Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-26

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The most nutritious potato does not orr
crack open when boiled with the Jacket m,
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A blue Jay will pick up stray mouse I
In the snow during the winter just as rrr
quickly 40 an owl. va
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Anyway we got rid of that old morn
all" theory since we have adopted {
plan of dehorning the cattle. clio
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There are probably no four farmers mt
living adjoining each other who could
always agree just when 1t should rain. Z
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The best hams and bacon made in pc
this country come from the homeliest wi
hogs, the timber rooters Of the Virginia
woods.
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Canals are Of little use today save as ha
regulators of freight rates on the rail- ms
ways. They pay to maintain for this
purpose alone. \
A fine spray of water under heavy we
pressure is one of the very best rene nl,
dies for the insect pest which so af-
fects the roses.
| A girl should not be allowed to mar in
~ until she can make loaf of good WI
bread. She can learn how to make an tr.
gels food later on.
When the corn crop is well titled and do
ten inches high by the LIST of July the CO
normal heat Of July and August will th
easily make the crop. on
The young orchard will make a
mighty fine calf pasture, but the nf
chances are that, while you will have tn
good calves, you will have no cider. hi
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Eight million dollars has been invest
ed the past year in cement factories,
and more will be so used this year. to
Cement is superseding both lumber and vi
stone. wi
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The most important insect pest of
this year so far as damage wrought is
concerned will be the Mexican cotton st,
boil weevil He is little chap, but sh
stands for millions lost NJ
The Philippine Islands cost this coun- pc
try ID cents an acre, including seven
heather per acre, and there are single
trees growing in the islands which M
would sell for $1,000 in this country. 81
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Nothing better illustrates the wisdom It
of the economy of nature than the case tn
of the turkey and the grasshopper,
showing how 1t is possible to convert
! an insect pest into the most delicious hi
Of food. m
A curious feature connected with the m
butcher bird is that he is usually found th
frequenting and nesting along public
highways and is seldom found either
in the woods or the open fields and oil
never in our towns til
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A prominent divine recently gave ut h,
terance to the beautiful sentiment that CT
no man can do his best whose motive
is not love. He never had seen fel-
low in a forty acre pasture lot with a st
Jersey bull after him. &C
The food losses Of 1908 in Kansas are d,
placed ut the enormous sum of $22,- IL
100000. and, large as this loss seems to W
be, it is question whether it was not
fully recouped by the greater crops
which the rains made possible in the h,
semiarid sections Of the state. id
A reader wishes to know how to get d
rid Of the ants which make bad work fl
on his lawn by throwing up their hills. m
Drive pointed wooden or iron stake OF
into the hill in two or three places and b,
pour in the holes 80 made some carbon
bisulphide, tamping the hole tight aft
er It is in, et
The two-year-old steer which now fo
sells for 500 in Texas has been raised in
on the cheapest of land and has not 81
been fed mouthful save grass, The re
northern farmer finds the raising Of W
such an animal a very different propo- OF
sition, his steer having eaten FIVE tons
of hay or its equivalent In roughage,
besides more or less corn, sc
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At the Columbian exposition in 1893 bl
no one thing attracted more attention OF
from inventors, machtnists and scien- in
lists than the 800 horsepower dyna- 81