oleo ter weather prevents the perfect ripen-
or it ing of the corn, while even northern
grown ear corn placed in crib in Lou
which isiana will mold and spoil.
Polled
sture We know of several men who will
harvest thirty-five or forty bushels Of
good corn to the acre who should if
pushel they don't, feel real lnching over the
price to way thew howled over the loss of their
s refer corn crop last Julv. If always NAYS to
on trust Providence just little bit when
fellow has done his level best
Mexico
ON S12 Tho borros+ Sc nos. o,,5 A.
three ended ond o,,or, ,,,ood ,,-,,tah - -:
go. the highway around the farm went to
seed. So general has this thing been
~ A'e" that we are ready to favor n change in
,1uiope the law which will compel man to
~ oA fence his crops and leave the highways
'neA p' as commons pasture for the stock.
We rode over a section of country
in this o5 rossoss;a. W ~ LIZ uAu ~,
-. able land on the farms. 1t was the
wv anu very worst weed show that we ever
saw. The landowners in that section
..,.,, have serious problem to contend with,
!, "l.n and it will require united effort to sub
y .lany due the pest.
ging an o,o 80 .h - ..:4
trees is the common haw, or thorn
Dush 1t may be pruned as closely as
;, -, red cedar into almost any shape and
= o :. III no manner injure the grass which
grows beneath it. These trees may
sometimes be found in an old pasture
where they have been browsed by the
stock into an ideal shape for lawn
enough tree.
'eligous
reiish Whatever method you may adopt in
sausage the handling Of the shocked corn do
HOUSES not leave it out in the field until the
snow is piled up two feet in depth
lred the around the shock, for If you do you
las was will wish that you had never cut up a
leaf on hill. Nothing wears on mans piety
e or the more than to have to handle shocked
growing corn when the butts are frozen into the
mud and snow.
elders of wa onoa ,,o+ohoa No., ,...,
ns a. little patch Of corn upon the side OF
ieeuns West Virginia mountain. The slope
% VI ~ was so steep that he had to do all the
toAn 'Ae work by hand with hoe. This was
raising corn crop under difficulties
r,uouu,o, for, aside from the hard labor, the
a sbow coons, crows and gophers were each
g.. 49, waiting for a chance at the crop as
Inv, oor,s soon as it was big enough for them to
- Nv" eat.
We note with pleasure the work that
Co.. is being done by many of the great
laeota- railway corporations in the matter of
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