Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

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We never saw smartweed grow to
height of five feet until this year.
If all flesh is grass. as it is, why is
not the meat eater vegetarian after
all?
There are plenty of men still living
who have helped drive both cattle and
hogs to Chicago on foot
| The Cuban grown pineapple is on
the market this year in large supply
and at very reasonable prices.
| The tile draining of land results in
making the soil dry in wet time and
moist in dry time. 1t works both
ways.
Meats are high priced in all coun-
tries-England, Germany, France,
Australia-everywhe save in the Ar
gentine.
| Just so soon as woman has learned
how to make good soups not so much
good meat is thrown out to the pigs
and chickens
1t is less trouble to kill off the rabbit
in the vicinity of the orchard than it is I
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tect the trees.
We find some comfort in the fact
that even the best farmers we know
| have this season more weeds than they
know what to do with
No weed that we have to deal with
gets such grip on the soil as does the
squirreltail grass. Its hold is worse
than that of mortgage.
The hen which can be made to lay
an egg every day in the year is much
farther away than the horse that will i
trot mile in two minutes.
While two different crops may be
raised in one year upon the same piece
of land, it is always a mistake to try
to raise them at the same time.
| We know of man who manages to
keep family of small owls in his big
barn. and he tells us that as mice
catchers they beat cats all to pieces.
If man could take his money with
him when he dies, there are some men
| in this country whose death would
cause serious contraction of the cur
| rency.
| The daisy will run out blue grass,
! and for this reason the men who live
1 in the blue grass country want to look
out for the coming Of this eastern
| plague.
The rush for land in the northwest
continues with undated vigor and the
I fine crops which are being secured in
all the northwest section are serving
! to intensity it.
The Chester White hog does not re-
| ceive the attention among our hog
raisers to which it is entitled 1t is
not to its disadvantage that it is not
as early maturing hog as the Poland
China.
The wild black cherry is beautiful
tree for the dooryard. 1t is comely and
moderate in habit of growth, has a
rich, glossy foliage and will attract all
the birds in the neighborhood when it's !
fruit is ripening.
Query.-So long as it has seemed best
for the United States to acquire large
areas of sugar producing territory. why
not let this territory be developed to
the fullest extent in supplying the
needs of the American people?
Crop experts place the value of the
cereal crop alone of 1902 at the enor-
nous sum of $2,000,OOO.OOO for the
farmers of the United States. This is
all new created and original wealth. |
No other country on earth ever before
made such showing.
There is more to encourage one to
take up the poultry business today
than there has ever been before. Hav-
ing the use of an acre or so of land, !
almost any one, using ordinary intelli- .
gence, can take up this business and
be reasonably sure of profitable one.
Where Canada thistles have got a
foothold In the west they propagate
not from the Seed which is infertile,
but from the sucker roots. The only
reliable way in which to get rid of |
them is tic keep them persistently cut
off during the growing period as soon
as sprout shows above ground.
The battle with the weeds has been
hard and long one the past season.
Weather conditions have favored an
abnormal growth of weeds and The
termination of much seed which has
lain in the ground dormant during the
dry years. The man who has a garden
or field free from them in Amongst 10