Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-03

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If calf proves to be not worth rails
ing one can veal it, but this can't be
done with boys.
Most every man feels better when he
las cash balance in the bank instead
Of a sixty day note.
One of the chief pleasures resulting
from wealth is the ability to hire some
one else to do the things which one
GOES not like to do.
The sugar beet will not win out in
hose localities where the COW, clover,
corn, hogs and the fat steer will do
well, and there is no use of attempt
ing it.
] Where only one man in neighbor-
hood uses wide tired wagon it is a
good deal like this home missionary
work on the frontier-one saint trying
to convert a hundred sinners.
There are men who will cheat in the
matter of selling milk and piling up
cord wood who are considered pretty
straight other ways. These two things
offer temptations which they are I'M
able to resist.
The roots of the cannas should be
taken up as soon as the frost comes
and be placed in the cellar on some
dry sand. In the spring they may be
separated and the. individual tubers
used as stock for the plants Of next
year.
An old and good friend Of ours who
is close to ninety years of age does all
the blowing on his large farm with
three good horses and riding plow.
He can drive the team, but he could
not walk two miles. He tells US that
he likes to do the work.
Perhaps one of the most favored
fruit growing sections of America is
to be found in the Pecos valley, in
New Mexico. There elevation offsets
low latitude. and with irrigation
conditions are obtained which are SIM
ply perfect for the production of the
apple, peach, plum and grape.
A neishbor criticised us for cutting
up lot OF fodder corn when. as claim.
ed. it was too green. Maybe it was
but as luck would have it had we left
1t standing week longer belatec
hailstorm would have left us none tt
cut. 1t is a pretty good rule to tak'
things in this world when you can ge
them.
We have succeeded in getting tw'
crops from the same piece of land thi
year, the first crop big one of straw
berries; then, the bed being two year
old, was plowed over in early July
and now we are harvesting a nice GRO
of turnips. We can also get crop o
corn fodder from land previousl
planted to early potatoes.
Argentina and Siberia each contain
an area of fertile and tillable Ian
equal to that of the United States an
fitted for the production Of just abo,
the same kind Of cereals, fruits, root
and stock and may easily become III
der intelligent and proper developmer
active competitors with this countr
in furnishing the worlds supply {
food.
We call attention to what in vel
many cases which have come undo
our notice has proved a most valuab
cross for milk COW, q cross betWee
the Jersey and Shorthorn. Two of ii
very best cows we know Of are of tn
breeding. 1t is the only cross betwee
milk and beef breeds which we fe
like commencing, having in view Il
milking qualities of the animal so bre
There are a good many adyantag
in living in a two crop section OF t
country = those localities where tv
crops may be easily raised on the san
Geld each year. Texas is one of the
countries, a crop of winter wheat al
another of potatoes, katfir corn, S
beans or millet readily maturing aft
the wheat is harvested. OF course, IL
sort of farming is hard on the land a
soon wears it out.
There are all through the northw'
Seeding apple trees thirty or forty yea
old, trees which are in every way irt
clad and which are producing fruit
good quality, which the horticultu
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