Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-02

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Colorado farmers report a gross re-
turn of $40 per acre from their beet
crop last season.
March as month has always had a
bad name and well deserves all the
mean things ever said about it.
If sparrows were as brilliant in plum
age as the redbird, there would be
none of them left in five years.
The new style of bug for 1901 has
not yet made, its appearance. but will
probably be on hand before long.
In Norway a young lady has to pass
an official examination as to her ability
to cook before she is allowed to get
married.
And now the butchers complain that
the sklmmilk calf makes poor quality
Of veal. 1t is quite likely that this
may be so.
Eighteen head of selected carriage
horses were sold in Chicago lately to
an eastern buyer at an average of ST.
500 per head.
The Belgian hare fad has made a
market for jack rabbit meat in the
east, where the jack is palmed off as
of Belgian ancestry.
The cut off pine lands of northern
Michigan are going to be in the near
future the best apple growing section
Of the United States.
If you give the boy a titman pig to
raise, do not foreclose a chattel mort
gage on the pig for its keep when it is
big enough to market.
Never mind how your neighbor's
yard and lawn look. You look after
your own. A good example works
wonders along this line.
The acreage required to pasture a
cow. for three months will produce
enough food in corn, if made into en-
silage, to keep her year.
This is the time Of year when the
goodwife tears the inside Of the house
all to pieces in frantic effort to Sc.
cure dustpan full of dirt.
South Dakota has appropriated the
sum of $4,000 for a plant breeding sta
ton, new departure which will BIZ
watched with much interest.
A friend holding some stock in 6
corn canning factory told us recently
that his stock paid him dividend Of
100 per cent on last years business.
A carload of oats Is 1900 bushels, o,
corn 900 bushels. of wheat 800 bushels
of barley 1000 bushels. this rating ap
plying to the car of $4,000 pounds ca
pacity.
Many horse will work in patien
misery all through the springs worl
for the want Of little care on the par
of its owner in giving 1t properly fit
ting collar.
Wood ashes are one Of the best fer
tilizers for the garden. especially 70
the fruit trees, small fruit and straw
berry bed. Coal ashes are entirel,
&worthless except as mulch.
A wise woman will not breach tn
subject of new bonnet just as he
husband comes in from giving the cal
Its first lesson in drinking milk. Their
are times and seasons, you see.
Wild creatures-birds and animals
are infinitely more law abiding tina
man. They rarely ever fight anon
themselves and always recognize
community of interest which is unsel1
ish.
The orange. no matter how cheapl
sold, will never displace the apple as
family fruit. We notice that. give
family all the oranges they will ca
and they very soon get tired of then
1t is not 80 with apples.
About once in seven years his e.
cellency the Poland China hog has hi
innings and becomes for season or S
the greatest money maker there is
be found on corn belt farms. 1t is ju:
that way at the present time, load {
hogs bringing about $120.
The advent of spring was not SUI
gested to us this year by a robin
song or a Lluebird's sweet note or /
the hoarse cry of the Canada COOS
northward bound, but by the rattlet
!, trap racket Of a flicker as he perche
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