Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-09
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The pure bred draft marc can easily (
be made one of the very best Of farm
| investments.
! Just so long as the price OF hogs re-
mains at Sc and over. just so long will /,
the piano men be able to do business in
the hog country.
/ Twenty-Five hens we'll cared for will
produce an income equal to that of an | I
average cow and will cost less to keep .
and less work to care for.
The juice of the sugar beet is twice
as sweet as the sap Of the maple tree
| 100 pounds of sugar beet juice yielding
twelve pounds of sugar, while maple
sugar will produce only four or five.
| The wise farmer, if he has boys, will s
not introduce any trotting blood among
| his horses A man can raise first class | ,
boys and draft horses together but
2:4O trotter on the farm has sent many
boy to the devil. r
| The silo is the most practical and !.
economical agency for furnishing
succulent and nutritious winter ration .
/ 70, Ii Sc s+r |
way as good as roots, is easier to feed
and does not cost one-half as much to
prepare.
That country will always best con-
serve the fertility of its soil where the
frost locks it up tight for period of
not less than three months each year
and covers it with snow. Winter rains
on unfrozen soil are great robbers of
fertility.
| One fact has been very clearly demon
strated with reference to the expert
mental work in growing alfalfa in the
corn states and that is that standing
water on the field where it is sown at
any time of the year is absolutely ia
tai to the crop.
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Dishonesty on the part of the Ameri-
can cheesemaker destroyed his Eng
fish market for his product and gave to
his shrewder and more honest Cana ,
dian competitor market worth mil ]
lions of dollars asyear. 1t pays in the
long run to be honest. {
There should be more passwords set
out for shade trees. We doubt if among
all the long list of native forest trees
we have one which excels the bass
wood for hardness, cleanliness and
beauty of form and foliage. 1t always
grows more beautiful as it grows old.
In one small community in Kansas
drug firm in four weeks in January
sold 1O2 ounces of strychnine, 214
| ounces Of cyanide of potassium, As
bushels of poisoned wheat and 231s
gallons OF carbon bisulphide, all for the ]
purpose Of destroying the prairie dogs
on the farms of that community.
The question Of food supply for ami |
mails produces some curious results. In
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iplace. Such q Mace alwavs m,ts no in
/ mind of finely dressed lady wearing
a dirty petticoat
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