Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-24

Onions and peas are two vegetables
which cannot well be planted too early.
Renovated butter has just the same
claim to respect that the reformed
criminal has.
The forty acre farm with the silo can
be made to support as many head of
stock as the eighty acre farm can with
out it.
The Russian government determines
just how much of the sugar product of
that country shall be sold and how
much placed in reserve.
If nice sweet peas are wanted. they
should be planted just as soon as the
frost is out of the ground and planted
deep, three inches at least.
If dairy COW is built like steer
and looks like steer, she should share
the fate of a steer and not wear out
mans patience in the dairy herd
The enormous losses of sheep in Aus
tralia incident to the seven years
drought is expected to materially af
feet the price Of wool for the coming
year.
Great as are the wheat possibilities
connected with the Canadian north
west they are infinitely surpassed by
those of the Siberian country now be-
Ing opened by the Russian government.
The cows of any breed which have
made high butter records almost inva-
riably give over 5000 pounds of milk
during the year, and unless cow will
give at least this much it is useless to
expect her to show up in the 400 pound
class.
We have several reports of the value
of rape when sown in the cornfield at
the last blowing. The rape does not
interfere with the early husking of the
corn and immensely improves the feed
ing value of the cornfield, balancing
up the ration and wholly preventing
any trouble with cornstalk disease.
The general level of wages paid la
Dor in this country is at the present
time higher than ever before known.
and the curious fact is presented of the
products of such labor being sold in
successful competition with the prod
ucts of the lowest paid labor on earth.
Brains and machinery do the business.
We find the low down, wide tired wag-
on most useful part of the farm equip
ment, and besides whenever it is used
on the road it always does good job
Of roadmaking. II every man could
be induced or made by law to use the
wide tired wagon, a great step in adj
vance would have been made in the
matter Of improved highways.
The st. Louis exposition will perhaps
be more remarkable for its display of
agricultural and horticultural products
than for any other one thing. Located
as it will be in the very heart of the
best agricultural district in the world,
the cotton of the south, the corn of the
the hog, the steer, the COW. the hen, the
orchard and the garden will furnish an
exhibit which Will make foreigners
open their eyes.
Some close student of bird life has
is not altogether an instinct, but partly
fine art taught by the older birds to
the younger ones just as Il child is
taught music. In proof of this claim
he says that the orioles in pairing are
invariably mated an old and young
bird, one of the pair possessing the
architectural knowledge necessary to
the construction of the hanging nest
which these birds build.
We know a man who brags that he
has raised corn on certain field on
his farm for twenty consecutive years.
1t is piece of river bottom land and
was originally very fertile. Still, the
fact is he does not get to exceed one
half the crop on this field that he did
twenty years ago. 1t matters not what
the crop may be, it should never be
grown continuously on the same land,
and this applies in smaller way to
garden crops as well as field crops.
syndicate of farmers, thirty of
them, bought $1,000 Percheron sire
for their own use. Each man gave his
note for 500. The horse died, payment
was refused and suit to collect follow
ed The notes given by part of these
men were not collectible. and it was
sought to enforce payment of the whole
amount due from those who We're good.
The court held that this could not be