Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-17
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Two things, beef and real estate are
| now indulging in headache after
their spree.
Look out for the fellow who wants to
sell you budded apple trees at dollar
apiece. He is a fraud. Set the dog on
him.
California produces 500 carloads of
honey each year. Bookkeeping is more
of business in that state than in any
other.
The state OF Minnesota has horti-
cultural society consisting of 1900
members. No wonder apples grow in
that state.
The province of Manitoba is equal in
area to England and Ireland, yet con-
tains but 21O,000 inhabitants. while
the mother countries have 33,00O,000.
A September frost is more damaging
to cornfield than May frost, which
cuts the young corn to the ground. The
latter RECEIVERS, but the former never
does.
The beef trust is magnanimously sell
ing coal to the poor at cost price. Now,
when chuck beef gets up again to 10
cents it will be proper for the coal
trust to reciprocate.
The types of apples which will be ST.
Iected as the standard for the north
central portion of the country are and
always will be originated from seed
lings developed in that section.
Butter makers are good deal like
schoolteachers. The salaries paid to
the good ones are not high enough, and
those paid to the poor ones are too
high. There really is no place at any
price for either the poor butter maker
or the poor teacher.
The substitution of bags for barrels
| for cement, flour. sugar and other COM
modities has seriously affected the
coopers' trade. While it is bad for the
cooper it is proving a good thing for
the forestry interests of the country.
This is one of the penalties of progress.
And now the wise men affirm that
they have discovered that the cause Of
appendicitis is the use of fine wheat
-four, the people using black bread
not being subject to the disease. Most
Americans will prefer to take their
chances on white bread and an opera
ton.
In buying trees to set out this spring
we think you will get the best results
by taking two-year-old trees in prefer
ence to those that are older and larger
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most invariably be the largest and best
trees at the end of five years. Then they
cost less and are more easily planted.
Many man is the owner of rough,
bluffy, stony tract of land which would
make an admirable site for an apple
orchard Apples take kindly to stones
and gravel and prefer such soil to the
lower and richer alluvial lands. While
the treesewill not grow nearly so fast,
our experience proves that they are
longer lived and harder trees.
You will be wanting to set out some
shade trees this spring, and, while
some other varieties may do well with
you, still the white or water elm is alb
solutely certain to give you satisfac-
ton. We have no more clean, graceful
or handsome shade tree or one that
will endure more unfavorable condi
tons of location and soil than the elm.
Like some people, it grows more beau
tiful as it grows old.
The LIST of February good beef ami
mails sold for Sc and Gamers for So per
cwt. Some of you ask. What is can
ner?" Well. she is quite likely to be
for most of them are of the gentler
SEX your old pet of family COW which
has outlived her usefulness in the
dairy. but, which you are too tender
hearted to kill, yet mercenary enough
to sell, giving the best of her life to
promote the prosperity and comfort of
the country and in death furnishing a
nutritious, if not very palatable, ration
for the defenders thereof
The annual seed catalogues are COM
ing to hand. They are of two kinds
one got up with intent to deceive and
mislead would be purchasers as to the
yield and size of the particular kind
advertised, the other containing fair
and conservative statement of the re-
suits to be obtained. Because you buy
a peck of potatoes advertised to yield
800 bushels to the acre it is no evidence
that you will get over 100 or $50 bush
els. The stories and illustrations to be
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