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

Texas PRODUCED last year 1872, 1922 car
loads of stuff to sell.
The coming Of the goldenrod for us
marks the beginning of the end of
summer.
Italian women are in much favor as
workers in the market gardens, and
hundreds of them are wanted for thin
| purpose in California.
The municipal and the rural had a
round not long since when an auto
mobile ran into load of hay, the auto
getting the worst Of the encounter.
An excellent quality Of paper both
for news print and writing is now
made from cornstalks, and the bust
ness is likely to become a very extern
| sive one.
So serious menace to the cotton
| crop has the boil weevil become that
the legislature of Texas has authorized
an offer Of q reward of $4,000 for the
best means of fighting the pest.
The railways Of this country use
ITO, 100000 ties each year to replace
those rotted out, aside from what are
used In new construction. This is the
big draft on our forest reserves.
Racing as pastime will never COM
mand the respect and support Of hon.
est and civilized people until horse
men QUIT running rotten races-races
manipulated by gamblers, bookmakers
and jockeys.
| So far as the health of the people is
concerned 1t is all right that cotton
seed oil SO largely displaces lard n
their food. A good deal of meanness
and ill health may be charged to the
excessive use of hog products.
We have lost two nice fruit trees this
year by cats. On the face of it this
statement looks queer, but these trees
were located so that they We're handy
for the cats to sharpen their claws on
them, and they clawed the trees to
death.
1t is not so very many years ago that
the tomato was known by the name Of
the "love apple" and was grown simply
as curiosity and never eaten. Today
the crop produced represents millions
of dollars. and 1t is rated as one of the
best products of the garden.
South Dakota comes to the front
with the largest inclosed pasture in
the world $50, 900 acres of an Indian
reservation inclosed by a barbed wire
fence, rented of the red men by cattle
company at BOZ mills per acre per
year for period of five years.
The great disadvantage connected
with selling milk to a cheese or a milk
condensing factory lies in the fact
that too much fertility is thus sold
from the land. Herein lies the SUI
periority Of the creamery over these
other methods Of conducting the dairy.
Chile has the only known deposit of
nitrate Of soda in the world, and its
value may be better understood when
1t Is known that the export duty placed
upon the product nets the government
over $15, 100000 annually. or more than
half enough to pay all the expenses Of
the government.
Big, husky colored hands are ayaila-
Bile in many parts of the south for farm
work at so or so cents day, they find
ing themselves 1t would seem to be a
sensible thing to SO train these men
that they would be worth more money.
This rate of wage will keep the negro
barbarian so long as he is content to
take it.
The agricultural department at
Washington has promulgated a sure
cure IOr insomnia. 1t is to eat full
pint Of fresh roasted peanuts just be-
fore going 20 bed. We should think
such dose would give man nights
revel with all his departed ancestors
and fix him SO that he would be a SUBJ
ject for the undertaken.
Say, see here-why not keep well
bred stock just as well as poor stuff?
Costs no more to keep and care for well
bred poultry, swine, cattle, sheep and
horses than it does scrubs, and the
profit in keeping such kind Of stock is
always greater, aside from the greater
pleasure TO be had in having them
around. Costs more to start, of course,
but start with less and start right.
The plague of crop Of early pota-
toes which for any reason have to re-
main in the ground until fall is the
crop Of weeds which is sure to take
possession of the fields as soon as the
tops of the potatoes die down. It is
found that II such field be sown
with buckwheat along in early July the