Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-05

Ifi1 li1Silyy.l!2'' y u wv
lT1%l CopYr,QI1f,fia ses.by.d '
u. S.IRIdG. Rockford |ield.l
G -.9 |I;Ii J7N }F nee: soLld FTEn
A summer silo makes the dairyman
laugh at the brown August pastures.
Anyhow, olcenlargarinc will always
bring at least 10 cents pound after
this.
1t is said that the horse chestnut is
richer in ;lbumen than any other known
planl CT tree
Good clof,s&always come as a COM
pcnsaiion fr the having to work gum
BIO highways.
As feed equal parts Of corn and
wheat give better results than either
grain fed alone.
The steer ard tie COW have fought
the butter business ont to fnish.s and
cid bossy is ahead.
Ar5or day in North Dakota has been
set over 10 May y of each year to meet
tie climatic conditions of the northern
latitu:.c of that state.
Tic passage of the oloo bill will ne
cessitate The placng of 100000 more
COWS on the farms of the country to
supply the demand for butter.
ferior kernels OF seed grain of any
Kind could be eliminated from the
seed sown, it would do much to inn
prove the quality of all crops raised.
If you have set out strawberry bed
this spring. do not let the plants bloom
and bear fruit this year, for it weak
ems them. and they will not set so good
crop of runners for the next years
crop.
Alfalfa butter is not as fine as blue
grass butter and will never take the
place of clover. Blue grass and corn as
q dairy ration. but fed with these it is
of great benefit, as it is great milk
producer.
Cold storage has proved great sue
cess. With Baldwin apples in the east.
the fruit going in at $1.20 per barrel.
keeping perfectly and bringing SD in
the spring at an expense of rs cents
storage charges.
While it is all right to break in the
two-year-old draft colt. it is still bad
biander to make it do regular work
alongside of matured horse, and the
fame rule should apply to your four
teen-year-od boy as well.
A steer bought last October at
cents pound. fed seventy five bushels
of sixty cent corn and sold in May at
1928 per hundred only just paid his
way and left no profit-ths from one of
the most extensive feeders of cattle in
this country.
But few Of the younger people of the
country have ever seen an OK, ten
ycar-old long horned. eighteen hun
lred pauad beast of burden. for his
sort is hr:is almost wholly supplanted
by the use. the oxen finding their
way to the slaughter house before they
are three years old.
The howl against tile meat trust
i - not come from the farms. Out
We. not Il peep is heard. and as the
old granger notes a twenty-five cent
advance iii hogs and steers in his daily
paper lie turns to riss wife and remarks
that the Lord has not forgotten his
people after all.
The corn acreage of the corn belt
will be very large this season, the pre-.
yailing high prices for this cereal act
! ing as a stinulant to every man to
raise every bushel of corn possible.
The country cannot raise So large
crop of corn this season that the prices
will be forced to an Improbable point.
The recent orders for the cattlemen
to remove the fences which they have
erected, inclosing vast areas of the
public domain. is very much in the
interest Of the homesteader and man
who wants to raise cattle on small
scale. The order is making lot Of
trouble among the cattle barons, how
ever. ,r
Cold storage has become most i'm
portant factor in relieving gluts of the
market for all perishable products and
equalizing the prices for the same. Not
long ago eggs always used to drop to
s or 8 cents dozen along in the
month of May. Cold storage facilities
now keep them up TO 10 or IA cents to
the producer.
The possession of large supplies of
soil fertilizers has had much to do with
a. 4 L..