Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-01

than more. You will get more thrifty
plant.
A New Jersey farmer has By process
of law made the county pay FOR some
of his own sheep killed by his own dog.
This is q good one.
Sweet separated milk is worth So
cents per 100 pounds at South Da-
kota factory which has lately under
taken the manufacture of powdered |
milk-milk evaporated, dried and pow
dered
In a general way it may be said that |
if your poultry range is limited in ex-
tent it is better to keep the Asiatic |
fowls. If the range is ample, then
fowls of the Leghorn type will pay
best.
The eastern markets are being large
ly supplied with potatoes from Germa-
ny, ireland and Scotland this season,
the high prices justifying the importa-
ton of the tubers even with the burden
of a twenty-five cent tariff tax on each
bushel.
We know of q sheep raiser in the
central west who finds it very profita
bic to have his lambs come in January
and have plenty of spring lamb to sell
at high prices to the visitors at popu-
lar summer resort located near him.
He keeps the twin bearing breeds and
,,,~1,@ In>l tn ny,
One extensive railway system of the
middle west has decided to plant catal-
pa trees upon every available portion
of its right of way for the purpose of
thus growing the ties which it will
need in the coming years. If this work
is done intelligently and properly, an
may thus be grown.
Sooner or later the beet sugar raisers
of this country will have to meet the
competition of the cane produced in
our new island possessions. This time
| may be STAYED off for awhile by the
! manipulation of tariffs and bounties,
but in the end the country which can
most cheaply produce the sugar Of
America will grow it.
AS a general rule all over the north
country where it has been used the
large tile for the culvert in the high
way is almost q total failure, and it's
use for this purpose is being abandon
ed. The trouble is that water is allow
ed to settle on the bottom; then the
frost comes and cracks the tile and
renders it worthless.
We do not vouch for the reliability OF
the following recipe, but give it as a
friend gives it to us. He says that il
-four of sulphur is literally mixed il
the box Of the planter with the seeC
corn the cutworms will never touch
,, the corn SO treated. 1t is so easy ant
simple thing to try that it is wortl
experimenting with.
If you are likely to want to sell thu
farm inside of five years, it is probable
that now is as good time to let go a
you will strike. Buyers are plenty, com
, petition sharp on the part Of buyer
, and prices at high water mark. A re
!. action is certain before long, and, Will
!, we do not look to see land materially
4 decline from present values. it may b
J. hard to find buyer later on.
. The patrons of separator creamer
in western Iowa who are able to dis
pose of all their skimmik at so cent
y per hundredweight to process butte
: factory located close by the creamer
. have about the best snap in dairyin
Il that we know of. realizing about SIS
# per hundredweight for their milk, an
these same men did Il whole lot c
kicking when the butter factory loca
ed there, fearing it would injure the
a creamery business.
IA In Idaho an acre of irrigated blu
i. grass pasture will furnish sufficier
food for four cows. while on the blu
a. grass pastures of Iowa it is not SAT
+ to put more than one COW on each ac1
:. for the summer range. This illustrate
= why it is that one acre Of good Ian
# which can be irrigated in a sunshin
s. region is worth about three times 6
er much as an acre of equally fertile Ian
a. where the weather clerk attends to tt
u. hydraulic business.
al -
T. A friend of the English sparro
states that he lately watched a spa
row stripping bunch of curculio egg
from twig Of plum tree, the egg
10 being fastened in scale form upon tt
~ twig. We think that he is mistaken
%. his conclusions. The egg of the cure
a lilo is deposited in the immature plu
n along in June and there develops in