Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-29

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A summing up of reports shows that
Texas lost 100000 head of cattle as a
result of the wintry storms of last
February.
Good corn fodder and the dairy COW
are always and ever combination
which produces good results. We new
er knew it to fail.
French railway men take a beech
railway tie which will only last three
years and, impregnating the wood
with tar oil, make it last thirty-five
years.
| In the wheat growing section Of
Russia press which will press the
straw into small bales SO that it can
be used as fuel in the big stoves of
the country is much wanted.
| If the day of $1,000 bulls has passed,
and we guess it has for awhile, it is
well. For the purely practical side Of
| stock breeding on both beef and but
ter lines $50 is enough for any animal
An analysis of ton of alfalfa hay
at the Kansas experiment station
showed that it contained A pounds of
nitrogen, S.27 pounds of phosphates.
50.95 pounds Of potash and 40 pounds
of lime.
There will never be any better but
ter made than has been made, but the
chance for further missionary work
lies in bringing more of the butter
made up from state OF original sin
to d standard Of oleaginous Jsanctifica-
ton.
We have known dollar and half
razorback hog to make enough rue
ton in neighborhood SO that he put
$T5 of good money into the pockets of
lawyers, justices and constables, and
SO, from purely legal view, did not
| live in vain
In some parts of Missouri the own
ers of timber lands are taking the bark
from their slippery elm trees and sell
ing it for medicinal purposes to the
drug houses of the east. AS much as
$50 an acre is thus being realized
from the land, and all the timber is
left for other purposes.
Continuity in milk production is a
quality in the dairy COW which is too
often overlooked. Many. cows called
good ones will give large flow of milk
for two or three months and no sort
of food or care will prevent them from
shrinking in their milk and being un-
profitable dairy animals for the rest
of the year. This sort needs wedding
| out of the dairy.
We are asked whether the various
forms of insect pests which are today
SO injurious to crops have always
existed or are new creations. Pre-
sumably the first of them were made
during the period of bug creation and
have always been in existence, but for
lack of specially favorable conditions
have only in late years SO multiplied
as to become pests. We have no doubt
that the potato bug worked on Adams
potatoes in the garden of Eden.
There are lots Of people living in the
country who are afraid of fresh air
after dark and sleep in tightly closed
bedrooms. 1t is all poppycock that
night air is bad air. The more good,
fresh air one can have in his bedroom
the better he will sleep and the more
restorative will be his rest. 1t is better
to sleep out under the stars than to
get in one of those air tight rooms.
Open the windows, open them wide,
and let them stay open all night.
The experiments made during the
past two years with macaroni wheat
in the northwest, where the rainfall is
only about ten inches per annum or SO
little as to bar the growing of other
varieties of wheat, have proved re-
markably successful. and very large
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made available for the growing of q
very productive and remunerative crop.
Tests made with macaroni wheat -four
and that from No. 1 hard showed the
bread made from the former to be bet
ter than that made from No. / hard.
Where hired man! is given his
monthly wage, his board and wash.
ing, how big wash is he entitled to I?
This question is raised by farmers
wife up in Minnesota, who says that
she has to wash for their hired man a
suit OF white underwear, outside shirt
and oyeralls, negligee shirt for Sun
day. white and colored handkerchiefs,
two pairs of socks, white night dress
and working blouse, and In wet wealth
er considerably more II we were ia
this woman's place we would make
this dude turn the washing machine
after ne had got through with the
cnores for she has certainly got
Kick coming.