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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

and announced as a private in the
Brentwood rifles amid the tumultuous
cheers of that gallant organization.
Then First Sergeant Potts arose and
smilingly said he'd served good while
In that capacity. liked the company,
liked the job and wanted to learn
more about it. Thc best way to learn
was to watch il properly done by an
expert. We've learned that by expe-
Renee" he said and therefore asked
as favor to be allowed to drop the
loZenge from over his chevron and fall
back TO Il vacancy among the duty SER
geants and then called upon the pre-
siding officer of the meeting and COM
handing officer of the company to
name as his successor the man of all
others he and the company believed
best fitted to fill the bill and got no
further, for the boys caught on" as
they said, and further remarks We're
drowned in an uproar of applause, in
the midst of which the lieutenant com
handing, the old sergeant and the new
first sergeant. Langdon, We're shoulder
cd and borne in triumph about the
room, and the reporters of The ENami-
ner and Sun rushed to their respective
offices.
1t was useless now for The Sun to
hurl denunciation at the governor Or at
the rifles. The law was supreme. On
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18
A HEAVY RAINFALL.

Southern Minnesota all of Iowa and
parts of Illinois, Nebraska and Kansas
have received a rainfall of nearly three
feet since the Sth day Of May, some
portions of this territory getting as
much as fifty inches. The effect of
this unusual downfall OF rain has been
to spoil the crops on all low lands
brought under cultivation during the
preceding dry seasons, badly wash and
gutter the farm lands on the hillsides,
start all springs to flowing once more,
raise the level of all the lakes and
ponds, rejuvenate all forest and Or
chard growth and pasture lands, secure
a wonderfully fine stand of the tame
grasses and clover where sown last
spring, insure a remarkable second crop
OF tame hay for late September cut
ting, lower the grade of nearly all the
small grain produced. invite the COM
ing of an early September frost, impact
all clay soils and those deficient in
humus into hardpan and in gen
eral way completely change farm con-
ditions as they existed prior to the
great rainfall.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18
NO BEST BREED OF FOWLS

We are frequently asked as to which
is the best breed of fowls to select.
There is no best breed. The returns
from the poultry yard depend almost
wholly upon the care given to the
fowls. Some breeds, notably the Leg
horns, Houdans, Spanish and Donli-
niques, are probably better layers and
less prone to spend their time in sit
ting than are the Asiatic breeds, but as
a general rule the nonsitting varieties
do not lay as large eggs and are not of
SO much value as producers of meat as
the others. We are going to start a
poultry yard OH a moderate scale next,
year, keeping 200 or ESQ laying hens,
and have decided to use the Plymouth
Rocks as most nearly combining the
best in egg and meat production. Still
we had almost as soon take the Hou-
dams or the Wyandottes, and believe
that We would be well satisfied with
the Leghorns. The main thing is feed
and care.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18
WOULD SELL AND SQUARE UP.

We have this case presented to US for
advice: A man owning 100 acres of
good prairie land, improved, is carry
Ing a, mortgage indebtedness OF $4,000.
The farm is worth and would sell for
$11, 600. He wishes to know if it is
best for him to sell it and buy an eighty
acre farm and be free from debt or
hang on and try to pay out where he is.
He further wishes to know what the
times for the farmer. Now, this man
wants to know good deal; wants
more information than it is possible
for any man to give him. We will say
this much, however: On general prin-
ciples we had much rather have an
eighty acre farm and be free from
debt than 100 acres and carry debt
of $4,000. 1t is worth far more from
our point of view to be able to enjoy
life and be independent us one goes
along than to be reaching out, sweat
ing and striving for big pile for heirs
to scrap over. BY working himself and
his goodwife almost to finish this
man can probably pay for the big
farm, but he really has got more land
than he needs when he has done it.
We would sugar off if we were in his
place. AS to prospective changes in
the profits of agriculture, the present
times make farming very profitable
business. 1t is hardly to be expected
that such condition is to continue in
definitely. Just as soon as the produc-
ton of farm products exceeds the de-
mand there will come reaction, and
much lower prices will prevail, when
six thousand dollar mortgage will no
longer be small burden. Present ag-
ricultural prosperity is the direct result
of a marvellous commercial and me-
chanical development of the country at
large, and just as soon as mills stop
manufacturing, railways stop building
new lines and laboring men are either
discharged or have to accept lower
wages then will the farmer find the
present agricultural picnic at an end
We do not know when this will come,
but the wise man will get ready for it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18
MISCELLANEOUS.
IOWA CENTRAL ,:A,LwAy

