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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03
OUR TAME GRASSES.

Many men seed down fields with tim.
othy with the idea that such a change
will rest and recuperate the soil. A
mistake is made here, for while clover
will do this thing timothy will not.
Timothy is an exhaustive crop on the
soil. especially where it is permitted to
mature seed crop. The rotation with
this crop will tend to clean the weeds
out, and the decaying roots when the
sod is turned over furnish certain
amount of humus, which is of value. 1t
is about this way with the grasses
common to the north half of the coun-
try-blue grass makes the best perma-
nent pasture, timothy makes the best
selling hay and the seed crop is usual
ly profitable one, clover furnishes the
best balanced forage crop and is a soil
renovator, bronze grass has place
where timothy and clover will not do
well for want of sufficient moisture.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03
CALL THIS MAN DOWN.

A word to the presiding officers of
farmers institutes. Enforce time limit
ON the persistent, driveling, wandering
speaker who is simply stuck on the
sound of his own voice. These fellows
destroy the interest and strangle the
life out of such meetings. Invite some
thing from the many rather than let
the time be monopolized by the few.
Glass meeting institutes are always
good ones. Because man sits still in
the audience it is no sign that he does
not know and cannot tell something of
much interest and value to the au-
dience. The very best things brought
out in these meetings are the personal
and practical experiences of successful
men of the community where such
meeting is held.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03
TO ASK CHANGE OF VENUE.
Mrs. Gallagher Will Be Tried in An
other County for Perjury.

Iowa City, Jan. Silt is expected
that Mrs. Ellen Gallagher, acquitted
of the murder of her husband, will
ask for change of venue in the case
wherein she is accused of perjury.
Her attorneys will soon file an aft
davit of prejudice in Johnson county
and ask the court to transfer the
trial to another county. Newspaper
clippings and articles will be intro
duced into court with the AFFIDAVIT
showing that the minds of the people
of Johnson county have been SO pois
oned against Mrs. Gallagher that she
cannot have a fair trial here.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03
LIVING cLosE 70 rHE so,,,.

The advanced cost of the products of
land is very sharply calling attention to
the old truth that the closer man lives
to the soil the better he IS off. The tend
ency has been of late years to get away
from the soil. anywhere, any business,
as far removed from it us possible. If
the needs of the food which the soil
produces could have been also got
rid of it would not have mattered so
mucl. but do what We will the old
problem of something to eat is before
us ali three times q day $50 days in the
year. When a man entirely cuts loose
from the soil, he becomes at once de-
pendent. AS an illustration of what we
mean we give the bill of fare of q meal,
and this particular meal is only type
of many which, on the writer's own ia
ble invited and precipitated discus
SIGN on this line. The -four of which the
bread was composed, the coffee and the
condiments We're not produced on the
farm or in the garden, but everything
eggs, all the vegetables, fruits. pickles
list of choice food products which. had
they been bought, would represent a
large slice of a good salary each year.
| Then the absolute wholesoineness and
purity of such food produced at home
count FOR not a little-the heaping pan
full Of Strawberries just fresh from the
garden, the fresh laid eggs, the Jersey
cream-a pitcherful. When man has
to buy these things, only the few can
afford such liberality. Then, better than
all, is the daily consciousness of being
able to do it all yourself the feeling of
, independence realized, and the result
ing development of all the better side
i of ones nature in the doing Of it. The
typical American home of the coming
years will be one where all this may be
done, where man will still retain his
| God ordained connection with the soil,
to his benefit both mentally, morally
: and physically.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03
SOME LESSONS oE 1ao..

Some valuable lessons have been
learned as result of the peculiar eli
matte conditions which marked the
growing season of 1902, the wet sum
mer, as it is now known, when be-
tween four and five feet of rainfall had
to be cared for in the great Mississippi
valley. One is that twice the average
rainfall as it came last season will in
sure twice the average crop of grass
and hay, and with this has developed
the fact that such excessive growth of
grass is greatly inferior in nutritive
value compared with the product of
the average year. Another thing we
note is that in such year of surplus
rainfall vast amount of plant food
stored up during preceding dry years is
made available for plant growth. evil
denced by the almost abnormal growth
Of foliage and new wood on all trees
and shrubs. We further note that ex-
cessive moisture is in large measure
fatal to parasitic life. We cannot recall
year when all forms Of parasites,
even to flies, were held in such COM
plete subsection. The season saved
many man the need of photographs
ic survey of his farm, and he has been
enabled to determine just what por-
tons of it needed either surface or I'M
der drainage. Some lessons of value
have also been learned regarding the
cultivation and harvesting of crops,
and hereafter the effort to harvest and
save the crop will be at least as much
Of a consideration with him as the
growing of it,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03
CCOOOCOCOOO OOOCOOCOOCL
LOCAL MARKETS.

