Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-11

Auc0 Will never come q tlme Wlen
the gospel OF cleanliness will not have
to be preached in season and out Of
season as the foundation of successful
dairying. Man is prone to dirt as the
sparks are to fly upward, and dirt and
dirty methods are ever the bane of sue
cessful dairying.
Timothy hay and cornmeal make a
very poor ration for the milking COW.
1t makes her want to be fat steer and
not a milk COW. If you want the COW
to give milk, you must give her some
thing to make it out of. Good clover
hay, corn fodder or ensilage, sheaf oats
cut green or bran will suit her first
rate.
The busy springtime is on hand, with
so much to be done and so little time in
which to do it, aggravated this year by
the difficulty in securing competent
help on the farm. 1t has come to this
that wherever the horse and the ma
chine can be made to do the work of
the man it must be done or fewer acres
must be tiled.
That northeast hillside which is too
steep to cultivate and not worth very
much for pasture is just the place for
an orchard or nice grove of ever
greens. There are thousands of Just
such orchard sites all along the
streams, rivers and coulees, which for
this purpose are worth more than any
other acres on the farm.
Illustrating the value of n change of
seed, we note that the tomatoes, mel
ons and other garden vegetables raised
in Porto Rico the past year from seed
from the States have aston
ished the natives by their size and ex-
cellent quality. the same varieties of
hitherto raised from Porto
Rican seed being small and often fla
vorless.
1t will cost toe government $4,000
for common garden seeds and $4,000
for clerical help to scatter them among
the people who have no use on earth
for them. These seeds, though, I'M
doubtedly have quite an influence polit-
icaliy in determining the fate of many
4 congressman, and thus is explained
why so many old seeds get places in
congress.
An excellent quality of Ignite coal
from the mines in North Dakota is
now on sale in Minnesota and Dakota
cities. 1t is smokeless, clean and claim
ed to be of heating value equal to the
soft Goals OF the central western states.
1t retails at ST per ton, and as there is
an unlimited amount of it available it
bids fair to be a great boon to the tree
ess portions of all the great northwest.
And now the scientists tell us that
The fine favor of butter is not derived
from buttercups, blue grass and corn,
but from bugs-bacteria-of refined
and pedigreed sort and that by inocu-
lating the milk or cream with starter
these bacteria a fine flavor
can be produced in any cream not
spoiled. The secret Of successful but
ter making is hereafter to lie in getting
the right sort of starter. Great is sci
ance.
The sensible landlord can do no more
sensible thing than TO subscribe for a
farm paper, one which treats
IF farm conditions as they exist where
such landlords farm may be located
Ind furnish it to the man who is work
ing his farm. 1t will further help the
nan if the landlord will read such pa
Der himself before handing it over to
his tenant and mark such articles as
nay be of special value and interest to
Doth.
Most of the coach horses imported
hitherto into this country for use as
sires seem to lack prepotency or the
ability to transmit their special traits
to their offspring. This is partially
owing to the fact that the coach horse
Of Europe is not a well established
breed as yet and the product of recent
crosses of the race horse and draft
breeds. The progeny of such horses,
as we have seen it in the west, has not
been satisfactory.
The time is rapidly approaching
when America will be Independent Of
any other nation for its sugar supply.
When that time comes, we shall have
or use the cheapest sugar in the
world, for when it is produced at home
t is not at all likely that the product
will be subject to any government tax
ltion whatever. If the tax was re-
moved now. we should have about "a
pounds of granulated sugar for 81 in
stead of what we now get.
Referring TO the pest Of the box
,lder bug, which is becoming more
md more of nuisance wherever this
rec is grown, lady reader of these
notes observes that these bugs only
nfeSt the female or seed haa ring trepS