Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-08-05

Bee stings are recommended for the
Give us the rheumatism.
If farmer has three girls and no ,
boys, the girls should help do the milk /
ing.
In June, 1882, the best beeves sold
for $500 tn Chicago. In June, 1902,
they touched Ss.40.
son-excessive rains scant bloom star
walton, no new swarms, no honey.
A man must be a real lover Of birds !,
not to want to shoot Mr.. Robin when
he is getting every cherry on the tree.
The English sparrow will shell out a
pod of green peas just about as quick
as grosbeak, for we have seen him
do it.
One objection to climbing vines over
the porch and home is that the spar
rows will seize upon the hooks behind
the vines for nesting places.
The day in June when the finest e1-
port beeves sold in Toronto, Canada,
for Z cents pound they brought $S.25
to $S.40 per hundred in Chicago.
1t seems like cruel thing to rout out
q hired man at 4:30 in the morning
when he was up with his best girl till
midnight, but it has to be done just the
same.
In summer like the present, with
almost triweekly rains, there is not
much danger of overstocking the pas
lures. In fact the closer they are fed
the better the grass will be.
1t takes the Irishman used to work
ing on big farm of six acres in the
old country about year to get adjust
ed to the larger farms and wholesale
methods of agriculture in this coun-
try.
Great meat country this; S,0O0,O0o-
900 pounds of pork and S,G0O,00OOOO
pounds of beef and mutton killed and
disposed of last year and at the high
est average price known for twenty
years.
If man Of good standing and offer
ing good security wanted $4,000 on
long time where the writer lives, he
would have dozen men after him to
lend him the money. This is good
way to have it.
After paying $1.50 a bushel for Col
orado and North Dakota potatoes all
winter there Is solid comfort in taking
basket and digging from ten to fif-
teen fine Early Ohio murphies from
your own garden.
The high prices of beef and pork are
| likely to induce the keeping of more
sheep and the eating of more mutton,
which meat car be produced more
cheaply on the average farm than Ell
Their beef or pork.
Two thousand dollars will build
good residence for the average farm,
modern in architecture and equipment.
When man puts more than that into
a house, he is doing it for looks and
style and not for utility.
It is claimed that 1900 men are
thrown out of employment by the op-
Grafton of the new oleomargarine BILL
No need to weep over this, for every
one of them is wanted in the legitimate
| dairy interests Of the country.
A friend paid 500 for Shorthorn
COW last fall and was laughed at by
his neighbors for throwing his money
away in that manner. In May he sold
her two-months calf for $50, and
then they did not laugh any more.
The crop developing power of two
inches of rain and three days Of 80 in
the shade is simply marvellous. Ma
ture will do more business under such
condition in three days than she will
in month with mean temperature
Of 60.
There are greater possibilities locked
up with the alfalfa plant than any 9th
er known to modern agriculture.
Enough has been already demonstrate
ed to prove that it may be made to
bring wealth to millions Of acres of
what is now almost unproductive land.
The natural stupidity Of one hired
man was well illustrated by his tying
| his team to valuable hard maple
shade tree for few moments, during
which the horses peeled the tree and
ruined it. Being one of row which
had taken seven years to perfect, it
became subject for remarks by the