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.
Give smart man a good COW, TWEEN.
ty-fiye hens and half acre of land
aid he vii. from them more than half
support himself and family.
No man can afford to quit his corn
blowing and go with his team and
work on the road for $3.50 per day
Every day in the cornfield in June is
worth ut least So.
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.
The Wealthy apple behaves remark.
ably well in cold storage. On the last
of January barrel taken from colo
storage gave but twelve damaged ap
pies and $50 perfectly sound ones.
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 theil
op1 fnnnDio1 hattorYpapf
Cornstalks returned to the soil give
a supply of humus and improve the
mechanical condition of clay soils, bu
there is little or no fertility in them
Light and sandy soils are better of
| without than with them in dry sea
son.
The value Of speltz as crop for the
far north country was well illustrated
last year in northern Minnesota.
very cold, wet spring delayed seeding
and when the soil could be worked i
was late in the season. Speltz thel
sowed yielded forty-six bushels al
acre, wheat seven bushels and oat
eight bushels.
The vast glaciers of the mountain
regions Of France have been latel.
most felicitously referred to as tn,
"white coal fields" of that country, thu
| never failing streams of water fed b!
these glaciers two miles up in the ali
| being now utilized in their fall to gen
crate an electric power which makes
| black coal useless.
A convention of the Gamers AM
packers of fruits and vegetables wal
recently held in the city of Washing
ton. at this meeting there was illus
trated the wonderful advance mad,
during the past few years in this lin'
of industry, machinery now accom-
plishing automatically nearly the who'll
complicated process of preparing tn,
raw material, cooking, canning, seal
ing and labelling the cans.
1t is an important thing to procur
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 limit
of successful cultivation of nearly al
our farm products as well as fruits |
is we'll to study out those things whic
are best suited to given ATTITUDES an
contine ourselves to their production.
In clover, corn and oats rotation o
| crops. which is common one in man,
sections, it is often found that the GA
crop following but one crop of corr
| will grow too rank and lodge and spoil
| This may be prevented by taking a
| least two crops of corn from the Ian,
before sowing to oats or a crop of fla.
| following the corn, which is warrante,
to make the richest land poor enougl
to grow crop of oats which will stan,
up.
Science is touching agriculture an,
| horticulture in many ways-in plan
breeding, cross fertilization, in th
spraying and limitation of insect pests
in analyses of all foodstuffs as ANNA
rations, in soil physics whereby TIL
soil is fitted for it's work, in ANNA
husbandry, the feeding and breeding O
all domestic animals-in fact, there i
no other business in which man is ell
gagged where science touches him NOR
helpfully or with which it works NOR
tremendously.
The central butter making statiu]
supplied with cream from the farm
using the farm separator and shippe,
i'll twice week by rail from terri
tory anywhere within 100 miles is be
coming disorganizing factor in exist
ing dairy methods in the west 1t
menacing the life of the co-operativ
creameries working under the cream
cry system. The two things of thu
securing better quality of skimmil
for the young things on the farm am
the saving Of the expensive haul o.
the milk to the creamery are almos
insuring the success Of the innovation