Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-21
Manure is always injured by heating,
through which process it loses its am


Manure is always injured by heating,
through which process it Loses its am
monia.
The best remedy for lice in the hem
house seems to be to line the building
with tarred paper.
The colonel brother needs freezing
up putting into cold storage-for
about three months every year. He
would then get hustle on himself.
There will always be some one to
breed the scrub COW, somebody to milk
her, somebody to lose money feeding
shertsteer calf, but it should not be you.
Atathe present prices of the staple
good cotton lands-those which will
produce from three-fourths of a bale to
a bale per acre-are easily worth $500
per acre.
The wolf bounty appropriation of the
state Of South Dakota is short the sum
of $4,000. Range conditions always
favor the multiplication of wolves, who
find an easy living preying on the
young and helpless of the focks and
herds.
If the oatield is rank and black in
May and the field is level, turn the
sheep in for short time; If the field is
rolling, do not do 1t, as the sheep will
{nya -, n hlv food IN <be, l,;rbor ,,o,+;,n,
of the land, just where their work is
not needed.
Good seed is the first step in securing
good crops, then proper and thorough
preparation Of the seed bed. Ignoring
these things many men work and fret.
and fail, 1t being the same sort of fool
ishness which makes man expect to
raise a good calf on sour separator
milk.
Neither an old boar nor an old bull is
u desirable adjunct Of the stock farm.
They are very apt to be ugly and more
OF less of nuisance, but Just the same
amy man can well afford to keep such
matMed sires, Gagged up like wild
abeasss. II necessary, for the sake Of
fhetr value aS sires.
\ Il, friend wishes to know what he
can do 10 make his hired man content
ed It depends upon the man. but IL
EB Gpn hienO viii do ell the milking
xua 8et a good looking hired girl the
chances are the b. m. will be reasona-
wv boil ~ H,o Oh
DE Ared at once. !,
We commend the red cedar for an
evergreen belt around the farm home.
1t VIII not grow SO fast as the white or
8cutch pine but Is everywhere tough
ana hardy, standing drought and ex-
treme cold better than any evergreen
I'VE have 1t should be planted much
more extensively than it is.
~H0wmanyBheep can be kept on the
fbod required by one cow2' we are
assze1. THAI depends altogether on the
hreed or the sheep. Five 200 pound
sCutzwolds win consume as much food
sAs thousand pound cow, while eight
sShnpsi1ires and ten Merinos would re-
aHim about the same amount Of food.
J a prominent railway official told us
aaaeIy that IL win pay to build a line Of
nuad anywhere in the west and north
west where belt Of farm land six
miles Wide ON each side Of the road
Ezn be depended upon for patronage.
kTP fls7s, sv&ufsunox,< Co <r,1o no h,xXo -
;gUt 10 the end Of railway construction
dU = good deal.
If capitalists can make good money
buying western range sheep and your
grain and hay to fatten them for mar
ket, why IN the name Of common sense
should nod you? These men are max
ing close to dollar head, and you
would have an additional 10 cents
which they can't get in the matter Of
fertilizing your land.
One ton of commercial fertilizer,
worth $28, is required for each acre of
farm land on Long Island in order to
insure a crop. And there are thou
sands Of men in the fertile west who
grow three tons of worthless weeds in
each acre Of their ccrnfields who would
not know what a commercial fertilizer
was IL they were asked.
Two million seven hundred thousand
Frenchwomen are reported by the last
census of that country as employed in
: outdoor work on the farms and gar
dens of France This condition would
theoretically imply large families of
children, but the same census discloses
the fact that the nation as a whole is
barely holding its own in point of pop
ulation.
The dust and fine chaff from ma
I chine thrashing fax were carried by
strong wind over on to piece of land
quarter Of an acre in extent which
had never grown crop of fax. This
field sowed to fax next year produced
a fine crop, with the exception of this
one-quarter acre. which was so poi
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