Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30

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food rations Is greatly charging the
number Of cows which do not pay for
their board.
The willow tree, planted ten feet
apart each way on moist, rich bottom
land, will cut about seventy cords of
wood to the acre inside of fifteen years.
The Whippoorwill pea is being high
~ commended as valuable legume
for use in nearly all the northern
states. But little is known of its mer-
its in the west.
If it was not that the English farm
hand expects and receives about three
pints Of good, strong beer a day, he
would rebel and refuse to work for the
tRages paid him. .,s,qss:...-
Bopker Washington, the modern Mo-
ses az the Ethiopian race, AYERS that
the salvation of the negro, depends up
on his being taught how to cultivate
the soil. which statement is concrete
wisdom.
The laws Of Minnesota provide fine
of $40 for any farmer who allows wild
mustard to go to seed upon his prem
Uses. There are some men up there
who would have to go into bankruptcy
&c this law was enforced against them.
I 1hA no Va inf
est whatever in the maintenance of
the sugar trusts refineries, but they do
have a vital and abiding interest in
the establishment and development of
as many beet sugar refneries as posi-
BILE.
A consignment of Mexican oranges
for San Francisco was recently seized
and burned UP, boxes and all. They
were affected by yellow worm, new
pest, which if introduced into the cit
rus belt of the coast would work in
calculable damage.
We hardly believe it pays to bother
much to raise roots as q succulent win
ter ration for stock when silage can be
SO much more easily prepared, stored
and fed. But IL one cannot put up
silage by all means have some roots
for winter feeding.
An acre of cheap farm land will quite
likely produce just as good and often
better crops than an acre of seventy
fiva 1ol1or lind opd 1vIilo ba orpn
may not sell for quite SO much money
because of the higher freight rate the
sum total Of this difference is not very
much after all.
There is one thing about turkey, Or
anges and tot Of other delicacies, one
soon gets very tired of them, while,
luckily for health and pocketbook,
good homemade bread. oatmeal, pota-
toes and buckwheat cakes we never
weary of. The best things, after all,
are the cheapest.
In most Of the states woman's prop
erty rights are not fairly and properly
protected. There is nothing fair or
right when mans brothers and ia
Their can step in and take property
which the man and his wife alone
have accumulated by joint work, and
where no will is left. this can be done
In several states.
The English walnut is being success
fully grown in the state Of New Jersey.
We have often wondered why this
most valuable nut tree was not given
more attention in Kentucky. West yir-
ginia and other states having like eli
matte conditions. Up to this time Cal
ifornia is the only state which has
shown any interest in the cultivation
of this tree.
A lumber company during its last
winters work in the north woods, en-
ploying 200 men, had during the winter
no less than 1000 different men upon
its pay roll. The trouble was that
enough to go to Minneapolis and have
rip rearing old time he would quit
work. This sort would be better off
rs slaves than as free men.
A friend of ours who has farm of
160 acres in the eastern part of South
Dakota which he rents to pretty good
tenant tells US that the two-ffths OF
the crop which he receives for his
share has Melted him an average OF
$3.50 per acre for the past four years
which is equivalent to 6 per cent inter
est on valuation of $55 per acre fol
the farm, yet where this farm is ocat
cd good farms are selling now at from
. s25 to $50 per acre.