Time of trains carrying, passengers at
nedrick, Iowa. 6.i Effeetiye et July LIST, 1901.
No. St. Paul Express daily. II 80 o. m.
No 5-Mason City Mail ok Sum 2:IO B. m. m.
No. Way Freight ;lglt, SEX SxtS SUM. 500 p m.
No. G-peoria Mail {Ex SUM. 1920 n M
No. Way Freight !E1 Z, snn}... 5:45 T. m.
United States, Canada and Mexico Far
rates, folder, etc; call on or address,
GEO. s. BAT"TY. H. II. KENNY
Gen. Pass & Tkt Agt., Aaent
Marshaltown, Iowa. Hedrick, In.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

The man who raises the best things
of their kind is never bothered to find
a market for them. 1t is only the men
who produce the mediocre and low
grade stuff who have trouble in finding
buyers. Ten men raise common stuff
and common stock where one raises
only the best, and right here opens Il
field for agricultural development aRd
progress which is almost illimitable i'll
extent
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

Any man who will keep corn, hoping
to get dollar a bushel for it, ought to
be compelled to take a quarter for it
and find that the rats had taken u
fourth Of the crib for toll. We knew
one just such case.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

The October government crop report
puts the corn crop of 1902 as follows:
Missouri, 104; Indiana, 81; Kansas, 81;
Nebraska, S6; South Dakota, SO; Iowa,
&c. The northernmost states show the
effects of the September frost
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

The state of Missouri leads all the
states of the Union this year in the
yield of corn per acre, her rating by
the government crop report being 10i.
The crop there is simply immense.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

The latest corn story is that man
who treated his seed corn to 500 volt
current of electricity before planting
succeeded in doubling the yield of the
crop. We simply do not believe this
yarn.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

A farmer in southern Minnesota is
the owner of horse which Of his own
volition, getting loose one night in the
barn, deliberately walked up the barn
stairs and into the hayloft twenty feet
from the barn floor. There was great
hunt for that horse, and when found
it was no small job to get him back to
terra firma.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

There is said to be one village in Eng
land, a country infested with sparrows
as is no other, where there is never
sparrow to be seen and where there
never has been any. 1t would be very
interesting to know why these birds
shun this particular locality.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

We have been hauling straw from a
stack which was piled up any way be-
cause it would have cost So per day for
man to have properly stacked it.
The straw is more than half of it
spoiled for any purpose save bedding.
II man could have had what straw
was wasted, he could have made Sc a
day stacking it properly.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

The Ames Ga9 experiment station
makes out that soft corn is worth just
as much for feed for stock as hard
corn, only it takes 20 per cent more of
it, this to offset the 20 per cent of
wafer which the soft corn contains.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

1t costs from 90 to % cents to raise
bushel of corn in Illinois. When Kan
sas has big crop like that of the pres
ent season she can raise it for 16 or IL
cents bushel, or less money probably
than can any other state.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

While parsnips will keep in the
ground all winter, they may, part Of
them at least, be dug in the fall, be
given one good freeze and then if
packed in sand in the cellar will have
all the sweetness which leaving them
in the ground all winter is supposed to
secure
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

The annual consumption of dairy
products per person in this country is
10 pounds ounces Of butter, pounds
ounces of cheese, 1 pound ounces
Of cream, 237 pounds ounces of milk.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

A man should strive to be rated as an
expert in some one thing. For in
stance, farmer should be known as
the producer Of some one farm product
of the very best of its Kind to be found,
we care not whether it be some sort Of
crop raised or some kind Of stock kept.
If he produces the very best Of its
Kind, it serves to give him name and
reputation as well as to bring dollars
to his pocket.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18
WABASH.

