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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
THE OLD NAV GOT LEFT.

The story is Il pretty good one and
runs like this: A farmer had three
boys, who were faithful little workers
on the farm. Two years before he had
given each of them runty steer calf,
telling them that if they would care
for the animals they should have them
for their very own. The boys made
three nice steers out of their pets. One
morning at breakfast the farmer said
that Jones. the local butcher, had Of
fered him $50 each for the steers and
that he guessed he would so down
town in the evening and tell him he
could have them. When he went into
the pasture at night, he found the
steers gone, and when his wife told
him that the boys had sold them and
each boy had $50 in his pocket that
mans feelings We're too deep for utter
ance, and he went out to the calf sta
bic and said something.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
onsrRucrEp WATERWAYS.

The past summer has taught some
very expensive lessons both to indiyid-
uals. corporations and municipalities
in the matter of surface drainage. In
order that the bridging and piling
might be made more desirable by fill
ing and streets be brought up to grade
by the cities the natural outlets for
storm waters extraordinary rainfalls)
have been so narrowed and restricted
that in q season of flood and freshets
like the present enormous injury has
been wrought. Just as the value of a
water power is largely based upon the
minimum flow of water in the stream
so the size of a bridge or culvert or the
height of an embanlment must have
its safety point adjusted to the maxi
mum flow of water. We know OF one
railway which, ignoring this factor of
safety, has this summer lost enough
in value of bridges. culverts and ruined
roadbed to have properly constructed
about every bridge and culvert upon its
line
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
INEVITABLE WASTES.

The farm operations of the west,
which include large acreage, limited
help and much machinery, involve in
evitably waste which gives down
east farmer the cold chills. Where
horse and machine can secure five
bushels it will not pay for the man to
stop the team to save the half bushel,
wanton waste as it seems to be. We
have hardly seen q meadow this sea-
son where from 200 to 400 pounds of
hay could not have been raked up and
saved after the field was cleared, but
in most cases it would have involved
the loss of a ton of hay in the next
field to have taken the time to have
saved it. Some day this will stop.
Land will become so valuable that the
present wastes of the farm will have
to be looked after.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
COOPERATIVE COOKING.

Cooperative housekeeping is being
tried in several communities with con-
siderable success-that is, the eating
and distinguishing part of domestic liv-
ing. About 50 per week per head for
the family seems TO furnish at a cen
trail dining hall meals well cooked and
served and good enough for any one.
This figures So per week for family
of six persons, and if from this is de-
Quoted the wages OF the hired girl kept
under the old system, which is seldom
less than So per week, including her
board, it makes the living expense of
such a family very reasonable indeed
shoulders of the wife and mother.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
UNCERTAINTIES OF AGRICULTURE

UNCERTAINTIES OF AGRICULTURE
With modern machinery the aim is
10 so perfect it that raw material may
be fed into one end of the machine and
finished product taken out of the 9th
pr, the manipulation and varied proc
asses of Manufacture to be performed
RS nearly automatically and by the
machine itself as possible. In many
lines this has been accomplished, and
the fact explains the exceeding cheap
ness of our matches, steel rails, textile
fabrics, watches and hundreds of 9th
er manufactured products. This thco-
ry, however, can never be applied to
the farm and it's work with any degree
\ of success, for while the factory may
depend upon the machines TO always
do perfect work q set of uncertain
and ever varying conditions environ
the farmer which it is beyond the
power of mortal man to anticipate or
foresee. The two items alone of varia-
tons of temperature and rainfall can
easily work to his advantage and
crown his iaborS with success or over
whelm him with failure. Then he has
all the uncertainties of under or over
production, supply and demand and
the caprices of the market to guess at,
and, as if this We're not enough, host
of parasitic and epidemic pests ever
lying in wait for him in the back
ground, and so it comes that farming
must be done largely by faith and it's
blessings and profits figured up by av-
erages, of course all the time having
reference to certain elemental facts and
truths of culture tillage and fertilizing
which ever remain fixed. The condi-
ton of his business is such that it
might be truthfully said that a farmer
should never spend his money until he
has got it in his jeans.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
CHAPTER vi.

