Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-08

Of any farm, whether it is hens egg
or just boy.
An income of 5000 year on small
farm will enable family to live bet
ter than could be done in city on
$1,000.
The largest orchard in the state Of
Virginia contains 10000 apple trees,
largely the famous Newtown Pippin;
10000 peach trees and 5000 pear trees.
1t is located upon the top of the Blue
Ridge mountains.
America takes one-half of all the dia-
monds produced each year. 1t is no un-
common thing to see men here not
worth 81 900 wearing a $3.50 gem, fell
lows who are bound to cut splurge
even If they never save cent.
We have a friend who has let the
blackberry bushes take possession Of
his orchard. 1t is the old story. While
he got some blackberries this year, he
got nary an apple. 1t is pretty hard to
grow two crops ON the land at the
same time.
In the Wisconsin experimental or
chard the three most promising apples
are Northwestern Greetings Patterns
Greetings and Okabena. This orchard
is we'll north and results obtained
there will be worth much to q very
large section Of the country.
If your soil is suffering from an ex-
cess of humus, evidenced by too rank
growth of stalk aud straw and imper-'
feet filling Of grain, nothing will regu-
late it better than crop Of fax. Not
many men are troubled with this ex-
cess of good thing, but where it exists
fax will put the soil In normal and
productive condition.
Almost every man is bit cranky on
something, and we are cranky on the
matter Of having sharp tools to work
with. Work Mt best is hard enough
without having to do it with dull or
unpublished tools. With tools kept in
the shape they should be, much work
that is now rated as burden may be
transformed into pleasure.
If one wishes to raise roots for the
winter food of the dairy COW nothing
will be better than mangel wurzels,
the yield of which on good land may
easily be as much as thirty tons per
acre. While sugar beets and CARROTS
are more nutritious ration, the man
gel can be more easily grown and will
produce much more to the acre. f
An objection to trailing vines around
the house is the pesky English sparrow,
which Is bound to use the vines as q
nesting place. We noted large church
in the city of Washington not long
since largely covered with English ivy
which had been SO appropriated by the
sparrows with their nests that the side
of the church looked almost like hay
stack.
Some idea can be formed Of how
much America does to clothe and feed
the world by noting the exports of cot
ton the past year., 100000 bales Of
800 pounds each, 20O,OO0000 bushels Of
wheat, 100000 bushels Of corn and
no end Of meats, dairy products and
fruits. The world would set but a
slim table were it not for the surplus
of good things obtained from this
country.
The possibilities of Argentina as a
meat producer are practically unlim-
tied. This country proves to be the
natural home Of alfalfa. One of the
British consuls located there says that
inside Of ten years Argentina will be
able to furnish the English market
with 100000 hundredweight Of beef
and 100000 hundredweight of NUT
ton, or twice the amount needed to
supply that country.
We noticed the mistake made in the
management and care Of two public
parks recently-parks in two thrifty
western cities of 5000 population. In
one the trees, which were mostly large
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