Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26

III
Three fingers Of whisky day has
wrecked many $4,000 farm.
A hen man has figured out that the
hens Of America lay 203 eggs for each
one Of our population each year.
Dandelion greens, pieplant pie and
asparagus do whole lot to make one
realize that spring is really here.
Most cows will milk right if fed right.
One-half Of the COW keepers of the
country need to learn how to feed their
cows.
| II it had been our lot to be an old
maid and be dependent upon our own
work to secure a living we would keep
poultry and let cats and pug dogs
| alone.
| More than ordinary success in any
line of farming is invariably the result
Of more than ordinary enterprise, care
and intelligence. There is mighty little
of what is termed luck about farming.
| Good roads conventions are the Or
der of the day, but the man has not
yet been discovered who can make
good road out of gumbo soil during a
rainy spring when the frost is coming
out.
| Mind this-there is no "get rich
| quick" business about farm work, no
lottery prizes offered by nature. 1t is
put in dollars worth of toll and draw
out $1.10 worth of reward, and some
| times the 10 cents is wanting.
The live oaks of the south are among
| the most beautiful shade trees to be
found anywhere in the country. Wher-
ever they have room they grow with
| shapeliness and symmetry which are
the very essence of landscape art.
During one days ride recently In the
fore part of April we saw men picking
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crop and in adjoining fields other men
busy planting the new crop. There are
some men who need year with 500
days il 1t.
| We have known the petty rivalries
/ and jealousies between fruit men to re-
suit in the giving of a bad name to a
most worthy type of fruit which some
! one of them originated. Men engaged
in such splendid work can afford to
be generous.
/ When poultry raisers can get 10 cents
for April and May eggs. as they have
done for the past two years, there is
no question about the business being
profitable one. Cold storage and the
patent egg cases have done great things
for old Biddy.
estimate the value of the timber upon
the lands in the Choctaw Indian reser-
walton in the Indian Territory place 1t
at $25,O00,000, and there is to be a
great scrap to get hold of it as soon as
the Indians can give title.
Good neighbors always depend upon
one being willing to make a little con-
cession in the matter Of ones opinions
and ways of doing things. The man
across the road feels his oats just as
much as you do and is just as cock
sure he is right as you are
/ A creamery man who managed to get
2S per cent of water into his butter
and thought he had good thing has
| been pulled in Chicago and will have
to take out license costing $3.50 as a
manufacturer of adulterated butter
and may have to pay thousand dollar
fine to boot.
1t seems to us that many men are
heartlessly cruel in the matter of clip
4 ping their horses and shearing their
sheep doing it SO early in the season
that untold suffering is caused. No
horse should be clipped or sheep shorn
until their owner is ready to shed his
winter underwear.
| We know of one pretty good farmer
who has been roped in by different
sorts of swindles no less than four diff
ferent times during the past ten years.
He is such an easy mark that every
falir within 500 miles has his post
office address. He seems utterly un-
able to learn anything by experience.
| A variety of corn which. being plant
ed early in March, would ripen by the
middle of July would be n great boon
to much Of the south where hot winds
and drought during July and August
cut the very life out of the big and
late varieties which would naturally
mature in September. The trouble is
that any variety of early corn taken