Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24

HaslSSss 6ss
kG p /. :. -
az
Root, hog, or die may have some
thing to do with the hog cholera.
There is this to be said for the corn
shredder-it seldom takes more than
one arm.
The short corn crop is supporting the
price of the biggest wheat crop this
country ever raised.
Experiments show that pound for
pound corn is worth 10 per cent more
as stock food than wheat
The farrow COW which is MIXED and
fatted at the same time will furnish
the very toughest of beef.
If all things have their uses, will
some wise men please tell US what the
box elder bug is made for?
There is some kicking, as might be
expected. because some of the dried
beef is old horse and not old COW.
A country which will produce good
cherries and peaches is a good one,
even if the soil is mostly white sand.
a sure way to get rich in this country
is to wear your shirt outside your
pants. live on rice and run laundry
1t never fails.
The March pullets. if of the right
breed, are now beginning to furnish a
December cackle over twenty cent
eggs. Old hens don't.
A good many men work on the theory
that they are entitled to excursion
rates and stopovers. which in railway
methods never go together.
A horse is young at twenty years if
never overworked and well cared for
The -year-old colt given a mature
Eorse's load is old at fifteen.
We have known few farmers turn
over into tax dodgers just as soon as
they got the mortgage paid and were
able to get one on another mans farm.
The hard, rough. cracked hand Incl
dent to doing rough farm work can
be largely avoided by using the cheap
duck gloves which are now supplied at
10 cents pair.
The man with the hoe, the man with
the cradle, the man with the bucksaw
and the woman with the needle and
the dash churn are fast becoming rel
les of past age.
A suit of fourteenth century armor
such as the knights wore in their trays
would be about the right sort of suit
for the men who go deer hunting in
the northern woods.
Remember, there is nothing better
for the strawberry bed and the plum
trees than a top dressing of wood
ashes. Put the coal ashes on the walk
TO the barn or into the hogpen.
There are no hired girls in sight from
any of our new possessions, which is to
be regretted, as if there were it would
be some consolation in carrying the
burden of 100000 more heather.
The sugar interests of Germany.
which are enormous, are in the worst
shape they have ever been in, excessive
overproduction, restricted home con-
sumption and foreign exports being the
causes.
So well defined and dependable is the
oil bearing district lately opened up in
Texas that the drillers will contract to
drill five thousand dollar well within
its limits and guarantee a flow of oil
or no pay.
We saw dog leading q blind man
around the streets of large city not
long since, and the fact that the dog
stopped at every saloon, associated with
the color Of the mans nose, gave him
dead away.
Every cook should know that pota-
toes are never so well cooked as with
The skin on. Peeling them before cook
ing is the most wasteful method, for,
as with apples. the most nutritious part
is just under the skin.
The best way to prevent melon and
fruit thieving is to raise plenty. for
if you have 1000 melons you will not
feel the loss of few. while if you
have only two dozen you will have q
fit if two or three disappear.
We thought we were about through
with the last of the fake cures for hog
cholera. but here comes yet one more
discoverer, who claims that il hogs are