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

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The question of potatoes for seed will
be serious one next spring.
The highest priced rose on the mar
ket this winter will be the Early Rose
potato.
If you put out that celery bed as sug-
gested last spring, you can now tone up
your nerves at small cost.
The average cost of the hogs bought
by packers in the stock markets these
days is not far from $1S each.
Ducks may be raised without pool
or creek for them to swim in, but we
would not want to try the job.
The grade of piety in country COM
may be pretty accurately sized
up by the style of the horsesheds at the
country church.
None Of our forage plants comes up
with fall growth quite equal to the
sweet clover, but some way stock does
not take kindly to it.
Lard is quoted at wholesale at 1211h
cents per pound, q fact which is likely
to weaken the argument against oleo
and cottonseed oil substitutes for it.
The Lord made four things which
man cannot improve upon-a Polled
Angus steer. blue grass pasture, a
strawberry and Jersey cow.
One dollar and q quarter per bushel
is just four times too big price to
pay for potatoes when one has refer
ence to them as nutritiye ration.
A good August rain in New Mexico
advanced the price Of cattle from s12,
SIT and $50 for one, two and three
year old animals to SIS, $50 and $23.
1t seems like carrying Goals 10 New.
castle to import potatoes from Europe
to this country. yet this will be done on
an extensive scale before another po-
tato crop is raised.
1t looks as though the limits of
profitable sheep production in this
country had been about reached unless
our folks will eat more mutton and
less beef and pork.
Instead Of serving potatoes with a
meat order the dining cars and many
Of the restaurants are now serving
them as side dishes and charging an
extra 10 cents for them.
Possibly 20 cent corn and hog cholera
have something to do with each other.
Ordinarily If hogs do die when corn is
so cents it is no great loss, provided
they die young enough.
Many a man who has not enough
faith to accept the simplest Of religious
truths will devour with keen relish
any Of the fancy brands of sausage
meat turned out by the packing houses.
A September frost which spared the
dahlias, nasturtlums and cannas was
still severe enough to kill every leaf on
the coleus, showing 1t to be one of the
most tender of our summer growing
plants.
One of the most extensive feeders of
beef cattle told US recently that he al
ways made the most money in feeding
either when corn was 20 cents or SO
cents. his best returns being from the
SO cent corn.
If the Grout bill for the suppression
of oleomargarine stood as good show
in the next congress as a bill for the
suppression Of anarchy, the dairy cows
Of the country would forthwith hold a
jubilee meeting.
When the conditions are all favora-
Bile, the milk of fresh COW may be
considered disable at the fifth milking.
When men seek to work any Of the
other four milkings on to the creamery,
they do dirty trick.
A pretty good rule as to milk and
cream furnished the creamery is this:
If for any reason it is SO off in quality
that you would not use it yourself,
don't send 1t, just applying the "do as
you would be done by" test.
The tea roses did not like the ex-
IRENE dry heat Of midsummer, even
though they never lacked for water,
but they did respond to the moderated
and moister heat Of September with an
abundance of beautiful bloom.
The calf intended for beef animal
should be kept continuously fat from
the time of his birth until he is ready