Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-05-01
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One reason for the present stiff prices
FOR all farm commodities is that few
farmers are obliged to sell.
The building over Of barbarian into
d white man is almost as big job as
to keep the white man civilized after
you have got him made.
There may be something more at
tractive in the fruit line than a heaping
painful Of Clyde strawberries, but we
really do not know what it could be.
The largest return in food value is
obtained from an acre Of corn when it
as put into silo. Where land is high
priced this fact is well worth consid-
ering.
The supreme court Of the United
States has ruled that the antitrust laws
of the several states are unconstitu-
honal where an exception is made in
their operation in favor Of the farmer,
If the owners Of the beet sugar facto-
ries are making 81 per cent on the cap
ital which they have invested, they can
afford to pay the farmer more than 81
per ton for the beets to make the sugar
from. ..tlos-.s.I
| The average farmer will do better to
raise just beef horses, the heavy draft
breeds. than any other kind. These can
be raised and sold and one year with
another will bring about or 10 cents
pound. =
When man has set Sc as the price
ahe will take for his hogs and no less
and the market stubbornly sticks at
1880 week after week, he is quite like
Tly to be loser because of his tena-
! ciousness.
1t takes an average of LOO pounds
of corn to produce 100 pounds of beef
~an. an old animal, while half of that
amount will produce 100 pounds Of
meat on yearling steer well bred on
beef lines.
The oriental lilacs, the Syringa ia
ponica from Japan and the Syringa pc
kinensis from China, grow in tree form,
are perfectly hardy and q very great
improvement over the old bush yarie-
ties of this shrub.
Tests made on the Montana and Da-
Kota railways show that the Ignite
coal of those sections can be used on
locomotives successfully and at saw
ing of 43 per cent over the soft Goals
Nof Iowa and Illinois.
I'VE wish that the good women who
prepare the salads for the church So
ciable would not leave great chunks of
raw onion in them as big as q peanut.
Salads should never conxin more than
Just suggestion Of onion. .
hThe long time worthless sand hills of
western Nebraska have risen in value
from 50 to SIC per acre by the discoy-
cry of the fact that alfalfa will grow
there and do well, for where alfalfa
will grow there will successful farming
be assured.
( The state Of North Dakota officially
announces that there were produced in
the year 1901 $50 bushels of wheat, 100
Bushels of flax, rs bushels of oats and
$40 worth Of cattle for each man, wo-
man and child in the state. This ought
to keep them in pretty good shape for
the coming year.
"A man who has looked into the mat
ter asserts that an owl or a hawk is
worth not less than $50 and that any
ono such bird will destroy during the
year ct least So worth of vermin, which
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valuation, and still every man out
with gun will shoot these birds on
sight.
The hog is the great scavenger
among all animals on land and the
mackerel among all the fishes of the
great seas, and both of them are re-
garded as toothsome delicacies by man,
while the horse. the cIeanest of all ami
mails. and the carp Il purely vegetable
feeder among fishes, man turns UP his
nose ut.
We heard an Indiana farmer say not
long since that he always raised good
corn on the Wabash bottoms by throw
ing furrow against the corn at the
time of the last blowing so heavy that
ii bent the corn clear over. He said
this plan fixed the weeds in the hill
and that the corn soon Strengthened up