Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-18

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Kaffir corn has no value where other
corn will grow and do well.
The egg of the great aux is worth
$3.50, and it is not fresh egg either.
Old Aristotle knew that clover was a
fertilizer for the farm, and he has been
dead a long, long time.
The making of profitable baby beef is
only possible with high grade animals
of the strictly beef breeds.
The short crops of the past year have
been heightened out by Il moderate
winter and reduced consumption.
Pork and beans is we'll balanced
ration. So are oatmeal and cream,
roast pork and apple sauce, boiled beef
and potatoes.
There never were so many men en-
gagged in farming who want to find
out better ways of doing their work
than at the present time.
A wild goose was recently shot in
Washington which had imbedded in its
breast the head of an arrow made of
ivory, evidently the work of some ma
tive hunter in the far north country.
Even If your schoolma am does get
ST for teaching your school five days in
week she does not have as much
money left after all her bills are paid
as the girl in your kitchen who works
for $3.50 per week.
If a young couple commence picking
up and saving every old thing in the
house and out of it which they think
may come into play some day, they
will need fire to help them clean
house inside of ten years.
A farm for which the owner has re-
fused $40 per acre is made to pay 10
per cent annually on this valuation by
stocking it with cows and selling the
milk at a condensing factory near by.
! The owner receives one-half Of the
proceeds Of the farm.
The railroads of this country are
planning to spend no less than $780,
U00, 1000 the coming season in new lines,
better equipment and improved tracks.
This alone is going to make business
for vast number of people who will
all be consumers of farm products.
Three of the most extensive and
most successful cattle feeders in the
west have in institute talks this winter
proved almost beyond controversy that
in the making of beef there is saving
of not less than 20 per cent in the
corn fed when it is ground with the
cob.
We feel sorry for the man on the
farm who has raised four nice boys
and cannot keep even one of them with
him to take up the farm work as the
father grows too old to carry it on.
The smartest boy on the farm is the
one who early resolves to stay by his
dad.
A railway company conveyed back to
the state Of Minnesota lately certain
lands upon which were iron deposits of
the value of millions of dollars. This
conveyance was made because the COM
pany had to make it and not because
it wanted to. The land goes to the
credit of the state school fund.
A swarm of sparrows. flock of pi-
geons. wandering dog, an old black
crow or predatory wolf visiting an
infected hogyard can transmit the
cholera with as much certainty as
could diseased hog running at large,
and these agencies are pretty hard to
quarantine against.
A man will eat fried cat, thinking it
rabbit meat. and never kick, and the
people will eat oeomargarine when it
is sold 10 them for butter and not kick,
but when they know what they are
eating, then it gags them. and they let
both tomcat and oleomargarine alone,
and this is the whole Of this cleo bust
ness.
1t is always bad for man to settle
down discouraged and feeling that
there is no use for him to try to get
ahead in the world. The worlds great
est victories have been won on the
heels of it's worst defeats. 81 will' can
overcome almost any misfortune. The
world loves grit in a man and has no
time for q wilmer.