Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21

er fat and cream not less than Is Dor
ent. By the way, 3 per cent milk is
pretty thin stuff. and fat babies will
lot be found on the route Of the milk
nan who sells 1t.
What may be done with small
,iece of land is well illustrated by q
nan whom we know who the past sea-
son has sold the produce raised on two
:own lots containing just sixty-four
square rods Of ground for St25. or at
the rate of over $500 per acre. The
produce raised was mostly common
garden vegetables.
When you have sown the clover in I
the spring with nurse crop, pastured
1t in the fall after the crop has been
removed, cut the field for hay the fol-
lowing June and taken crop of seed
from it In September, that clover field
has fulfilled its mission and is done
lol CbouSh bSS0 10 lGll Ou lbC
ground to reseed the field.
A man who would kick up quite a
fuss should some relation of his wife's
come to his home and hang around I'M
willing to work for his board will still
keep in his cow barn and milk twice
day one or more cows who are just as
big beats as any relative which his
wife may have and do 1t all compla-
Gently just because of his ignorance.
What seems to be perfect remedy
for scours in young calves, a trouble
with which nearly every dairyman is
familiar, is found in the use of dried
blood as prepared for market at the
large packing house concerns. A table
spoonful of this blood powder fed with
the milk ration to the calf works cure
in every case in a short time. This is
worth remembering.
The American people have cheaper
coffee and sugar in plain sight. The
production of coffee has been enormous
ly increased, and that in many coun-
tries, while the production Of beet sugar
bids fair to become one Of the leading
agricultural industries of this country.
Inasmuch as the American people use
more coffee and sugar than any other
people, this Is not bad prospect.
Persistent advertising will create q
demand for any fairly good article,
but superlatively good article will
find market anyway. There is Ger,
tain cereal breakfast food being made
today which. SO far as we have no.
ticed, has never been advertised at all,
yet because of its excellence the de-
mand is so great that the manufactur-
ers cannot fill the orders sent them.
We have friend who owns a good
farm, and he rents this farm right
along for IS cents an acre less than he
could get just for the reason that he
has tenant who takes good care OF
the place. This tenant keeps the fences
up, the barn doors in place, the manure
. hauled out, the trees trimmed, tn,
| weeds on the highway moved, and ou
friend thinks all these things are wortl
about IS cents an acre to him when h
goes out to see the place.
The man with productive apple or
chard located in the northwest, while
he has plenty Of encouragement, al
ways has this advantage over hi
brother orchardist in the more favored
regions of the far east or the far ives
he is always close to a good marke
in territory where the production o
apples will be far below the norma
demand. And this question of goo
market for fruit is one of the main ele
ments of attaining success in the bus
ness.
In the city of Vienna last year Their
were 25.640 horses and donkey
slaughtered for food, the meat bein
sold in 1875 meat shops specially |
censed by the municipal authorities fc
that purpose. All this meat was car,
fully inspected by government Official
before being sold. The fore quarter
of these animals sell for from 5 to
!, cents per pound and the hind quarter
at 6 to 8 cents. choice cuts retailing {
10 cents. or less than one-haif the prit
of similar cuts of beef.
: The past season has been bad OF
! for the farmers in England and SEQ
land. The competition of the low pri
, ed grains and meats Of this countl
has about ruined the agricultural i
terests Of those countries. Each We;
shows fewer number of acres TILE
and q lesser amount Of stock keI
. while my lord who lives in the cast
: on the hill mournfully regards his ev
;, decreasing rent roll and has to resol'
] himself into committee of ways al
) means to make both ends meet.
= The time will come all through Il
!, central west when four rod highw,