Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-25

4 The Kansas experiment station has
been securing some remarkable results
in feeding weak and run down calves
with aption of dried blood, product
Of the packing houses. 1t would seem
to be very valuable agent in the rails
ing of calves.
The idea of planting fish under each
hill of corn as a fertilizer is calculated
to make the corn grower of the corn
belt smile, but this thing is sometimes
done on the Atlantic coast, where the
porgies are plenty, and the corn likes
this sort of treatment.
The potato raised on the timber lands
of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin
is about the finest specimen of potato
/ there is raised-largc and smooth, full
of starch and mealy as flour. Great
crops they raise up there, too, 300 to
500 bushels to the acre.
Try hunting with a camera instead
of a gun. You will thus get rare pic
lures of wild life which to every hui
name person will afford more pleasure
than the shedding Of innocent blood.
But you want meat you say. Well,
buy that Mt the butcher shop.
Another Scandinavian walks off with
the first prize at the Milwaukee but
ter makers convention. He exhibited
butter which scored 9S.12 and four
years ago was the greenest of green
men as Il helper in creamery. He
read, watched, studied and won.
The COW is the poor farmers best
out of debt and set him on his fnan-
cial feet than, any other animal on the
farm, but just as soon as he can get
along without her he drops her, for not
one man in hundred likes to milk.
The men who grow the sweet corn for
the canneries in the state Of Maine
have forced an advance in price for
their product for next year of 33 per
cent and will next season get 2 cents
per pound, price which has always
been paid by the western canneries.
We once many years ago raised 1000
bushels Of wheat, hauled it thirty
miles to market and sold it for As
cents a bushel. Did it pay? No; it was
foolish piece of business. But in the
pioneer days wheat raising was thought
to be the only possible way in which to
raise ready money.
Minnesota now takes the front place
luctantly conceded to her by Iowa. One
reason is that Minnesota has more
1 Scandinavian citizens than any other
state, and they are all born dairymen-
| in fact, take up the business just as
soon as they are born.
When blllygoat sells for 81 800, as
was the case at Kansas City last
month, it is pertinent to ask, What
next? This particular billy was lord
mayor of his kind. clad in silky fleece
of finest texture and with lineage run
ming back to Billy the Conqueror and
all the rest of the other noted Billies.
One wise man says the farm should
be fenced, subdivided into fields; an
other says that much fencing on the
farm produces many weeds and should
be avoided. Here is contradiction,
but If sheep are kept on the farm, as
they may be when it is well fenced,
there will be no trouble with the weeds.
We learn that many Of the big spout
ing wells of South Dakota furnish a
water supply 80 strongly tinctured with
magnesia and alkaline salts that such
water is entirely useless for the pur-
poses of irrigation, where so used the
soil becoming so impregnated with
these properties as to render it infer
tile.
One thing is dead sure, young man
| can never get start in life il he
spends all he earns. He must deny him
self somewhere. If he will save $500,
the doing Of which may take him two
or three years. he will find it easier to
get ahead. The counting business
should be postponed until this $500 is
saved up.
We came across the historic man the
other day who had actually moved his
barn to get rid of the piles of manure.
His crops were poor enough and need
ed all the fertilizer he could get, but
he had to put in so much time saving
the country, running to town and fish
ing that he had to move his barn to get
rid Of the manure.
/ We never could just understand why
1t is that the natives of the tropics use
SO much red pepper in their food. The
curries and sauces Of India and the