Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-27

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A dying weed never appeals to our
sympathy.
The common house fly is propagated
mostly in piles Of horse manure.
The state Of South Dakota Is being
transformed in an agricultural sense
by the establishment of creameries.
A 40 acre field of popcorn grown last
season In central Iowa brought it's own
er in the handsome return of $40 per
acre.
Roses like to be syringed and washed
when the sun shines upon them, in
which thing they differ from most
other plants.
The usual number of men are going
to heaven this season because they
have unlimited confidence in the old
bull at the head of the herd.
Barring the cholera, there Is nothing
on the farm so easily raised as hog.
Even the most shiftless farmer can
raise load Of hogs Of some sort.
The old Adam is never entirely Grad
icated from the parson who delights in
owning horse fast enough to throw
the dust in the eyes of all his parish
toner's.
1t Is much easier to plant q shade
tree too near the house than 1t is to cut
1t down years after, when it becomes
nuisance and a menace to the health
of the family.
The only sort Of road work which
some men will do without pay is to
plow up the side Of the road to scour
the pillow which they have left in the
field oil winter.
Thefe are some gophers in South Da.
kota, and under the state law the town.
ships pay a bounty for the tails of the
little pests. Just one township had to
pay the sum Of 5000 recently on 1900
gopher tails.
When man puts good money into
a farm, he does not have to worry
about calls for margins or fear that
some gang of cutthroats are going to
work up corner and destroy the value
of his land.
The sugar beet is the legitimate Of
spring of climatic conditions where ir-
rigation Is necessity. This explains
why beet culture is developing more
rapidly in Utah and California than it
Is In IOWA and Minnesota.
A new swindle in the milk business
has cropped out in the state of New
York-the removal of the butter fat
from the milk by separator and SUBJ
stitution Of an oleo combination there
for. This arrangement beats even the
Babcock test.
a man who will cut down q lot or
grass Saturday afternoon will not have
to argue very long with himself as to
whether he should take care Of the hay
on Sunday. The wrong lay in the cut
ting Saturday more than I'm the gather.
ing on Sunday.
V One Of the best uses to make of good
times is to get in good shape to stand q
Siege Of hard times. Lots Of people
never look at the matter this way, but
use present prosperity on the principle
NLet us eat, drink and be merry, for
tomorrow we de-.
No new crop has become more popu-
lar during the past three years than
the Dwarf Essex rape. 1t is adaptable
to 9 wide range of latitude and soil
conditions and everywhere furnishes
a great and most satisfactory forage
crop for the sheep and the hogs.
I While it is the usual custom to set
out young tree and give it one years
growth before it is top grated, we find
that trees may be very successfully
grated just as soon as they are set
out. every tree SO grated by us this
spring now making fine growth.
misery sort Of an old fellow who
had held big crib Of corn for high
price was obliged lately to shell, the
corn and market it at IS cents bushel
because the rats had taken possession
of the crib and had eaten up all the
profit he might have had in his specu-
lation.
Only one tramp has asked food OF us
this year SO far What are these fel-
lows doing? We do not believe they
are working to get an honest living.
They probably find it hard picking to
beg their way through prosperous ag-
ricultural communities, as they rightly
should