Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-26

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With frostless September we shall
have fine ,sesults from our fall garden.
/. Planted July 80, we had plenty Of
radishes in twenty days; in thirty days
the string beans were in bloom, and in
thirty-fve days an early variety Of
sweet corn was almost ready to tassel
out
If dairyrian will provide we'll cur
cd clover hay, sheaf oats cut when
the grain is in the dough and corn ell
silage, he need not buy bran or other
costly rations furnishing protein for
his dairy herd. ANY cow will milk to
her full average capacity fed the above
ration.
The mechanical genius Of many boys
on the farm is nipped in the bud by
lack of appreciation and proper tools
! with which to work. A worliroom well
stocked is q prime necessity on a farm.
and such room will prove mere at
tractive than the corner grocery to the
boys on rainy days if they are properly
trained and encouraged.
| A fir tree was cut in Oregon recently
which made nine saw logs averaging
fourteen feet in length, scaling 21,4s3
| feet board measure, and the lumber
men quit cutting off saw logs when
their diameter reached less than forty
| inches. The product of this one tree
when it reaches the consumer in the
central west will bring over $1,000.
| The average cost to a farmer to Sc
about $50, and the charge for main
tenance is a mere nothing. When SO
useful and practical a thing can be OBJ
tained at SO small q cost, no live, wide
awake farmer should be without one.
The telephone will pay for itself every
year, besides keeping the women folks
from having the blues.
| 1t is easier to make fine butter than
fine cheese in cold weather, Just why
| Is not clear. The best cheese made is
made from September and October
milk, when the cows as q whole are
not In flush milk and when their "a
tons are the pickings of grainfields,
the succulent aftermath Of the mead
ows, with liberal ration of cut corn
fodder with the ears left on.
In the year 1861 the barrel Of flour
made at the Minneapolis mills was
sent down the river to Lacrosse, thence
by rail to Milwaukee, thence by lake
back to Duluth, within $50 miles Of
where 1t was manufactured. at cost
Of over 81 per barrel. Within the past
three years the same barrel of -four has
been put on board cars at the mill and
shipped to the seaboard for less than
30 cents.
If one wishes to grow a nice ever
green hedge-of red cedar, for instance
such hedge should be started with
small trees which are low and bushy.
1t is the thickness Of the base of q
hedge which gives it its chief beauty
| and value, and this growth cannot be
produced upon trees which are spindly
In habit when set out Further, 1t is
the careful and persistent pruning and
trimming of the hedge when young
which determines what it shall be later
| on.
The stomachs and craws of 800 spar
row hawks were dissected and exam
ined by the experts Of the agricultural
department at Washington. In but one
was the remains of game bird found
Fifty-three contained other birds, most
ly English sparrows; 80 contained
| mice and 10 other mammals, IL had
frogs, q snakes, 20 spiders, and the
balance Of the hawks had empty stom-
achs. This surely is an argument
against the killing Of this kind of
hawks.
Every section and agricultural inter-
est of the country gets it's turn sooner
OF later, and this year it is the man
with the potato field on the stump
lands of northern Minnesota and Wis
consin, who can almost set his own
price for the product of his fields. Glad
Of it, for no man works harder or I'M
der greater discouragements in the
making of. a farm and home for him
self than does the hardy pioneer who
follows the lumbermen Of the north
country.
| The September flowers are very beau
tiful in the garden these waning sum-
mer days. The asters, as graceful and
snowy as chrysanthemums and giving
almost as great a variety Of color and
shape, easily stand at the head. The
golden glow, lifting its yellow crown
above the cannas and coleus, may be
seen hundred rods away. The tea
roses are also doing their best, and
Meteor, Victoria Augusta, Sunset.
Perle, Bride and scores of others give
their daily offering of fragrance and