Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-14

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The good times Of 1902, when a fat
hog brought $50. will long be remem-
bered.
The aster, we find. is subject to more
insect pests than any flower which we
try to grow.
Clean grainfields are almost impossi-
bic where there is neither rotation of
crops nor sheep.
The largest and handsomest apple
grown is the Wolf River. and it is at
the same time the most worthless.
We note that one of the reclaimed
lake beds in western state is afford
ing the finest kind of duck shooting
this fall
The easiest way to keep q good hired
girl in the farm home is to get good
looking hired man. We know that this
plan works.
There is quite risk in holding hogs
at this season of the year. and just as
soon as they are fit for market it is best
to let them go.
We sometimes think that a mans
reputation suffers almost as much to
be known as small, mean and stingy
as to be rated as dishonest.
The pansy bed has been delight all
summer, the cool, moist season having
contributed to the very best develop
ment Of this favorite flower.
A cornfield infected with both pocket
gophers and wild morning glories is in
bad fix, and the sooner such field is
turned into pasture the better.
The Gamma roots should now be taken
up and set on the floor of the cellar.
Let them dry out, and they will be all
ready for planting next spring
The geraniums which have bloomed
In the garden this summer may be
taken up, potted and if well cut back
will afford lot of bloom all winter.
A clover sod is an ideal preparation
for almost any sort of crop. There
should be at least twenty acres of such
land available each year on every quar-
ter section farm.
If the hogs Of the northwest manage
to get away with all the soft corn
there is in the fields this year and not
get the cholera, it will be piece of
rare good fortune.
Twenty thousand Americans have
invaded the Canadian northwest this
season and have either bought or
homesteaded vast tract Of the fertile
land of that region.
Great Britain imports yearly nearly
$l0O,O00,000 of butter, and Denmark
furnishes seven-tenths of it and makes
it largely out of dairy rations imported
from America. This ought to be stopped.
The Hibernal apple is every way as
poor as it looks to be. The most that
can be said in its favor is that it is SO
hardy that it will probably do fairly
well where other apples cannot be
grown.
They say that goose will live to be
seventy years old, though just why this
bird should be SO long lived it is hard
to see when the more useful hen lays
and cackles herself out inside of four
OF five years.
Where we live, while the second crop
of clover was unusually fine and full Of
bloom. there is hardly any seed set, con-
tihoOuo WEI anu COlu weather uuTluR
the blooming season having kept the
bumblebees from working.
More money is made from the Ben
Davis apple than from any other vari-
ETY.. 1t is red for one thing, grows
large and keeps well. 1t holds it's own
as market apple in spite of the fact
that the quality is of the poorest.
We came across properly fed rape
field the other day. 1t was full of
seemingly bare stalks of rape foot or
more high, these covered with little
buds and shoots, tender and toothsome,
which the hogs nipped with eagerness.
1t seems queer that man will
work hard OK farm for thirty years
to accumulate q little property and
then fall an easy victim to some shell
game fakir whom he knows nothing
about More men of sixty need guard
ians than have them.
1t has been demonstrated the past
season that the soil Of Cuba will pro-