Midway up the Red Water gorge and
ten miles southeast of Brentwood there
comes tumbling and foaming down
from the north a stream that is little
more than a big brook eight months of
the year, but is advertised all the year
round as one of the scenic attractions
of the Seattle road, much to the dis
gust of the general passenger and tick
ct agent of the Big Horn, whose right
of way is, in his opinion, twice invad-
cd, first by the stream itself and then
by the Seattle. Following the north
bank of the Red Water, the Big Horn
had to encounter all the engineering
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

Every civil township should own a
gravel bed if there is one to be had in
side its borders. In all the black prai-
RE country there is no way in which
to improve the highways so easily and
cheaply as to use gravel.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
RurIinuton Route Excursions,

One Way Settlers Excursion Rates,
via Burlington Route. Very cheap one
way settlers rates will be on sale dur,
ing the months of September and Oc-
tober, to points in Montana, Utah,
Idaho Oregon, Washington andCalifoy.
mia. For rates and full information
call on or address w. g. Parker,
Agt. Union Depot.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

What may be termed the leavings
and pickings of farm can be more
readily utilized by the sheep than any
other animal. Aside from the scattered
grain thus saved and used, fence cor
ner crop of weeds and grass is also
turned into money
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

An agricultural paper published in
man harvesting his wheat crop. using
a moving machine to do so. This sort
Of thing makes western men grin.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

When farmers get to regard agricul-
ture as a profession rather than as a
vocation, new type of agriculture
will develop Viewed as profession,
the benefits and necessity of agricul-
tural education will be rightly appre-
ciated.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

To get rid of two mice which had
been seen in the house. one of which
was killed with broom, we have kept
one uncouth old tomcat, his black con-
cubine, raised two patches of kittens,
had the young wrens and robins all
killed and been wowwowed O nights
to beat the band. Give us the mice.
We don't know very much.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
MISCELLANEOUS.
IOWA CENTRAL RAILWAY.

Time Of trains carrying passengers at
Hedrick, Iowa. Effective July LIST, 1901.
Going North.
No. 3-st. Paul Express daily. 1880 p. m.
No. 5-Mason City Mail lex Sum 2:10 D. m.
No. Way Freight QEx Sum-. 500 p. IN.
Going South
No. 6-Peoria Mail IEx SUM. -. 1920 p. m.
No. Way Freight lex SUM-. 7:45 a. In.
No, 4-Peoria Express daily. $40 a. m.
United States Canada and Mexico. For
rates, folder. etc: call on or address
GEO S. BATTY. H. II. KENNY.
Gen. Pass & Tkt. ACT, Agent.
Marshalltown, Iowa. Hedrick, ia.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
TRAINS LEAVING JEFFERSON
STREET UNION DEPOT.
a j. Packard, AGENT,

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, & ST. PAUL
Arrive. Depart
Chicngo, Dubuque &
Milwaukee, -. .d1:30 a. M. b2:.5a a. m
Ids, etc -. b1o:1oa. m b5:s5 p. m.
Kansas City ~
Southwest -. ..b2:30 a. m. d1 80 a. IN.
cal -. $3.50. .b5:30 p. m. b1o:20 a. m.
No. 90, east bound, leaves. $3.50. 6:55 a. m.
No. "a, east bound, leaves. -. .10:45 a. M.
No. 81. west bound, leaves. ..... 8:45 a. m.
No. 81, west bound, leaves. -. IL 80 a. m.
These are frelghts leaving ottumwa
Junction.
Monday.
Ottumwa Junction.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

The utter inability to secure good
country schoolteachers ut the old
wages has compelled school directors
TO advance the wages of the teachers.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

