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

Tue Chinaman who comes to this
country and goes into the "washee'
business generally saves up about $500
year and AT the end of five years is
ready to go back to China and lord it
like a millionaire in his old community
of pigtails
The sooner that all taxes for road
purposes IRE paid in cash and lisburs-
ed under competent management I'M
der contract the sooner will more and
better work be done on the highways.
Where road taxes are worked out the
| public does not receive SO cents on the
dollar.
While his excellency the Poland Chi
n ma hog is most important factor in
the agricultural prosperity OF the coun-
j try at cents pound, as today, we
i still hate to be obliged to make his per-
| sonal acquaintance in the effort to
4 reach the front door of his owners
I residence.
4 Where the writer lives it has about
d come to this-if you want anything,
you must do it yourself. Nice state Of
affairs, fol, a fact-got to saw your own
h wood, make your own garden, build
@ your own house, do your own washing
and housekeeping. Maybe the millen-
mum is here.
Il
h Take receipt when you pay money
Il and file it away in an envelope. 1t does
not take long, and the chances are that
you will be good many dollars ahead
9 in the course of ten years. While there
). are few men who really forget to
% charge, there are many more who for
get to credit.
> If the land is free from rubbish and
! mellow and dry, the weeder will be
- found most useful tool in the care of
all crops which have to be cultivated.
Its mission is to kill weeds before they
!. are born and to beget a dust mulch in
% dry time. Don't try to use it on
- cornstalk ground.
B. 4NoS0AS processes uLS 1ull VI lultleSL
to the lover Of natural science When
j, tree is sick and begins to decay, ma
= ture hastens the process by sending
an army Of borers to perforate the
wood on the injured part and host Of
!, woodpeckers to tear it to pieces in
: search Of the borers.
A western man who had skunk To-
cate in his cellar last winter had al
most as much trouble as his neighbor
- who had the smallpox in a mild form
!, in his family. There was this differ
;, ence, however-the man with the skunk
q did not have to quarantine his prem
Uses. The skunk did that.
The fodder Of late planted corn
: corn planted, say, June 10-contains
: much larger per cent of protein than
: that planted earlier. This fact was
brought out at the Minnesota expert
ment station and is we'll worth noting
by all men who seek an improved milk
producing ration for their dairy herds.
1t seemed tough to him, we suppose,
but that farmer who, driving by his
neighbours homestead, chad his hired
n man jump out of the wagon and shoot
:. four quail out Of flock which his
q neighDor had fed through the winter
Il was well and righteously served when
he had to pull $40 out of his jeans to
settle the bill.
4 This thing was done by many last
4 year in North Dakota: A homestead on
a government land was filed upon in
May, hundred acres Of the land We're
broken up and sowed to fax by the
middle Of June and crop of fifteen
bushels Of fax raised, which sold for
n $1.35 per bushel as soon as it was
thrashed. This result cannot be OBJ
tanned every year, however.
s. A Wisconsin farmer sued storekeep-
q er for damages for selling him mus
IS tard seed for rape seed. his farm be-
It coming injured by the mustard which
+ he sowed. After being in the courts
for five years the farmer has at last
won his case and gets damages, which
# the litigation costs and the lawyers
T. will probably use up. The question of
= responsibility in such a case is deter
10 mined, however.
l.
We sampled six different makes of
cheese not long since in six different
o stores, and only one of them was good
n that cheese made in Herkimer coun-
It ty, N. Y. The other five samples were
8 Of western make-tough. livery, acrid,
It full of gas holes. davorless, indigesti-
BILE and unpalatable. fifty illustrating
to what depths Of degradation it is