Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-23

| The Tamworth hog is harder and
more prolific than the Poland China
for the reason that it more nearly rep
resents the natural type of the hog.
Most young birds know enough to
stay in the nest until they can fly and
properly care for themselves, in which
respect the birds are wiser than many
q boy.
If there is anything nicer to look at
and own than herd Of Whitefaced
cattle it Is herd of Doddies, and nei-
Their kind costs any more to keep than a
herd of scrubs.
| The popular Bermuda onion is now
being grown very successfully at La
redo, Tex. The crate package is used,
and the product sells just as well as
does the imported article.
Moral depravity of pretty low type
is evidenced in case where western
farmer used his young son to try and
palm off some young squirrel scalps
for wolf scalps in order to obtain the
bounty paid on the wolves.
We think that people are more in
clined to whine and fret during a very
wet time than they are during a pro-
tracted drought, for during the wet
time there are added to other losses the
question Of villainous roads and pest
of mosquitoes.
1t is quite likely that the most profit
able crop for one to plant is the very
one OF which at the time Of planting or
sowing there may be such surplus as
to make the producing of such crop un-
profitable. The many who let it alone
insures good demand later on.
Experiments show that seven loads
Of barnyard fertilizer put on an acre
OF land with manure spreader pro-
duced just as good results, so far as the
first crop was concerned as did twenty
five loads put on in the old way. This
fact makes this machine one of the
most valuable tools on the farm.
1t Is well for the young man to re-
member that if he finishes his educa-
ton as skilled farmer or stockman
or fruit grower there are plenty Of
places open waiting for him at good
pay, while If he becomes q minister.
lawyer or doctor he may have to hunt
long and far to find place and wait
long before good living is assured.
1t is all right to have a kindly re
gard for your neighbor and look after
his interests and welfare, but,in gen.
eral way 1t will be found that 1t is not
best to get inside the picket fence
which surrounds his home in your
neighborly solicitude about his affairs.
This statement applies, we think, with
as much force to women as it does to
men.
When one gets well south toward tho
Mexican border he will soon get ac-
quainted with chilli con carne, hot Ia
males and a red pepper and onion bill
of fare which is there common. Just
why a people living in such warm
country should crave such peppery and
stimulating dishes is a good deal of q
mystery. A man needs an electro plat
ed stomach to handle their everyday
foods.
The Russian Jew when he comes TO
this country rarely ever takes up farm
labor or the common types of work
which the people Of other nations do.
All we know where we live in the west
are either peddlers, scavengers or gath
erers of old truck, and as they accumu-
late little capital they drift into mer-
chandising or money lending. We have
never known one to farm, to become
teacher, parson, lawyer, engineer or
politician.
1t often happens that men have to do
as they can and not as they would in
the matter of conducting their farm
work. In some parts of the west the
excessive rainfall has so prevented the
preparation Of the fields for the plant
ing OF the corn crop that the novel
method of dropping the corn by hand
on the surface of the wet ground and
covering it with a hoe has been resort
ed to, the working Of the soil to be left
I'LL the corn is up and the ground drier.
Three things seem to have specially
Interested the delegation of land own
ers and farmers from Germany who
have been making a tour of inspection
through this country. One was the ex-
ceeding richness and cheapness of the
western prairie lands; another was pop
corn, something they had never seen or
heard Of; another was the Ito them in
excnsable and wanton waste. Of the
forest wealth Of the country, q waste
which they did not think was credita-
BILE to the intelligence of the American
people. -
1t has been interesting to note the re.
suit Of the freeze up which occurred
the last days of April through the
northwest. The mercury dropped to
20 degrees, and ice one-fourth Of an