The burning of thrashing machine
separators the cutting off of horses
tails and names. the mutilating of
cows udders and the cutting of fences
to let stock into cultivated fields are
samples of rural savagery and bar
barism which should be met with such
penalties of law as would exterminate
the offender.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

hand, skinned so close to the fuzzy
head that, amid jeers of derision now.
the would be wire clipper slid back toI
earth and skulked in among his. cronies'
in the shadow of the bluff.
ITO be Continued.)
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

We are asked about the vitality of
weed seeds in manure. If the manure
goes through a process of heating and
fermenting which, by the way, great
ly lowers its value as fertilizer-the
vitality of the seeds contained in it
will be destroyed. If it is simply al
lowed to decay and rot without such
fermentation, the chances are that the
vitality of the weed seeds contained in
it are probably not impaired to any
great extent
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

The selling price of sirloin steak has
much to do with the price of eggs. A
dozen eggs are worth more for food
than q pound of steak, and the people
know it,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

A Chinaman would get rich If he
could have the privilege Of using fc"
crop production the waste corners and
spots on most of our northwestern
parms. How many acres Of waste land
have you?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

There is one great advantage about
the silo often overlooked, and that is
that wet and catchy weather never
prevents the putting up of the silage,
nor does the rain in any way impair
its quality. 1t is safe to say that one
half of the hay put up in the United
States this season has been injured by
rains to greater or less extent.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

Farms upon which focls of sheep
are kept are always clean farms and
fertile ones. This fact deserves more
attention than it receives.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

Every plant has its parasite, some
times two of them. If it should happen
that there was q single exception, a
parasite would be created for the
work.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

AS a general thing one COW to the
acre of blue grass pasture is enough,
while three can be as well or better
pastured on one acre of alfalfa.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

Who ever heard before of making a
roadbed out of straw? Out in Wash
tngton in order to get rid Of the dust
in the summer and the mud in the Win
ter over 300 miles of highway have re-
Gently been covered with about 4 foot
of straw, the straw being contributed
by the farmers along the highway.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

The salvias as flower for garden
decoration have given us much salts
faction this season. A bed of them will
give the most uniform and brilliant lot
of cardinal red bloom from July until
frost comes of any flower we have.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

1t is worth mentioning that the cat
tie which brought the highest price
paid for beef animals for twenty years
on the Chicago market up to the mid
die of September were eighteen grade
Hereford steers grown i'll South Da-
kota and fed for q year on soaked corn
and oats, averaging 1,51S pounds and
bringing $3.50 per hundredweight, or
S134.34 per head.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

-Four or five seasons of drought evil
IDENTITY stored up a lot of fertility in
the soil and failed to make available
the fertilizers which during that time
were applied to the fields. This sea-
sons abundant rains have made all
this harvest of stored plant food avail
able and partly explains the prodigious
growth OF all vegetation.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

The crop of apples on an Illinois or
chard of 125 acres was recently sold
for $11,500, while the property cost the
present owners only $4,000 last
spring.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

There has been a good deal said in
the agricultural press lately to the eff
feet that light frost would be bene-
fit to the belated corn crop in hasten
ing it's maturity. We do not believe
that corn is ever under any circum-
stances benefited by freezing. Any in
reference with the natural processes
of ripening is damaging to the crop.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
A LONG WAY YET TO THE rop.

Perfection in the creamery business
is not yet reached. For every tub of
butter made which Will score 81 there
are ten tubs which will score So or
lower The production OF the 81 but
ter needs exceptional skill and condi-
tons and marks standard Of excel
lence which the average creamery can
not very well approach, but where the
dairyman and the creameryman work
In intelligent unison it should be pos-
sible to bring up the product of the av-
erage creamery to 80 or more
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

We are inclined to think that in the
effort to do business on the largest
scale possible the modern thrashing
outfit has grown altogether too large
for profitable work either for the OWL
er of the machine or his patrons. In
communities where these huge ma
chimes are at work every available
hand from a dozen or more farms has
to be drafted to operate it, and when
the thrashing is interfeted with. as il
was this season by continuous rains, an
immense loss results. Either the grain
should be stacked as in the old way
which is always good way, or q
smaller thrashing outfit should be
owned jointly by two or three farmers
! to do the work when needed at the
| proper time.
1 -
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

