Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-11

1903.
The lumberman, the sheep and $h
= forest fire will utterly ruin the remain
Oh ing forest growth Of the country IN
| less prevented.
! California shipped 1880 cars of eel
D cry to the east the past season. Thil
q business has grown from a shipmen
of only fifty cars ten years ago.
Soft water cisterns in the south arc
a nearly all made of galvanized stee
I and placed above ground at the rear OF
II the house, thus making warm soft we
\ ter always on tap.
Some scientist has made the discov.
Y cry that there are 100000 microbes In
! box of Strawberries. If this be true
\ we have no hesitancy In disposing of
! 100000 microbes at our supper ia.
y ble
y The single comb Black Nnnorca fowls
hold the worlds record under the gov.
10 eminent test both for number and
weight Of eggs, one hen laying 292
II eggs in twelve months, weighing six
to the pound.
OF 1t is said that strawberries refine the
NC complexion when eaten literally Be
.. that as 1t may, we know they will put
Su a feather edge on fellows digestive
machinery, and he viii have mighty
good time doing it.
-, The Dorset sheep will bring the most
=, lambs, the Cotswold arc the best NUT
Il, ton sheep, the Merino produces the
y finest wool and the Shropshires are the
best all round sheep for alarm where
= from fifty to hundred sheep are kept.
ir If you are born lazy and Just want to
lie make living in the easiest way posi-
n BILE, keep 200 laying hens. You can buy
the feed for the fowls, hire a kid to
gather the eggs and still have enough
le left to keep your lazy body and soul to-
a gether.
q India has a very plentiful wheat har-
j SCSI ILLS SeaE, Oue VI Iue greatest
crops which the country has ever
raised, but q bad feature is that the su-
e perstitions of the people prevent them
y from so boarding this surplus as to pre-
% vent their periodical famines.
Q The old orchard which has grown
4 gnariy and unproductive may be reno
waited by removing all dead and decay
ing growth from tho trees, deeply
n blowing and continual cultivation of
J, the ground for two years and an appli-
8 cation of forty loads of good barnyard
n fertilizer to each acre
It In the timbered sections of north
Texas we noticed not long since men
girdling sections of fine native forest
\ and planting cotton on the ground go
r treated. The old fashioned rail fence
b is also much used there, and we saw
Is lots Of fence rails in some of the clear
e ings which had been cut the past win
r. ter.
Unless moro Tran 300 cows can be
secured to support . creamery 1t is all
|
v to q creamery to care for their prod
: uct. II all the money worse than vast.
d ed throughout the country on nnneces-
+ sary creamery plants and outfits could
e be Jumped in pile 1t would astonish
q the natives.
We know of one community where
the Introduction Of registered Short
: horn bull did the people more lasting
;. good than did the work of travelling
y evangelist AS soon as the people be-
q gan to raise better stock they built bet
4 ter houses, took more papers and mag
/ azines, raised the wages of the school
/. teacher, started q Sunday school, set
j out trees and paid their debts.
A Maine dairyman says that It costs
:, him from $45 to $50 to keep COW
= year and that he makes profit of $50
on each COW. In many Of the dairy
sections Of the west the cost Of keeping
: the COW does not exceed 500, and the
i, net profits are not as large as with the
: Maine farmer, this because he is forced
to keep we'll bred dairy animal, and
the western farmer won't have that
: sort around. ~ -.
The nations stomach IS fast being
segregated at Battle Creek, and when
the time comes that all our food is
predigested there we should like to
know what will become OF the liver Dill
and dyspepsia cure fellows. In the
Hawaiian Islands the natives chew up
the taro root and then throw their
cuds into pot to ferment, when they
have poi, the great national delicacy,
and it looks as though we were coming
to something of that sort before long.