Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-17

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The June flooded districts of Kansas
and Missouri which were planned to
corn after the waters subsidized have
produced fine crop of well matured
corn after all.
q is no longer proper to refer to the
help employed on the farm rs the hired
man, but, rather, as the gentleman
whom the farmer takes into his fanli-
ly TO skim the cream off the farm
products
The American hen wins out in the
egg laying contest which has been con-
Quoted by the poultrymen of Aus
tralia. The varieties which took the
prizes were Rose Combe6 Brown Leg
horn and White Wyandotte.
When we get hold of so called ag-
ricultural paper which carries more
doctors and patent medicine ads. than
it does agricultural advertisements 1t
can pe set down for fake SO far as
its benefit to farmers is concerned.
A twenty horse power thrashing en-
CINE or the big separator stuck in the
mud in the middle of some field has
been a not uncommon sight this fall
through the northwest, and it has been
no laughing proposition for the owners
of such machines.
The introduction of the creamery has
more than doubled the value of the
butter product of the west. Twenty
years ago the best dairy butter was
quoted where the writer lives at 10
cents per pound for October, and now
it but rarely is less than 90 cents and
more often brings % cents.
1t looks as though the eight horse
power gasoline traction engine, easily
manipulated and cheaply operated, is
to find an important place on the farm
of the future, not only to do the pump
ing, saving, grinding, but to haul the
pillow, seeder and drag-in word, dis
place the horse. There really seems to
be nothing to prevent it.
The care of milk on the farm is best
carried out when the milk is run
through farm separator just as soon
as it is taken from the COW, the skim
med milk fed warm to the calves and
the cream sent to the nearest cream
cry. This simplifies the dairying bust
ness for that large class of farmers
who do not keep enough cows to make
and market their own butter.
We have fine report of the success
Of alfalfa in Clay county, S. D., ad-
Joining the Iowa state line. The man
growing it thinks he has struck bo-
nanza, and he has. Hundreds of farm
ers in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and
Dakota have been experimenting with
alfalfa, and we look to see burden Of
testimony at the institutes this winter
favorable to growing this valuable for
age plant.
We have altogether too many people
in this country who simply will not
live removed from the crowd, the sa-
loon, the brass band and the insani-
tary conditions of tenement life in our
cities, which goes to prove that man is
not as wise as the animals, for all wild
as well as domesticated animal and
bird life will instinctively seek those
localities. and conditions which will
best promote their well being
Illustrating the red tape methods of
the government, when we were visit
ing the botanical gardens at Washing
ton last May and noticed large palm
in the palm house which had pushed
its top through the glass dome and
was then growing out of doors we
were informed that the dome could not
be fixed to accommodate the tree until
an appropriation from congress had
been secured for that special purpose.
The well proved adaptability Of near
~ all the northern Minnesota and
Wisconsin cheap land for the produc-
ton of clover and timothy is q factor
of no small Importance regarding the
future of those sections. Where clover
and timothy will grow as it will there
it means stock raising and dairying I'M
der most favored conditions, and
where these industries are success
there follow wealth and prosperity as
surely as day follows night.
We have reports of a fall bearing
variety of strawberry, originated in
the state of New York, which is prov
ing bonanza for the growers. The
beds have this fall yielded large crop
of choice berries, which have found
ready market at very fancy prices-as
high as SO cents per box. A distinct
type of berry which would fruit in
September would prove very valua-
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