Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-16


funeral than there was OF his wedding.
Do not turn down the small, boy who
is always asking questions. He will
know more than you do if he keeps on.
Nebraska raised only 100000 bush
els of winter wheat in 1890. In 1901
her wheat crop aggregated 50,O00,000
bushels.
We came across lady the other day
who was much surprised that the Ger.
man language could be understood
over the telephone.
Keep that green boy of yours or the
careless hired man who thinks he
knows it all away from the corn shred
der, or the surgeon is likely to have 4
job.
Whenever the politician gets foot.
hold in any farmers organization hav.
ing for its object the betterment of
the farmers condition it is all day
with it.
We have offered premium of Il
cents each for all rabbits killed in the
vicinity of our orchard. and if bunny
values his life he will keep away from
that territory.
The year 1914 was year of short
crops for England. and she had no sup
ply of wheat to draw upon from Amer
lea. Wheat that year went up to ESQ
quarter, or S1S.75 a bushcl.
The rabbit can get along all right
with the shotgun and the hound, but
the ferret is bad medicine for him.
twelve-year-old boy and ferret eX
terminated 200 Dummies last winter
The right way for a farmer to dc
who desires to attend the farm ipsti
tute is to hire man for couple OF
| days to do all the chores and then take
his wife and attend all the sessions.
1t costs just rs much for ocean trans
portation to ship small sized beef ami
| NAL to England as it does a large one
! Each occupies stall, and the tariff is
on tie number of cubic feet of space
contained in the stall and not on the
/ weight Of the animal
The widespread loss of valuable
stock as a result Of turning it into tht
| stalkfelds. which is greater this veal
than we Lave ever known 1t before
should be further incentive to qui
this wasteful practice and save til,
corn by cutting it up.
There never has been in this countr,
so good time as the present to pay III
debts and get square with the world
We know of lots of men who shout,
seize the opportunity and do just Til
thing Instead they are contractia;
4 still more debt. foolishly assuming tina
these good times will last forever.
/ If the owl made as much noise will
its wings as it seeks it's nightly meal
as does the migrating duck or the ruff
ed grouse or prairie hen. it would q
hungry, but the fan of the OWLS win.
world, and it drops OIL its victim lik
a feather falling from the upper air.
While the corn crop of 1896, one O
the largest ever raised. was wort
$491 100000 ON the farms where it wa
produced. the crop of 1901. less tina
one-half as great, is estimated to b
worth the sum Of S7o0,000.000, thereb
proving that a half crop may be
blessing in disguise to the man VIII
raises it.
Wild blood does not render eithe
animal or bird life immune against til
diseases which beset domesticated va
rieties. The wild hogs Of Arkansas O
Virginia. usually healthy as roa:ner
of the woods. fall easy victims to til
cholera and swine plague when place
under Poland-China conditions in tn
corn belt
We went by bis place the other da.
He cut up ten acres of corn, sowed til
field to rye, removed the shocks til
last of October and shredded the crol
His cows had the finest kind of
late fall and early winter pasture. II
will SOW clover early next spring, hay
early pasture for his cows and be sui
of good stand of clover. More shoul
follow this mans example.
The long haired frowzy yearling co
rustling in the winter stalktield is
good illustration of many a lively,
ycar-old boy on the same farm-th
colt two years later will develop int
a fine draft horse worth $3.50, Will
the boy few years later will be th
owner of a fine farm and running fc
governor. The roughing it early /
life has something to do with late
worth and success.