Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-08-12
The best oleomargarine, uncolored,
looks just like lard, and that beats it.

Nature is full of wise provisions.
Wives do their worst cooking when
they are young and good looking.
We have found it this year more
bother and work to take proper care
of one acre of onions than twenty
acres Of corn.
When the time comes that the Amer
lean people will take as much interest
in good roads as they do in prize
fight we will have better wheeling.
The successful dairyman will never
figure on how cheaply he can keep his
cows, but rather on how much nutri,
tious, milk producing food he can gel
them to eat.
The dairymaid of the twentieth cen
fury is husky young fellow in over
alls and rubber boots manipulating
the complicated machinery Of the mod
ern creamery. No poetry about him.
The isolation and quiet of farm life
are not always conducive to goodness
for some pretty mean schemes are &C,
casionally Matched up by the son OF
toll as he works his fields and com
munes with nature.
Boarding house keepers and hote
men will still use oleo. buying the col
oring matter and working the stuff
over to suit the taste Of their boarders
For ordinary family consumption this
plan will not work,
In March, 1897, the farmers of the
corn belt were wrestling with the prob.
lem of ten cent corn. 1t is hardly likely
they will ever have to do this again
Foreign nations have at last found Out
what our corn is good for
The agricultural experiment stationt
of the country are doing a good worl
in two ines-ip analyzing differen
brands of commercial fertilizers ant
in conducting stock food experiments
A lot of frauds have thus been ex
posed.
In the days of Sophocles the Greeks
not having offices Of record, used t.
record the existence Of real estate
mortgage by setting stone in the cor
ner of the mortgaged field with thu
amount loaned and the name Of thu
lender thereon.
In some states competitive sparrow
hunts are held to fill up the church
treasures where there is bounty of
fered for the birds. One church go
recently 1,700 birds, for which it go
SIT, just about the price the birds solt
for in the olden time when two spar
rows sold for q farthing.
A farm of seventy-three acres II
Wales paid a 1.-THE or church tax o
500 in the year 1881. Then whea
sold for 1920 per bushel, barley SIP
and oats 80 cents. In 1901 the tith
had been increased to S112.50, wit
wheat at 80 cents, barley 75 cents ant
oats IS cents. This will explain VIII.
the English farmer is not inclined t
be pious.
Twelve years ago a friend Of our
gave $500 for well bred Shorthorl
COW. This COW has raised him te1
calves-seven males, which he has solt
for over 500 each, and three heifers
which he kept in his herd. He nov
has fifteen full blooded descendant
of this COW in his herd, all doing al
good work as their ancestor. This il
stock sense.
Many woman can do good thinl
for her family by substituting corr
bread, corn cakes, mush and Injul
pudding for the white flour bread ant
cakes which form almost the entir'
cereal menu of the meals she pre-
pares. Skimmilk and cornmeal wheI
properly prepared, as they may be il
many ways, make an almost perfect.
balanced ration.
In order to secure a icoloring matte
for their product the oleomargarin
men are trying different experiments
hoping to find some plan whereby the.
can color the stuff and not violate tn
law. Here's one for them: They nigh
have the steers whose tallow they us
fed on carrots 1t works with tn
COW and might with the steer. though
he does his dairy business on littl
different plan from the COW.
1t is of more Importance to see t
it that the hogs are fed a properl.
balanced ration than any other thini
II the herd is to be kept healthy.
grass, clover, rye and barley meal
oats, peas and bran form the stapl
food of young and growing hogs ant
they are allowed to, mature 1efor
finishing them off with corn and onl.
fully matured hogs are used as sire
and dams, the cholera will have besl
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