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

We want to say word to the meA
who is trying to dig out farm and
home in the newer sections of the
country in the timber belt, where
opening up and reclaiming the soil is
a hard proposition compared with MAX
ing farm and home on the level prai-
RE. The easiest way in which to i'm.
prove such farm is with stock, and
the surest way to secure living while
doing it is also with stock. Pigs may
be very profitably raised all through
northern Minnesota and Wisconsin,
even though there be little or no corn
raised to feed them. Glover, peas, po-
tatoes and barley make the primest
sort of hog feed and the very choicest
quality of pork, and every man so stu
ated should make 1t point to keep
all the pigs possible, and with the
pigs should be as many cows as winter
provision can be made for. II man
will get start with COWS, hogs and
poultry on such farm, removing the
trees and large brush, his stock will
not only make him good living, but
the pasturing Of his land will soon SUBJ
due it and make it good arabic land.
Instead of doing this. nine out Of ten
of the settlers in such a new country
keep no hogs at all and only family
COW and depend upon the laborioua
work Of grubbing the land to fit It to
raise crops Of grain to sell.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01
THE FAKE sErpsArAx.

We are asked to say something about
the dishonest scotsman and incidental
ly something also about the religious
periodical which will carry his adver-
tisement, the complaint as made to us
being that these seedsmen send out
seed not true to name or which has
lost its vitality, and the purchaser, see
ing their advertisements in religious
paper, is not looking for this sort Of
thing. In the purchase Of trees and
seeds Of all kinds 1t lis always best to
buy of some firm near home or at
least at one of established reputation
If far off. Editors Of religious publ
cations never take any more trouble
and often not SO much to keep their
advertising columns free from fraud
as does the purely secular press, some
of the worst fakes going securing
choice positions next to reports Of re-
vival meetings and the work of the
churches. Because an advertisement
appears in religious paper or maya
zine it never should be assumed that
the statements made or the goods Of
fered are in any manner sanctifed
thereby, the very same caution being
needed as is common when one trades
horses with person who likes fast
horse.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01
COT aIp OF THE HIRED MAN.

A friend who has about eighty acres
in crops to care for and who usually
keeps one hired man to assist him is
getting along without help this season
and doing pretty well at it too. He
keeps two teams of horses, and he
went and bought a gang plow which
requires the two teams. He got Q
twenty-five foot drag and rugged lit
tie cart behind it, 30 that he rides all
day. He will use hay loader in the
field and hay fork at the barn. Els
wife has agreed to milk the two cows
and look after the garden and drive
the horse on the pulley when he fills
the barn with hay in consideration Of
not having hired man in the home to
provide for, and, while he may not
have wholly solved the problem this
year, he says that he will SO shape his
work another season as to be indie
pendent of hired help even though he
does not do quite so big business.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01
CORN FOR FODDER CROP.

We are asked about corn for a purely
fodder crop. It's big thing and hard
to beat. We prefer the fore part of
June for planting. Drill in bushel Of
seed per acre DIETER more than less),
plant regulation width and aim to give
the crop two civilizations. There will
be nubbins on the stalks SO planted.
the stalks will be tall and slim and
may be cut, bound and shocked with a
corn harvester, and If properly put up
an acre Of good corn land will thus fur
nish four tons or more of tho best fod-
der on earth, every particle of which
will be eaten by the stock. Where the
land can be spared this Is even a better
way than to cut up the field corn, as it
is SO much nicer to handle. Try it for
the dairy.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01
Ideals of
Patriotism
BY PROF. HERBERT 1. wILLETT,
University Of Chicago.

but decade adds encouraging data the inquiry and
well believe that those forces provided by popular instruction and
dnding OF true sentiment of patriotism the minds of peo-
pie will such type character shall prove adequate
grappe with the most difficult questions which themselves
The ideal of righteousness be uphted to-day
cherished by founders THE REAL FOES OF THE REPUB-
Lie ARE NOT THOSE OUTSIDE BUT THOSE WITHIN.
Whatever the ideal righteousness degrades
the standard of municipal honesty integrity and morality
unguad passion for political position unscrupuous
political power BY those least with gravity
and sagaeity From the dangers induced by seseeng
evasion OF ethical responsibility permitted by the indifference
Of the OF and citizens only
smoy 81 the honor the ideals and the celebrations of
Washington and hs fellowore the fathers of the republic
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01
| INFLUENCE OF THE
| PLAYHOUSE
| ON MODERN LIFE
By JAMES STANLEY LITTLE,
Author Of " What Is Art7"

