Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-27

1t is poor business policy to sell the
- good COW or the good brood mare. Good
nal things in this line when once secured
should be held on to.
Minnesota may properly be referred
"a to hereafter as the bread and butter
TN state, no state excelling her in wheat
@ fields and crea .4leries.
III The mistake is made not in crossing
~ and producing grades, but in using the
~ grades as parent stock This is al
al ways an ineXcusable blunder
"a 1t is pity to feed all the skimmilll
Nv to the calves and pigs and use none Of
III it for the family 1t is just as good to
~ make boys and girls grow strong as it
is for the pigs and calves.
~ 1t makes no difference what the eff
10 feet of the oleomargarine law may be,
SM no bigger fraud was ever perpetrated
than the selling of this stuff as pure
th a butter. II people want it for what it
is, all right.
units Maine hog swallowed box con-
ings tanning bank bills to the value of $3.50,
and it made as much fuss almost as the
holding of town meeting, while plen-
the ty of western farmers put $500 into
ONE hog, and nothing is thought of it.
easy
AS an economic proposition it has
been clearly proved time and again that
lives man will do more work in six days,
cad resting the seventh, than he would to
the work seven consecutive days, and the
had same principle applies to his team as
the well.
The new year opens with promising
soil, conditions for the American farmer.
ac The general level of prices of all farm
ased products is such as to insure a good
the profit in their production. Especially
e in is this true as regards the poultry and
of dairy farmer.
The lawyers get 80 large slice of
pro- the estate of the well to do farmer
hes, when he is foolish enough to let the
ants courts divide his property among his
rket heirs that every sensible man will
ours make such distribution while he is
tell alive and has his wits about him.
Scattered all through the territory
lrm- where the soft corn is to be found were
r to a few men who raised fine sound crops
aid Of corn. These men have knowledge
ines Of much value to their unlucky neigh
n to bors, and the neighbor should lose no
wild time in getting possession of this knowl-
edge.
LAM We noticed an advertisement lately
/, to to the effect that man was wanted
sep to take charge of a farm. He must be
b of foreigner, have wife and a lot of
'r to children. The inference is that the
'ibly wife and children were wanted to milk
only the cows. This is the first bid we have
seen for a big family in a long time.
poor A Minnesota farmer went up against
MY the hog cholera law of that state late
j IN ly. He was fined $25 for failing to re-
new port the presence of cholera in his herd,
ould $40 for failing to bury his dead hogs
OF and $40 for allowing his infected hogs
ana to run at large He felt like Job Of
Up old, we guess, when the courts got
through with him.
more A man largely makes his own neigh
sec bors. If he will, he can by fair and
fact generous treatment surround himself
10 not only with good neighbors, but with
ltlon a circle of more valued friends. On the
lltry other hand he can Inv mean and self
wen ish course of living very easily become
pe not only man without friends, but
without neighbors as well.
's The general extension of trolley lines
Falh- through country districts will do more
1tral than any other one thing to popularize
ably conntrv living Whore thesa linas ara
nerh built there will men eagerly seek coun-
III try homes, where the conditions for rails
loo'- ing family are so vastly better than
U OF they are in the city. Every trolley line
lso1. project should receive the hearty sup
port and encouragement of all people
type living tributary to the territory through
the which it passes.
nsaS
anne The general verdict as to the value
,er- of rape as FORAGE cron ia thar for
rass pigs and sheen il is one of great value
THIS AS general proposition on the aver
MIX, age farm it is better to sow it by itself
IS OF of an acreage just suited to the needs
con- of this class of stock kept on the farm.
most While it may be grown as an after
~ Is crop following small grains and corn,
unusual drought or excessive rains are
each likely to prevent its best develop
,eed- ment. Anyway, be sure to SOW small
4 re- piece next spring and give it a trial
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