Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-06

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Winter eggs are the product of sum-
mer conditions and food.
There are more or less men in every
community who cannot be hired to do
good days work who will still work
hard all day long for two rabbits and
red squirrel.
There are 6OOO00,O00 acres of public
lands subject to homestead entry, near
ly all of it mountain and desert. Irri-
CATION will reclaim when put in opera
ton from to per cent of this area.
1t is estimated that 25,C00 American
farmers have bought land in northwest
Canada and will locate there as British
subjects. This is the best thing that
has happened to Canada for a good
many years.
The butter exports Of the state of To-
wa for the year ended Sept. 30, 1907,
were 100000 pounds, bringing an ay-
erage price of 24.16 cents per pound.
The big year was 1897, when S4,000,O0O
pounds were produced, which, how
ever, only brought 1885 cents per
pound.
A claim is made for newfangled
milking machine that the cows MIXED
by it have in ten days increased in
their milk product to the extent of one
third. We had always supposed that it
was what was put into the COW and
not what was taken from her that de-
| termined her milk yield.
| We saw a model windbreak for the
! prairie farm homestead the other day.
| 1t consisted of two rows Of Scotch pines
set twenty feet apart each way, break
| ing joints in the rows These trees were
sixteen years old, twenty feet high and
formed a solid evergreen wall, proof
against the worst that the winter
winds could do.
/ Bastard stalks of corn may more fire.
/ quently be traced to q lack of fertility
in the soil than the inferior quality OF
the seed used. Many field which will
j produce a growth of stalk of fair size
is still too impoverished to furnish the
food for ear and grain development. II
| will be found upon examination thai
unless the corn is planted too thicllJ
the bastard stalk will rarely be found
On rich ground.
4 A lady writing from Illinois com
plains that her hens don't lay in the
winter and wants to know what to dt
for them. In the first place it is no
: natural for hens to produce their egg
!, during the winter season, and more o
less artificial means must be used t.
induce them to do it. Warmth, sun
!: shine and the feeding of egg produc
ing food to young hens will usually re
suit in egg production, even in mid
winter. Without these things no egg
need be looked for
/ During recent trip away from HON
we tried to eat a dish Of oatmeal a
four different well conducted hotel:
At not one of these places was this oa'
meal SO cooked as to be fit for foot
We wish we could in some way impress
upon the minds of cooks everywheI
; the fact that all starchy foods must b
; cooked for long time in order to b
palatable and digestible. If intende
| for the morning meal, oatmeal, ric
hominy, grits, prepared wheat-in fac
any of the uncooked cereal foods
| should be cooked in q double boiler *
] Mt least tl,ree or four hours the prev
Gus day aid then warmed up for breal
!. fast.
: The possibilities in connection wit
the production of cereal crops in tt
: Canadian northwest are immense. A
Stunning that when forty-three acres OF
of every quarter section are SO er
: ployed there will be produced in TIL
D territory 35O,O00,000 bushels of whea
D 25O,0OO,000 bushels of oats and 5O,OOt
r 600 bushels of barley, should the emit
e area ever be utilized which is suitab
t for cultivation there will be produce
1000, 100000 bushels of wheat. 6OO,OO'
$ 900 bushels of oats and 100000
S bushels Of barley. 1t is claimed that
t, any event ten years hence there will
i available for export 300,000,000 bushe
v of wheat and 1OO,OOO.000 bushels
r oats.
l. The principal need of the apple
IS chards Of the west is more moistul
n The irregularity of the rainfall and {
h tentimes its marked deficiencies are {
10 rious problems confronting the apl
J. grower. Every means which will
j. suit in conserving the rainfall for t
r use of the trees should be adopted. II