Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-18

He OTTJMW A COURIE
If il were not for the old bulls, BE-
logna sausage, as made at the big
packing houses. would not be as good
as it is. So extensively is this class of
stock used for this purpose that these
old and degenerate heads of the herd
are bought and sold under the title of
bologna bulls" e, .s.,;...s..
One of our economic writer's says
that two ounces of the foreign made
cheese will go farther than a pound of
beefsteak. This statement is perhaps
true, for we have seen half ounce of
some of that cheese which could go
anywhere and everywhere - farther
than whole steer. ri.
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The tile drains which lot of wealth
er wise theorists said We're largely the
cause of the droughty conditions of the
past few years, proved in many cases
altogether inadequate to carry off the
water which fell on the fields during
1902. These men. have dried UP more
quickly than have the fields.
1t is not infrequent that the loss Of
the little chickens may be traced to the
neighbours old -tomcat. If you see a
brindled, ugly beast of a cat with one
ear chewed off and the hide gone from
the back of his neck prowling around
the premises, shoot him and make your
neighbor happy and the chickens safe.
The Columbian raspberry more than
any other berry we have ever grown
has nice way of throwing out bear
ing wood after the main crop has beer
picked and giving some very nice fruit
late in the season. On the 18th of Au
gust we cut one such shoot which ha6
on it ninety large and perfect ripe
berries.
Whether we are going to become 6
rice eating nation or not, we are Ger
tainly going to be a rice producing
country, the rice product increasing
65,O00,000 pounds the past year. Where
the land is so situated that the neces
sary irrigation can be secured it i.
proving one of the most proftabl,
crops to raise.
We know of one hired man who Il
u hi in, i,
who has made a fine reputation TO
himself in the community where b,
has worked this season by getting VI
early in the morning without being
called and starting the kitchen fire
The women think that he is might.
fine hired man.
A cool summer and lot of hard
working hens have played the mischie
with a proposed corner on the egg mar
ket started last spring by some Of TIL
big packing houses of the west. Thu
quality of the July and August egg
this season has been far above the av
erage and not subject to 20 per cen
loss, as last year.
Some of the worst scraps over none,
! matters between neighbors grow on
of neglect in settling accounts at tn
| proper time. This is especially tru
where memory instead Of book az
counts has to be depended upon. Th
pay as you go plan does very much t
enlarge mans credit and secure hir
good friends and neighbors.
We note with pleasure that quite
number of parsons have been enable
to make a little money in land speculf
| tons the past year, enough so that j
some cases their wives want them t
quit the ministry and take up the Ian
| business exclusively. The average 81
hundred dollar parson ought to hay
some little side linesto help make bot
/ ends meet.
The most valuable byproduct PR
duced on the farm is the skimmill
/ Under no circumstances should this b
allowed to be removed from the farm
| 1t is the mainstay in the developmer
OF the young hogs and cattle and a
most invaluable in the poultry yar'
Sell all the butter fat possible, bl
keep the casein, or skimmilk, on til
farm in some form or other.
Not even the shrewd instinct of an
mails always prevents them from ca
ing food which is injurious. In MOI
tana from $4,000 to 100000 cattle p'
annum are poisoned each year and d
as the result of eating two poisonor
weeds-wild larkspur and poison can
! ass-while great losses are sustaine
each year in the southwest eountr
from stock eating the loco weed.
Recent legislation in some of tt
peach states compels the removal {
the pink tarlatan netting which doe
so much to give an attractive color