Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-01

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products grown each year.
The enormous crop Of hay secured
through the west as a result of the eX-
cessive moisture will be found to be
below the standard In nutritive value.
The introduction of Mansury barley
4 by the Wisconsin experiment station
has been worth millions OF dollars to
the barley growing sections OF the
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The southerner fries his chicken and
fish in hot lard Just as the northern
woman does her fried cakes, and it is
a very nice way to do it-way ahead
of the frying pan.
The lazy man is sure of one crop no
matter how late he may lie sabed in
the morning, and that is a crop Of
weeds. There are lots Of men who keep
their gardens clean with a seythe.
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Kaf1r corn as crop has only been
grown about fifteen years. but Its val
ue in the state Of Kansas alone; IA
placed at $4,000, 900 each year. It ,is a
most valuable crop for Oklahoma and
Texas also. ), set papQs-sla,a,a.5 q.
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Every farmer who sppssbly. can
should take in. the state fair Of his
state. He can learn more there in two
days than he can at home in three
months and viii learn something there
which he can learn nowhere else.
Chicago milk dealers object TO the
publication Of their names in the city
papers when their milk and cream as
tested show them to be adultefated.
Men never like to see their names In
the papers when they have done a
mean thing.
Whims count for much touching
what one eats. Now. here's squirrels
and, hunter as we have been in the old
days, we never yet would shoot squir-
rel for the purpose Of eating it-just as
soon cot q rat or cat yet some folks
say it ia good.
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ported into this country the past year
has been S1.H per hundredweight, or
less than ever bsfora. There sss saFhig
steal somewhere between this; price, and
the3s5 per hundredweight which the re-
taller has to pay the refner.ug ia ~.
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American farmers spend the enor-
nous sum aof $50. 0oe. 900 for CONNER
cial fertilizers each year, These, fer
tilizers might be termed agricultural
whisky, stdmulants which leave the
land poorer than before when their
work Is done and requiring little big
ger dose next time.
| We passed the other day row Of
black walnut trees set thirty five years
ago alongside of public highway.
The trees were most graceful in con-
tour, were loaded with crop Of deli
cious nuts and are fast growing to the
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each for the lumber they will make.
While blindfoiding balky horse Will
sometimes cure him Of bis balky
fit, it will not always do so. We once
owned bafky horse, and the only
thing which would start him was to
tie a piece Of plug tobacco around his
bit. This would make him 80 sick at
the stomach that he forgot all his
meannesS.
| The limit in strawberry culture
would seem to have been reached when
the berries grow so large that they
have to be served sliced, as tomatoes.
We note that flavor is deprecated in
all these large berries. and save for
purely show purposes we count them
of but little value. No strawberry pos
sesses the exquisite flavor Of the little
wild berry.
We tackled the remains Of one of the
grand old forest trees Of fifty years ago
the other day, the remnant Of a black
walnut stump over four feet in dame
ter. The tree was probably cut and
split up into rails forty or fifty years
ago, as was the wont of the early set
tier. Had It been spared 1t would have
brought $500 today. A fact worth not
ing was that much Of this old stump
was sound wood today. ~
A cow is manufacturing no large
amount Of milk when she stands up to
her middle in dirty pond on a hot
August day fighting flies. She would
do ever 30 much better shut up In q
basement barn, darkened, and fed a
good ration Of sweet corn. Yet half or
more OF the cows of the country are
doing the pond hole act, and their own.
ers DO not seem to realize that 1t 10 one
Of the xeaaens why their COWS dEy. mp