Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-19

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At a late sale of coach horses in New
York forty-four horses brought SG5, $50,
one four-in-hand outfit selling for Sl0,-
T50.
The wealth which man accumulates
a little at time is the wealth which he
is likely to retain. When money comes
easy, it goes easy.
The Maryland experiment station is
out with a bulletin showing chat the
stalk of the corn plant contains more
nutrinent than the ear
When a man is real anxious to be
elected director of the country school
district, it is two chances to one that
he has daughter he wants to act as
teacher.
The difference between the Angora
goat and the common billygoat is said
to be in the fact that the Angora will
not eat up the family washing if it has
the chance, while the biilygoat will.
A few dairymen, and only few, man,
age to get return of 500 and over
per head from each COW in their dairy
herds. 1t is almost needless to say that
there are no poor cows in these herds.
The good hired man has no intention
of remaining hired man any longer
than he has to. 1t is his ambition to
be something better than a toiler for
others which makes him the good hand
which he is.
The great boom in North Dakota
lands is largely attributable to the fact
that with fairly good season man
can buy 4 farm. SOW it to flax and pay
for the land in September with the pro-
ceeds of the crop.
A pretty sure sign that a girl has
passed into the old maid period of her |
existence Is when She will tolerate
mere than one cat around her. The
more old maidssh she becomes the more
cats she will want
A quartet which works very nicely
upon a small farm is made up OF dairy,
poultry, fruit and bees This combina-
ton works well on forty acres and by
limiting the size of the dairy can be
made to do good work on even ten
acres.
Where crop Of oats or barley is re-
moved from the field by July 4 an eS-
oellent second crop Of millet may be
secured from the same land, but il
should be remembered that only rich
and strong soils will stand this sort of
cropping.
Almost every hired man has way
of his own, and sometimes his way is
good one, and sometimes it is not. We
have always found that 1t paid to hui
NOR men to certain extent, because
they will always do their best work in
their own way.
We hear that the country telephones
are being utilized TO some extent TO
facilitate counting. This is all right,
but it can never take che place of the
real thing. The fact that u dozen peo-
PIE or more on most country lines may,
III they will. hear all that passes over
the line will Of necessity limit the use
OF the phone for this purpose.
We note that bunch of Hereford
steers bred and raised upon western
range and finished off in the corn belt |
touched the $500 mark early in No |
yenber. This is an interesting item as
showing the greatly improved charac-
ter of the stock now being produced |
upon these ranges, where only the lean,
lank longhorns We're to be found few
years ago. 1t is the fact that better
bred stock is now to be found upon the
ranges than among the farmers who
work $50 land.
We never object to man having
some sort of an agricultural hobby.
even If 1t never pans out to be of any
great value. a great many very yalua-
bic, things have been given to the world
by reason OF men riding hobbies and
working on fad notions at which their
neighbors poked lots of fun 1t is al
ways a good thing for man to have
anidea of some sorts which stays right
with him and which deeply interests
him and sets him to thinking and ill.,
yestigating. for even should he not find
the thing he seeks he may find some
thing else Of greater value.
1t may be noted that the seeds of all
noxious weeds retain their vitality in
most remarkable manner. even when
exposed to the most adverse climatic
conditions. For instance, the seeds of
all our common weeds are whipped off
by the winds, fall into mud and slush,
are frozen, thawed and frozen again
and again and still terminate with IN
erring certainty the next season, while
with most of the plants which man cul
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