There are but few changes in the
local wholesale markets today and the
movement is firm and the quotations
of last Saturday remain steady. Pack
ers pay thirteen cents for butter today
and the price of eggs drops two cents
per dozen. They are now worth fifteen
cents.
Retailers get thirty cents per pound
for creamery (separator) butter today,
making a two and one-half cent drop
from the quoted price Of last week,
otherwise there are no other changes
in the retail markets.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03
Chicann Live Stock

Chicago, Feb. 2.-Cattle, receipts
$4,000; steady; good to prime, 4.50@
5.S5; poor to medium, 3.00@4.50;
stockers, 2.25@4.50; COWS, 1.49@450;
Texans, 3.50@4.5O.
Hogs, receipts 10000; steady to S
lower; mixed butchers, 6.50@675;
good to choice heavy, 6.S9@6.90; rough
heavy, 6.50@6.fo; light, 6.25@6S0;
bulk sales, 6.50@6.70.
Sheep, receipts 10000; steady to
strong; 3.50@5.25; lambs, 4.40@6.25.
Chicagc Produce Market.
Chicago, Feb. 2.--Wheat. No. q red.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

1906; No. red, 6s@75; No. hard,
1904; No. 3 hard, 6S@72; May open
ed, TIN OTIS; highest, 1885; lowest,
TVS @77A; closing, 1914 @7Sas.
Corn, Nos. 2, white, yellow, 431a
@44; No. 3, AK @A214; No. yellow,
1924 @49A; February, 43; May open
ed, 447s; highest, 447s; lowest, 44A
closing, 445s.
Oats, No. 2. s31a@ss No. white
5000; No. white, 33A @341a; No
white, 321a @33R; standard, 341s q
35R; February, 39a; May opened
1914; highest. 36ss; lowest, So; clos
ing, 36B @36A.
Pork. May, 1910.
Lard, February, 9.32; May, 9.35.
Ribs, May, 100000.
Rye, May, 50&.
Barley, cash, 42@58.
Flax, 1.16@1.20.
Timothy. AIS.
Glover, 11.50.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Poultry farming bids fair to pay bet
ter hereafter than ever before, and a
pleasant and most profitable business
is within easy reach of any enterpris-
ing man or woman.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

The present secretary of agriculture
is Il pronounced optimist. and for that
he commands our sincere respect, for
optimists do something, see something
and stir up the better side of human
ity. He sees government irrigation,
once dream, now Il reality, and the
growing of our own sugar to be sold to
the consumer at the low price of 2
cents pound practical possibility in
the near future.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

The care of the calf for the first year
largely determines its value as beef
animal. 1t should never be anything
else than miniature beef critter-al-
ways full, always fat.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Mothers can safely give Foley's
Honey and Tar to their children for
coughs and colds, for it contains no
opiates or other poisons. For sale by
w. D. Elliott, corner Court and Main.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Consolidation in the alleged interest
Of economy of operation can be carried
too far, the failure of the Elgin Cream
cry company, with 5000 farmer pa
trons settling at 40 cents Oh the dollar
its 100000 obligations, being an in
stance. Stick to your home organiza-
tons.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

We find that 1t does not pay to try to
fruit the raspberry more than three or
four years. 1t is more profitable to dig
the old bushes up and set out new ones.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Forty-eight smart Indiana girls have
started for North Dakota in response to
the call of the 500 bachelors who are
holding down claims in that state and
want wives. This is more sensible than
organizing woman's club.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York Poultry Market.

New York, Feb. 2.-Poultry, alive,
steady; turkeys, 1904; fowls, IA;
dressed slow; chickens, 1872 OLA;
fowls, 12@13; turkeys, 1920.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

The best timothy hay is quoted at s14
per ton in the larger cities this winter,
which price and the very large yield Of
timothy in 1902 make the growing OF
this crop profitable business.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Two cars of lemons en- route for the
east were caught in a blizzard. One car
was got out and run into a roundhouse,
where the lemons all froze; the other,
left on the track, was buried up in a
huge snowdrift, and never lemon
froze.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Six hundred Of the better class Of
German citizens sat down recently to a
banquet, the meat dishes of the menu
being wholly horsefesh. 1t was got
up by the Society For the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, this society
wishing to prove that the old horse
was better fattened for food than
worked to death.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Old pastures can be greatly improved
by an early spring disking and the
sowing of little medium clover on
them. Blue grass on certain soils often
gets hidebound, and nothing is so good
for it as to rip it all to pieces. 1t can't
be killed by such treatment, but is al
ways benefited.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

retain his home OH his farm is the great
difference in the rate of taxation which
prevails between the country districts
ard our modern municipalities. The
cost of municipal government constant
ly increases. The tax OH an average
100000 farm is, say, $50, While the city
tax on the same amount of moneys and
credits would not be far from $500.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

The good milk COW is more than like
ly to be homely, as is the good brood
mare or brood SOW. Maternity and
beauty of form and appearance do not
go together in these cases.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Women are retaining some Of the
abandoned farms of the eastern states
by converting them into poultry and
fruit farms.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03
rREEs ON ruE RoApsIpns.

