Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-14

Apples raised in the South Australian
orchards sell for 5, 10 and 10 cents each
in the markets of Germany
We note that farmer ID Missouri
lately sold two carloads Of htgsi fatted
by him on his farm for as much as his
farm was worth.
The year 1901 gave us the biggest
wheat and peach crop on record ami
q widespread and savage drought in be-
tween to growl about.
Taking the prevailing price Of farm
produce in the central west today,
the quality of the soil and the average
yield of crops, every acre of good farm
land is worth $1o0.
A hen will lay. all told, about 400
eggs. If well cared for. she will lay !
go of these by the time she is eighteen ,
months old. This explains why 1t does /
not pay to keep old hens.
1t is claimed that cut flowers. IL
placed in salt water, will keep fresh a ;;
much longer time than If the water is
fresh and that faded bouquets can be
restored by placing them in brine.
The Gamma roots may be removed at
any time before the ground freezes up
with a good ball of earth and PLACED,
on the cellar floor and covered with
sand, which should be kept moist.
Stock feeders In the beet sugar dis
tricts of Germany are finding valua-
Bile stock food in the molasses by
product of the factories, mixed with
meal from the heterogeneous cereals. In
Louisiana the molasses Las been used
for roadmaking and fuel
We find that the purple branching
aster is much better able to resi"t the
effect of frost than are the other varie-
| t'es of this flower. the purple asters.
| Oct. -, carrying a lot of handsome
bloom and apparently uninjured by the
frost which killed all the others.
In olden times the husking bee was
much priced farm frolic. When the
boys found n red ear they were given
lie privilege of kissing the girls and so
It came about that the boys were more
particular than they a-e now about
fixing the seed corn in the spring Of the
year.
u There has been SO much corn cut up
for fodder this year and there will be
so much shredding done that local
surgeons should be prepared to treat
II an unusual number of mangled arms
and hands. Or. we will put 1t this
way--the careless. reckless hand
should not under any circumstances
be allowed TO feed the shredder.
If you will put a root of English or
!, California violet in a five inch pot
,, half dozen, say-and set them in the
5 window of the north parlor and dip
them once week in water Of TEN.
j, perature of 10 degrees, submerging
tie whole plant you may pick these
, lovely flowers in abundance oil winter.
0 We know that this may be done, for
!, we do it.
. Minnesota is claiming the right to
be called the dread and butter state
and not without good reason, for its
y wheatfields and wonderfully develop
D Ing dairy interests are attracting the
2 attention OF the whole country. Wher
;,,ta
Q of its mines and forests, the Nortl
q Star State becomes no small part OF
o the Union.
70 There is something strangely incon
sistent about the universal prejudice
q against the flesh of the horse as food
Is the horse being the most cleanly o
K animals and eating only the mos
clearly of food. and the greedines
81 with which the hog is eaten. a common
: product of unspeakable offal and filth
, This is something which we hav'
i never seen explained.
1t will be recalled that Longfellow Il
his delightful romance of THE Court
ship of Miles Standlsh" has Priscil
ride snow white bull in the brida
= procession wien she is married to job
). Alden, and it is worthy of remark tina
the poet very wisely puts ring in tina
white bulls nose, by which he Is lee
proving that bulls. whether snow whit
!, or coal black, have not changed in di'
u position very much in 200 or 300 year.
y Some people are worried because tn
I United States has no official nntioni
a flower. While England has the ros'
- Scotland the thistle, Ireland the shan
v rock. France the lily and Holland I'll
: tulip, there seems to. be no unity {
1t opinion as TO what flower should col
IN stitute Americas floral insignia. Or
le OF our western congressman one
undertook TO get the pansy SC nance
8, but he ouly succeeded in gettiI
ID 'pansy" hitched on to his name Il
81 stead of the country, The -four whic
- has made America more famous tho
- aov otbar la mNda 0f hIinnAannI