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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

A friend of ours, young man, a
farmer, has built up one Of the best
seed corn businesses we know Of in
side Of three years by studying the
corn plant, fixing a type suited to his
latitude and applying common sense
rules Of selection. He is simply over
whelmed with orders for seed, all be-
cause his labor was rewarded by win
ming nearly all the best prizes for corn
in a state competition. He may now
grow all the corn he can and get fancy
prices for it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08
n.xern w DRAINAGE.

Two wet seasons in the west have
turned attention to the drainage OF
large sections Of the country partic-
ularly In Minnesota and Iowa. the
crops on hundreds Of thousands Of acres
of the low and undrained lands having
been practically destroyed fer two years
by reason of the excessive xrainfall.
Some very extensive and expensive
drainage propositions are now under,
way. A serious question arises in con-
nection with this work. All drained
lands rid themselves quickly Of surface
water. The rivers and main natural.
waterways Of those states are of ca
pacity to care for normal flow of wa
ter without serious damage by over
flow. when these drainage schemes
are all completed and the floods of an
ordinary wet time released in hurry.
from these lands it cannot be otherwise
than that very destructive freshets will
result for all the bottom lands Of the
streams which have to carry the water,
and the disasters which befell Kansas
City, Topeka and Des Moines last sum-
mer will become common occurrence.
These wet lands with their numerous
ponds and sloughs have, undrained,
served as reservoirs or feeders, the sur
plus water escaping. slowly, but when
they are drained out will go the water
with rush. Cities and towns built
adjacent to such rivers will have to
meet the problem of how best to guard
against these aggravated food condi-
tons, for it will not be possible to pre-
vent the drainage Of the lands referred
To
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

The Scotch pine does we'll on the
clay hills and also on the low and wet
land. For southern Minnesota and
northern Iowa we rate it as one Of the
best of our conifers up to the time it
gets twenty-five years old, and then,
like some ladies, it begins to lose its
beauty and becomes bit scraggly and
ragged.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

The invention of the,reapfng machine
threw 26,O00000 men out Of a job
that is, the machines at work today in
the world represent the labor Of that
number Of men. Eclipsing this story
is the one that the falls Of the Fam
bezi river, in Africa, If fully utilized,
would result in turning 100000
horses out to grass, giving a water
power more than five times as great
as that Of Niagara falls.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

While wheat brings so cents, corn 40
cents, beef $3.50, hogs 81, butter 25
cents and eggs 20 cents there will be
no real hard times in this country. It
takes fifteen cent corn and $3.50 hogs
to get the business cogs Of the country
out Of mash.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

Congress has given the department
Of agriculture the large sum Of $780,
600 with which to fight the cotton boil
weevil, larger sum than has ever
before been given by the government
to eradicate farm pest, but the stake
is large, a crop worth $5OOOOO,OOO a
year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

Ragweedsand ironweed are two pests
which are able to hold their own with
blue grass and under certainzcondit
will sometimes entirely kill it out. If
these weeds have hold in the blue
grass pasture, it is good policy to run
the moving machine over the pasture
just as they come into bloom.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

In the:states Of Illinois. Iowa, Kan
sas and Nebraska, the four great corn
producing states. there is wonderful
interest being developed in the study
Of the corn plant. Hardly an institute
is being held this winter which does
not provide for an,exhibit' Of corn and
the payment Of good premiums for the
best samples shown, and which does
not devote at least q full half day to
lectures and discussions of corn in ali
its phases from the preparation Of the
field for the crop to its final harvesting
The experiment, stations are developing
many new and highly important facts
about this cereal, its type, pure breed
ing, culture and selection of seed, and
enough undisputed testimony has been
presented at these meetings to prove
beyond a question that it is easily pos
sible to increase the. average yield Of
the cornfelds at least ten bushels per
acre.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

A friend asks US why it is that men
will saw wood with a bucksaw for
living when they might earn more
money by keeping poultry. We do not
know. 1t is just ignorance. probably,
that there is any better way.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

