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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

Nearly all of our choice fruits will
stand Il temperature of zero. 1t is
what lies between zero and 40 below
which limits the list which can be
grown.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

The vast glaciers of the mountain
regions Of France have been lately
most felicitously referred to as the
4'white coal fields" of that country, the
never failing streams of water fed by
these glaciers two miles up in the air
being now utilized in their fall to gen
crate an electric power which makes
black coal useless.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

Il you want to experiment with some
new crcp this year, try small patch
of alfalfa. If it will grow with yoa, it
will make you the finest hog pasture to
be had.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

Happiness consists largely in want
ing something real bad and standing
good show of getting it. The actual
getting Of it often spoils aa the fun.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

The Nebraska experiment station has
demonstrated the fact that COW
reaches her highest production of but
ter fat before she does her greatest
flow of milk.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

The markings on few feathers en-
abled her owner to sell four-year-old
hen at a late poultry show at Kansas
City for SOL. This is almost as bad
as Belgian hares at $3.50.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

Most of the fancy brands OF foreign
made cheese are now successfully imi-
tated and manufactured in this coun-
try.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

acts crazy but it may be assumed.
If we offered him say $2,oooOoo he
might regain his sense. What do
you think about it, Mr.. Rockville"
81 am not very hopeful" said Mr..
Rockwell I'm the event we decide
on such a course | would suggest a
larger amount. l will cheerfully
pledge 100000 to a $5,O00,000 fund"
THAT is more than your SHARE .
said Mr.. Morton. II think your sug-
gestion as to larger amount is a
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

The snow lay on the ground and a
chill winter wind blew from the north
when this sower went forth to SOW;
but, as he sowed clover seed on his rye
field, he was all right.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

A convention of the Gamers and
packers of fruits and vegetables was
recently held in the city of Washing
ton. at this meeting there was illus
trated the wonderful advance made
during the past few years in this line
of industry, machinery now accom-
plishing automatically nearly the whole
complicated process Of preparing the
raw material, cooking, canning, seal
ing and labelling the cans.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

Thirty years ago the aged OK was
counted as the best grade of beef. To-
day it is rare to find a four-year-old
steer in any of the stockyards of the
country.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

There is no objection to nickels on
account of their size, but their inability
to jingle is discontinue.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17
flc two-year-a'i len best serves her
!Suntry in y poti:ie.

mhc Bo2r war used NJ a.5o. 900 horses
and 50oG3 miles. most of witch died
of disease ssithin six months after they
were landed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

The collie or shepherd dog is one OF
the most Intelligent of animals and
may be trained easily to do the most
remarkable things in connection with
the care Of stock, especially with sheep.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

Cornstalks returned to the soil give
supply of humus and improve the
mechanical condition of clay soils. but
there is little or no fertility in them.
Light and sandy soils are better off
without than with them in a dry sea-
son.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

We know Of one or two very liberal
landlords who treat their farm tenants
more as partners in business than as
employees, and we notice that in each
case the landlord makes more money
from his farm than the old skinflints
do. If you want your tenant to do
well by you and the farm, you do we'll
by the tenant.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

The Wealthy apple behaves remark
ably well in cold storage. On the last
of January barrel taken from cold
storage gave but twelve damaged ap-
pies and $50 perfectly sound ones.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

The sum Of 5000 invested in barbless
wire fences would inclose pretty good
sized pasture, but we know of more
than one man whose losses in horse
flesh during the past ten years would
have built two such fences.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17
SEED coRv ron 1908.

The question of seed corn for 1908 is
one of no little concern to a large sec
ton of the northern part of the corn
growing section. The climatic condi-
tons of 1902 were such that through
the section referred to but little of the
corn raised properly matured, and I'M
less special pains were taken hardly
any of it is fit for seed. A supply Of
seed corn should be secured at once by
those who failed to save it, and such
seed should be tested to determine it's.
vitality. Men who put this job off un-
til planting time are likely to have
trouble.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

The growth of the rural telephone
service is something remarkable. 1t is
reaching out in every direction and be-
fore long will have the farmers of the
country all linked together, to their
social and financial betterment.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

Iowa, with resources almost purely
agricultural, is still represented by
eleven lawyers in congress, which is
what we would call an agricultural
joke. There ought TO be at least one
farmer in the lot.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

A Kansas reader wants to know
whether sweet corn at $3.50 per ton
offered by new cannery in his vicin-
ity will be a profitable crop for him to
False. We should regard it as every
way a good crop. The returns are
cash, come in early in the season, he
will have left one and one-halS tons of
splendid COW feed for winter, and the
crop is not hard on the soil. If he will
SOW rye among the corn at the time of
gathering the ears, he will have fine
fall and spring pasture.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

