Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-17

fl.c two-sear-aIl len best serves her
.ountry in !; pog:ie.
9kc Boer war used IL, .s50,H90 horses
and 50.0G3 miles. most of which died
of disease Nsithin six months after they
were landed.
Happiness consists largely in want
ing something real bad and standing
good show of getting it. The actual
getting Of it often spoils aN the fun.
Nearly all of our choice fruits will
stand Il temperature of zero. 1t is
what lies between zero and 40 below
which limits the list which can be
grown.
Il you want to experiment with some
new crop this year, try small patch
of alfalfa. If it will grow with yoa, it
be had.
Thirty years ago the aged OK was
- counted as the best grade of beef. To-
day it is rare to find four-year-old
steer in any of the stockyards of the
:. country.
j. The Nebraska experiment station has
demonstrated the fact that q COW
reaches her highest production of but
! ter fat before she does her greatest
!, flow of milk.
The markings on a few feathers en-
abled her owner to sell four-year-old
II hen at late poultry show at Kansas
% City for SOL. This is almost as bad
y. as Belgian hares at $3.50.
The English apple eaters will pay
more for Beg Davis than they will for
a Northern Spy. This looks like queer
Il taste, but most anything with red
'; face goes in that country.
The collie or shepherd dog is one OF
the most Intelligent of animals and
< may be trained easily to do the most
st remarkable things in connection with
ID the care of stock, especially with sheep.
Iowa, with resources almost purely
agricultural, is still represented by
le eleven lawyers in congress, which is
is what we would call an agricultural
e. joke. There ought to be at least one
le farmer in the lot.
ir -
The sum Of 5000 invested in barbless
wire fences would inclose pretty good
Ye sized pasture, but we know of more
he than one man whose losses in horse.
1T flesh during the past ten years would
n. have built two such fences.
A. Farmers do not as class avail them.
selves of the benefits to be derived
from advertising in the papers. This
10 is one Of the most practical and easy
ID methods of bringing buyer and seller
A together and covers a large line Of com.
o mon wants on the farm.
an We know of one or two very liberal
IN landlords who treat their farm tenants
is more as partners in business than as
employees, and we notice that in each
case the landlord makes more money
in from his farm than the old skinflints
ly do. II you want your tenant to do
ne well by you and the farm, you do well
10 by the tenant
- ~ At nearly all the farm institutes
n held the past winter through the re.
a., gion of the corn belt the question OF
how to improve the yield and quality
of the corn crop has been uppermost
;, For the first time the farmers of that
~ section are becoming alive to the fact
-. that it is entirely possible to accom-
. plish great improvement along this
=. lire.
~ A laboring man whom we know rent,
ed two acres of land last season and
ie planted the field to Burbank potatoes
~ ie He worked out by the day most of the
- time, but managed to care for this
crop at odd times. He harvested 40C
bushels Of fine potatoes, which he sold
re in the field for 5000, which was as
le' much or more than he earned at other
II. work all summer long.
u Nature is often fantastic in the ex
us IRENE in some of her work-in the
~ growth Of tree, the building Of 6
u snowdrift or an ice gorge, her clou(
cn pictures in a storm or at sunset, il
III mountain crag and gorge, in treeles:
canyon, in the rioting of the ocean
but in all her fantasies she is always
OF truly artistic, never makes any colol
~ blunders or violates the law of har
at mony or art.
ri
il. If you have two or three boys in the
at farm home and any one of them more
I'D than the others shows liking for and
TX native enthusiasm in farm interests
ed keep an eye on him and try to help him