Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-13

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A. wet summer is quite likely to be
followed by cold and snowy winter.
The day is past in the west when a
man with three horse outfit will un-
dertake to work 200 acre farm, and
it is a good thing for the farm and
the man.
We find that mourning doves bring
off three or four broods in season. So
late in the season as Sept. 10 this year
we found a nest Of these birds contain
ing two callow young.
1t is always better to take a day off
and go fishing with your boys than it is
to keep them at home and give them a
dollar to hoe out the potato patch.
They will remember that day in the
woods fishing as long as they live.
The feeding value Of the fodder on
forty acres of corn where clover and
timothy hay is worth So per ton is not
less than $500 where the corn is cut at
the proper time and cared for. If the
corn was put in the silo its value would
be still greater.
A good many men are now Of the
opinion that it is better to have 81 900
in the local bank drawing per cent
than to have the money tied up in
some doubtful mining or land PROPOSE
ton, and it has cost them something to
get to thinking this way.
Weeds not only hurt the farm which
grows them. but they hurt the sale Of
the property. We know of a case
where this years crop Of weeds grown
around a farm homestead cost the
owner not less than $3.50 and came
near spelling the sale of his place.
The obligation rests upon you as a
good citizen to either cremate or bury
the dead animals on your farm and
not just haul them off and leave them
to become an offense to your neighbor.
The law will compel you to do this if
your neighbor sees fit to invoke its aid.
Just couple of sumac leaves picked
by the roadside in early September, a
thing almost too common TO be worthy
of notice, yet when examined seen to
be masterpiece of natures handi-
work in rich and artistic coloring. Not
even Rubens could SO blend the gold,
purple and crimson as did the Septem-
Der sun on these leaves; with thou
sand leaves. thousand color schemes.
each different, all artistic in the high
est sense.
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The possibilities connected with the
corn plant are almost unlimited. I'm
provement i'll seed by selection, greater
accuracy in planting and more intelli,
gent care given the crop are going to
greatly increase the average yield
while the list of byproducts from corn
is constantly increasing, there being
now no less than tifty-three useful and
merchantable commodities evolved
from corn aside from crude gluten and
starch. Good corn land is worth and
should never sell for less than 500 pc,
acre.
When county is a loser to the
amount of 100000 or $4,000 by reason
of its bridges being swept away by
freshets there has been something
wrong with its system of bridge con
struction. Every bridge should be built
to accommodate the maximum flow OF
water, the rare and unusual floods, but
instead of this in the interest Of a false
economy the water way is narrowed
when the bridge is built. Careless and
ignorant boards of supervisors have
mulcted the taxpayers for untold losses
in this particular
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bread is an accomplishment which ev.
cry woman should possess before she
gets married. A woman cannot expect
to hold mans affections very securely
| if she feeds him on death slug biscuits
soggy pie crust and burned or halt
| cooked meats. Men do not live to eat
| but they have to eat in order to live
and what they have to eat has very
much to do with their temper, their pi
| ETY. and their health. Every woman
! should take a just pride in being ex.
pert and accomplished in her cooking
| just as the man should in being expert
in his business or profession.
He would not put the shingles on his
barn because "the moon was not right
as he expressed it; he would not plant
his potatoes either until 1.-The moon was
right" and he would starve before he
would sit down with twelve other per-
sons to a meal and would forego the
benefit Of a low excursion rate on a
railroad before he would start on a
journey ON a Friday, and yet he knew
or claimed to know, just how the coun.
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