Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-10-17

hours is much better food for hogs
than corn either ground into meal or
cooked.
At the late Minnesota state fair the
Surprise. an American, or native, plum,
took the lead over all other varieties
exhibited
1t is worth good deal for man to
be able to get up in the morning, plan
out his own work and lie his own boss.
This is the farmers privilege.
To have a field of shocked corn look
just right there wants to be about a
half dozen loads of good sized pump
kins to the acre among the shocks
The early spring wild flowers are
largely white in color, those of sum
mer run to red, while the fall bios.
SONS are mostly yellow and purple.
If you want canned fruit the best
way is to put it up yourself even If it
does cost twice as much. You know
then just how big dose Of drugs you
get.
AS purely forage crop sorghum
stood the effects of the drought and
made the largest amount of good feed
of any crop planted in the corn belt
this season.
The line of satisfaction and content
TO- 1Nn,.N \ ~
rainbow, for we notice that no matter
how much money man may make he
still wants more.
The man who refused so cents
bushel for his old corn in July, think
ing he would get rs cents for ii. viii
take less than SO cents for it or have
the crib.
The most beautiful specimens OF
goldenrod that we ever came across
grew on the line of the Northern Pa.
cific railway in the timber belt In
northern Minnesota and were in full
bloom in the fore part OF July.
The secretary of agriculture emplat-
ically disputes Professor Koch's newly
advanced theory that tuberculosis can
not be communicated from animals to
men and adduces pretty convincing
proof that the professors theory is
all wrong.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
girls are wanted in the United States
today, not typewriters, artists. musi-
clans, schoolteachers or milliners, but
just common sense practical girls who
know how to do Homework and are
willing to do it.
II your hired man squirts milk on
his hands to lubricate the cows udder
while he is milking, and you sell milk
at the creamery, you should either
milk the cows yourself or quit selling
the milk. The off favor of butter is
more directly traceable to this cause
than any other.
All through the corn belt this year
the utilities of the corn crop lie as
much in the fodder as in the ear. With
hay at $40 per ton the acre of corn
fodder Is worth not less than $12 to
feed on the farm, which, with twenty
Ave bushels Of corn at 45 cents, will
make the crop of 1901 one of the most
profitable ever raised
The Poland China hog at 81 per hun
dredweight is very easily at the head
of the procession this fall. Each 300
pound hog Of this sort represents net
profit to the man who raised him of
not less than SIS. The squeal of the
hogs in the pen and the music of the
$4OO piano in their owners parlor just
at present constitute new type of
Agricultural harmonics
Breed counts for something in man
just as it does with the lower animals.
For instance, man 6 feet inches
tall, weighing 250 pounds. well put to-
gether,; like Polled Angus steer is
worth SIS per month as a city police
man, even if he only knows Just enough
to keep city crossing clear for the
women and children, aud can get life
job at that, while little 100 pound
dude and cigarette feud can hardly
find any place where he will be rtoler.
ated for his board and clothing.