Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-04

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The crop of cotton planted this year
is reported at 27,5oO,000 acres.
The little red revenue stamp will be
taken off from the milk check on the
LIST Of July.
A man but rarely plants a balm of
glleah, silver poplar or cottonwood tree
near his home but he lives to regret it.
A pneumatic cotton picker operated
by power has been successfully tried.
1t sucks the matured lint from the
plant
Nobody can afford to eat broilers at
40 cents per pound but the farmer
who raises the chick and the rich man
In the city.
Some people seem to enjoy spending
borrowed money just as much as
though it was. their very own. This
seeCls queer.
When you have fruited the strawber-
ry bed two years, plow it up. 1t is cas-
Ter to start new bed than it is to rem
0yate the old one.
You will have better colt to let the
mare run in the pasture for three
months, but If you must work her don't
Jet the colt follow her.
An eastern agricultural paper of note
states that clover hay is worth in the
state of New York the sum of So per
ton to plow under green as q fertilizer.
This seems hard to believe.
What Is most sorely needed in this
country is newly invented bucksaw
or garden hoe which will possess the
same fascination for the 15-year-old
Kid as does tie baseball bat.
The strawberry crop of this country
represents value of about $4,000 600
n year. Not one man in 20 raises this
berry, when nearly all might if they
would.
Il We incline to the opinion that the
uniform color and shape of the Polled
Angus cattle are worth about SIS per
head where man is feeding carload
of them for beef.
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+ In Australia breed of cats is being
developed which become the natural
foe of the rabbits and which are doing
more to exterminate the pest than any
other agency yet tried. @
Portland cement at 81 per barrel
would reyolutionize modern architec-
ture. Wizard Edison announces that
a recent discovery of his will enable
this cement to be sold at this figure.
ward of S. for the discovery of single
weed in his large peach orchard. There
is hint here to men who try to raise
apples in competition with blue grass.
Bad smells around creamery will
always reach to New York, for there
is one thing which is as accurate as a
well regulated thermometer, and that
the nose of the expert tester of the big
Scities.
Il We have the report of a Vermont
Creamery, and it shows that its patrons
RECEIVED 6S cents per hundredweight
for April A per cent milk. The west
ern creameries made Il better showing
than this.
The top grating of Duchess with
Melinda and the sowing of the seeds
of the apples thus produced are recon-
mended as the most practical way for
South Dakota to secure a reliable win
ter apple.
All shade and fruit trees should be
trimmed to the extent Of removing all
dead and distorted or wrong growing
limbs at least. We prune and trim even
more than this to insure symmetry and
beauty of shape.
Agricultural department statisticians
estimate the annual damage done to
the wheatfelds of this country by the
Hessian fly at SAC. 06o, 900 and that done
by the chinch bug 70 the several cereal
crops at $3o0,OO0,000.
When man of the farm marries in
haste, he has better opportunity to
/ repent at leisure than the man in town.
He has all day in the cornfield to chew
| over the rag and think what an ass he
has made Of himself.
Even a full crop this year of cereals
and meat producing animals is not like
ly TO materially lower present prices.
Labor is everywhere employed at good
wages and must be fed with the best
that the farm affords.
A good deal of transplanting may be
done successfully during the wet June