Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-12

WE Farmer In Persia still cuts his
srwheat with a sickle, thrashes it out
\ with the tramp of oxen and winnows
Z it in the wind and we buy Persian
rugs as works of art. K
Taking it all round, the best way to
handle the farm fertilizers is to haul
direct from the stable on to the pas
ture lands and work the pasture into
Eve or six year crop rotation.
About 300 pounds can be added to
the weight of a steer by giving him
proper feed and care up to the time
he is a year old, and then we think
breed will add another 800 pounds.
The central Wisconsin sawmills
which a few years ago cut nothing
butwhite pine last year cut 167 100000
feet of hemlock and 6S,00o0o0 feet of
hard woods against 100000 feet of
pine
Ten COWS. costing S100 each, of any
standard breed, will, if properly cared
for, bring the owner in more money in
ten years than if he started with thirty
( common cows at S3333.33 apiece. We
have seen this thing tried.
Whore n stranger with any sort of a
scaeAe comes to the farmer lie always
comes with the express purpose OF ben
citing himself ana not the farmer, and
a remembrance OF this fact would save
many q NAN from being hooked and
rawly sWindled.
The roadside may be properly termed
the farmers show window, and the
merchant who would pile all his old
truck in His front window is not more
TO be criticised than the farmer who
lets the highways bordering his farm
become weed taIgles and rubbish
grounds
change in the administration Of
road work in u western state makes
the township the unit and requires the
payment of all road taxes in cash AS
a result there are many advertisements
in the papers for men who are compe-
tent to intelligently supervise the road
work of township.
Substitutes for wood will become q
necessity III the coming years owing
to the obliteration of the forests Rail-
way ties will be made of some other
material than wood-steel or possibly
cement. Steel Wire has already dis
placed wood in fences, while paper in
some form or other is likely to take
the place of boards in building.
About the toughest thing in the way
Of a debt is where father has to put
mortgage on his home to get a way
ward son out of some scrape. We have
known some cases of this kind, and the
thing which is harder to bear than the
debt SO contracted is the feeling that
had the boy been brought up as he
should have been the trouble would
have been ayerted
America makes the finest agricul-
tural tools in the world-light, durable
and adaptable. In Nillets picture. 1.-THE
Evening Angelus,''' the most pathetic
thing is the hoe upon which the man
leans--a coarse, heavy ungainly tool
The beautiful sentiment embodied in the
picture would have been destroyed had
the man been riding an American sulky
ploTs instead of leaning on. home
mat French hoe.
Any agency which could force one
half of the poor people of the cities to
seek homes in the country would be
godsend. 1t would relieve the longest
ed conditions in the towns, secure a
far more wholesome and healthful way
of living for this class and meet an I'M
supplied demand for labor in the corln-
try districts. The trouble seems to be,
however, that these people cannot be
induced to live removed from the sa-
loon and out of hearing of brass
band.
We saw a hoGse sold the other day
whose style and action alone brought
the owner just 500. This horse had