Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-30

E&SN3A ES8 moderate and steady decline in
- nNp ,0f% meat prices may now be looked for,
~ ,sSlaSH End 1T will be welcomed by all salaried
n MEN who have families to support.
IssswzlSJL-AA 1t is said that more timber is used
S&SHsE @ Es|4 each year in this country to make
bse PAM [T$gN matches than to furnish the railways
assESxSH MMH with ties. If so, it is striking fact
IEM We have had to NOW the lawn ten
times this season in order to keep it
,fNsXfFHP1&A looking decent 1t cost whole lot to
s$BBHApAESY@ put on little style and be respecta-
ENSAN L .skJ BILE. ea. N&
EHSgsg SlIMMil We have grown 200 chrysanthemums
sVisLN this summer in the garden givn;s them
Siel ##&A Ekgsls thorough cultivation and plenty Of
eTggAGgSIbe,'EM moisture. They have been but very
aMseaSN III T. WI little trouble SO far.
tockkonIItIa When fruit trees begin to bear heav.
CT SolIdh1EDl ily then they need fertilizing The
= --ll-J cause Of your small gnarly crop of
:, u; g. fruit may be found in your ignorance
of,1fo Nov m of this fact or your neglect to heed it.
A good many men have got the hay
fever this year because their second
ood how ,nroh crop of clover ready cut before
IF do, of ond the weather would permit them to get
N than ba can the small grain either thrashed or
h,, - stacked.
Some towns we have lately visited
POSSESS have good to be thankful for
W. u the unusual floods of water which have
'''e visited them for the water has killed
out all the weed growths the unoc-
obe sold
market inside OF Last year in Colorado on irrigated
s Inc history land the producer got $50 per acre net
epeteu III Tue for his of sugar beets $50 for
his potatoes, and the beets sapped his
land, while the potatoes benefited it
introduced into for the following crop.
rs, skunks and
vermin makes Great Britain will want 200 900 900
They die, as do bushels Of wheat this coming year.
after an explo- France 100000 bushels Germany
surocation. 100000 bushels, Belgium "a 100000
Holland 100000 and Italy "a, 100000
oective buyer of bushels, and America supply
her dra wback good share Of their needs.
farm grow big
nan knows that The territory embraced in Siberia
rigorous growth which is capable of producing wheat
in the SOIL almost illimitable, while there is an
undeveloped principally in the Cana
leat and oats dian northwest where No hard thir
hstood the eff. ty bushels to the acre, is easily
the past season grown cockeburs in
crops of wheat field
ng which is in
growing these We would like to ask of what earth
ly use it is to plant such apple trees
: as Hiberna Longfeld Mcmahon
us lately about Haas, Strawberry Red and a whole
) by the guuny raft of other low grade fall apples
kota The birds when one can raise the Wealthy, an
1es where they apple much superior to the list
so tame when named as wheat is better than rye
is hardly sport
The, possession Of good big pile of
dry wood for winter fuel enables one
locating to view the coal strike and consequent
Canadian north shortage Of hard coal from purely
nent would do sympathetic standpoint, while the man
or two for this without the wood pile, with bleared
he King is 60 eyes and smutty nose will gaze into
slim show up the sulphurous depths of soft coal
fire and cuss the coal barons
it then imme Refinement and intellectual develop
I'd, and this fact ment in way divorced from a
ny professional riculture profession. Daniel Web
fore turned up ster found his ruest friends among
Ter and his cattle on his farm, Cincinnatus was
farms and sing called to imperial service from his
ulture pro- pow, while Burns found inspiration
for one of the sweetest poems in the
language as he turned up the mouse's
as to bring in 5 nest with his plowshare
lid sell for, it is
,e lhd than 10 The effect of the working of the new
ne money at IN oleomargarine law is becoming more
VI .aahe Mon visible each month. For the month Of
ne ueuity Oh August 900 fifty pound tubs less of
taAe .he alu the stuff manufactured than for
ior money ny the month of June The manufacturers
are hunting every day for Sunday to
!, find out some method either mechanic
:, =. W Aiant al or chemical which will enable them
q " neep near to evade the provisions of the law The
n1ss d. scheme of educating the people to the
W a mnolesaie uncolored article is failure.
In the pioneer days of the west we
fish ancestors have had cornfelds visited by such
down and In swarms of wild geese, ducks and sand
their i,htl hill cranes that there would have been
= nothing left had the birds not been
driven offal Why did we not shoot
reservors 70 them? There market for them
Of the rivers of and after has had mallard duck
connection with oanaua goose OF prairie chicken as a
u canals and eleauy uiet ior three weeks there is
on and uniform, nothing tastes good piece of
for all the ter salt pork. Then in those days every
has resu,ted In shot fired cost cents, and money
veness Of the 70 ouy the powder and shot
ne GO ia 80 ner was very, very scarce
,ns has doubled
S under rriga- A friend had fifty acres of OATS
good crop which will yield fifty bush
els He was little behind the