Arrive. Depart.
Louis -. ~. .aG:15 m. ao:2o p. IN.
Kansas City & st.
Louis ...... ....a7 100 p. m. as:25 a. m.
freight trains carrying passengers be-
tween Ottumwn and MouIton:
I,ocal freight bS:00 y. IN. d3 100 a. m.
last freight $3.50. .a12:10 p. m. 1880 D. m.
a Daily b Except Sunday.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

Kansas has a grand corn crop this
year, and much of it will so into beef.
1t is estimated that 100000 steers will
be on full feed i'll that state by Christ
mas.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18
At 40 cent? bushel the 1902 corn
crop of this country is worth the enor-
nous sum of $94O, 100000.

II the hired girl will keep fooling
with gasoline and kerosene to start the
kitchen fire, it may become necessary
to compel her to dress in asbestus
cloth.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

One sign of a snowy winter is said
to be that the carriage dealers are lay
ing in a big stock of sleighs and cut
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

Not i'll twenty-five years have we had
such Il luxuriant growth of strawberry
vines to cover up for the winter as this
fall. The promise for large crop of
berries next season is very fiattering
as these thrifty plants must have set
an enormous quantity Of fruit buds for
the crop of 1903. And here we are
asked how to cover the strawberries
and when. We take clean straw or
marsh hay if it can be obtained and
when the ground is firmly frozen up
scatter about two inches of cover ON
the bed. In the spring this cover is
raked in between the rows and serves
the double purpose of mulch and a
protection for tile berries from the dirt
And remember it is best to leave it un-
disturbed as long as possible in the
spring, as the plants are thereby to
some extent held back from blooming
SO early that a late spring frost would
catch them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

We are asked when is the best time
Of year to prune and trim up trees, both
shade and orchard trees. We prefer
the last of May or the first of June for
shade and orchard trees, as then, the
sap being in full flow, the wounds
made on the trees are more quickly
healed over. Jour hardy deciduous
shade trees. however. may be trimmed
at any time and suffer no i'll effects.
Water sprouts ,oa fruit trees should be
cut whenever they make their appear
ance
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

Experiments at the Illinois station
have shown that corn varies very
much in the amount Of protein which
it contains, 1t having been already bred
up from s to Is per cent of protein.
Further experiments which are being
made indicate that this amount Of pro-
tein can be still further increased by
careful selection. There is no one
thing being done in the line of expert
mental agriculture which is. of more
importance than this of increasing if
possible the per cent Of heterogeneous
matter in our corn.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

In many places the town man with
his gun, out to kill something, becomes
veritable terror to all forms of wild
ife-woodchucks, squirrels, even the
little red ones, and the chipmunks,
hawks, robins and song birds, all be-
come marks for him to shoot at We
do not blame any man for posting his
land and shutting this sort out from
entering on the farm. No man on the
farm can afford to have this wild life
thus destroyed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18
TRAINS LEAVING JEFFERSON
STREET UNION DEPOT,

a. ]. Packard, Agent.
CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE, & ST. PAUL
Arrive. Depart.
milwaukee,, -, d1:3o a. m. b2:..5 a. m.
/, Ids. etc $3.50. b1o:1oa. m b5:s5 p. m.
N Southwest ~. ;.b2:so q. m. d1:a5 a. m.
cal -. $50. b5:3o p. M b1o:20 a. m.
No a. east bound, leaves. Job a. m.
No 81, west bound, leaves. $3.50. GAS a. m.
No. CT, west bound. leaves. -. IL 80 a. m.
"a Daily. Except Sunday. Except
Monday.
Ottumwa Junction.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