The hardest job which the society
Journals have is to instruct the dear
people how to eat sweet corn from the
cob when in company with a becoming
grace and gentility. The best way in
which to serve it for company is to cut
the corn from the cob before it is
brought on the table, for no fine lady
can shipper just right when she has
three big shelled ears lying by the side
of her plate and her teeth fast in a
fourth one.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

More farmers are gulled on the steel
range swindlc than on any other fake
since the palmy days of the Bohemian
oats fake
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

There is whole lot Of foolish stuff
printed about corn growing SO tall, just
as though the height of the stalk in
any manner indicated the prospective
yield of the crop. Our own experience
proves that it is not the tallest stalks
which produce the biggest ears. We
have been through fields of corn in
Arkansas where the stalks would aver
age twelve feet in height all over the
field and where good crop was fifteen
bushels per acre. The diameter of the
stalk rather than it's height better de-
termines the size of the ear and thus
of the crop.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

A dairyman friend Of ours is just now
filing a 500 ton silo with the product
of forty acres of field corn. The corn is
SO large crop that he will hardly get
it all in his sile. This silage will fur
nish him most excellent dairy ration
for 1873 cows for six months, allowing
forty pounds day per cow. In no 9th
er manner is it possible to so easily and
cheaply provide desirable ration for
a dairy herd. He will supplement this
silage ration with well cured clover
hay and gluten meal.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

About is per cent of what We buy
and pay for as butter is not butter at
all, but just water, salt and casein.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

So we'll satisfied are we that stuHng
the young pigs with new corn and
nothing else is most provoking cause
of swine plague and cholera that we
would not feed ration wholly COM
posed of it even if it We're furnished
free. One or two ears of new corn a
day, with a slop Of ground rye, bar
ley and oats and plenty of green food
rape or blue grass or clover-will push
the pigs fast enough to be finished for
market during the early winter on the
new corn well matured.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
WABASH.

Arrive. Depart.
Louis -. 80. .a615 n. IN. as:5O pm.
louis Louis ...... ...a7 100 p. m. as:25 a. m.
Freight trains carrying passengers be-
tween Ottnmwa and Moulton:
I,ocal freight 49,. .bSO0 D. m. $500 a. m.
Fast freight ~. a12:10 p. m. a2:3O p. m.
n Daily Except Sunday.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

A thing like this so rarely occurs that
it is worth noting: A grain buying
firm in western state used to weigh
their purchase from the farmers on a
set of scales which were cut of whack
and which beat the buyers out of
about $50 pounds on every load bought.
The firm could not locate the evident
leak in their business Until they got an
expert from the factory. Not a farmer
who sold them grain peeped. II the
boot had been on the other leg, Rome
would have howled.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

CHICAGO, Eft. MADISON & DIES MONIES
Arrive Depart.
Ft Madison accomo. 500 p. m. 7:15 a. m.
Trains run daily except Sunday.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND s PACIFIC.

Going East. Depart
No 206-Des Moines to Keokuk. 1910 a. IN.
204-Des Moines to Edon... .10:36 p. m.
2O2-Des Moines to Ileokuk. -. BOO b. m.
234-Freight Ottumwa to Eldon $40 p. m.
Going West.
2O3-Eldon to Des Moines. -. 1885 a. m.
2O1-Keokuk to Des Moines. 1905 p. m.
233-Frt. Eldon to Des NIoines sis a. m.
231-Frt. daily .Eldon to Monroe sos p. m.
2O5-Keokuli to Des Moincs. . 705 D. m.
Unless otherwise specified, all trains ara
daily except Sunday.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

