Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-16

a common garden rake is a great
weed killer If only used at tie proper
time.
The cherry is the best fruit and the
most difficult fruit to raise that we
have.
We never buy anything from a ped
dler and never sell him anything save
rags.
Eggs at 12scents per dozen are one Of
the most nutritious and cheapest foods
to be obtained.
October milk makes the finest flavor
ed cheese. The weather conditions are
also better for curing the cheese
More fruit can be obtained from a
few strands of Columbian raspberries
than from any other. variety of this
fruit.
If you have never been visited by the
hog cholera. don't brag. It's your good
luck anC not your smartness which has
exempted you.
Some of the stories told and yarns
spun by men working on the road are
as questionable as the methods of do
ing the road work
The American boy who is denied the
opportunity to trap and drown out
gophers in the spring misses great
deal of sport and fun.
Nobody can break in the colts better
than the farm boy, and he should be set
at this work us soon as the colt is
weaned, and even before
People like to see good horses, and so
i: comes that the horse show in Chi
cago the past winter paid its origina-
tors a dividend Of 25 per cent.
The most successful farmers whom
we know today started life 80 or 40
years ago as hired men, but they were
not like some hired men of today.
Hogs have ranged 30 per cent higher
during the past II months than for the
previous year. War and prosperity are
mostly responsible for this advance.
1t might be good idea for you to
plow up your last years hogyard and
SOW it to rape. 1t will grow big crop,
and the hogs will do well on it later on.
About the poorest use to put good
farm to Is to make it grow timothy
seed. When SO used, the land is annu-
ally robbed for the smallest possible
return.
Time spent In making the home lot
attractive and pleasant is always time
well spent. AS a home looks from the
outside. SO it is more than likely to look
on the inside.
There are over 1000 varieties Of peo-
MES and no plant giving profusion Of
rich bloom is easier to care for. Once
planted they are as long lived as an
asparagus bed.
When the young man on the farm
has been to church and Sunday school
on Sunday morning. there is nothing
wrong in his going to see his best girl
Sunday evening.
Get a small package Of alfalfa, soy
beans and rape. these three, and give
them an experimental trial this year.
Sow. say, rod square of each and find
out something for yourself.
The legislative work on the Grout
bill will have TO be all gone over again
at the next session Of congress. The
prospects for it's final passage are con-
sidered good By it's friends.
If you have plenty of water-a run
ming stream or big pond-near the
farm home, 1t is well enough to keep
some ducks; if not then we would let
some one else raise the ducks.
There are plenty of small boys who
will be glad to dig bushel basketful
of dandelions out Of your lawn for
nickel, and it is the cheapest way in
which to get rid of these pests.
There should be at least one-f fourth
of an acre Of sweet corn planted for
each COW which will be In milk during
the month of August. Try this this
year IL you have never done so before.
The sum of $175 was refused for
, buff Plymouth Rock cockerel at the
late Chicago poultry show, which fig
IRE for rooster matches up pretty
well with that Of $4,000 for Hereford
bull.
We note a late London quotation on
American apples as follows: Spleen
berg, per barrel, S.; Baldwin, SO; Green
ing, So; Russet, So; Ben Davis. 81, and
Spy. 81. The Ben Davis must sell on
its color. a.