Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28

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II you want good pumpkin pie, the
pumpkin needs to be we'll boiled down.
A crop of corn seems to be always
the best crop with which to follow
crop of fax.
The value Of any sort of new bug
may be determined by finding out what
other sort Of bug he wants for food.
The year 1901 shows up with very
short crop of apples the country over.
only 23,000,00O barrels against $4,000
600 barrels year ago.
Wanted.-Some new bug to kill off
the box elder bug, which has come to
be an unmittgated nuisance wherever
box elder trees are grown.
The corn crop of the state of Iowa
foots up, according to the crop report
ing officials, about 225, SIC, 900 bushels
an immense lot Of corn after ALL
The grosbeak is the only bird which
we have ever noted as eating potato
bugs. and he will eat one for sauce
while feasting on the early green peas.
II you want handsome cherry tree,
plant 1t on rich ground, but If you want
cherries put it on the poorest ground
you have. We have found this out by
experience.
When the house cat takes up the
business Of catching chickens, the soon
er she is killed the better, for you can
never break her Of the habit when once
1t is acquired.
The government can far better af-
ford to appropriate money for irriga-
ton Of the fertile arid lands than to
spend 1t pulling snags out of unnavi-
gable streams.
California wines, like Chicago dress.
ed beef, are winning their way in the
markets of Europe, where alone 1t was
not long since thought good wines
could be produced.
Onions are selling at SO cents a peck
all through country where 1t is en-
tirely possible to raise 300 bushels of
them on one acre Of land. There is a
cog loose here somewhere.
Do not forget that il you want the
cats to catch the rats around the barns
and granaries they must have daily
ration Of new milk The rats and the
milk make balanced ration.
The new president, from his thorough |
knowledge of the conditions of the
semiarid west, may reasonably be ex-
pected to cordially favor any move to
reclaim these unproductive lands by a
system Of irrigation.
There is recognized difference in
the quality of the meat Of a well bred
and well fatted steer of the standard |
beef breeds and that of an equally well |
fatted scrub steer which the eaters of |
beef are willing to pay for.
Frost as a pulverizer of tough and |
refractory soils can do better work
than any machine which man ever
made. For this reason all such soils
should be plowed in the fall of the |
year, and the earlier the better.
Persons who wish to stock lakes
ponds or streams with food fish should |
let the carp tribe alone. for we have
never heard Of or known case where
these fish have been introduced that
they did not end in disappointment.
In general way we have Just two
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south--for the north, VIII clover grow? |
for the south, Will alfalfa grow2 If
not, such lands would have to be offer
ed very cheap to get us to invest in
them.
Tile draining removes any excess of
moisture in wet time from the land
and conserves the moisture In the soil
In dry time. This seems like a para
doxical statement, yet it is nevertheless
true, as any one may note on field SO
drained.
The butchering Of a pig in Mis-
Rouri community on Sunday, because
Of the laundering manner in which the
Job was done and the great noise made
by the pig, set in operation the pro-
visions of Sunday law and resulted
In the pig killers arrest.
In operating stock ranch in Texas
from fifteen to twenty-five acres of
pasture are required for each head of