The cooperative farmers concerns
organized to handle their produce and
give them staple commodities at cost
price are now facing new phase of
the cooperative plan set in operation
to exterminate them. The middlemen
who are by the farmers organizations
displaced and deprived of their profits
have organized, and i'll one case out of
twenty commission houses which have
formerly handled the consignments
from the farmers concerns all save
one now refuse to handle their bust
ness.
The most important educational in
stttution in this country today is the
oleo college OF fine arts. the professors
of which propose to educate the
masses to prefer the uncolored tallow
of range steer doped up with chem
icals to the golden product of old bos'
sy. This is a Reform movement with
a big r, and, while the college is en-,
dowed with millions and tuition free
the effort is q foreordained failure
from the start, The American people
are not fools, and, while they may be
got to use oleo by fraud, they car
never be induced to use it in a legiti
mate way. - 4
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07

bed in the gorge below was the only
sound that steadily bore upon the ear
Some few of the men, painting not lit
tie. were laboring up the steep with
hats or hands full of rocks. Over on
the oppositethe southern-shore the
concave curve of the Seattle was lined
for third Of a mile with sympathiz-
ing operatives Of the rival road, and
for a time shouts of encouragement to
each other and defiance to the manage
ment had echoed from bank to bank.
Now, however, the gravity of the stu
alton weighed upon the leaders, and in
the mournful twilight the conscious
ness that they were up ag'in the gov
eminent" as several expressed it, caus-
ed some of the older men, who had
gone through harder tussle to utter
defeat in 1877. to draw aside and con-
fer together in cautious tones. From
mere bravado an uncouth looking fell
! low began climbing the telegraph pole
west of the bridge, and the applause Of
certain among the tramp elelHnt, at
other times the natural enemy of the
| trainhands, attracted the attention of
the leaders on the bluff. Instantly the
query was beloved from above:
| "Hold on! What are you att"
"Cuttin de wire, of course" was the
shouted answer, and an unkempt face
peered upward through the dim twi-
light.
LET it alone, you fool! We're run
min the telegraph And down spin
ming "dornick," sent by no reluctant
The Tucson citizen., 1902-05-20
Territory of Arizona,)
County of Pima. )ss.

In the Matter Of the Estate of Juan
Elias, Deceased-Notice of Settle
ment of Final Account.
Notice is hereby given that Antonia
|. de Elias, the former Administrative
of the estate of Juan Elias, deceased,
has rendered and presented for settle
ment and filed in said court. her final
account of her administration of said
estate, and that Wednesday, the 21st
day of May. 1902, at 10 o'clock a. m,
at the court room of said court, at
the county court house, in the city of
Tucson, in said Pima county, has been
duly appointed by the said court for
the settlement of said account, at
which time and place any person In
tereted in the estate may appear
and file exceptions In writing to the
said account, and contest the same.
S. w. PURCELL. Ex- -Officio Clerk.
Dated May 8, 1909
First pub. So, last $50.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-05-20
HOLDS. UP A CONGRESSMAN.

"At the end of the campaign" writes
Champ Clark. Missouri's brilliant con-
gresham. from overwork, nervous
tension, loss of sleep and constant
speaking had about utterly collapsed
1t seemed that all the organs In my
body were out of order, but three bot
ties of Electric Bitters made me all
right. ats the best all-round medi-
cine ever sold over a druggists coun-
ter" Overworked, rundown men
and weak, sickly women gain splendid
health and vitality from Electric Bit
ters. Try them. Only soc. Guar
anteed by all druggists.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-05-20
SPECIAL NOTICE.

BY direction Of the Board of Direct
ors Of the Calver Universal Power
Company, at a regularly called meet
ing, held on May 10th, A. D.1902, un-
der the provisions of the Bylaws of
said Company, and through its regu-
lar constituted officers, general meet
ing of the stockholders of said Com
pany is hereby called to meet at the
temporary office of said Company, be-
ing No, 707 II street. N. W., in the
City of Washington, District of Col
on May 31st, 1902, at 3 o'clock