Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-25

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Manufactured ice can be produced at
a profit of So per ton.
Usually the best corn will be found
on the earliest fall blowing.
Education, of the farmer is sure to
make him dissatisfied with crooked
fences and rows of corn.
! 1t is well to remember that the clean
cornfield this year is worth as much
to the crop on the land next year as
to the corn crop this year.
! 1t Is worth, SO far as the next crop
is concerned, not less than n dollar an
acre more to have the stubble field
plowed in July than in October.
Good farming consists of taking all
possible in the way Of crops off the
land without impairing its fertility.
In order to do this there must be a
strict observance of the good old rule
of give and take.
When woman gets daft over some
measly pug dog, she becomes an all
round nuisance to her friends. We
never come across one of this sort but
we wish she had pair Of twin boys
to take up her time.
The agricultural department is ex-
perimenting with the date palm for
Arizona and New Mexico. Theoretical
~ this palm should do as well there as
it does in Arabia, as climatic condi-
tons are almost identical.
If that Minnesota man has really dis
covered method whereby granulated
sugar can be easily and cheaply made
from the juice Of the sorghum plant, as
he claims. he will easily take rank as
one of the great inventors of the new
century.
The farm boy should not have to be
sent away to college to teach him how
to pillow a straight furrow, set
straight fence or plant field of corn
SO that it will be pleasure to see it.
These things can be best taught upon
the farm.
One will see about one-third more
little pigs on all farms where the Jer-
sey Red hogs are kept than will be
found where any other breed is kept.
Whatever dement's may be chargeable
to this breed. there is no question rs to
its prolifcness.
Representative Grout, author of the
oleomargarine bill which failed at the
last session of congress. was recently
served with oleomargarine for butter
at one of the swell hotels at San Fran.
cisco and now is ready to 20 on the
warpath again.
1t is too late to be Of much use for
this season, but it may be well to re-
member that a mixture Of three parts
water and one part strong vinegar
syringed on to the eurrant bushes will
rid them Of the currant worm-at least
SO writes a valued correspondent.
1t is fact worth noting that while
the farmer living north Of latitude AZ
has only short season in which to do
his outside farm work, he invariably
has it better done than does his brother
farmer in Missouri and Arkansas. who
has nearly two months more time in
which to work.
A sensible and businesslike PROPOSE
ton is now being considered by the
interior department., being a plan to
have set aside the proceeds of the sales
of desert lands for the construction Of
reservoirs, thus storing the surplus
waters of the flood seasons for the pur-
poses Of irrigation.
Where farmer has his homestead
located so that every passenger on the
line of railway can look all over his
premises as he passes by such farmer
should pay some regard to the tastes
of the travelling public by keeping his
place so neat and trim that it will be a
pleasure to look at it.
A French dairyman, maker of fancy
brands of cheese. has got tired of pay
ing 45 per cent duty on his product,
which is mostly used in this country,
and has commenced the erection Of the
largest cheese factory in the world in
the state of New York, where he will
produce his fancy cheese.
A friend of the writer spent ten
days recently in the effort to secure a
hired man for his farm who did not
own horse and buggy as part Of his