Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-05-29

will be necessary to create the office Of
hash Inspector
Wherever man is SO located that he
can keep seventy-fve hens he never
need go short of groceries.
If the rye and barley can be removed
from the field by the list of July, plow
at once and take off crop of millet.
Where an evergreen hedge is wanted
the plants set should always be small
and bushy, the value of a hedge lying
In the trees having thick base.
Anyway do not fail to SOW small
field of rape for your hogs. 1t is almost
an invaluable food for the shotes dur
ing August, September and October.
A man can make money where it
takes ten acres Of pasture to feed one
steer, but he won't have any near
neighbors and will have to 60 fifty
miles for doctor.
One of the most unselfsh things
which an old man can do is to plant
fruit trees, the fruit of which he can.
not, because of the limitations of age,
expect to himself enjoy.
We want some good, appetizing fod-
der for the cows next winter, and, not
having silo yet, we shall SOW some
sorghum, believing it to be the next
best thing to good ensilage.
Nothing will kill the red spider,
which is such pest to the house
plants, so well as to dip the plant in
water of the temperature of 120 de-
grees. 1t is the only sure cure.
The robins, after running the CANT
let of shotguns in the hands of the da-
gos and negroes in the south all winter,
are still plentiful enough to suit every
man who is engaged in the fruit bust
ness.
The clam beds of the Mississippi riv-
er which have been raided in most pi-
ratical manner are now to be better
protected. The button and pearl prod
uct of these beds has become very val
liable.
Prevailing prices for all farm prod
less than 5000 per acre for the good
farm lands of the west and northwest.
But, then, these prices are not always
going to stay withgus.
We sow peas for garden use every
every week up to July and then again
in September for fall use. String beans
if planted the LIST of August will fur
nish good crop before frost.
One of the things which make the
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that in his efforts to educate his son he
has educated the boy entirely away
from the farm and all it's interests and
just made commonplace dude of him.
We note with much pleasure the re-
turn of the bluebirds this spring. For
several years past not one has been
seen where the writer lives, but this
spring they have returned in numbers
and may be met with in almost any
field or orchard.
When the housewife is furnished a
good cistern of soft water, gasoline
stove, or, better, blue flame kerosene,
and has supply of dry wood under
cover and her husband has fixed her
flower garden in nice shape for her, she
ought to be good natllred half the time
at least.
A worry of a crop is where the seed
corn only gives about one-third of a
stand and when a fellow can't make
up his mind whether it is best to re-
plant or get along with what is left. We
would replant or plow up rather than
try to fight the weeds which follow
such a condition.
Some folks have queer notions about
fresh air. They have such horror of
it that they will sleep in tightly closed
bedrooms. Don't do this. The fresh air
is INJURIES most efficient health officer.
Plenty Of fresh air at night and sun
shine by day will do more to beat the
doctors than anything else.
Schoolteaching as profession is not
as desirable as other lines of business.
The girl teaches, expecting to get mar
ried, which she usually succeeds in do
ing. The young man teaches until he
can turn his hand to something else.
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