Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-02


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The blight is destroying the fine pear
orchards Of Texas.
The hen which has to scratch for a
living is the one which will fill the egg
basket.
! Kansas comes to the front this year
with an apple crop OF over 100000
bushels, worth over $12,000,O0O.
Wanted.-Some sort of an animal
which viii eat up clean the 80 per cent
wastage on corn fodder fed from the
bundle.
! Twenty-six thousand cars Of oranges
are in sight in California. and they will
be much cheaper than apples the com.
{ ing winter.
4 Climatic conditions are little out of
joint in Minnesota when a man gets
killed by lightning in November while
! huskinG corn.
1t is claimed by scientists that the
value of an acre of ocean harvest may
be made greater than any acre of land
harvest product.
The state of Nebraska could produce
cherries enough to supply all America
if it were only possible to ship and dis
/ tribute the fruit.
be singularly productive of blood poi
soning, and wounds of this character
should never be neglected.
An Illinois man walked off with first
prize on butter at the late Iowa state
dairy meeting. His butter was made
scientifically and not by guess.
!, A friend Of ours had twenty dollar
straw stack tumble over the other day
and kill n fifty dollar COW. A fifty dol
lar cow should never be allowed to run
to a straw pile.
Missouri and Kansas orchards have
brought their owners this season net
return of from $S5 to $125 per acre,
which is real easy, lazy way to get
living out OF the land.
We see that some writers are advis-
ing the trimming of the feet of the
bull. AS we observe it, this is trim
ming on the wrong end, his horns need
ing trimming far more than his feet
Where there Is found a poor stick
of boy there will almost always
be found poor stick of man who
has something to do with the boy
either as progenitor or tutor and guide.
This country has become so large
and its interests so diversified that spe-
cial legislation intended to favor any
particular interest or locality is almost
sure to do just as much harm as it does
good.
There were 2.755,6s3 bushels of fax
imported into this country the past
year, while the state of North Dakota
could easily supply every bushel if
men would only break up cheap land
and grow this crop.
The difference between some men
and some dogs is that some dogs are so
mean and worthless that they ought to
be killed and are, and some men are so
mean that while they ought to be kill
ed we send them to the legislature.
A learned astronomer has lately
made discovery which he claims fully
sustains the theory Of the nebular n.y.
pothesis. To the great mass of human
ity this is of secondary Importance
compared with the price Of potatoes.
1t has been no uncommon thing for
corn belt farmers to have sold during
the past year from their hundred and
sixty acre farms hogs to the value
Of $1,000 and over. We have known
this to be done on an eighty acre farm.
We sometimes think it is easier to
find proof of the theory Of evolution
as advanced by Darwin, Spencer Huy-
ley and others in the decadence and re-
PROGRESSION Of things and men than in
their physical and moral improvement.
The government estimate of the corn
crop of 1901 is 1G.4 bushels per acre
against an average yield of pa bush
els per acre for the whole country for
the past ten years. Ohio reports the
best crop, while Kansas has the poor
est.
There were 1862, 796 acres Of public
land sold by the government the past
year, more than in any one of the past
ten years While Uncle Sam may he