While the willow hedge is nuisance
along the public highway and should
be removed, it does not follow that
trees should not be grown by the road
side when the proper varieties are Sc
lected and properly set out. A row on
each side of the highway of maple,
white ash, water elm, larch, spruce or
pine trees set thirty-two feet apart and
trimmed up SO that the wind may
sweep through and not pile the road
with snowdrifts is an entirely practi-
cal and economic way of using the
roadsides, besides adding greatly to the
beauty Of the landscape and tempering
The force of the winds.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

The congressman are sending out
their allotment of seeds to their gran
ger constituents. Just the same old
farce as ever.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Four hundred and fifty bright young
men, farmers sons and their kind, at
tended the two weeks special course
at Ames Qa) Agricultural college this
winter, stock feeding and judging and
corn culture being taught by expert
enced men. This is the second year
this plan has been tried, and it is a
great success.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

That durbar fummididdle business
cost the people of India over $5,000,O00,
and when the next short crop comes,
which is about every fifth year, they
will be passing the hat--just like some
white men who can find money to so to
the circus even if they are living on
public charity.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

We hate to see fine farm homestead
disfgured by advertising-some fake
medicine or clothing adj displayed on
the roof of the barn or corncrib. Such
ads. are a sure sign to fallirs and ped
dler sharks that a sucker lives there.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Everything in the cellar will keep
better if the temperature can be kept
just above the freezing point. Most
cellars are kept too warm and are too
poorly ventilated. When potatoes be-
gin to sprout. you may know that your
cellar is too warm.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

1t is much easier to train well bred
horse, dog or boy than scrub. Good
breeding implies superior intelligence.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

The man who talks to hear himself
talk will not talk long for anyone
else, unless it be his wife.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03
Peoria Produce Market.

Peoria, Feb. Corn steady; N
8, 411a.
Oats steady; No. 3 white, 331a.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

/, ST. Louis Produce Market.
st. Louis, Feb. 2.-Wheat, cash,
71A; May, 74$s@74zs.
Corn, cash, ii; May, 415s.
Oats, cash, 351a; May, 36A.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Men lG.ake money where it takes ten
acres to feed one steer, but it is not a
pleasant country to do business in.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Carada's spruce forests will furnish
the printing paper for America for
years and years to come.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

New York Butter and Egg Market.
New York, Feb. 2.-Butter unset
tied; creamery, common to choice, 10
OPS; extra, 26.
Eggs firm; poor to prime, 1922;
refrigerated. 1908; fancy, 13.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

This man is one Of many. He bought
four cent steers to get rid of crop Of
soft corn. 1t took about two bushels of
soft corn to so as far as one bushel of
hard corn. When the steers were about
half fed, his corn gave out, and he was
up against the alternative of buying
Kansas corn at 40 cents or letting the
steers go at 3 cents, and he let them go
as the easiest way out of q bad deal.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Georgia is fast becoming the great
peach state of the Union. Peaches pay
better than cotton, and as the growing
of fruit requires a higher order of in
telligence than the growing of fiber the
civilization Of the state is benefited as
we'll as its pocketbook.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03
tn Cure Cold in One pav

------ TO OUIU
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money il it
fails to cure. E. w. Groves signature
is on each box. Csc.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03
New York Produce Market.

New York, Feb. 2.-Wheat, May,
S11A.
Corn, May, SOS.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

A country which waged an expensive
war to liberate and degenerate weak
and helpless people from purely hui
manitarian standpoint ought to have
sense enough to so legislate as to rid it's
own people Of the evils of food adulter-
alton. Let the next war be waged on
the rascals who wax fat on frauds per-
petrated upon and quietly submitted to
by the American people the dopers,
fiXers, mixers, adulterators and swim
dlers who in a wholesale way rob our
pocketbooks and ruin our digestion, the
ldehyde~preservative and
salicylic crowd who would eat out the
lining Of any mans gizzard to make a
quarter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

A section of the west famous for
many years for its great crops of
onions, crop of 400 or 500 bushels per
acre being common thing forty years
ago, now counts crop of $50 bushels
per acre a good one, this fact being in
line with the well established truth
that no one crop can be produced in
large excess in any place and escape
the law of deterioration both in guam
tity and quality of crop.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

