Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-29

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GO. z $500 IL $500
A 3-year-oid Tamworth boar is about
as homely an animal as the LORD ever
created
1t is not true that "the barking dog
never bites We once lost good pair
OF pants by trusting to this motto.
The lazy fellows who planted their
corn late drew a prize this year Every
man has his Innings sooner or later.
The katydid gave us his first stridu-
lous note this year July %. The old
rule is six weeks to frost from that
date.
Let it be said that there were more
deaths in the beer cellars than in the
harvest fields. The old soak was easy
game for old Sol.
The famous tobacco district of Wis
consin has to mourn the loss of a very
large per cent of the crop of tobacco
this year owing to drought.
On Aug, q catbm built nest and
started to raise Il brood in n cherry
tree in our orchard-two months later
than their usual period OF incubation.
One compensatiag feature of the
short crop Of fruit is TO be cheaper
sugar. The American people are ell
titled to 20 pounds of sugar for Il
dollar.
Tests show that cans Of milk covered
with Il wet blanket were kept IL de-
grees cooler while being hauled to the
creamery than were cans of milk not
so covered
1t is befter to have yard full of
high priced and healthy hogs and
short corn crop than 10 have the cribs
t; u of Is cent corn and hog cholera,
leaving you not hog to feed il to.
The spontaneous combustion of soft
coal is responsible for a great many
fires, particularly in creameries. When
such coal is put in pile in a damp
condition it is always n source OF
danger.
Portable Swimming stations. or
wagon equipped with a separator,
which makes the rounds of dairy sec
ton, is a new wrinkle. Where only
few cows are kept on each farm the
system is a success.
New Zealand dairy farms are worth
from 500 to $50 per acre, and such
farms furnish the nearest to ideal
dairy conditions Of any country in the
world-plenty OF rain. no cold weather
and lu1uriant grass all tue year round.
Two trees, one n blackberry, the other
a cottonwood. grew beside a potato
field. The potatoes were practically
destroyed for a distance of 30 feet from
the cottonwood, while they grew thrift
lily within 10 feet of the blackberry.
Why this differencei
Fat stock is almost always sold by
guess weight in England The accu-
racy with which British cattle buyers
will estimate the weight and beef
worth of "critter" is something mar
velous. This method is never practiced
in this country, the scales being the
sole arbiter of weights.
Ensilage will not add particle to the
nutritive value of the forage pnt in
the silo. 1t simply puts such forage
into a uniformly palatable condition
and saves greater percentage Of tile
food value of any forage SO treated.
To this may he added q greater con-
vcnience in tie matter of feeding.
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TIE cattle of the Kansas and Ne
braska ranges are being rushed 10
market and 20 to the Gamers for what
they will bring--this on account of the
drought and short forage crop, This
sacrifice of stock will be felt in the
market next year, when these same
cattle should have been marketed as
good beef animals.
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If you want your name In tine county
paper and a little web deserved noto-
riety, just go 10 work and gravel the
public highway bordering your farm.
Such good example would be iufcc-
tious. and the first thing you know
your neighbor will he doing the same
thing. nc yo'l should die while ell
gagged IN rhe work: you would have the
greatest funeral on record.
A dog boozed out and grabbed by
the tail : horse which was being driy-
Ell along the public highway. The
horse ran away and ran into IA buggy
containing some children, breaking the