The English apple eaters will pay
more for Beg Davis than they will for
Northern Spy. This looks like queer
taste, but most anything with red
face goes in that country.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

Farmers do not as class avail them
selves of the benefits to be derived
from advertising in the papers. This
is one Of the most practical and easy
methods of bringing buyer and seller
together and covers large line Of COM
mon wants on the farm.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

Bicycles and Belgian hares busted
together.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

At nearly all the farm Institutes
held the past winter through the re-
gion of the corn belt the question of
how to improve the yield and quality
of the corn crop has been uppermost.
For the first time the farmers of that
section are becoming alive to the fact
that it is entirely possible to accom-
plish great improvement along this
line.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

At late farmers institute which we
attended we heard read by a quiet, un-
assuming common farmer one of the
best of papers on the geological forma-
ton of the country in which he lived
a paper which would have done credit
to any college professor in the lucidity
and breadth with which the subject
was treated. By and by we are going
eight out on to the farm to find our
best Informed men and not to some
lawyers Office or college.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

If you have two or three boys in the
farm home and any one of them more
than the others shows liking for and
native enthusiasm in farm interests,
keep an eye on him and try to help him
along on these lines, for by the time
you begin to get stiff in the joints he
will be just the man to take the old
farm off your hands. Some men get
rid Of their boys, never thinking about
this time, which is sure to come.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

1t is an important thing to procure
seed of any crop suited to your latitude,
and this is especially true of corn.
This is large country, and the vary
ing lines of latitude mark the bound
aries of zones which define the limits
of successful cultivation of nearly all
our farm products as well as fruits. 1t
is well to study out those things which
are best suited to given ATTITUDES and
confine ourselves to their production.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

A laboring man whom we know rent
ed two acres of land last season and
planted the field to Burbank potatoes.
He worked out by the day most of the
time, but managed to care for this
crop at odd times. He harvested 400
bushels Of fine potatoes, which he sold
in the field for 5000, which was as
much or more than he earned at other
work all summer long.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

Nature is often fantastic in the ex-
IRENE in some of her work-in the
growth of tree, the building Of a
snowdrift or an ice gorge, her cloud
pictures in a storm or at sunset, in
mountain crag and gorge, in treeless
canyon, in the rioting of the OCEAN
but in all her fantasies she is always
truly artistic, never makes any color
blunders or violates the law of har-
mOny or art.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

In clover, corn and oats rotation Of
crops. which is common one in many
sections, it is often found that the oat
crop following but one crop Of corn
will grow too rank and lodge and spoil.
This may be prevented by taking at
least two crops of corn from the land
before sowing to oats or a crop of flax
following the corn, which is warranted
to make the richest land poor enough
to grow crop of oats which will stand
up.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

Science is touching agriculture and
horticulture in many ways-in plant
breeding, cross fertilization, in the
spraying and limitation of insect pests.
in analyses of all foodstuffs as animal
rations, in soil physics whereby the
soil is fitted for it's work. in animal
husbandry, the feeding and breeding of
all domestic animals-in fact, there is
no other business in which man is ell
gagged where science touches him more
helpfully or with which it works more
harmoniously.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-12-18
WAY STATIONS.

There will be sc tunnels on the route
Of the new Denver, Northwestern and
Pacific railway within distance Of 20
miles. through the Rockies. It is esti-
mated that it will require coo. 900 pounds
Of powder to blast 21z miles Of this route.
-Four-Track News. a.
The Highland railway company Of
Great Britain announces that 1t has
completed arrangements for telephone
communication between trains and sta
tons on It's line, thus not only greatly
lessenirg the danger Of wrecks on the
road but also enabling its passengers
to communicate with friends and BUSH
ness associates while travelling from
place to place.
At the beginning Of the last century
theroyal college of Bcvarian physicians
sought to forbid steam railway travel,
because it would induce delirium fu-
ricsum among the passengers and drive
the spectators crazy; while an English
quarterly said that it would as soon ex-
pect the people to suffer themselves to
be tied to one Of Congreve's rockets as
to trust themselves to the mercy Of a
locomotive going at the prodigious rate
st - miles an hour.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-12-18
ARMY AND NAVY.

Admiral Bowles is to receive SCI, 900
! year from the private ship building
concern with which he is to be con-
nected. As chief constructor Of the navy
his salary was $500 q year.
Watchdogs are to be employed to
guard the German dockyards. A dog
Is to accompany each sentinel, and the
animal will be set upon any stranger
who fails to respond to the challenge.
The new Belgian military system, es-
ablished on the basis of voluntary con-
scription, has already proved failure.
Notwithstanding the active efforts of
the enlistment committee but few VOL
unteers have come forward during the
last year.
Gen. Joe Wheeler is an enthusiastic
believer in the value-the "incalculable
benefit" is his own phrase-of the army
maneuvers. "Many things" he says.
that are necessary in actual warfare
ire being attempted now in these ex-
periments. and when one side or anoth-
.r fails the failure shows what may be
expected next time. In other words, to
learn why you have failed or succeeded
In thing is just as important in war
sare al In anything else"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-12-18
An EVIL IN FOOD THE Law
SHOULD REACH.