A decent and God fearing farming
community in the west recently had
lot Of nice fat horse meat palmed
off on them for steer beef. They ate
it and pronounced it good. The man
who played the joke on them showed
his wisdom by leaving the communi-
ty before the fraud was discovered.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08
.OpCHApD.,CADDEN

Ireland has suffered from two very
poor crops of potatoes owing to rot. A
new variety Of potato said to be rot
proof is commanding exorbitant prices
as q result.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

Two years trial has proved that
macaroni wheat can be grown in the
greatest abundance in those portions
Of the west where the rainfall is lin
tied to ten or twelve inches per an
mum. Now we will have our own YER
micelli, spaghetti and macaroni fac
tories, where these food products will
not be dried in some Italians back
yard along with the family washing.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

For fertilizing the field sow mann
moth, for pasture and hay SOW medi-
UNI red, for pasture alone sow white
clover, for the reclamation Of wild
meadow lands SOW alsike clover, for
the hog pasture sow alfalfa. The fore
going is the gospel Of clover in nut
shell.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

Any man or boy who will shoot a
red squirrel lacks the first element Of
a genuine sportsman. He is one of the
gayest, most harmless and interesting
of any form Of wild life, is worthless
for food purposes and should be al
lowed to live, yet some men will work
themselves up into perfect furore of
excitement in the effort to kill one.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

The two problems OF how to best
spend money you have in hand and
how to borrow money to buy some
thing you think you want are very
different propositions.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

Given plenty Of corn in the fields
and an open body Of spring water, the
wild rnallare duck will winter as far
north as latitude AZ. Not far from
where we live large flock Of these
birds is wintering under the condi-
lions named, while the Ice is two feet
thick in the river and the mercury
down at times to 30 below Zero. The
migration of all our wild fowl Is sim
ply question Of securing. food, and
water.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

While not promising boom prices for
farm products such as prevailed two
and three years ago, the year 1904 still
holds out promise for large meas
ure of agricultural prosperity for the
farmers Of the country. During the
past year there has been a gradual set
Ting Of values down to hardpan
basis. the speculative element has been
eliminated from all lines Of business,
the water has been squeezed out of in
fated securities and values Of all kinds,
and all this has been done without seri-
GUS damage to the country at large.
There Is healthy demand upon mill,
mine and factory for their products,
but modicum Of unemployed labor,
and all the American people are hungry
every day, and the farmer must feed
them. All the cotton, corn, wheat,
oats, hogs, cattle, dairy products and
poultry the farms can produce will be
wanted at fair prices. To put things
just right there should be scaling
down Of at least 10 per cent in wages
for farm help and all the commodities
which enter into the farm expense ac-
count.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

We believe that any man owning
farm Of 40 to 100 acres can we'll afford
to pay more attention to poultry as a
money maker for his farm. AS it now
is, the poultry is usually turned over to
the women folks, and the men take lit
tie or no interest In providing suitable
facilities or food for the hens, simply
keeping them as free-for-all foragers,
the men never taking any interest so
long as they have what eggs they
want to eat and fried chicken when
the parson comes to dinner. The aver
age return from hens left to take care
Of themselves is probably not far from
$50 to $40 on the average farm home
stead. This income might be easily
trebled If proper breeds were secured
and proper food, care and shelter pro-
vided. One sure way in which to add
to the income Of almost any farm is to
tste better care. Of the poultry. -
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

Here;issa little alfalfa story: "a, man
six years ago came into possession of
alarm 5Ohio which had been skinned
to finish, the clay fields, baked or
puddled. according to the season, refus-
ing to produce even so poor crop as
ten bushels of corn to the acre. The
farm was rated as worthless for any
purpose. Without detailing all that
was done by. the buyer to renovate this
farm, we will confine the story to what
he did with one field. 1t was first re-
duced to as good filth as possible and
then sown with twenty-five pounds Of
alfalfa seed to the acre, moved three
times the first year and the cuttings
allowed to remain where they fell.
During the next four years the field
furnishes an average Of five tons to the
acre Of alfalfa hay, worth about $50.
The field was then plowed up, and last
year he raised thereon crop of seven
ty-five bushels Of corn to the acre, with
the field in the best of. condition for an
other crop. Perhaps this story may
give some Of oursreaders what is term
ed hint.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