One way of turning the tables is to
be as smart as you know how.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

A friend in Missouri writes US that
squirrels do not hoard up supply of
nuts for the winter in any one place,
but bury them in the earth here and
there, where they are dug out as need
ed in winter This is one of natures
cute ways of securing distribution of
seed, the nuts thus scattered being CIV
en- just the right treatment to insure
their termination i'll the spring, the
squirrel not using them all for food.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Chicago Butter and Egg Market.
Chicago, Feb. 2.-Butter dull, stea-
dy; creameries, 16@25; diaries, 15@
90.
Eggs weak, 2O1s.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

An Illinois reader wants to get a
piece of corn land into pasture as quick
ly as possible in the spring, and asks
how he had better do it. We would put
the land in the best possible shape with
either disk or pillow as soon as the
ground was fit to work, SOW two bush
els of oats, six quarts of timothy and
three of clover to the acre. and turn the
COWS in as soon as the oats were four
or five inches high. Along the last of
June or as soon as the oats not fed of
got headed out / would run mower
over the field, when the timothy and
clover would show up and make good
pasture from then on.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Chicago Poultry Market.
Chicago, Feb. Poultry quiet,
steady; turkeys, 15@1S; chickens, SO
121a.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

A northern man who moved to Ar
kansas five years ago with very lin
tied means writes us extolling the adj
vantages of that country as a home for
the poor man. He says that land of
good, fair quality can be obtained as
low as So per acre, that no colored peo-
pie are to be found in the county, that
fruit of all kinds does exceedingly well,
that the health of the people is unusu-
ally good and that the great need of
the south is the incoming of energetic,
live northern farmers to develop its
splendid possibilities.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

Rye is not estimated at its true value
as fall and early spring forage crop
up in the north country where the
snow falls. Sown on the cut cornfeld
in September, then pastured till snow
comes and again as soon as it disap-
pears in the spring. it pays well even if
the remnant is plowed under in May
for other crops. Grass seed sown on
such a field in March is almost invari-
ably sure catch. This fall and spring
rye pasture is just the thing for the
dairy cows.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

docs it pay to put lightning rod
on the barn?" we are asked. Frankly,
we do not know. Figures for 1902 show
that in a western state fifty odd barns
were struck by lightning and that none
of these We're rodded. Then there were
thousands of barns not rodded which
were not struck either. Theoretically if
the rod is of the right sort and is prop
erly put up it should form protec-
ton, but when the points glisten on the
roof and the earth connection is de-
fective or destroyed it is standing in
yitation to Jove to drop a bolt and
smite the property of a fool. We have
more faith in good insurance policy
than In a lightning rod.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

We want to say a word about the
morality and patriotism connected
with the payment Of small obligations.
We have found in our experience that
it is easier to collect $50 from some
people than it is the paltry sum of half
q dollar. A mans credit in the COM
munity in which he lives is largely de-
termined by the fidelity and prompt
ness with which he meets his small OBJ
legations. This applies with special
force in the case of men with limited
means to whom a creditable financial
rating to the extent of their ability is
often of the very greatest value.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-10
WINNERAGo LOVE FEAST
Wisconsin Remnants of Once Formld.
|. able Tribe Dance and Feast,


BARABOO, WIS.-One of the most
unique entertainments ever witnessed in
this vicinity was the so-called annual In
dian love FEAST held few miles north
of kilbourn on Saturday and Sunday The
place selected was in a picturesque spot
near the Menominee house, a historic
tavern, and the ceremony was in honor
of the "Great Spirit Fully $50 Winnie
bago Indians from all over the state were
in attendance. E.
Jim Standing, a robust Indian about SO
years of age, who makes his home about
Baraboo, was master of ceremonies The
performance was conducted in a large in
closure constructed Of canvas, old blan-
kets, carpets and mating and four fires
were kept blazing, around which were
seated the bucks, squaws and papooses.
The festivities commenced with a dance
The Winnebagoes were arranged'in their
tineries, the squaws having been busy for
weeks stringing beads and making orna-
ments John Canoe, Fred Minor, Old
Deer, Jack Swallow and John bunker,
the latter being 80 years old, occupied
places of honor
| The music for the dances was furnished
by tomtoms and accompanied by goat
shells, the regular Indian orchestra Sat-
urday night there was no sleep, the dan
cling and feasting continued at intervals
during the entire night and all day Sun
ness the ceremonies, but an exception was
made for a few personal friends.
| The Winnebagos who take part in these
festivities are but a remnant of tribe
| which refused to go on the reservation
| in Nebraska. Some Of them are descend
ants Of the famous chiefs Deborah and
Yellow Thunder.