Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-02

-yy.ss] Ezg1 Il the burdock is sliced Off with a
= 1hD H ..cE% sharp spade four inches below the
".5JfEpH crown OF the plant, it is the end of
Ia fslPIpD2A that burdock
u e Purely grass fed Texas cattle sold
d sssI I'd BIZ Xs for $645 per hundredwe!ght on the
EsESSN EHAa1 Chicago market in July. At l5sse fig
8 GssaS 1871 ures the growing of such isle is
SEsssssSSS E4s2sS bonanza.
sASHs|y f4NkM The range cattleren have a great
sssLE ttg1 prospect ahead the best growth of
EaMtMI grass known for years and an abnor-
sSTlnnSyFEs>[ maly high market in sight for their
EaGEgeaA l.. .gss fatted cattle this coming fall.
EMNk lLI The quality of potato depends al
bsS RgEHIgI most wholly upon the kind of soil on
E3A4{g@ S,SSfA which it is grown, the amount of
y5sS moisture available for the plant dur
lIh' )TIt Ing its growing and the size
1pGi1IIIDY ~ OF the tubers
Z oollQFIEDl The COW is proving to be the re-
--II--I deemer of South Dakota the creamery
is being con- business in that state being deyelopcd
ic coast at 20 at WONDERFUL rate The COW, wher-
a fancy price ever kept, always works an improve.
ment in agricultural conditions.
leat so stimu-
dis this season Weather conditions are such this sea
hi of a mans son that the belt is likely to
move back to the south again about
100 miles, perhaps more. Hard June
nens,+ion for frosts and excessive moisture are not
year lost their - W d eofil crop grown north
ON landslide - 't'uue ~.
. The black things on the farm are
among the best to be had There are the
how has eorn black Percheron horses, the Poed An
is moro ll-ol gus and Galloway cattle the Poland
ea,nngs With China hog the Black Spanish and the
to- blow his iowls "hlie the most fertile
CARS. Bulls are piack.
thn Mia r,ror The goldenrod and the daisy are two
pleted in an wild flowers which appeal to the ar
70 fins nodo t1stc and aesthetic sense and inspire
vost ora. of the poets, but in many parts of the
most fruitful country particularly in the east these
plants are two of the very worst weed
pests which the farmer has to fight
6 up, adjust
creased value That settles it, said an old farmer
to 81 per acre who was just the point of renting
nd rent where his farm and moving into town when
fore been the told that rural mail route was to be
laid past his door. "T build tenant
house, keep my old home, have my
llture Of the daily paper and die where have work
d for on ed 1or forty years" .sss
he west ----
ew and val The unusual rainfall of June md
cen provided July. covering immense area of the
country. semiar1d lands of the west has in |
sured wonderful crop of grain of nil |
no particular Kinds where men had faith enough to
brought her SOW the seed The western parts Of the
which he in two Dakotas, Kansas and Nebraska
d for $3.50 65 Will have full crop this year.
ests the wis
g less wheat The prospective crop of hogs in MANY
sections of the country, assuming that
the price remains at So or over during |
les of straw the winter will of itself providing the
and doomed cholera does not make it's appearance
ling at high iiis an eiiorlous revenue TO the pro-
this berry ducers. thousand dollars at least for
good ne tbey every quarter section farm
cases better
IDS 1t is always either too hot or too cold
or too wet or too dry for some men,
es in y ono meyer just right. Born in the wrong
urrev for Tic stage OF the MOON these anne kicking
Id invest so5 Into the world go kicking through it
rness for bis and kicking out of it will be kick
1v r,, NOT. ers at paradise conditions if old Peter
plow harness let's them through the gates.
alton.
Now, what's right in this case? A
"a oa,,; - wandering of bees dropped
~, food; down on to a tree a mans farm
,ss ;s W. While he was going to the house to get
ond % ,,,aI hive for them passing along
COG - Nv t the highway spied the bees and enter
,dosnoa ~ ing upon the mans farm, had them
,on, - az hlved before he returned. Whose bees
W 'A' are they?
+; This is what rape will do as q sheen
. ,a ~ ~. food: One hundred and TWENTY-FIVE
nov f A.. grade Shropshire lambs were fed for
.o,, 10 seven and one half weeks on fifteen
rs o,,d -, acres of rape and made an average
r of 49,, gam Of three and onehaIf pounds per
Than ~ hos head per week, or in other words
made a gain in selling value of S1S1
on the fifteen in that time
n, less than W., ~ .,.
~, 49,, ~ =, den the other day-an acre or so Of
,h,, 49,. =. land adjacent to the farmhouse laid
,a,, oa w. ~ 80 out in a long strip and everything
ra+ 49, planted in long, straight rows SO as to
49, - ~ w admit of machine cultivation Enough
civ ~ - aa. small fruits and vegetables was thus
the soil. a - -. " supply iour lanllles {
ble
n is at best
takes from So far the past wear the grain CON
Tor her to blers on the boards Of trade have
fellow and gambled in tho nroduoer,s in+oo4 Al |