Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-08-19

IuoSL uoFIlDle tuluS the WOTlu can
show.
Most Of the people who have lived to
the great age Of 100 years are to be
found in county poorhouses and in
firmaries, proving that they have out
lived their time.
This is great country. In July,
when the people of New Mexico were
praying for rain, Kansas, Iowa and
Nebraska were being flooded with q
deluge of water.
There has been relatively a greater
advance in the fifty dollar farm lands
of the country than in the five dollar
unimproved lands of the western and
northern borders.
The sparrow when it has pre- empted
every available nook and corner of all
buildings for nesting places will then
take to the trees, preferably ever
greens, next box elders.
The man who wants to raise fruit
and does not know enough to take care
Of his trees is a good friend of the
nurseryman. Not 10 per cent? of the
trees sold in the west at least, ever
live to bearing age.
A country community is not educat-
ed up to the right point when couple
Of slick peddlers can sell several hum
dred pounds of a connection of brown
sugar and water as pure strained
honey.
Not one woman in ten knows how to
make nice faky pie crust. They can
make angels food and cholera morbus
salads Of dozen KINDS and all sorts Of
fancy cakes. but the ideal pie crust
beats them.
The meanest garden weed we have ID
the sQuirreltail grass, or wild barley.
1t is the most firmly rooted Of any of
our common weeds and monopolist Of
the worst type. 1t will almost ruin a
nice lawn in single season.
The importance of the poultry bust.
ness is not realized as it should be.
While but few can go into the busi-
ness upon a large scale, it is still pos
sible for many to take up the work in
small way with profit.
The bicycle, automobile and rural
mail delivery are trinity of agencies
which are combining in a wonderful
revolution in the matter of building
better roads, the rural mail service
bringing about the most effective re-
Suits.
Some men hate on general principles,
and one such undertook to prove that
sheep were as nasty and disagreeable
animals to care for as hogs, but was
shut up when asked if he ever knew
a sheep to eat up it's dead grandmoth-
er. Hogs will.
Bumper crops of oats and corn, a
greater than average yield of wheat
and liberal yields Of rye, barley, hay
and fruits are indicated by the July
reports Of the department of agricul-
ture. This year bids fair to be one Of
abundant harvests.
We have never known of a case
where purely kind measures We're
taken to break in broncho. Men who
have this work to do say that force is
the only means which will tame it.
This we know-some very cruel and in
human work is done in this line.
1t Is estimated that there are 10000
regular, tramps in this country, which
cost the country to maintain not less
than $110oo,o00 per year. The worst
feature is that they are nearly all able
bodied men and instead Of being
burden upon the people should be in
the ranks of the producers.
The overflow Of the Nile river, which
rarely fails, not only brings moisture,
put perennial fertility, to the great har-
vest fields of Egypt. Its waters carry
in solution the stored fertility of the
mountain and tablelands of central
Africa and for ages has made Egypt
the storehouse of the orient.
1t Is not easy to solve the problem
Of how to make both ends meet where
man with no capital save his hands
ind, at his best earning not over $3.50
per year, has to maintain a home and
provide for family of six. Such a
man, desiring to educate his children
and live in decent WY, has a hard
Job on his hands.
One of tho principal agricultural pa
pers Of the west on the LIST of July had
leading editorial on the importance!
of the dust mulch. The article must
have. been left over from last year. for
this season it was impossible to raise a
dust In any of the territory where the
paper circulated. An article on mud
blankets would have been more appro-l
pirate