will think be ready admit been high
and purposeu the has been high and purposefu The
cared for Shakespeare and his brilliant
that reveled Wyherley the the
10 make the drama, at period responsible
or the degeneray of society do much
to do gross injustice the sympo-
matic OF social conditions primarily thereof
Thus If there certain tendencies dramatic art
which cannot be regarded elevng sought
IN contemporary morals The playhouse makes direct appeal
the public The playwright and theatrical manager afford
wait for their public the poet very small
pablo and small outlay will make poet novelist
The involved in the production modern
nous Consequently mirror Of the condition of public
and morals the drama equal The
only produces what he success
full Taking broad comprehensive view of the tendency Of
theatrical representations during the last years.
that no will deny that the general tendency has
ton OF greater asy Roughly doubt bsenhose plays are
really ESSAYS thrown dramatic FORM dealing crying
social and political evils of the daywas the harbnger prob
lem play To discuss the pros and this play would
carry us too tar ahed 1t however be
who credited with having the fashion open general
discussion Of ugly sexual problems stage that the purpose
OF his plays invariably evils characters
and that whatever his purpose always noble one
The problem which followed bsen has tended
and to the aspects of the original
type which inherently Objectionable and less to the
discussion for the benefit of society questions until
at last the has been entirely swallowed up lie conyen
ot setting Thus the problem has merged step by
ho that type OF dramatic he of which was it's incepon the
dssn anhls and to-day by plays wonay named
comedies which really Gaed of the Paa Roya TYNE
Fhe really strong pushes aside street corner de
stSp 70 pa,ie with them permit them block
pfRss 4 who waits for them move viii in short time be
-er-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01
| HeavenWa ard
BY ]. NJ. BACON,
Fellow Royal Astronomical Society. London

The lower winds they reach the slopes necessarily strike upwards
and coming with the cold above deposit
their moisture in greater less degree and thus haze generally
gathers more and about the climbs higher
into the sky For all that seldom that the climbing
some lofty spot fails to bring its reward always had feeling
here grain of the abecy which Dickens
makes Joe Wlett his the effect that when he
town he should restrict his peasueeekng expenditure
investing OF threepence climb the spend
time in contemplation
Charles Kingsley felt keeny inevitable with such
re the soustrrng effect wrought by climb
pathetic description anywhere life
OF John Briggs the unhappy poet striving escape his
destroying thoughts the spurs of Showdown We
see the whole before he looks down e
curtain Of mist deepening into the blackne night below
gulf of yellow haze with bars of far
gmer of the western sea- Is there all fiction grander
painted words than that of the thunderstorm
mountain sde the of the great battle between earth
heaven that crashes the distracted mans Most
ley drawing his here but had
heard the phenomena he graphically described
too thankful that has fallen lot be of all
that master from ofr heights and
ground than Kingsley visited life would like
tell under what circumstances have that
ade out, while sailing the skies than the height
Snowdon and of how have been also
heavens battle in the bosom OF the great
nquestlonaby that which chiefly lends encantmen heavens
OF earth the oudcape that forms the framing picture
unbemhed blue vault of Italy, the narveously transparent
the east fair enough but English
coudhecked sky early
order even to the observer earths surface.
The literature and religion people go hand in hand AN
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

about such God as Mathew Arm
old pictures in his definition when
he says: "a power not ourselves which
makes for righteousness" What good
would it do to tell of such a God as that !?
But tell such man that God is our Father,
and the effect of such teaching is shown in
results.
WHAT PEOPLE WANT IN THE
PULPIT is RELIGIOUS INsTRUC-
TON, and if we do not give it to them they
will get it from Mrs. Humphrey Ward,
George Mcdonald, or elsewhere. think,
perhaps, all of us have morbid desire to see
the shady side of life, and if not to see it actu-
ally, then to read about it in books
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01
| LITERATURE
| AND RELIGION
By REV. GEORGE c. L0RIMER,
Pastor Madison Ave. Baptist Church, NY.

there the nude auary there the nude
We sometimes hear people talk OF revival of but
those who such
ing about they do not understand the spirit OF the age which
living
THE ART OF THE GREEKS WAS SATURATED WITH
SENSUOUSNESS BUT WE, TODAY, ARE TRYING TO
ENiANCIPATE OURSELVES FROM SENSUOUSNESS
What good would to poor wretch of humanity
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01
POOR SEEDS.

