Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-06

Kansas farmers are realizing a dol
lar bushel for their big wheat crop
where they have fed it to hogs and
it into pork.
Where tree has ample room to
grow and develop, it's root system will
be found to correspond in area occu-
pied to the size and spread Of it's top.
A row of Scotch pines set eight feet
apart for eighty rods along the north
line of our orchard is planned for
windbreak. Could we do any better?
''In the morning SOW thy seed, and at
evening Withhold not thy hand" is a
good motto to apply in the matter Of
sowing grass seed in the spring, par
ticularly clover seed.
There will be better litter of pigs
and more of them raised to the period
of weaving If the old SOW has nothing
to do with the corncrib before and aft
err the pigs are born.
The cattle which brought 81 at Chi
cage the last day Of the old year were
what? Just long yearling steers, fine
ly bred and finely fed. weighing about
1900 pounds This fact is worth stud
ying.
Don't try to be weather prophet.
for you will get let down if you do.
The little intelligence which some men
possess is very often devoted to des
canting upon subjects about which
they know nothing.
What is on many farm is twenty
five bushels of corn to the acre. What
might be is fifty bushels per acre on
the same land The how to bring this
about is the great, agricultural probs
LEM which thousands Of men should
study.
When a man finds himself the owner
of farm worth $50 per acre, it then
becomes his duty as a good citizen to
see that the public highway along his
premises is graveled and made into a
good road even if he has to do it at
his own expense.
Nearly every live thing, except the
family cat and dog, are fond of well
prepared corn silage-cows, young
stock, the fattening steers, the sheep,
the hogs. the chickens. A food which
is so generally palatable to all kinds
Of stock should be provided for them.
Along the fence on the north side of
a belt of heavy timber we will next
spring set out an eighty rod row of
dewberries. confidently expecting that
this delicious berry will there find al
most ideal conditions. We will train
, the vines along the wire fence if posi-
BILE.
The highest figure which steer beeves
brought at the Chicago stockyards Dec
81, 1901, was $3.50 per hundredweight
and the lowest price was $780, 1t is
this difference of $500 per hunured-
weight which should be q matter of
prayer and fasting with all stock rails
ers everywhere.
A good many of the rural mail route
carriers are resigning as one by one
they find out that they really are the
most poorly paid of any of Uncle Sans
large list of employees. The fair thing
would be to add at least 500 to their
present compensation of $500, especial
ly as it appears that the business is
more than self sustaining.
We note the advertisement "For
Sale" of $50 acre farm of rich In
diana farm land in the Kankakee
country. 100 acres of heavy timber
thereon, at the seemingly low price of
$27 per acre, while men are actually
tumbling over each other in their ca
gerness to pay $45 an acre for lands in
the Dakotas. What's the matter with
the old Hoosier State?
The average yield of the cereal crops
of England for the past ten years has
been: Wheat, 1898 bushels per acre;
barley, 33. 10; oats, 3S.47 The average
Is not high on barley and oats as com
pared with the average crop of the
west and northwest, but on wheat
England beats this country all to
pieces, save in a limited territory in
Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
| A late report from England states
that there is plenty of work to be OBJ
tanned on English farms at $3.50 per
week, the laborer to board himself, in
which connection we remark that there
/ is plenty Of work on American farms
at $3.50 per week, with first class
board-meat three times a day and
two pieces Of pie and washing thrown
in and in some cases likely show to
court the hired girl Or the old mans
daughter besides.