Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-03

70.
Men lG.ake money where it takes ten
acres to feed one steer, but it is not a
pleasant country to do business in.
The congressman are sending out
their allotment of seeds to their gran
ger constituents. Just the same old
farce as ever.
We find that 1t does not pay to try to
fruit the raspberry more than three or
four years. 1t is more profitable to dig
the old bushes up and set out new ones.
Poultry farming bids fair to pay bet
ter hereafter than ever before, and a
pleasant and most profitable business
is within easy reach of any enterpris-
ing man or woman.
The care of the calf for the first year
largely determines it's value as beef
animal. 1t should never be anything
else than a miniature beef critter-al-
ways full, always fat.
The good milk COW is more than like
ly to be LONELY, as is the good brood
mare or brood SOW Maternity and
beauty of form and appearance do not
go together i'll these cases.
Two cars of lemons en- route for the
east were caught in a blizzard. One car
was got out and run into roundhouse,
where the lemons all froze; the other,
left on the track, was buried up in a
huge snowdrift, and never lemon
froze.
Everything in the cellar will keep
better if the temperature can be kept
just above the freezing point. Most
cellars are kept too warm and are too
poorly ventilated. When potatoes be-
gin to sprout, you may know that your
cellar is too warm.
Georgia is fast becoming the great
peach state of the Union. Peaches pay
better than cotton, and as the growing
of fruit requires higher order of in
telligence than the growing of fiber the
civilization Of the state is benefited as
we'll as its pocketbook.
Old pastures can be greatly improved
by an early spring disking and the
sowing of little medium clover on
them. Blue grass on certain soils often
gets hidebound, and nothing is so good
for it as to rip it all to pieces. 1t can't
be killed by such treatment, but is al
ways benefited.
Four hundred and fifty bright young
men, farmers sons and their kind, at
tended the. two weeks special course
at Ames Qa.) Agricultural college this
winter, stock feeding and judging and
corn culture being taught by expert
enced men. This is the second year
this plan has been tried, and it is a
great success.
This man is one of many. He bought
four cent steers to get rid of a crop of
soft corn. 1t took about two bushels OF
soft corn to go as far as one bushel OF
hard corn. When the steers were about
half fed, his corn gave out, and he was
up against the alternative of buying
Kansas corn at 40 cents or letting the
steers go at 3 cents, and he let them go
as the easiest way out of bad deal.
many years for it's great crops OF
onions, crop of 400 or 500 bushels pei
acre being common thing forty years
ago, now counts crop of $50 bushels
per ncre good one, this fact being in
line with the well established trutl
| that no one crop can be produced il
large excess in any place and escape
| the law of deterioration both i'll guam
tity and quality of crop.
A friend in Missouri writes US thai
| squirrels do not hoard up a supply OF
| nuts for the winter in any one place
but bury them in the earth here anC
| lEeEe, NHeic tiSy are Jug Out tlS uteti
ed in winter. This is one of natures
cute ways of securing distribution o.
seed, the nuts thus scattered being Civ
en- just the right treatment to insure
| their termination i'll the spring, TIT
squirrel not using them all for food.
Rye is not estimated at its true value
as fall and early spring forage crol
up in the north country where th'
snow falls. Sown on the cut corntielt
in September, then pastured till snow
comes and again as soon as it disap
pears in the spring. it pays well even i
| the remnant is plowed under in Ma.
for other crops. Grass seed sown OF
such field in March is almost invari
ably sure catch. This fall and sprinl
rye pasture is just the thing for tn
dairy COWS.