Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01


at about % cents per pound this year,
nearly cents higher than it has been
for many years.
Farmers seem to lend willing hand
to the bears on the boards Of trade by
Dragging too much about the prospec-
tive yield of their crops.
Nature very reluctantly combines
size and good quality in any of her
products. The largest things of Civ
en- type are by no means the best.
I Steady work for the bull at the head
of the herd will not only make him of
far greater value as Il sire. but will
make him orderly and well behaved.
Cold storage has made it possible
for the producer to get Is cents for
May and June eggs. Before the days of
cold storage cents was good price.
No moral training which the house
cat receives will ever prevent her from
robbing the young birds from the nest
in the tree by the door if it is possible
for her to get at it.
An elaborate experiment made with
the straw berry at the Iowa agricul
tural experiment station proved that
pistillate varieties were more produc-
! tive than the staminate.
The suspicion is prevalent that a
good deal of old horse meat is passing
in gold labeled cans as choice corned
beef" There is quite likely to be some
kicking over this matter.
| When you milk COW and fatten her
! for the block at the same time. you
will succeed in making the toughest
of beef. We do not know why this is
SO, but it's fact just the same
/ While the Jersey COW is almost GER
ladylike of her kind, every way Iowa
BILE. her mate is quite likely to be the
ugiest little devil in four states.
1 So many American farmers are buy
ing land and locating in western Can
ada that it is going to be nip and tuck
which shall be celebrated as holiday
/ the kings birthday or the Fourth of
July.
/ We think that we can see the time
near when load Of musty oat straw
will not bring SIS when it is wanted for
stable bedding or to cover strawberry
bed. The old granger won't work this
racket next winter
4 Some farmers are becoming SO well
fixed that they think they can afford to
do their farm work with a Eve hun
dred dollar team of horses, and 1t al
most makes play Of the work when
done with such team.
Some people will not let Virginia
creeper decorate their porch on the
ground that it's luxuriant growth cling
ing to the woodwork is liable to rot 1t.
This is mistake. We have never found
that it had any tendency to do this.
The curse of the mustard follows
close in the wake of the fax crop
through all the northwestern territory
where fax is grown. 1t is an easy
matter to get farm infested with this
pest and very hard thing to get rid
of it.
A woman gets big contract on her
hands when she finds that she has mar
ried a man who L. bound to have hot
biscuit OF least once every day, aud the
worst of It is that she is quite likely to
have cranky old dyspeptic to cook
for before he is grandfather.
| There never has been a time when
the simple factor OF weight counted
for so much In Q horse as at pres
ent. The sixteen hundred pound horse
has a distinct advantage over the
twelve hundred pound horse for all
farm work and torn teaming.
We are asked how late In the season
it is safe to put gratis in trees. II the
CRAFTS have been Kept. dormant, a good
per cent Of thep NIL, srsw IL sinssrted
even when tina tree 10 we'll leaysd ont,
but it is better to dosthis werksdaring
March and April rather than later.
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