Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-28
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All flesh is grass, and grass is wholly
question of water.
| Florida strawberry growers get about
20 cents n box for their February and
March berries.
We know of more than one farmer
who makes from $50 to $40 year
raising thoroughbred shepherd dogs.
There is always good demand for
these dogs.
A cellar with cement floor and
thoroughly whitewashed each spring is
a nicer thing to have at the home than
an overdue doctors bill, and where the
first Is the last is apt not to be.
The middle kernels of an ear of corn
possess more vitality and will ger
inmate more quickly than those from
either the tip or butt of the ear. We
always discard the tips and butts.
| Maybe the Usage orange hedge can be
made in some places good fence and
protection, but we have never yet seen
one that we would want on our own
| farm. Cheap wire killed the hedge
| business.
| The hired man who has the knack of
taking good care of the young things
as they come on the farm at this sea.
son of the year is easily worth a few
dollars more month than the man
who can only pillow and husk corn.
| We made hotbed the fore part of
! March and here on the LIST of April il
is full of nice young green things
radishes almost ready to pull, lettuce
! eOtiiotOSSI NapDdSC, pepper anu CCicl y
plants, enough for us and a lot for
the neighbors too.
Hagenbeck, the wild animal expert,
has produced remarkable hybrid a
cross between Bengal tigress and a
Senegal lion, This hybrid is already
much larger than either of its parents
and, strange to say, is Of singularly
mild and docile disposition.
Eyergreens are very cheap. The red
cedar, white, Scotch and Austrian
pines grow well on most of the prairie
soils of the northwest. A row or two
of these planted we'll clear of the
homestead on the north and west is
one of the best things which you can
do in the way of tree planting this
spring.
i We are asked what plant will furnish
! the greatest amount of fodder when
sown on rich land. Either corn sown
thickly or sorghum will give between
twenty and thirty tons of green fodder
per acre so grown, and that ought TIC
satisfy any man. Twenty-Five tons OF
mangel wurzels may be grown on one
acre also.
| 1t is said that feeder who is new
at the business shipped in some stock
| to market recently which was only
about half finished. He sent instruc
| TONS IN 49, ~;
him back a carload of feeders and was
a very surprised man to find among ths
| feeders lot of the beef cattle he had
/ just shipped in. This man needs te
learn the difference between feeding
and finishing.
The ever present bad and impossible
roads of the west during the spring
| months offer serious obstacle to the
| proposed consolidation of the rural
! schools. At the time this is written, the
| last of March, and where the writer
lives, it would be almost an impossi
bility to attempt to transport children
might be avoided by having foul
weeks spring vacation.
i Many soils rated as impoverished
and wornout simply need the restora.
/ ton of the humus which continuous
cropping has deprived them of. The
turning under of green crops is one OF
the cheapest and easiest methods of re.
storing this humus to the soil Any
soil which bakes and cracks after
heavy rains is deficient in this property
and should be treated accordingly. HUI
mus is absolutely indispensable in the
elaboration of plant food.
/ We are going to set out new aspar
agus bed this spring, and this is the
way we are going to do it: We will
take the pillow and, going back and
forth, will open furrow just as deer
rs we can, throwing the dirt out OF
tach side. We will then put in the
| !urrow so made foot or SO Of rich
compost and cover it up with the pillow
The bed will be a single row eight
rods long. We then will dig up some
Old roots of asparagus which will be as
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