Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-10

The professional horse trader Is not
expected to tell the truth. for he
wouldn't If he could and couldn't if he
would.
idly making its way on to the farms of
the country, and it is wonderfully
useful machine.
Religion, love, money, inventive gen.
ius, and even politics sometimes, will
drive man crazy, but we never knew
Just good hard work to do it.
The cement bridge is taking the
place of both wood and steel. While
costly to erect in the first place, these
bridges are as near permanent in char
acter as anything can be.
We never will attain system OF
equitable taxation until diamonds,
bonds and wealth in hidable and con-
crete forms are taxed OF the same
basis as land, lots, hogs and horses
When flock of small chickens ap.
pears on ones premises and stays there
from spring to fall, whose chickens are
they? Can somebody come and right
fully claim them in the fall when they
are grown?
Dun and Bradstreet, the usually reli-
oh1n al 1n
1903 crop of corn at $500, 100000 BUSH
els, or a good average crop. This crop
is worth to the country S1000,000,00O,
every dollar newly created wealth.
There are hundreds and thousands of
clover is worth all that it costs to
grow, just for its fertilizing and reno
waiting work on the soil The clover
farms are always and ever productive
farms.
1t is entirely possible to so care for
the home and its surroundings that
passersby will stop to look and say,
what a pretty place" In order to be
able to invite such a pleasing compli-
ment one must have taste, for just
money alone won't do it.
a large herd Of deer, partially domes-
ticated, in mountain park in one of
the eastern states had so multiplied in
number that the food supply became
short. When the fence was removed
and they were free to go where they
chose they would not leave their old
haunts.
| We saw man not long since most
| numerically flashing horse, partial
| ly broken four-year-old colt. He said
that he was trying to break the beast
in when we feel sure that he was only
| just working off mad fit of his own.
There is world of cruelty practiced
on both horses and children in this
| brutal manner
| We are going to cut our roses back
| this fall to within six inches of the
| ground and then cover them with
| leaves and earth instead OF laying the
| long canes down, as we have usually
done. The bloom of next season is all
| made on the new growth of wood any
| way, and this latter method makes it
easier to protect them.
/ There is no more profitable business
| connected with western farming than
| the raising of hogs, which will sell for
| 5 cents pound or over at seven
months old or about SD per head. Any
! man who will combine the cow and
/ the hog with corn, clover, rape, barley
| or peas can make his land pay him big
interest ON a valuation of 500 per
acre.
! As whole, the soil of the north is
more fertile than the soil of the south.
| locked up tight for five months dur
| ing the winter season, and the soil es-
/ capes the destructive erosion which the
/ winter rains infiict upon the uncovered
soils of the south, This is one of the
| conversations of severe winter wealth
| er which are rarely considered.
The straw piles of the grain fields
should be used in the barnyard during
| the winter for two reasons-one that
| it will contribute greatly to the com
| fort of the stock. another that it will
make most valuable lot of fertilizer
This letting stock run to straw pile
in the open field is a poor shift any
way, as it leaves spot in the field
which will grow nothing for couple
of years save. weeds.
/ The Northwestern Greening apple
has surprised every man who had the
trees this year with a magnificent crop
of splendid fruit. 1t has been hereto,
4 fore claimed that this tree was very
shy bearer and very particular as to
location and soil, when the truth seems
to be that all the tree needed was age
for it is this year. where ten years
planted, bearing well on all sorts OF
soil and in all locations.
1 Slowly but surely the silo is finding
its way ON to every well managed