Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-24

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That is a pretty good hired man who
does not have to be called in the morn
ing.
j A western farmer was recently fined
S36 for selling a lot Of cholera infected
hogs to his neighbor.
The shade in the summer for stock
is not more acceptable to them than is
the sunshine in winter.
A new wrinkle is the pressing of
bran into cubic blocks to make it
easier Of transportation.
The box elder bug is hardy fellow,
for we saw quite a number alive and
well out of doors on Dec. 8.
The beef and pork made from the
grass on your farm cost you less than
those made in any other way.
The value Of the Christmas turkeys
eaten by the American people during
the late holidays is estimated at $4,000
coo.
One way to tell good COW is to
watch those that the dairyman does
not want to sell, and vice versa, we
might add.
While oleomargarine may be better
than some butter, it still will always
bear the same relation to butter which
ticket OF leave man does to the honest
laboring man.
Z The wise men now say that salt is
the real elixir of life. How about
those old Indian chiefs who turned
hundred years and never tasted salt
in all their lives?
Late tests made at the Kansas ex-
pertinent station prove conclusively
that the smut ears on corn are fatally
poisonous to stock. Thus when the
corn is husked all such ears should be
gathered and burned up.
A farm journal on our desk gives
prescription for a sick hen. If old
Riddy survived the elaborate treat
ment prescribed, she would have to lay
four eggs a day for three months to
pay for the prescription.
We came across a dairyman the other
day who was opposed to the use of the
farm separator because, he said, ut
will heat the milk so that cannot feed
it to the calves" Ignorance of this
type is pretty hard to combat.
The best remedy for the so called
cornstalk disease, which destroyed SO
many cattle all through the west last
fall, is to cut up the corn. We never
knew well cured cornstalks to kill a
critter or even make one sick.
Seven millions Of the 100000 bales
of cotton produced in this country are
the product of negro labor. However
much of a menace the presence of the
black man may be to America it Is very
evident it would be hard to get along
without him.
The hog is the mortgage litter, the
sheep the farm fertilizer, the COW the
barn builder and the hen the grocery
bill payer. This quartet, with man
and woman not afraid Of the work
In caring for them, will insure pros
perity on any farm.
The Tennessee experiment station re-
ports that an acre Of cowpeas yields
twice as much digestable matter as an
acre of good corn and that it takes 175
bushels of corn. with the fodder to
equal one ton Of cowpea hay in the
matter of protein furnished.
Three times as much oatmeal Will be
s.eaten in this country when American
WOMEN learn how to properly cook it.
You can put it down for fact that
oatmeal cannot be cooked in ten min
utes SO that it is fit for even dog to
eat. Like plum pudding. the longer
it Is cooked the better 1t is.
We once had a very fine climbing
Z rose-a Prairie Queen-which we al
ways laid down and covered up for the
winter. We used straw to cover this
bush one winter, and when we uncov-
cred it in the spring the stems were
peeled clean of bark by the mice. Since
then we have used earth and not straw
for this purpose.
Give the farm name. Have this
name neatly iettered on signboart
and placed where it can be seen by
the traveller who goes by your place
Then have some letter heads anG
tnyeloneS printed with the name o.