Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-10

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We know of very tender hearted
woman who still thinks it all right to
pluck a live goose.
When the house cats get 20 killing
the little chicks it is of no use to try
moral suasion as remedy.
Weeds and washing are doing more
to remove the fertility of many farm
than all the cropping ever given it.
A general drop in prices of farm
products will put an end to much of the |
land craze which is abroad in the land.
Prosperity for large section of the
country may be said to have begun
when the creamery check began to
get into circulation.
The branching and comet asters gave
us great satisfaction last season. The
stems are long and the blossoms al
most as fine as some of the incest chrys-
anthemums.
The prune growers complain that
while they have to sell their crop of
prunes for about or 6 cents a pound
the consumer has to pay from 10 to 20
cents for them.
When farmer does his first work in
scientific agriculture with an incu-
bator, he is quite likely to want to con-
sign science, the college and professors
to the bottomless pit.
The wise man will get ready for the
reaction in the farm land business
which is sure to come. He should at
least have no mortgage on his land
bought as an investment,
We read an article lately on rose
culture in Oregon, and then when we
thought how hard it is to raise the
nice roses in north Iowa we wanted to
move right out to Oregon.
The short potato crop of 1901 made
the growers more money than they
have ever received from the crop be-
fore-that is, those who were able to
grow any crop of the tubers.
If man could find out how to control
sex, he would have the universe all
out of whack inside of few genera
tions. The claims made that it can be
done invariably fall to the ground
when tested.
If you are guest at some home and
want to make friends with your hos
tess, praise her bread, her butter or
her baby. Where you do this you can
have two pieces of pie and no ques-
lions asked. We know, for we've tried
it.
A few years ago all the prunes in this
country were imported. Now the Pa
cific coast states produce three pounds
of prunes for each one of our $4,000 900
people, and the fruit is 100 per cent
better than that which we used to i'm
port.
The enormous profits Of the great
packing houses are derived almost
wholly from the offal Of the animals
which they slaughter. and it is this
fact which makes it so difficult for the
concern with limited means to compete
with them.
Rooty, stumpy ground can be most ,
easily worked and best fitted for
crop by using one of the heavy. narrow
and vineyard disks There is
no catching in roots, and the land is
put in fine shape for first crop with
out blowing.
We find that the influence of black
walnut tree is absolutely fatal to the
growth of apple trees within a radius
of about 100 feet. and so, having to
choose between handsome walnut
and the orchard trees, the walnut had
to come down.
We think it pays to fill out the miss
ing trees in an orchard up to the time
the trees are about six years old, but
not after that. After that time the
older trees have so monopolized the
ground that it is very difficult thing
to make young tree do we'll.
Just as the millions of acres of corn
land were ready for the planter this ,