Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-09-13


The nAastly Colorado potato bug
kes eggplant better than it does the
otato.
A bill Of corn takes UP about as
much room under ground as 1t does
bove ground.
Two things mark the first steps in
agricultural progress in new country,
yhen the farmers begin to sow clover
and when they quit burning their
traw piles.
In a dairy tine very unique thing
o be seen at the worlds fair is bust
If John Stewart nodded in creamery
butter. Jossa was the pioneer In the
,reamery business, and his memory Is
,hus honored.
If the fertilization Of the soil is the
main thing sought. try mammoth
clover, plowing the whole thing under
the second year. 1t is the cheapest
method of renovating wornout field
there is to be found.
A man who will originate and propa-
gate rs good fruit as the Wealthy
apple is far better deserving Of some
in marble than the shedders
Of blood who fought or the spouters
Of wind who make laws.
If there was more good buttermilk
drunk there would be fewer doctors
bills and smaller demand for patent
medicines. The buttermilk Of the farm
dairy should never be fed to the pigs
and calves until every drop possible
has been got into the folks in the fam
lily.
We once knew an old parson whose
sermons We're of a high grade, whose
life was always consistent with his
profession, till he went to trading
horses, and then he went all to pieces.
and all the roosters in town could not
keep him from lying worse than old
Peter.
The fakir always follows the state
and county fairs. He is the chronic
parasite on our every effort at agricul-
tural progress. In England he has no
show at such places. Why does not
some body of fair officials have the
sand to fire the whole pestiferous
crowd2
With something less than hundred
different kinds of cereal breakfast
food to be had, the dish of oatmeal
well cooked still leads them ALL There
would be much more oatmeal eaten did
cooks know how to cook it. Boiled for
ten minutes, it is an abomina ton;
cooked slowly for six hours, it Is a
delicacy.
From Omaha, west, alfalfa, self
seeded. is disputing with sweet clover,
sun1ower and bindweed for the pos,
session Of the soil on the railway
rights OF way. giving to every farme,
who travels BY rail a wonderful objec
lesson Of the possibilities of alfalfa il
that section. A few see and heed the
lesson. Most Of them don't.
We watched a stock train from the
west pass BY one day recently. In II
xr,n al rf po+ rtn
the ranges, three double deckers OF
sheep, car OF poultry, three cars OF
horses and dozen cars OF logs, while
at the rear Of the train were two cars
Of creamery butter. This explains the
growing wealth Of western farners.
A late government bulletin on for
estry in the Hawaiian Islands refers
to native tree the foliage OF which
condenses moisture SO rapidly that
falling like rain, the water keeps the
ground beneath muddy at all times
In some cases this water is collected
by placing metal tray under the tree
and the water is thus saved and uset
for watering the stock.
So dense is the population in Japar
and SO carefully do the people have tt
nurse the productive capacity Of tho
limited arabic section Of the country
that the erection Of fences. between
landowners is forbidden for the rea
son TINT the thirty square inches oi
land surface occupied by the fence
posts Is needed to grow some grain Of
plant which will help support life.
What is correct stand of corn de
pends somewhat upon the available
plant food in the soil and the amour
of moisture the plant may command
during the growing season, If the sol
be thin and poor two stalks in hjl