Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-28

Good crops are always objec. lessons
and preach as nothing else can the
gospel of good agriculture.
There is nothing pleases US more
than to see real lazy man get put
on short rations. We just like to see
him hustle for grub.
Japan absolutely controls the cam
phor production of the world, her re-
cent acquisition of the island of For
mosa assuring her this valuable monop-
oily.
Prosperity follows just as surely in
the wake Of the cow and the creamery
as chinch bugs. and soil paralysis do in
the wake Of the wheat and cotton
farming.
People will always want plenty Of
fresh eggs, good milk, fruits and veg
etables, and any one who can produce
these things will never have to hunt
for buyers.
There are thousands of western pas
lures which this season are carrying
from So to So worth of white clover
seed to the acre if there was any
means of securing it.
Birds quit singing and caroling just
as soon as they are through with the
business Of mating and nesting, in
which respect they very much resem-
BILE good many married couples whom
we know.
Weather conditions have cut down
the early estimates of the wheat crop
for 1908, which forecasted the largest
crop ever produced, but even with all
losses counted out the crop is likely
to be. a bumper" one.
The growing of coffee at present
prices being improbable to the Brazil
ian coffee grower, the government Of
that country is going to step in and
help him out by paying bounties of $6,-
100000 to the producers. .
One important factor in the agricul-
tural prosperity of the west lies in the
almost total absence of hog cholera at
the present time. We can't recall
time when there. was greater immunity
from hog disease than there is now.
At points on the new Siberian rail-
way the finest wheat is produced and
sold for the small sum Of 80 cents per
bushel, this wheat raised by peasant
ry not as yet possessing single mod
ern implement or tool for the produc-
ton Of the crop.
Paint worth $25 and a weeks work,
partly put in by applying the paint and
part in "clarin'" up, would add $500
to hundreds of farm homesteads in
selling value and give evidence to the
public that a civilized Christian gentle
man owned the premises.
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blight in fruit trees, particularly apple
and pear trees, is highly contagious.
Appearing first in varieties of trees
specially susceptible to the disease, it
is readily communicated to others
which are not SO subject. This fact
bars pears, the Transcendent crab, the
Tetofsky apple and other Russian va
rieties from our orchards.
Unless a woman is dead set on lug
ging in her supply of water for use
from the well, and there are some
such women, every man should see if
there is not some way in which the in
dispensable matter of water supply
can be furnished for the home in the
most convenient way. Where the wind
mill furnishes the power it is an easy
matter to arrange system of domestic
waterworks, making all the water
used pass through tank in the house,
when 1t may be tapped and used under
pressure.
The Capitalization Of the creamery
interests of the country is progressing
at a rapid rate, and the days of the To-
cal creamery seem to be numbered. The
introduction and the use of the farm
separator have made this process Of
consolidation possible. and without It
the change could never have taken
place. The bad roads, which have for
long period this year made the. delivery
Of milk at the creamery almost impos-
sible, are another factor in promoting
the change. Some of these large trust
creameries are now drawing the cream
from distance of 300 miles.
No crop which is generally grown
has greater recuperatlve power than
corn. Through the corn growing belt
the adverse climatic conditions of May
and June may leave the crop on the
LIST Of July in a stunted, backward