Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-25

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The negro, the possum and the wa
form harm onious trinity.
The good farmer may be known by
The kind Of seed which he plants and
the kind of sires which he uses.
The perfectly matured ear Of corn
will never be found on the stalk frozen
before maturity. Frosts never under
any circumstances benefit corn.
Thirty-five car loads of cold storage
eggs bought in April gave the buyer
profit of $240 per car load Sept 1, the
stock going into storage at IA cents.
The English pheasant is finding a
home in British Columbia
and is multiplying rapidly. This is
one Of the finest game birds in the
world.
There is no metal polish SO fine as
the dirt polish given by clay soil to
hardened steel plow. The sunlight flash
from such pillow is equal In bright
ness to that from any mirror.
A healthy apple tree carrying its load
of ripening red fruit i'll September is
one of horticulture's most artistic Gre
ations. The fruit is like the apples Of
paradise-pleasant to the eye and good
for food.
Southern Wisconsin and northern H.
linois have three bad weed pests to
f1ght-the Canada thistle, the daisy and
the foxtail grass. They are respon-
sible for enormous farm losses each
year and, like original sin, are hard to
get rid of.
1t is interesting to note how tradi-
ton and religious belief will shape
mems appetites. Here is the Jew, who
will not eat other than kosher meat
meat from animals killed according to
the formula of the old Mosaic law.
The kosher shops are distinctive fea-
ture Of all our large cities.
A hundred thousand farmers in Iowa
and southern Minnesota have to be sat
isfied this year with twenty to thirty
bushels of oats to the acre, when If
they had sent north and procured good
strong seed instead of sowing the poor
oats grown by them last year they
would have had from forty to seventy
bushels an acre.
The Oregon and Washington fir tree
is wanted all over the world; no such
timber anywhere else on earth. Tim
bers 1874 feet long and "a inches
square are obtained In no other coun-
try. The government should make
large reservation Of these unequaled
forests and intelligently preserve them
for future generations. An acre Of
Washington timber has been known to
produce 100000 feet Of lumber and one
tree 96,345 feet. And we let the fires
burn up this sort Of timber! No other
country would do this
What is known as baby beef repre-
sents the best in beef production to-
day-the keeping of the calf fat from
his birth to the block at the age Of
eighteen months. Forty years ago this
type Of beef was utterly unknown, it
being then demanded that the steer
should serve a matter Of eight or ten
years as beast of burden and as a
draft animal, and then when he had
developed muscular system like q
prize fighter he was fattened and be
came the show beef. While he Their
made a nutritious ration, no mar
wanted to tackle him with a set OF
false teeth. This kind of beef is today
unknown.
Being an optimist and always look
ing for the bright side Of trouble, WI
think we have lately discovered I
| blessing in disguise. A most viciou:
hailstorm in September, 1903, so merci
lessly stripped large portion of gu
orchard some 1900 trees, that all tn
fruit buds for 1904 were destroyed
There is an excessive crop of apple
this year, with unrenumeratiye prices
and we notice that these unproductiy
trees have set large crop Of frui
buds for next year, when the appl
crop will be short enough and price
high. Beats all what lot Of goo
there is in the world when one onl
gets to looking for it!
The home loving instinct is not cor
fined to man. The hen will seek he
regular roost at night, as will many 0
our birds. The eagle will seek th
same nest for twenty years If unme
Tested. Dogs and cats will travel b
instinct incredible distances to &c