Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

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Where clover will grow and Short
horn cattle are kept don't expect to buy
q farm for much less than $50 per acre.
Seed potatoes are high priced this
spring, and so it is just as well to re-
member that one good eye is just as
good as more when cutting the potatoes
for seed.
We know one locality which had a
streak Of good luck lately. 1t got rid Of
mighty mean citizen and imported q
registered Polled Angus bull. 1t was a
good trade.
In planting apple trees this spring
on the prairie soils set trees not less
than eight inches deeper than they
grew in the nursery and give them a
decided lean from the perpendicular
toward the southwest.
Do not try to transplant black wal
nut or hickory tree grown in the ma.
tive forest, for it will be sure to be a
failure. Nearly all the nut bearing
trees should have the nut planted
where the tree is to grow.
There will always be poor and i'm
If you SOW only the very best. The in
ference is-we might say the fact is
that the more poor seed you sow the
poorer will be the harvest.
A whole lot of eager homeseellers
are buying farms west of the one hun
dredth degree Of west longitude in the
are going to come to grief. That is a
stock country, not farming land.
We think that where so many as fit.
teen cows are kept in the farm dairy
some arrangement should be made to
have one man do all the milking and
give him plenty of time in which to dc
1t. 1t certainly would be better for the
COWS.
A field of corn planted thickly for
fodder was dragged until it got to be
six inches high. While some of the
corn was thus destroyed. there was
still plenty left, and it only required
two plowings to make perfectly clean
field of corn.
There is peculiar significance con.
nected with that Biblical phrase which
q refers to "the grasshopper as bur-
den" when it is known that 100000
out of the 100000 square miles Of the
/ land surface of the globe are subject
\ to the scourge of these insects.
The United States furnishes Eng,
stuffs and Go per cent of her meats
8 So long as England is compelled to
4 thus depend upon the United States for
her very living there will be no serious
I ruction between the two countries.
|, Darwin once picked up wounded
pigeon by the wayside. Its leg had
been broken, and in its contracted
claws was little lump of earth. This
Darwin planted to see what vegetable
life it might contain. From it he pro
dt fifteen varieties of plant life.
Aght now, during the last days OF
April, is the time to set out the straw
berry bed. We have sometimes though
that the doing Of this might almos
b come under the head of legitimate
Sunday work, for the doing of it is
certainly work of necessity and mer
cy.
When a sixteen, year-old boy unskill
ed in every particular can secure a
wages on a farm $50 month, hi
board and washing, as he can today
he is alone to blame if he is not wortl
$1,000 by the time he is twenty-fou
Il years old. But not one in ten of then
NJ will save dollar.
The oil discoveries in Texas bid fai
to become the big discovery of tn
country's natural resources of the new
century. Assuming that the supply
II practically unlimited, as it appears t
Il be, the wells at Beaumont will suppl
NJ aSlarge part of the steam making fue
NJ of the whole country.
III We find that there are always tw
"a things which need doing in the sprin
81 of the year where there is only time I
do one. So many things must be don
B Fright then if done at all during the ses
Is son-the sowing of seed and planting c
" trees-and then there are always S
|W much cleaning up and fixing to do.
"a is altogether the busiest season of tn
IA year for us.