We have run up against a lot of poor
garden seeds this spring-not one sort,
but several sorts. They were purchased
from one Of the most reliable seed
houses in the country, but for some
unknown reason not over 80 per cent
Of the corn, beans, radishes, lettuce.
beets, peas, lima beans and parsnips
had vitality enough to terminate. This
is very aggravating thing. The COM
plant is quite general this spring and
may have its origin in the abnormal
heat and drought of last season. In
this connection we might add that
there is less complaint Of poor seed
corn for fleId planting than we have
ever known before.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

We have come to the time when it is
unlikely that anything new remains to
be discovered about the mystery of
milk and the making of butter. A
more interesting thing than the evolu-
ton of butter making and the dairy
has never been witnessed in this coun-
try.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

It is only few men who have the
eye to draw perfectly straight fur
row when blowing or start the corn
planter on straight row. Where one
does do this it always attracts atten-
ton and is quite apt to be an indicator
of the general style on which his farm
is run.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

ITSELF IN NOISE AND
BUNTING, but rather in those
persistent qualities of citizenship
which guarantee the perpetuity of
our institutions upon the model
SO amply and wisely fashioned by
the fathers of the republic.
The question as to whether we
can use Our liberty without abus-
ing it is still perhaps unsolved,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

A western granger raised a colt
sired by a Thoroughbred road horse.
The youngSter shared the rough and
tumble life of tho draft colts in the
cornstalk fields and winter pasture,
At three .years OF age he was broken
in, in rural way. to drive, and local
horse buyer. seeing him, got him for
800. Being better trained and fitted
up, the buyer sold him to a city buyer
f9r $3.50, and THE colt was then ship.
ped to New York, where he sold at
auction for $1.70e Good blood tells.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

comltant OF CIVILIZED life may be
safely promised. At times, of
course, it has fallen on evil days,
and has been anything but a
healthful influence. 1t would be
tiresome to labor these self-evi-
dent propositions; self-evident,
that is to say, to anyone whose
reading of history has been thor
ough and scientific. Such persons
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01
LOOK OUT ron THE poRER.

We have been on our annual hunt
for the borer in our orchard lately.
This little beast is by all odds the big
gest nuisance which the apple grower
has to contend with, the cause of the
death of more apple trees than all the
other enemies with which the apple
has to cope. Sometimes two and three
borers are found at work on one tree,
the tree ms yet apparently in perfect
health, but unless the borers are dug
out It is as surely doomed as though
it had been struck by lightning. Sharp
eyes and sharp knife are the only
remedy we know that counts against
them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

The Canadian Pacific railway will
shortly place the enormous amount Of
100000 acres of land ON the market
for settlers. While these lands lie far
north and some of them are utterly
worthless, there is much fertile soil,
and all the cereals save corn will grow
and do well.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

A flock of 300 Angora goats bought
by a western farmer three years ago
not only paid their way in wool, or
hair rather, but sold for more money
than he paid for them and cleaned up
an eighty acre tract Of rough brush in
the very finest shape. These animals
will do this every time.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

June butter is going into cold storage
at about % cents per pound this year,
nearly cents higher than it has been
for many years.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

The enermous wheat crop of 1901 has
been absorbed without any marked de-
probation of price. The short crops Of
other cereals have made this possible,
wheat having been substituted for
corn as fattening ration for cattle
and hogs.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

Hay which will sell for 81 per ton
from the barn next winter is better
sold from the field when made at SIS.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

The nutritive value of 10 cente' worth
Of 3 per cent milk is equal to 25 cents
worth of round beefsteak.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

