Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-01

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The Arabian horse is better thing
to import than the man who raised
him.
to cut the tails off his lambs when they
are 10 days old has no business keep
Ing sheep.
The two horse load Of barnyard ma
nnre placed ON $50 land which produces
an average of 35 bushels Of corn to the
acre is worth 81 at least.
The unusual coincidence of G cent
hogs and an entire absence of hog
cholera are piling up a lot OF wealth
all through the corn belt
The long range weather prophet is
just q long range fake weather guesser,
the legitimate partner of the wrinkled
old nag who seeks to tell your fortune
for quarter.
The law of natural selectioL never
produces such monstrOsitics as are not
ed when man in his ignorance seeks to
make violent crosses and improve on
natures work.
A Missouri farmer is keeping, and
I keeping well, four cows and 70 hogs on
four acre patch Of alfalfa at time
when all other grasses are burned up
with the drought.
We had the pleasure Of seeing a live
Cuban owl the other day, dainty,
mottled. fawn colored bird. with a
cowl and hood Oh it like some Bene-
dictine monk of old
The old Biblical injunction not to
muzzle the OK which trod out the grain
on the thrashing floor should not be
used to compel farmer to keep and
feed driving horse for his hired man.
The state of Wisconsin has appropr-
ated the sum of $1,000 for the special
benefit of the Swiss cheese industry of
that state, which goes to prove that the
stronger thing is the more help it can
command.
The discontinuance of the many lit
tie country postotiices as result of
the Introduction of the rural mail serv-
ice is causing some criticisms of the
new service by the ousted postmasters
which would not look well in print
No manufactures could today COM
pete for business in his line if his ma
chinery and appliances were as anti
qtated and unprOductiVe as is the COM
mon 125 pound COW so much in evi.
dence In nearly all our dairy herds.
The strawberry and the June roses
have been HAVING their innings the past
two weeks. and have held chief places
In both fruit and floral display. They
come together and pass away at the
same time, abiding too short q stay.
The bacon hog is the product of the
T'oods-acorns, beech mast. nuts, roots
and grubs, food collected over 4! wide
area of territory-cr lie Icy be devel-
oped where grow PEGS. rye. barley and
potatoes. but not where cora is g stand
ard stock food
The patriot who uses & wide tired
wagon when he ilanls Lords upon the
public highway is deserving Of much
better obituary ncticn when lie dies
than his neighbor vino cnt up the high
ways with his narrow tires as fast as
they could be put in repair.
The innate cussedness of lots OF road
supervisors is manifest in the large
amount of road grading they will do,
piling the sodS III the center OF the
highway and then going off and let
ting the public smooth tie road down
with wages wheels and profanity.
cral sources char il is only the female
or seed be:t ~. inE elder tree which is
Infested With the bn. elder bug. This
fact seems so well proved that the re-
moval OF the seed bearing trQeS alone
viii probably remedy this nuisance.
At 10 cents per quart. which has been
the market price. it would have taken
over $50 to have supplied the writer's
family With the strawberries we have
picked and used from our own bed this
season Then, there was the sausfae-
ton of raising them, which was worth
something.
A man should be very careful not
only of himself, but of his horse, when
the mercury touches the 100 degrees
notch. Under such temperature if
the horse ceases to sweat he needs look
ing after. 1t is well to remember that