"a reference to the use Of alum bak-
Ing powders Prof. schweitzer, 81 the
State University Of Missouri, says:
aFhe deleterious effects Of alum and
the soluble salts Of alrmina upon the.
human system, even when used IN
small quantities, are too well known
to need relating; their use IN baking
powder Is dangerous, and should be re-
stricted.'''
The effects Of the continuous use Of
alum baking powders are thus summed
upsin q medical publ atioE: -. s.
Alum taken into the stomach re-
tards the digestion Of the food.
st Is an irritant which inf1ames and
irr1tates the stomach and intestinal ca
nat. ..S= - !. ".@.. ;s =..s
TT Is an astringent and tends to coz
stipate the bowels, which interferes
with digestion. 2s5s@ 5 =s.z ss.s IS. S.
1T renders the albumen Of the food
partially insoluble, and therefore takes
away from its hutritive value.
1T is absorbed into the blood, which
it tends to thicken and coagulate. The
free flow of the blood through the or
gans Of the heart Is thus retarded.
Its continued absorption into the
system causes some forms OF nervous
prostrations and many of those affec-
tons Of the nerves from which both
women and men, suffer.
fourteen grains Of alum have caused
the death Of q child. Larger doses have
frequently resulted fatally in the case
of adults. ~ =
mo drug 50 powerful and deadly, no
matter in what proportions It may be
employed, can safely be used in any
article of food"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-12-18

gagged singers, she contrived expensive
scenery and costumes, she hired writer's
to make translations of the "books O. tn
opr'y"-that the German singers made
hash of the English words was minor
matter. 1t was English in the libretto,
at any rate.
Manifold were the difficulties. The
foreign orchestra players could not keep
the run of the score when the singers
were using English. The Italian opera
was strong competitor. Fashion
turned up its nose at anything that even
pretended to be native American. In
the end really Intelligent and bold at
tempt to give New York what other cap
itals have except London-an opera in
it's own tongue-failed. So did the lady's
capital. And her husbands.
For awhile after that German and
Italian opera ran disastrous race for
favor, one in the new opera house, one
in the old. Now society has adopted the
Metropolitan as it's own, prices have
been run to an almost prohibitive pitch,
and if Conreid cannot make "go'' it will
not be because there is not money
enough.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-12-18
WHERE PEACE REI(sN9.'


Tho long haired young reformers wers
holding ansinformal debate, and when
they had agreed that the world was just
about as corrupt and bad place as it well
could be, grim faced man arose, relates
London Tit Bits. ,.s4s
hat you seem to want, friends, Z 10
said; lis place where everyone has e Be
good by law =s
That's It'll" chorused the reformers. IS
81 there smoking ain allowed, and such
= thing as drink IS unknown? Where no
one need worry about food and raiment.
and where money does not exist
We do"
Where everyone has to 60 TO church on
hours! 81 S. ~. - : - "a
That is just what we do want. Oh, to
find such q. place!" said a soulful young
fellow, speaking for the Others. a.
Wei, I've just come from such :
GU have? ?" cried the soulful one. "Oh.
tell US, tell US, man Of wonderful expert.
ence,. where it is, that we may also go!''
+ Its . place called. prison!" said the
grim man. =s= = <l@
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-12-18

sions, including a tunnel under East
river, are begun.
The difficulties of getting about in
New York are unmatched anywhere else
in the world. Manhattan island is IL
miles long and nowhere more than two
miles wide. Brooklyn is separated from
it by a turbulent tide sweeping through
a channel of soft mud on one side and
rock on the other, a channel never less
than 1900 feet in width. The new Will
Iiamsburg bridge, which will be opened
on December 10, is the greatest struc-
ture of the kind in the world. 1t is 40
feet wide in the middle, much wider at
the ends, and two stories high. It car
ries four lines of trolley cars, two Of
elevated railway cars, two wagon roads
wide enough for teams to pass, two wide
footpaths and bicycle track. A third
great bridge is being built which will be
even more powerful. Each Of these will
cost some SIS 900 900 to complete. The
present bridge, with it's approaches, has
cost $24,G00,000. The tunnels are much
cheaper. The city of New York is to
construct two, besides the Pennsylvania
tunnel, to connect it's giant new station
with the Long Island road.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-12-18
Brish%.s1Disease Cured,

