Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-14

In a general way 1t pays better to go
fishing with the boys than it does to
lick them.
The three-year-old hen will lay best
in the stew Kettle as the Foundation for
an old fashioned potpie.
1t is estimated that 1000 car loads of
potatoes We're destroyed by the floods
in the Kaw river valley in Kansas.
The more clover can be cured in the
cock or in the barn and the less 1t is
cured in the swath the better it will be.
In law you cannot turn your surplus
water on to your neighbours land to his
injury any more than you can turn
your stock on to his cultivated fields.
During the last Of May while Kansas
and Iowa were drowning Maine was
burning up, proving that there is some
thing doing in this country all the
time.
A proof of the degeneracy of the
times may be found in the fact that
there are SO many nice women who
think more of pug dogs than they do of
babies.
Scientists have figured out that 247,-,
600 tons of steel dust are worn from
year and blown by the winds nowhere
and everywhere.
The food losses in Kansas alone are
placed ut $40, 100000, while the drought
losses in the New England states are
placed at S7o,o0o,0O0, all this during
May and one week in June.
Beef animals were selling the last of
June about S2.75 per hundredweight
lower than one year ago, but the retail
price of beef hardly shows that there
has been any decline in the wholesale
price.
The very newspapers which decry
the destruction of the American forests
are themselves one of the worst eaters
of forest growth, using acres of timber
in the shape of wood pulp paper every
day in the year.
A New Jersey county has been figur-
ing on the cost Of getting a system of
macadamized roads and finds that it
will cost something over S50O0.00O to
secure it. These figures stagger the tax
payers, and well they may.
1t is found that the poorer and more
porous grades Of timber, such as elm,
black oak, birch and other soft woods,
respond more readily to chemical treat
ment for their preservation than do the
hard and more valuable kinds of wood.
In California they have discovered
the fact that if dynamite is used to
break up the earth to the depth of
three feet where the grapevine Is to be
planted it is thereby rendered immune
to the pnylloxera, the great plague Of
the vine grower.
1t is not essential today that a man
must have pair of calloused, horny
fists, hair all over the back of his neck.
wear three-year-old chip hat, smell
like section Of the COW barn and wipe
his nose on the sleeve of his wamus in
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Science is working its way out on to
the farm in good shape. for here is
case where some fellows chloroformed
six big fat hogs in a farmers yard,
then killed them and carried them off,
leaving the sponge and partly filled
bottle of the annsthetic as their bust
ness card.
It is strawberry week at our place
the middle of June-and this summer
fruit festival will last about four
weeks. or until the last of the Gandys
are gone-a bushel or more every other
day from bed two rods wide and sew
en- rods long; just raise them for fun
USCuupt We Alhc " BEE luciu uEUuuu.
One of the most effective agencies in
the evolution of plant life in the grow
ing season is a June dew, dew which
holds every blade, tendril and twig in
a steaming sponge bath all night, an
elder down blanket Of moisture placing
crystallized jewels on leaf tip and geo.
metric SPIDERS web, an all Unfolding
stimulant and tonic for all plant life.
The most valuable food element in
any kind Of cured forage is the pro-
tein, and this in the largest measure is
only secured when the plant. whatever
1t may be, is cut and cured before ma
turity. To illustrate, clover which was
cut in early bloom showed 4.S9 per cent
of protein, while cut ten days past the
blooming period 1t showed only 800
per cent. This rule applies to corn cut