Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-09

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Sheep are selling at from 10 to 20
cents Il head in parts of Australia on
account of the drought.
California will ship large amount
of celery to eastern markets this win
ter. 1t is one of the growing indus
tries of the coast
The Devon cattle are hardly known
in the west. With the passing of the
OK as beast of burden the special use
for the Devon ceased. Other breeds
better fill the needs of the dairy and
the feedyard.
The Argentine Republic produced
this year S6000,G00 bushels of corn, or
just about one-third of the crop of the
state of Kansas, and the Argentine Re-
public is the only competitor America
has in the corn business.
1t is much easier to put fat on an
| animal when it is warm than when it
is cold, easier to feed with the sun
than without it.--For all practical pur-
poses sunshine and warmth mean fat
! and the want of them curtailed ra-
ton.
Cows are fond Of turnips and rape,
but it is poor stuff for their ration, as
/ it is almost impossible to feed them so
that they will not faint the milk. If
root ration is desired for the COW i'll
winter. there is nothing better than
| sugar beets or carrots.
If you want twenty-five cent eggs to
sell in winter, make the hens scratch
for living, feed corn only once day,
wheat once and oats once and see that
they lave feed of enslage or it's
equivalent i'll some sort of green food
, once a day. No ROSTERS are wanted for
winter egg production.
1t has been too cold the past summer
for the tea roses TO do well out of
doors. 1t was with the greatest reluc-
| tance that they doomed at all. and
many of the blossoms were imperfect
because of the cool and damp weather,
but it just suited the cabbages. which
grew and grew until they bursted
wide open.
The most pitiful fate of any dumb
cieatureyis that of the horse He
graduates down from the carriage to
the lumber wagon. then into the hands
of the horse trader then OH to the
peddler's cart. his last remaining atom
of strength wha!ed out of him till he
falls dead in the harness. If lie were
only recognized as, fit for food. this
| would not be SO.
The syndicate system of farming is
bane to any country. 1t is death to
schools. society and almost bars the
natural development Of any section
where it is practiced. 1t is the worst
kind of land SHINING in its operations
/ and blights everything desirable i'll our
American rural life. 1t is a comfort to
know that ii SO seldom pays that only
here and there has it got n foothold.
| A. stranger coming to this country
| would of course be Informed of the
fact of our big things--our millionaires,
great corporations and manufacturing
/ interests-ard just as like as not he
would not be told about the best thing
which the country can boast of, and
that is the way up from poverty to the
ownership of ideal American homes
and Il comfortable competency for old
age.
Think of it. Three crops, or six tons in
=, all. of alfalfa in one year and q crop of
seed to taper off on. the hay worth $40
and the seed $24: no blowing OF seed
ing; just harvesting, that's all. is not
that dandy crop for you? They do
this in Kansas. and if you live farther
north and have the right sort of soil
you can get the two crops of hay and
the seed. Nest valuable plant grown
in America if you can only grow it.
Try.
Speaking of agricultural swindles.
there is the steel range trap. We know
Of dozens of men who paid $GS for a
range to some travelling agent who
could have got precisely the same thing
for $40 of their local merchant. but the
trouble was that the local merchant did
not go out in the country and illustrate
the nonbreakable qualities of malleable
steel by taking a stove lid and mauling
it with ten pound sledge, as did the
travelling agent