Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-08
There is nothing finer than this Oc-
tober blue grass, the fall growth Of
this best Of all pasture grasses.

Germany has 6,537 potato distilleries
within it's borders, the starch in the
\ tubers being there converted into alec
hol and the extract being used as fue
and as power.
! If you have a wooded knoll on the
farm let the trees remain there. The
Lord put trees there for the same rea.
son that he put hair on q mans upper
lip-to hide an ugly mouth.
If farmer will just sell everything
he raises which he can find market
for and live on what he can't sell he
will soon be able to buy the adjoining
eighty acres. A few do this, but the
Lord pity their families. 1t is one sure
way to get rich.
That Argentine country is fast COM
ing to the front as an exporter Of
cereals. From January to May Of the
present year there was exported a.
100000 bushels of fax and 50,552,OO0
bushels of wheat The climatic and
soil conditions in that country are very
similar to those in the United States.
Through all the northern portion Of
the corn belt it is pretty conclusively
settled that corn planted on fall plow-
4 ing will ripen from ten days to two
/ weeks earlier than when planted on
spring blowing. The soil is thus put
in a better mechanical condition for
the crop. Our own experience leads us
to say, plant the corn on the fall plow-
ed land, and the earlier the land is
/ plowed the better
| We admired the enterprise and de-
/ plored the. judgment Of one western
/ farmer lately. He had got stirred up
on the seed corn question enough Che
did not have over half stand in his
field this Year, SO that in late Septem-
Der he had gone through his field and
picked several bushels Of corn for seed
which he had strung on the wire fence,
two and two, along the railroad right
! of way, but he seemed to have no good
the ears for seed, and his assortment
strung along the fence looked like q
weeks wash on the clothes line-all
sizes, all colors.
We should have about 625,OOO,OOO
bushels of wheat as the crop of 1904.
Instead we will have only 525OOO,OOO
bushels, leaving us short 1OOOOO,OOO
bushels. Our people are just as hun
CRY as ever and those Of foreign ma
lions more hungry than usual. This
condition of affairs sends wheat up.
The bulls swear they will make it So
per bushel before another crop comes
around. Be that as it may, there is no
low. priced -four in sight for the next
twelve months. Wise and saving people
will thus eat more corn products, more
potatoes, more beans and fruits and
save money and be lots healthier.
White wheat bread always looks better
than it is.
The Wolf River apple is one Of the
largest as well as one Of the handsom-
est apples grown. Its size, rich color
ing and waxy appearance give to it a
most deceptive appearance In the
west 1t is nicknamed by the grocers
and fruit peddlers the Roosevelt APP
pie" and the combination makes it
great seller. We hate to tell the truth
about it, but the fact is it is the most
worthless of any apple grown in the
west, coarse in texture, punky and in
ferior in flavor to fiat turnip. It is
like lots of people in the world, carries
all it's recommendations on the outside
Where the writer lives these apples
sell for nickel apiece, five times the
price of choice fruit. A fellow never
buys one that he does not realize at
once the truth of the old saw, "a fool
and his money are soon parted"
Fifty years from now it is more than
probable that there will appear in some
agricultural journal an article like the
following:
Strange as it may seem, only fifty
years ago it was the common custom
among the corn growers to simply
gather asS ears Of corn from their
fields ara teave all the wealth of valua-
BILE forage found in the stalk and leaves
of the plant to be frozen, bleached and
wasted by the elements, these stalks
being harbor for noxious insect life
and a nuisance in the cultivation Of
succeeding crops. Land was then cheap,
worth only $50 to $50 per acre, and it
was only very slowly and with the
greatest difficulty that the pioneers of
our present improved system of agri-
culture could make the farmers of
that day believe that in thus wasting
their corn fodder they wasted one
third of the value Of their crop. To-
day man who would thus handle a
corn crop would be regarded as crazy,
as would the man who would permit
weeds to have a place in his corn
field or the one who would use poor
seed. Since farm land has advanced
In the corn belt to $3.50 to $500 per
acre, only the most approved methods
of modern agriculture will insure its