Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-21

The dogs in the state of Minnesota prote
are valued for the purposcs of taxotion the 6
at So each. two
straw
| The south is fast becoming big ing
greenhouse to supply the north with freez
! fresh vegetables during the winter sea- freez
! son. ter
Kansas has produced sunfowers six We
teen inches in diameter this wear. 1t make
well deserves the name of the Sun. strait
| flower State none
this
Unusual rains have damaged the man
! buffalo grass OH the ranges and pre- BUSH
! vented it from curing for winter feed and
/ of the stock and
As general rule it may be said that Ne'
any soil Wherein grows the shallharr risks
hickory and the white oak is good for out
| the apple orchard neld
! dent,
Wherever the winters are long and MANI
cold it is always safer to lay the .rasp- the
! berries and cranes down in tbe fal, and throu
| cover them with earth. holes
The cold summer which matured the AS
apple crop in the best shape possible dairy
made it hard for the melon and corn high
| crops to pull through at all. the d
ly COZ
1t takes woman to have pity for ing f;
hungry man who won't work, and be- per 1
cause women do this is largely why we equiv
have this breed of parasites with u.s. what
Meats are going to be cheaper before The
long-that is. the common grades, such judge
as the common people eat. Fancy stand
beeres viii: continue to bring fancy the p
prices. enous
he ca
The wess has big fight on hand to be oil
keep down the prairie dog, while the lions,
east has almost as much trouble To given
keep the dogs Of civilization within de- of his
cent limitations
The prolific crops of the wear are but of til
little affecting prices and it goes with state
out saying that the farmers of the ing O
country have another very prosperous follow
year before them. the
states
When the cornfeld has TO brave much
May frost, it will hive LITTLE IN faar was
from September freeze and if is NJ last y
ways better for it to have the spring
frost than the fall one In
area
The turkey cron is short and tho will b
cranberry crop is short and some of grain
us may have to celebrate Thanksyiy- The
ing and praise the Lord with roast eight
pork and apple sauce this year. Tour
other
Chicago courts bs va ru,ad that u,b.vo separ
man buys steak at restaurant and souiio
cannot eat the whole of it he may car Siop
ry the rest away with him If he wishes T.
~ ~, ~ III. ~ ant pioprie deal
ing v
We ID
$50 40 ~ way III WHICH ~ MAKE corn !
A" ' vi ~ tne i"ili touas IMAM was b
~ 81" nse. nne pise are Tree from of cor
disease and selling, when fatted, at Tho ,
prices which will return 20 cents a Ioroo
bushel for all the corn fed them hia -,
crop t
The buyer of fine stock now gets but
little aside from the name by buying in Tho
Europe lor as nheiy pred ANIMALS as "potte
'hsie are ~ pe iouhu anywhere can De for hi
secured in this country, and this, too, of picnic
almost any VI the popular preeds. only e
a nice
The winter wheat fields Of Oklaho- hand
ma make the winter pastures for cat chang
Tie Kept III that country 1t Is good for the he
the stock, which grows fat on such lust r
rauon ana good FOR the wheat as it the fri
prevents too rank growth of straw.
Most
The water level which it was once fall phi
claimed had gone down nearly a hun such !,
dred feet curing the dry years, is once wiggle
more doing business at the old stand, could,
as many man who has had to have rape Ia
his cellar drained this summer has ing il
found out weigh
TENDER
Ihere mas been loss OF just about dredw'
90 per cent on all oats thrashed out OF those
the shock this year just in the matter
OF price, such oats selling for 10 or ~ 1t is
cents per pushel less than they would down
have done had the crop been stacked acme n
as soon as cut. the col
habit 8
we nave never known. such pro- supper
hhc secohu crop ol Clover ana tlmothy prOpos
as the cool ana wet season OF l9O2 has II all {
produced. MOI only the clover had the arr
heaueu OUT as usual Dut Inc uInothy as ever to
"el' ana IL many places the second munity
crop is as good as the first one taken
of in July last Ar;l,a
in the
Inc "oih VI s'he hester or nome not gri
steader who is locating on the hereto sure cl
fore monopolized range lands of the of yal
west is doing much to break up the of the
cattle barons' interests If 1t were not the sto
nat the government stands back Of the ing out
homesteader, he would never be al liable j
lowed to acquire any Land rights in first cl
nose secrions. combtn