The stock shipper to the Chicago
market has struck hard lines. He can
neither get a free meal nor treat to the
beers and must pay his fare home.
He is in a mood to make things inter-
esting for both the commission men
and the railways if he can only get
the chance.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

= IN the office shanty one evening
about week later Railway and
his scaler happened to be talk
ing over the situation. The
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

If that blue. grass pasture seems to
have sort of run out, become weedy,
with bare spots here and there, get
out your disk just as soon as the frost
is out ten inches, put on four horses,
load the machine with all they can
pull and go over that pasture both
ways twice, then give it a thorough
narrowing and SOW four quarts Of me-
dunn clover to the acre before the last
time over with the harrow. If you will
do this, you will have no reason to find
any fault with that pasture for cou-
pie or three years anyhow. Nothing
does blue grass so much good as to
use it just as If you wanted to get
rid Of it,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

Avery curious fact was brought to
light lately. Right in the immediate
vicinity Of the location of the first
creamery which was ever operated the
farmers are now selling their milk to
make twenty-five cent butter and buy
ing oieomargarine for their own use.
In this respect they are following the
example of our Danish friends, who
have done this for a long time. The
oleo costs just one.half as much as the
butter brings.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

k~1OR FIVE days Thorpe cut wood,
made fires, drew water, swept
III floors and ran errands At the
end Of the week he received 81
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27

For Sore Throat, Cold in Chest or Tonsilitis
try 1Oc bottle of Omega Oil.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
A PILGRIMAGE
IN THE SPRING
FRENZY OF THE DUKHOBORS
SIMPLY sMOULDERING.
New Leaders Take the Place OF
Veregin, Who Is in Jail at Regina,
and Urge Them On-Mounted Po-
licemen in Close Touch With the
Settlement in the Yorkton District.

Special to The Journal.
Winnipeg, Man, Feb. 27.-A Van
couver dispatch says that A. Q. Long,
a mounted policeman, who Is passing
thru Vancouver for the Yukon, says:
II was one of the police guarding
the Dukhobors in the Yorkton district
and seven mounted policemen are now
watching the Dukhobors of that set
tlement. In spite of the fact that their
leader, Peter Veregin. is doing time in
Regina jail and three other famous
Dukhobor leaders are in the Brandon
asylum, other leaders have sprung UP
and are constantly firing the imagina-
ton of the people and urging them to
start on another mad march I do not
believe all the police in the country
can stop them when they throw off
their restraint in the spring.
Il have seen the DukhObOrs turn
their cattle out as unfit for human
food and not intended by God to per-
from labor. Instead of horses, f
have seen fourteen women hitched to
a pillow, with a man at the side with a
whip and another at the handles. The
women were not yoked, but strained
against sticks attached to ropes I'M
til the perspiration rolled from them
in great drops. The men make
the women beasts Of burden and refuse
to do manual labor themselves.
I'm the second stage of their frenzy
they jumped and shouted, tore their
| hair and ripped the clothes from their
bodies. In the third stage the men
commanded the women to remove
| their clothing, and along they march
ed, singing, shouting and working
| themselves into fierce fury, looking
for Peter Veregin; their Christ. An
enterprising policeman took a photo
| graph of a section of the pilgrimage
| and was sentenced to six months fol
| improper conduct The pictures We're
scattered broadcast, however, and ]
have seen them on both sides of the
! continent.
/ "The Dukhobors are now as peace
! full as possible, the men making the
women work and doing as little as
| possible themselves. Religious frenzy
is smouldering, however, and ready tc
break out the moment the snow goes
They will not make good Canadian set
tiers these 500 Dukhobors, altho their
descendants may become tractable
when removed from the influences
| surrounding the first Settlers"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
Discoveer Magic Compound Single Night