Whenever a farm product brings a
fair price and we have it ready for
long run it does not pay for the pro-
ducer to turn Spectator. Farm profits
are seldom extraordinary ones. We re-
call the case Of man who had forty
800 pound hogs ready for market. The
prevailing price was $3.50 to $3.50. He
vowed he would not sell until lie got
So, and he fed them forty cent corn
through some very cold weather, when
the hogs made little or no gain. until
the cholera struck the herd and swiped
half of them before he could get the
rest marketed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

The lately formed farm machinery
trust concerns the farmers of the whole
country. 1t is i'll a financial way one
Of the strongest trusts in the whole
country and has a practical cinch on
the business, for the reason that it con-
trolls very valuable patents 1t is said
that the price of machinery is to be ad-
vanced, and it probably will be, for
just as matrimony is the objective
point in courtship so higher prices and
bigger profits are the real objective
point Of all trust schemes.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

Science will work as kindly and will
do as much for agriculture as for any
of the varied lines of mems business.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

1t is more than likely that the wet
summer will be followed by winter
of deep SHOWS in all the north country,
and snowdrifts as high as the tops of
the fences very forcibly remind one of
the need of having both fuel and fod-
der under cover at the homestead. We
was possible for one to be when the
mercury was % below and blizzard
on q tear just trying to dig hay out Of
a Minnesota prairie haystack and get
it into the shed for the stock. While it
was unavoidable in those pioneer days.
we do not want to have to do it again
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC.
Going East. Depart
No. 206-Des Molnes to Keokuk. 1910 a. m.
204-Des Molnes to Eldon. 1926 p. M
202-Des Moines to Keokuk. -. 1929 b. m.
234-Freight Ottumwa to Edon $40 D. M
Going West.
203-Eldon to Des Moines. 7:35 a. m.
201-Keokuk to Des Moines. - 05 g. M
233-Frt. Eldon to Des Molnes S:15 q. no.
231-Frt. daily. E)don to Monroe sos D. m.
205-Keokuk TO Des Moines. I. 7:O5 D. M
Unless otherwise specified. all trains are
daily except Sunday.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

Said q butter maker to us not long
since: Notwithstanding all that has
been written and talked and after
years of experience in dairying there
is no end Of farmers who will not
take proper care of their milk. II
should fire back from the creamery all
the milk which ought to be sent back, I
up the business" There is too much
truth in what this man said The one
chief reason why so much butter which
tests below 80 is made is because the
milk is not properly cared for, the but
ter maker not having yet been born
who can make Il fine quality of butter
from poor quality of milk.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

The fellows who are believers in
signs are out these days prophesying
One says that because the summer
has been abnornaHy cool we shall have
warm winter and cites as evidence
the fact that the cornhusks have open
ed early, the rat houses are small and
that there is some link or other about
the breastbone Of the goose Another
says that there Will be deep SHOWS and
much intense cold, as such winters al
ways follow such IL summer as that of
1902 The fact is that one can get any
sort OF winter predicted ii he can
only strike the right prophet. The truth
is that the whole kit and caboudle of
them know nothing about the weather,
and the only advice worth giving is TO
get the crops all harvested and secured
fix house, barns and sheds up snug for
the winter and get good supply of
fuel handy and then notify the weather
clerk to let her go.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-18

CHICAGO. Tr. MADISON & oEs Mo1NEs
Arrive. Depart.
TT. Madison accomo. 800 p. m. 7:l5 a. m.
Trains run daily except Sunday.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-14

