Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1903-08-18
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There is one fruit the demand for
which will always exceed the supply,
and that is the cherry.
We grow lot Of caulilower each
year just for picking, for which pur-
pose it is hard to beat.
The western farmer realizes the adj
vance in the price Of raw cotton by the
advance in the price paid for his over
alls.
The horse at one time had five toes,
but it was not until he got rid of them
all but one that he was able to strike
a gait of 2:02.
The cosset lamb develops very rapid
ly into the bunting buck. His career is
best terminated early, with mint sauce
and green peas as side dishes.
A freak reported from Dakota is q
wild red raspberry which bears fruit
Of good quality year after year upon
the same wood, like juneberry or buf-
falo berry.
Thousands Of acres Of meadow land
have this season yielded three tons Of
good timothy hay to the acre, which at
the prices such hay brings makes it a
very profitable crop.
1t Is singular fact that nearly all
fruits and vegetables common to this
country when taken to Japan always
deteriorate in quality in two or three
years SO as to be almost worthless.
In the sharp contest going on now
through the range country the govern
ment always takes the part Of the
homesteader as against the cattle
barons. II this were not so It would
be hard lines for the settlers.
The seven corn states, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska
and Iowa, produced S33, 600 600 bushels
of corn in 1901, 1,7O3, ,OOo, 600 bushels in
1902, end the department Of agriculture
estimates the yield at 1902, 600 900 for
1903.
It is altogether too common thing
that farmers are willing to be repre-
sented both in congress and state leg
islatures by lawyers. Why should a
lawyer be better qualified to make
laws for the government Of the farmer
than the farmer himself?
So far as we know, the first organized
attempt to work up big peat marsh
into fuel supply is now under way
near Tomah, Wis. A company has &C.
cured 300 acres of peat marsh and is
now digging, grinding, pressing and
drying the peat and furnishing an ex-
cellent quality Of fuel.
Here is way Of making fine onion
pickles and man can do it for his
wife: Get peck or half bushel Of
small onions. Make sack of mosquito
netting and drop quart at time in
boiling water. Keep them there four
minutes; easy job then 10 peel them.
Put in brine for three days, then into
vinegar with red pepper seasoning.
In point of fine favor and texture of
meat the black bass stands at the head
of all our fresh water fish, with the
possible exception Of the brook trout,
and, contrary to the opiuion Of many
people, the bass is not best when cooked
just as soon as taken from the water.
1t should be dressed and laid on
Ice for twenty-four hours before be-
Ing cooked.
American exports to China have
risen from 100000 in 1893 to $1e,-
100000 last year. The slant eyed
enigma Of the occident is beginning to |
eat our wheat and tell the time of day
by our dollar watches. While millions
Of these heather earn no more than $40
q year, still If they can be induced to 4
buy even 90 cents worth of American !
goods during the year 1t will mean a (
big trade for this country.
Recent experiments in Florida prove I
that pound of either beef or pork |
may be there produced from cassnva
roots at cost Of ] cent against a .
cost OF 31a cents when produced from
corn in the west. AS this plant can .
be most successfully grown in the /
south country and produces enormous
ly, 1t would seem as though d new |
and very profitable use could be made
Of much land which is now unproduc-
tive. ~
A friend inquiries about Arizona-soil.
crops, climate and whether people af- /
fected with catatrh are benefited. BY |
going there. Arizona is hot country
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