When fat hog sells for $50 and
fat steer for 500, as today, it is no.
wonder there is boom in farm lands.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

temptation of the sublime. | refer
to the view you get OF Gods earth
from some lofty standpoint.
From mountain peak, or better
still-far better still-from the
free sky. The mountain side is
too often from the nature of the
case more or less yelled in mist.
This is almost unavoidably so.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

of great intellectual value. In de-
bate it economies time. Argu-
ment must be met with argu-
ment; but to meet sophistry and
absurdity with reasoning is to pay
them undeserved respect. They
should be "speared with jest"
routed with all the rash dexterity
of wit" Tennyson seems to have
had in mind this utility of wit
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

There is one advantage on. the farm.
and it is no small one either, and that
is the impossibility Of there ever being
an organized strike among farm labor
ers. No business could be taken such
advantage of by laborers as that of the
farm, and it is fortunate that it is
from the nature of things exempt.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

Farmers seem to lend a willing hand
to the bears on the boards Of trade by
Dragging too much about the prospec-
tive yield of their crops.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

We are asked how late In the season
it is safe to put gratis in trees. II the
CRAFTS have Been kept, dormant, good
per cent Of thep MI, grsa IL inssrted
even when thss tree 10 we'll leaysd ont,
but it is bettar to dosthis woskdaring
March and April rather than later.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

These are the days when the man
who set out strawberry bed last year
is reaping rich reward. One man in
about twenty will have all the deli
cious berries he wants; the other nine
teen might, but won't, because they
won't take the trouble. This is great
waste of opportunity and privilege.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

1hase of nature which comparatively seldom be-
held but which perhaps than other
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

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

Nature very reluctantly combines
size and good quality in any of her
products. The largest things of a CIV
en- type are by no means the best.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

WILL BE PRODUCTIVE Al
SO OF THE BEST IN LITER
AZURE. The one but reflects
the other.
THE GOVERNING sPlR-
IT OF An AGE REVEALS
ITSELF IN IT'S LITERATURE.
The literature Of ancient Greece
and Rome was sensuous. lust as
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

The highest order of patriotism among the ideals of the
orerunner of history PATRIOTISM DOES NOT REVEAL
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

One of them drew his months wages
and then went to town and blew his
money in doggery. When he started
for home, he was full as tick and,
falling out of the buggy, broke his
neck. Another one had some trouble
in the shape of another fellow getting
his girl away from him, and he strung
himself up in the barn. Both Of these
men lacked sense.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

If abortion appears in the dairy herd,
one Of the first things to do is to change
the sire.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

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

The oleo manufacturers have now
before them the difficult task of edu-
eating the public taste in the line Of
using and liking the uncolored article.
1t is just as good, just as nutritious,
uncolored as colored, and it may be
that in time the popular prejudice
against a white butter substitute will
be overcome and a large market made
for the product.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

There is one thing which good many
readers of these notes might do to their
profit-just sit down and figure closely
whether the cows which they are keep
ing are really paying their way. Weigh
each cows milk, and if it proves that
she is giving less than $500 pounds a
year you can figure out an almost GER
tain loss.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

Some one says that the good mixer
needs to be Christian. Maybe that's
SO, but we recall the case of one good
man who for the time being really re-
GREETED he was one as he went through
the experience of trying to milk a
kicking heifer in fytime, his church
relations preventing him from doing
the subject Justice.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

While the Jersey COW is almost GER
tain to be one of the gentlest and most
ladylike of her kind, every way Iowa
Bile. her mate is quite likely to be the
ugliest little devil in four states.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

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

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

We would like to see the agricultural
fairs and associations offer good, sub
stantial premium of, say, $50 for the
largest value of crops raised on small
tract Of land, from one to Ave acres.
The time is fast coming when the soil
must be worked better and made more
productive, and small tracts cultivated
in competition for such prize would
be splendid object lessons along this
line.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

People get awful queer notions
sometimes. Here Is a lady who was
told that the proper way to start an
asparagus bed was to have big
trench dug and filed with old trash
broken crockery. dnware and old rub
bers this with earth. The
bed was 90 made and proved dead
failure, as might have been expected.
II she had substituted an old horse or
the cats and dogs which the communi-
ty could well have spared, the result
would have been very different.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-01

Cold storage has made it possible
for the producer to get Is cents for
May and June eggs. Before the days of
cold storage 8 cents was n good price.