Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-15

The rattle ranges are being turned
into wheat fields in western Kansas
and Nebraska.
Some one says that burdocks can be
killed out by putting a pinch Of salt on
the crown of the plant after cutting
the top OF. Our burdocks thrive on
this treatment
The fall garden comes in very handy
late planted sweet corn, string beans,
radishes, lettuce, green peas. Lots Of
nice things are to be had if one only
knows how to get them.
Even If the city ordinances do not
prohibit it, no man who has any re-
gard for the propriehes and his neigh
bors will attempt to raise hogs on his
town residence lot. Hogs want room
and lots of it.
The 1908 crop Of winter wheat in
Edwards county, Kan, is worth, at 80
cents per bushel, $195 for each in
habitant Of that county. Graphophones,
rubber tired buggies and pianos sell
well in that county.
It is said that the wheat cut in the
state of Washington is so dry when it
is shipped from that state that on an
ocean voyage to England it will abb
sorb enough moisture to more than pay
the freight charges.
An acre Of strawberries well cared
for will ordinarily give about $125 net
profit. The strawberry is one of the
safest berry crops to raise, for one is
almost sure of a crop, and they are al
ways in good demand.
While man may SOW and Providence
send the increase it is we'll to remem-
Der that Providence works with a good
deal of equity and the lazy and shift
less man usually gets what he is en-
titled to and no more.
The types made us say in a late IS
cue of these notes that $50 was enough
to pay for a sire to head good herd of
cattle. 1t should have read $3.50. The
trouble is we have now altogether too
many Of the fifU dollar sort.
About so many children die every
year as a result Of leaving carbolic
acid and other poisons around where
the little toddlers can get hold of it.
The careful housekeeper and mother
will have some place to keep such
things where they can never be got
hold Of by mistake.
Here and there all over the wheat
producing sections are men who will
never sell bushel of wheat for less
than ST. One such whom we know
lately marketed the accumulated crops
Of the past thirteen years. 1t being
doubtful If he could do it himself, he
should set one of his boys or girls to
work to figure out how much he made
or lost by this deal.
In the matter OF the adaptation of
crops to given soils and climatic con-
dttions there has seldom been more
pleasing illustration than in the case
Of winter wheat and the semiarid por-
tons of the states of Kansas and Ne
braska. Less than ten years ago these
lands were counted as range lands and
unfit for cultivation and so were low
in price and but thinly settled. Today
fortunes are being made out of them
and the magnificent crops of wheat
which It is found they will produce. !.
We are asked about saving the seed
Of white clover. The crop Of white
clover was immense all through the
central west this year. We never saw
such a growth OF this clover or such
profuse bloom. While too late to be of
service this season we may say that
the field should be cut over with
mower when the heads are well brown
ed, the clover should then be allowed
to be until 1t becomes well bleached by
rain and sun, then raked into punches
and stacked when very dry, or, better
yet, be put in the barn, where it may
be hu4ed as is red clover. The yield
Of seed may be from one bushel per
acre and up, and it is usually, worth
not less than $40 per bushel.
European cotton manufacturers are
the earth to find supplies of
cotton other than those furnished by
the Emitted States. Egypt, Africa and
India are each being investigated as to
their possibilities as cotton growing
countries. The worlds demand for
this staple now exceeds the ability Of
America to supply. One chief trouble
with the cotton crop is that It soon ex-
hausts the soil whereon 1t is grown and
In Its southern habitat leaves the soil
badly eroded. 1t is always clanoring
for new land and virgin fertility. The
L. A.