Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

pass as canned chicken at less than
thirty days.
A lately enacted law imposes fine
of $1,000 or three years in the peniten-
tiary for maliciously setting a forest
fire in the state of New Jersey.
Get rid of the foolish notion that dogs
go mad in dog days, for they don't.
More dogs go mad during the winter
and spring than at any other season
of the year.
Alfalfa is the only forage plant which
will give the grower three full crops
in one year. This is one reason why
alfalfa should be grown on your farm
il it is possible to do so.
The bull needs watching even if he
has been dehorned. He is no sweeter
tempered or more trustworthy when
dchorned than when he is not; it will
cinply take longer time for him to
kill body.
One moral to be drawn from present
agricultural conditions is to keep more
hens. Get Il better breed and give them
more attention. for they will pay the
largest per cent of dividend of any live
thing on the farm.
1t has about come to ths-that there
could be nc great war in any country
If it We're not for the big packing
houses OF this country. Men who fight
must eat. and to eat they must draw on
our American supplies Of meat.
Dogs have their uses as watch and
herd dogs on the farm. as hunters, as
rat killers. but dogs so kept do not
form 10 per cent of the great crowd
of mongrel. worthless brutes which
infest every modern community.
Whenever there Is an investment
made in good blood in any sort of do
nestle animal. there should be cor
responding investment made in good
food and good care for it. because no
critter on earth can do business on a
pedigree alone.
We were in section of the west
not long since where the soil on the
hills, which rose at an angle of 80 to
30 degrees on all the farms, was just
as fertile on the tops Of the hills as it
lrn &c,
ton is not often to be found
Hen manure is an. exceedingly con
centrated fertilizer and should not bt
used in crude form for the flower
beds. but should be mixed with de
cayed vegetation, leaves and cow ma
nure, one part to five, when it makes
very valuable fertilizer for the gar
den.
We know of two or three town bred
girls who have lately married farmers
and so far they are really charmed
with farm life. 1t is coming to this
pretty fast-that farm home under
modern conditions is about as good q
home as there is to be found any.
where.
A crop of sorghum was cut and fed
with much satisfaction the past win.
ter in this manner: About 100 pounds
of seed were sown to the acre. 1t was
then cut with harvester and bound in
small bundles-as small as possible
These We're shocked up and fed in the
bundle during the winter.
We have been using some maple sug
ar this spring which seems to be thu
real thing. 1t was made in an Ohio
sugar bush. The maker was Presby
| terrain elder, one of the elect. 1t die
not stop in transit west five minutes il
Chicago and reached the consigne,
with its virtue unimpaired. We regart
1t altogether as quite a remarkable fact
We are asked what causes cyclone.
and thunderstorms A very long. alb
struse reply might be given to thi
query. but it is best answered by say
ing that all atmospheric disturbance!
are primarily caused by things being
out of place. and the storm is the eff
fort of nature to restore an equilibri
UNI, and the cause of things getting
out OF place is the heat of the sun.
All the road taxes of the state O
| Iowa will hereafter have to be paid il
cash, and the township is to be tn
unit of highway administration. Thi
knocks out the ancient and time hon
ored picnic associated with working OF
the roads and will prevent very larg'
| number of good men from ever holding
the office of road supervisor. Ever.
other state should go and do likewise.
| Creameries are now being rated b.
insurance companies as extra hazard
GUS risks, and yet it seems strang'
why this should be so. True. there il
the pile of slack coal adjoining the en-
CINE room. which is always a fruitful
cause of spontaneous combustion, ant
then there is the carelessly adjusted
smokestack. and then there Is tire
thousand dollar policy of a creamer.
| where there are only 20 cows to fee