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

I wing than the crows are right after
4 him.
\ 1t is better to have to drain swamp
4 than to have toskeep Il hill slope from
1 washing away.
4 The nine staple farm crops for the
4 year 1901 were worth $7O0,OOO,OOO
4 more than they were in 1896
! York state grows more onions than
any other state-GO33 acres, Yielding
I 2,lT,2I1 bushels valued at 81 ,C6G, Oh
I Planted in the garden, the bush lima
4 bean gives just about one mess of
H beans, and then the frost does the rest.
i The local merchant who trusts you
II when you have no money is certainly
entitled in all fairness to a chance at
/ least to bid for your cash trade.
Cold and wet weather is bad for the
d blooming season of all orchard fruits
O The bees will not work in such wealth
er, and, as we note it, no bees, little
fruit.
y Every small boy should have the fun
and sport connected with sharing and
shooting gophers. 1t will be good
: thing for the gopher and for the boy
: also.
lady friend of ours has married off
three hired girls inside of nine months
This housewife has no trouble in get
e ting hired girls even if they don't stay
l. long with her.
We have never noted that western
crows pull the newly planted corn, as
they do in the east. Perhaps they have
more food, or possibly they have not
vet learned how.
e Now let the oleomargarine factories
I make cheap and uncolored substI-
J tute for butter and sell it to the poor
man at low price-something they
never have yet done.
Working in her own wild way, ma
l ture in her effort to turn out some
thing pretty in a floral way seldom
does anything nicer than giving us the
wild crabapple in bloom.
One Of the very worst garden and
: berry thieves we have is the catbird.
hal hot - III.
get away with a fun quart of cherries
or berries every twenty-four hours.
, If poor man cannot start in with
/, , a quarter section of land, let him take
eighty or forty or even ten acres We
know of q fifteen thousand dollar farm
which grew out Of tax title, ten acres
and good grit.
, During the present era of high prices
for foodstuffs it is fortunate that
wheat and wheat products have not
followed after other commodities. the |
price of wheat having SO far remained
at very reasonable figure
The very richest man in America not
only is forced to chop wood and dig
dirt to get up little appetite for skim
milk and graham mush, but he now
has lost all his hair and not only feels
bad, but looks that way too.
The man who feeds steers in the corn |
belt can do some thinking over the
fact that Idaho and Montana purely |
grass fed steers have sold this spring
in Chicago at almost So, while the corn
fed animal has brought only 81 or
$3.50.
The great cereal producing section of |
the west and northwest. while suffer-
ing from a droughty condition in the |
seeding time, was most generously wa
tered during early May, removing all |
fears of short crop as a result of |
lack Of moisture
We note in an English paper that the
consumers of meat in that country are
! suffering from high prices, just as they
. are here. Does the meat trust of this
country control the English market
, also? Late London quotations for
. dressed quarters of beef We're Is cents.
One of the biggest mistakes made by
dairymen is that of working on the
theory that COW can make milk out
of anything. provided she only has !
{ enough Of it. The man who stuffs his
cows with corn fodder with the ears
on is one Of the biggest sinners in this
particular.
The very poetry of graceful tireless
motion we noted the other day in a
flock of bank swallows. wheeling, cir
cling and sweeping over sheet of wa
ter as they pursued the small insect
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