Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-11

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Six Of the states have no state debt A
Iowa. Nebraska, New Jersey, Illinois, agr1
Ohio and West Virginia. and
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1t is worth noting that the cement mea
bridges withstood the floods Of May in
Kansas when all other types Of bridges II
went out with them. syst
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Some Of the mutual insurance COM leas
panies among the farmers are making this
a., lower rate Of insurance on stock abo,
where the policy holder properly
grounds the wires OF hts fences. W
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We have noticed that bee men-nen com
who are successful in caring for bees a I
are almost always mighty good men. tive
1t Is said that the bee knows q mean plen
man just as soon as he sees him. =. IS.
A late obituary notice of the wife OF ri
a Kansas farmer stated that she had OF
darned 10000 socks. cooked 100000 soil
meals washed 100000 dishes. raised DUR
8 children. then died and went to won
heaven. to
tobe
On ranch in Nueces county, Tex,
there is collection of 10000 rattles Al
taken from that number Of rattlesnakes Dyp
killed on the ranch during period Of max
years. bounty of 21s cents is paid pacl
for each snake killed. ~
A representative of the 100000 peo- Will
pie Of the island Of Ceylon, who are al :.
ways on the verge Of starvation, is now ~
In this country studying American sys- noio
toms Of agriculture with view to i'm. cltet
proving the condition of his people. ioea
- hear
The North Dakota system of crop ~, 1ai :,
rotation--wheat, then O summer fall
lows the method Of ancient agricuk
ture in the days of the Roman empire ~
The modern method of rotation which last
follows wheat with some sort Of OF
legume crop is infinitely better. acc!
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We are trying one horse moving wv
-. ~. ~ 80 -. foul
and are much pleased with 1t. 1t will ~
work in and among trees where -
na,,a,, ha.tax --arl, +ha,, 90, ha 49, pige
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If boy does not seem to be good cry
for anything it is fur better to try to eolo
make lawyer out Of him than farm ing
er these days. 1t used to be the other coa a
way. The blockhead has no place on my my
the farm under existing conditions, oas
while judicial courtesy will still permit was
him to address the court oiai
| For tree planting on the farm we -.
would like to commend the nut bearing - -,
trees-walnut, butternut, chestnut and -
hickory. The wood of all Of these -,
trees is very valuable and they have 80. 80.
the advantage over other kinds Of trees 49,.
that their annual crop Of nuts enables On q
them to pay their way while growing. 49, 49,
1t will not do to refer to Kansas as a WOO
dry state hereafter, for one county in aro
that state during May last had enough
water fall to make lake thirty feet :.
deep, covering one entire township. or ~
matter Of 4l,9l7 900 cubic feet Of wa 'ne
ter. It was this sort of thing which a ~
caused the destructive work in the ~
rivers Of that region at that time. .e.ri
Winter wheat has proved grand @li'
crop for all that large territory in the "oI
southwest where the rainfall mostly iast
comes during the winter and the sum- OF
mers are excessively hot and dry. Be i..'l
sides producing profitable crop. the sue
wheat fields afford the finest Of pasture Wof
during the winter for stock. such pas :.
turing being to the decided benefit Of II
| the crop. aap
| Experiments conclusiveiy prove that mai
| for some unknown reason summer or rart
fall apples, such as the Duchess, litti