Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-21

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The cost of poor seed corn is never ~,
realized, the loss being prospective and ~
not visible &C
No other country has just such ~
plump and neat hog as America pro- .. ~
duces in the Poland China in the corn =
belt.
Well cured alfalfa hay forms part Il
Of the ration fed the dairy cows which {,
are undergoing 120 day butter test q
at the worlds fair. ..
II clover is entirely free from outside
moisture. rain and dew, it may be put
into the NOW pretty green with safety, 20
but if it is wet and damp from dew or &c
rain look out for trouble ~
The man who pays as he goes may NJ
not so so very far. but he always has q II,
good appetite, sleeps well, has the re-
spect and confidence of his neighbors
and is usually good citizen in every IN
way. q,
The very general use Of the incubator =, =,
in the poultry business does something y, =,
to stiffen the price of eggs during the :,
late winter and early spring months, -
immense quantities being used in this -
manner.
Now, please listen, ladies' Just 80 "
long as you in your kindness Of heart W "
persist in feeding tramps just SO long -
you will be bothered with them. If the I'd
handout was absolutely cut of, the III
Weary Willie would disappear. ~ u.
We always admire the man who has
way Of doing small things well. He
may always be depended upon to do u
larger things in the same way when al
occasion demands Catch a man slight y
ing small things and he will bear II
watching on general principles. "
A very serious loss in corn culture is o'
to find that one has only a two-thirds -
stand. There seems to be too much to
justify the replanting of the whole :,
field and not enough to insure salts -,
factory crop. Small fields can Of course A.
be replanted and filled in by hand, but ~
with the large field this cannot well be -
done. "
We noted an old black cat the other :,
morning watching a pair of wrens
building their nest. There was a
method malign in the cats action, for :,
she got the entire brood of young -
wrens raised by these birds last year. a,
She won't do it this year, even If we - -
have to take our chance on plague Of . .
mice for awhile. :,
While there are many shade trees of a.
different kinds upon our lawn, there n
is one particular elm which from the
first year 1t was planted has always
been used by the birds for home. n
And all kinds of birds seem to have II
special liking for this particular tree. g
One year the robins have 1t, the next g
a grosbeak. then blue Jay and then 4
an orlole and then a catbird. n
The strawberry bed is, or should be, Il
the center Of attraction for every we'll .
regulated family just now. No other
fruit quite takes the place Of the straw
berry. 1t is so easily raised, has SO |,
few enemies, is SO prolific and reliable h
and lasts such long time. Beautiful h
to look at, fragrant to the smell, deli s
cious to the taste, we pity any man a
! who cannot or will not raise it. a
A new scheme which seems to have "
very much to commend it is the erect 8
ing of hitching sheds in the small t
towns in place of hitching posts on
the public streets. 1t affords a needed
protection for teams and removes a a
nuisance from the STREETS. The town C
is supposed to be public spirited Il
enough to build such shed and furnish g
it free of charge to the country public t
1t is worth looking into. u
| A reader who lives on the sandy u
lands north of st. Paul puts in q few b
reasons why sandy farm is not so +
bad after all. He facetiously observes
for one thing that he and his neigh.
| hOrc n0t hnva tO ctr 70 2
get to town in the spring Of the year, J
that their soil never bakes and can be f
worked just as soon as it quits raining t
and that one never strikes rock when v
blowing, while they raise the finest po. a