Whitehall, H., Dec. IA case has been
recorded il this place recently, which up,
sets the theory Of many physicians that
Bright's Disease IS incdrable. It is the
case of Mr.. Lon Manley, whom the doc
tors told that he could never recover. Mr..
M!anley tells the story Of his case and
Il began using podd'. Kidney Pill,
after the doctors had given me up. For
four or five years had Kidney, Stomach
and Liver Troubles; I was a general wreck
and at times I would got down with my
back so bad that could not turn myself
in bed for three or four days at time.
II had several doctors and at last they
told me I had Bright's Disease, and that
could never get we'll. 1 commenced to
use Dodd's Kidney Pills and + am now
able to do all my work and am all right
l most heartily recommend Dodd's Kid
ney Pills and am very thankful for the
cure they worked in my case. They
me up."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-12-18
BRIEFLY DESCRIPTIVE


Private" John Allen, according to the
New York Times, is responsible for this:
one: &c
I Last year there were I number 81
claims for damages brought against one
of<the railroads in Mississippi by the farm
era in certain county Of that stats.s
These claims arose out Of the fact that
many hogs had been killed by the trains;
Of the railroads in question. "A mixed
commission was formed of railroad men
and others to determine the equity of
these claims. Among Others questioned
by this commission was an old darby who
claimed to have been an eyewitness Of
the annihilation Of one hog.
Said the chairman Of tho commission to
Zeph: T. .. So. : . ...:..= 55s 49,
TELL US, in as few words a. possibla,
how this hog was killed" 's
Old Zeph shifted huge cud Of tobacco
from one cheek to the other, cleared his
throat, and then replied:
We'll, sab, " said he, .'as nearly asI kin
make, it ont, it was dis way: De train
footed and den TUX him"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-12-18
A Taste for Prisons.

Surely no stranger motive for travel
vas ever known than that which urges
Count Rocca Dianovitch to make the
circle Of the globe. For nearly 40 years
tnis nobleman has wandered about the
earth on foot. His object is said to be
desire to enter himself on the prison
records of the world. and in order Is
speak from practical experience. he IN
s!sts from time to time upon being
locked up like any vulgar malefactor.
IN carrying out this plan, he has already.
II is reported, made the acquaintance
OF the prisons Of Spain and italy, sc
England and America, and experienced
the hospitality Of 9 French penal set
uemen:s. ssSzSsssss
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-12-18

AoIAACA 0oOs
How many peo-
pie remember-yet
it was not much
more than Is years
ago-the "Ameri-
can opera" set on
foot with such a
blast of trumpets
by Mrs. Jeanette
Thurber? w by,
asked this ambi-
tiOus lady, should
not America, which
has the voices, the
money, the dra-
m a tic instinct,
have the American
opera? It should
have it! She en-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-12-18
New Two Cent Stamn..

Nineteen hundred and three is nota-
BILE year for stamp collectors. It has
seen a new series of postage stamps and
three designs for the two-cent stamp;
the design with the profile of Houdon's
bust of Washington, which had been in
use for 81 years; the nearly full face of
the Stuart portrait of WASHINGTON.
draped with the flag, which has Just
been abandoned because the engraving
was not satisfactory; and, as its success
sor, a larger head, in the Stuart pose.
framed by q shield. 1t is not often that
collectors can get three patterns Of a
stamp of the same denomination issued
within IL months. Yet coin-collectors
will recall that three different kinds Of
fve-cent pieces bear the date of 1889.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-12-18
An Irish poet has

just come to town. 1t is his purpose to
speak eloquently as the blood gives him
eloQuence for the ancient language that
was in danger of perishing until the
modern Celtic movement began, with
w. b. Yeats and Moore and Sharp and
a few others in it's van. These rescuers
of the Erse tongue from oblivion gave
plays in Dublin in Irish. They would
find in New York more people who could
understand them than in the ancient cap
ital of Erin itself.
Now the devoted band of Irish patri-
OTIS give plays in the vernacular in Con-
naught, that ultima Thule. of 1rishry
when oppressed in the bad old days, with
talented and equally devoted working
men as the actors. It is one of the most
interesting literary REVEALS in day OF
many such. - - :. +. !. I. IA: @.se
Mr.. Yeats Is a poet, a very real poet If
not great one. His song has the Celtic
melancholy, the yearning, the musical
cadence. The trick of the refrain is his
land he does not lecture for money. He
talks before college audiences where
there is more interest than gate receipts.
Hence the most suspicious persons can
concede his main purpose to be just what
he says it is-to awaken interest in the
Irish drama! and literature. Can we not Z
- s. s. .5S..ss- ss ..e OWEN LANGDON