Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-03

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A reputable physician now claims
haa hay fever is disease of the eye
Ind that if persons afflicted with it
will wear smoked glass spectacles the
rouble will at once disappear.
The good tenant, hired man and
hired girl are never permanent fixtures,
Tor just about as soon as their value in
.hese capacities is appreciated off they
20 to go into business on their own ac-
count
The 200 loads of barnyard fertilizer
lying in many farmyard is just 5000
for every load of it put on
a cornfeld will make ten extra bushels
of corn inside of three years and prob
ably more.
A man who is undertaking the rails
ing and domestication of quail finds a
serious drawback in the fact that these
birds mate for life, and when the I'M
ion is broken by death neither bird
will accept new mate.
One of our neighbors has four big
straw piles located at different places
on forty acre grain field. This fall,
when blowing the field, he has had to
pillow around each one of these stacks.
This sort of work looks wasteful.
The best farmers may make their
plans and strive to do their work in
the best way, but the ever unknown
factors of flood, drought, frost and al
ways varying climatic conditions of
ten bring to naught the best laid plans.
1t seems too bad that so little of the
hard bought experience of the man of
sixty is really available for his son of
twenty-five 1t seems as though every
young man has got to buy his own,
and he never gets it at a bargain coun-
ter.
1t is said that only 8 per cent of the
area of the farms in Sweden is under
cultivation. 1t is this fact which makes
Ole want to own and work all the land
which joins him when he comes to this
country and finds himself the owner OF
a nice piece of land.
The winter season should witness the
development of the social side of farm
life as much as possible. We have 6
great regard for the country debating
school and singing school and that sor1
of informal visiting back and fortl
between neighbors which always show!
them at their best.
Northern grown, second crop, straw
berries made their appearance in SOM
of the markets during early Octobe
and found ready market at 40 cent
quart. A second crop of raspberrie
was also reported from some localities
| These were freak products, the resul
/ of peculiar weather conditions.
/ Every fact of carelesSness in dair,
ing, from the feed ana care of the co
to the final packing and shipping {
the butter, tells against the quality {
4 the product Immaculate cleanliness
the price one has to pay for the be!
butter, while not little of the butte
made is the product of immacula
filth.
When man has met with bad luz
it helps him very much to bear the mi
fortune to have Il kind word of sy1
patty even if it is not coupled wi
substantial financial help. About Il
meanest man in the world is he WI
will take advantage of his neighbol
trouble to say that he has got ju
what he deserves.
Taken as a whole, the native Anne
can hates to milk a cow, and the PR
? cipal thing which operates to keep t
, dairy business within its present lin
men to do this work AS for Anne
can girls and women, nine out of t
, of them would never for q nome
!, think of such thing.
; If your small boy shows natul
aptitude for any particular line Of he
= orable employment you just encoura
and educate him along that line,
3 matter what it may be. The atten
OF parents to make their boys take
lines of occupation for which th
have no native liking is the prime
:. cause of no end of insists in busin,
= life.
: We should not go to law with a nei
= Dor if it could possibly be avoid
:, 1t is far better to adjust differen
i without recourse to law, even if
= neighber does think he has got the b
!, of the deal. 1t is very rare that g
sort of satisfaction is obtained as
;. result of going to law aside from t