Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23

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Paradoxical as it may seem, you will
often got the most out of the hired man
by not trying to get too much out Of
him.
March this country had 164 100000
Bushels of wheat on hand, 265 100000
bushels of oats and 1,050,O0oOO0 bush
els of corn.
In Crawford county Wis, 1926 acres
of land We're planted with tobacco last
year and produced crop which sold
for 100000.
The wheat crop of Victoria, n. S. W.,
is only Log bushels per acre for the
crop just harvested. Just got their
seed back and that is all.
The Hessian fly has made its appear
ance among the wheattields OF North
Dakota, and fears are entertained that
1t will develop into serious pest.
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A bill is on its way through the Wis
consin legislature which provides for
fine Of 5000 and years imprison-
ment for any one who docks horses
tail
Whenia farmer has fifty or more 300
pound hogs ready to sell on seven dol
lar market, he has every reason to feel
pretty good, and that's what lots Of
western farmers can do today.
The silos filed with the frosted corn
last September turned out fine quail
fly of silage and saved and utilized
the damaged crop better than could
have been done in any other manner
When you hire hand on the farm in
this country, he will usually insist on
being well fed, but if you We're in Eng
land and hired him he would want to
know about his ration of beef
And now comes real estate boomer
from Alaska and says that when the
moss is peeled from the tundras of
that country it makes good farm land,
the removal of the moss permitting the
ground to thaw out
Experiments with macaroni wheat in
a large number of western counties of
the state of Nebraska last year proved
very satisfactory, the yield being over
twenty bushels per acre. Equally good
reports come from the Dakotas.
Glover is better crop to grow in
rotation course on farm than alfalfa,
for clover takes itself out of the way
in two years, while the alfalfa lives
right along. Not any less clover on
any farm. but small field of alfalfa
If it can be grown.
A Boston minister preaching before
fashionable audience had the nerve to
tell the women of his congregation that
if they wore dead birds on their hats
they would never get to heaven. We
do not know how the parson proved
this to them, but it ought to be SO if it
is not. -
The university of the state OF Wis
consin is making an elaborate and
thorough investigation into the value
of peat as fuel. There is an unlim-
tied amount of peat in that state. 9th
er things are growing out of the coal
ctril,n hnSilnc M, q
the miners wages.
Drainage and irrigation are the two
great agencies whereby the waste
lands of the country must be reclaimed
too much water in some places and
in others not enough. Soils of unequal
ed fertility are in both cases secured
Cooperative effort is required in both
cases to secure the best results.
We stick to some old customs pretty
well-for instance, the selling of eggs
by count instead of by weight, when
there is all OF 30 per cent difference in
the relative value of large and small
eggs. We know of, one pretty good
farmer who picks out all the large eggs
for his own use, or, rather, his good
wife does.
Paint is a civilizer aside from its
sanitary and protective qualities. 1t
is what clean collar and pocket hand
kerchief are to man. Try to bring
children up in a weather beaten. I'M
painted home, and they follow the style
of the house. Pain. is like the news
paper-lnen can live without it, but
they will be better men and enjoy life
more with it.
We went through section of the
country recently where a very large
acreage of sweet corn is raised each
year to supply the local cannery. Much
to our surprise, notwithstanding hay is
worth from 81 to $40 per ton i'll that