Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-18

that steer butter int0 the gizzards of
the American people somehow.
And now tile, distressing information
comes from am Iowa town that one of
Its citizens is inSa bad vtay as the result
of eating package of bird seed, mis-
taking it for a new brand of breakfast
food.
The hog, bringing more than ordi-
nary good prices for the Ipast year, has
enabled the feeders of tbeef cattle to
get out without skrioussloss this sea
son. If it had n,pt been for the pig
they would have been in.a hole.
Where milk is set in deep cans; in
cold water and the vIream thus raised
the farm separator will step in and
give the dairyman tabout 90 per cent
more cream. You can do some figur-
ing. yourselves withHthis fact to start
from.
The time is here now when the farm
er with a $4,000 c,prn and hog farm
drives into town and pays 80 cents for
two boxes of strawberries, when he
might raise the luscious berries by the
bushel just as easily as he raises the
corn to feed his hogs.
Rabbits make abont,the best,pets for
children. They ave reasonably clearly,
are not expected to, have the run of
the house like cats and dogs, always
have a lot of cute little ones, and the
surplus may be, sold and not killed off
on the home place to gettrid of them.
The differences betweenl butter which
scores 81 and that whichiscores 9714 is
SO small as MOTTO be detected save by
a butter expert still, the 97A fellow
walks off with the gold medal, gets his
picture in the dairy journals and like
enough has brand of salt named aft
er him.
The payment of the road taxes has
for many years been loaded on to the
tenant of the farm--that is, he has
been required to work out that part
which could be paid in that manner.
The payment of all the road taxes in
cash lets the tenant out and makes the
landlord kick.
| We have friend who has so keen a
| love for the birds that he can find all
| the birds nests in tree, shrub or grass
wherever he goes, and then we have
another friend who can never see a
| birds nest until the leaves are all off
| the trees and the birds flown to the
| south. Men will find the thing which
1 they love and look for, whether it be
birds nests or good qualities in their
| neighbors.
| We count strawberry bed and an
asparagus bed properly cared for as
foremost among the cheapest and most
desirable luxuries for the family. To
have these two things in abundance is
to solve the problem of good living
from the list of May to the LIST of July;
then have the green peas follow the
asparagus and the red and black rasp-
berries, the strawberries, and who
/ cares whether school keeps or not2
We just hate to come across man,
or, worse yet, community, which is
on the hog to that extent that it will
4 take no interest in any matter of pub
lie improvement unless it brings dol
lars into its pockets. Even the Sioux
Indian would decorate his tepee, nearly
/ all birds will use art and refinement in
4 the building of the nest, while thou
sands of so called civfffzed human be-
ings will care as little for their home
surroundings as fox in his den. We
have altogether too much civilization
which does not ciyilize.
4 There is lot of vegetation which
will thrive and grow at temperature
of from 55 to 65-for instance, peas,