is much discussion of the appointment of
George B. Winship, editor of the Grand
Forks Herald, to the position OF register
of the Grand Forks land office. This will
dtsplace e. H. Kent Of the Lakota Herald,
who obtained the appointment four years
ago through the influence Of Colonel w.
Fl. Robinson of Mayyil1e, then North Da-
kota member of the republican national
committee.
What interests the politicians and, in
fact, all of the people of the state who
follow state politics closely, is whether
this appointment will make any differ
ence in Winship's attitude toward certain
leaders in state politics whom he has
usually opposed. A report has been in
circulation for some time that as part
of a harmony arrangement whereby the
opposition of the Herald to certain as
pirants for state positions would cease,
Mr.. Winship was to be given the position
to which he has just been appointed. This
report was repudiated yigoro usly by
friends of Winship, who say he has been
named register mainly through other in
fuences than men prominent only in
North Dakota politics. They predict that
the policy of the Herald on all state mat
ters will remain unchanged and say that
Winship had previously given notice that
any federal appointment offered him with
a string attached would not be accepted.
1t is also pointed out that political con-
ditions We're becoming so complicated in
Grand Forks county that Mckenzie, La
Moure and Hansbrough did not want to
see Winship become candidate for gov
ernor or congress-. Winship has made no
sign as to his Intentions and in spite Of
the numerous reports in circulation his
appointment to the position of register
came as a surprise. 1t removes the pos
sibility Of Winship's candidacy and clears
the political atmosphere to some extent
in the northern part of the state.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-14
AN EVENTFUL DAY
When Coffee Left the Household.

Il never began to use coffee until after
began teaching school, then good,
motherly old dame served such nice coffee
that she got me into the way of drinking
1t.
Inside of a year became a wreck from
afternoon 1 was so drowsy and filled with
apprehension that I would have crying
spells without knowing why.
l laid around the house in misery, and
was misery to every one else. Once in
a while a friend would tell me that cof-
fee was the cause of my trouble. I rea-
soned with them that l only had one cup
at breakfast and that was not enough to
cause the trouble, but found that that
was the secret-that one cup of coffee
1t was an eventful day in our house
hold when quit coffee and started making
Postum. followed the directions and
the result was wonderful; no other words
express it. The Postum Coffee was of a
rich, beautiful color and when cream was
added looked as delicious as it tasted.
A doctor who was in the house tasted
the Postum and said that it was equal to
the best Mocha or Java, then quickly
turned away as though it was tncompre-
hensible. He suspected there was coffee
in it but have been assured of the abso-
lutte purity of the Postum and have conf
dence in it.
Nothing ever tasted better to me than
that first, weIl-made cup of Postum, and
never since have l tasted coffee, and I
now look back with horror upon the sick
ness it caused. We began, very quickly,
to see the difference between my condi-
tion under Postum and under common
coffee. l lost that feeling of despair ana
restlessness which oppressed me every af-
ternoon and began to sleep like a baby.
Postum must be given the credit for all
my improvement.
word about tea also. One time when
I was visiting l had package of Postum
with me. 1t gave out and before l could
get another / had tea for breakfast. With
in few days the old wretched feeling
that coffee used to give me came back
and all through the long afternoon ] felt
that i must weep and weep though really
over nothing at all. q
Insomnia came back but quickly quit
the tea and got ali right again. Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich.
Postum is an absolutely pure product
of the cereals as analyzed by some of the
best chemists in America and passed upon
by the various pure food commissioners
Of the different states.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-14
FILED ON A SECOND TIME
!. Dakota Land Department Takes
HOO Acres in Sully County.

Special to The Journal.
Pierre, S. D., March 14.-The state land
department to-day made filings on LOO
acres Of land in western Sully county.
The tracts taken were filed one year ago,
but the filings were allowed to lapse.
The streams which empty into the Mis-
souri, in this part of the state are at a
higher stage of water this spring than
for several years. The Okobojo creek in
Sully county is at stage where it is
necessary to cross by swimming teams,
and Medicine creek, which empties into
the river few miles below this city, is
at point where the railroad bridges are
shaky. Several telegraph poles were
washed out, cutting off wire. communities
tion to the east. The soil is full of
water, having frozen up wet last fall
The warm days barely melted the snow
drifts until many grasshoppers put in an
appearance. They appear to be fully de-
veloped and are of a gray color and about
half an inch in length. While few of
that kind appear here every spring, they
are far more numerous than usual this