There can be no doubt Of the Doctors earnest
ness In making his claims, nor can his cures be
disputed. He does not ask man, woman or
child to take his or any one elses word for 1t,
but he stands ready and willing to send free trial
packages of this great hair restorative to any one
who writes to him for 1t, inclosing 2-cent
stamp to prepay postage. In a single night it
has started hair to growing on heads bald for
years. 1t has stopped falling hair in one hour.
1t never fails, no matter what the condition, age
or sex. Old men and young men, women and
children all have profted by the free use Of this
great new discovery. If you are bald, If your
hair is falling out, if your hair eyebrows or
eyelashes are thin short write the Altenhem
Medical Dispensary, 1854 Foso building, Cincin-
natl, Ohio Enclosing 2cent stamp to prepay
postage for a free package and in short time
you will be entirely restored. ~ ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27

After half a century spent in the laboratory,
crowned with high honors for his many world
discoveries, the celebrated physician
chemist at the head Of the great Altenheim
Medical Dispensary has just made the startling
announcement that he has produced compound
that grows hair any bald head. The doctor
the claim that, after experiments taking
years to complete he has at last reached the
goal of his ambition. To the doctor, all heads
are alike. There are which cannot be cured
By this remarkable remedy. The record OF the
cures already made Is truly marvellous, and were
It not for the high standing Of the great physi-
clan and the convincing testimony of thousands
of citizens all over the country, it would seem
too miraculous to be true. ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
CLARK OF CORNELL FIRST
INTERCOLLEGIATE ORATORICAL
CONTEST AT GRINNELI-COII-
YER SECOND AND BEATTY
THIRD
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. e.y 49, i. =
Grinnell Iowa, Feb. 27.-At the an
nual intercollegiate oratorical contest
last night first hOnOrs were won by
Fred J.. Clark of Cornell college on
the PHILOSOPHY Of the Race Prob
lem,' and second by j. Newton Col
Yer of Simpson on Robert E. Lee
Frank M. Beatty of Iowa Wesleyan
university was third. ~
The judges on thought and COM
position were Professor F.. G.. Hub
bard of the University. Of Wisconsin,
President Thomas Mcclellan of Knox
college, Professor Paul Iaeinsch- of the
University of Wisconsin, Samuel
Strauss, editor of the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, Howard Kennedy,
Jr., of Omaha; on delivery, Judge
Emlin McClain Of the supreme bench
of Iowa; Rev r. r: Newly, New
Providence, Iowa: c. D. Harrison,
Cedar Rapids; w. H. Wilson of Da-
venport, and Harry Ingham of the
Register and Leader of Des Moines.
The audience was a large one, sixteen
colleges sending delegates. So
The plan to divide the state into
two districts, with eight colleges in
each, for preliminary contest to the
state contest proposed by .Ames
failed to carry at the business meet
ing. A charge of plagiarism made
against the Coe college orator by the
y. 7. u, was not sustained. Drake
orator was sick and did not speak.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27

test. Are we worldly minded? They
chasten us obtrusvely with hymns--or
Mendelssohn, who is for some obscure
reason regarded as a moral force in the
suburbs. Are we Of the elect? They hurl
us with defiant persistency the latest
blood curdIer from the halls" The thing
that passes with them for a piano is
called upon to do the work Of three, and
the wall dividing our respective houses, be
it borne in mind, is a beautiful conductor
of sound.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27

Racers here-one for every day in the
week that a. man is supposed to get
shaved-and pays me to hone them
every week. Some mornings I have
to try them all on him before he stops
grumbling, and even:then may have to
use one of my own raZOrs At other
times he will order me to use the same
razor for a week or two. I can't fool
him by changing it, either.
"Anotler customer who comes in
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR
Outlook.

The reason why the people next door are
invariably regarded as most unworthy Of
our 5a;ve1ins is plain to me. They have a
piano do not know Of any race that Is
quite 50 unpleasant as the people next
door. They are not like any ordinary peo-
pie who live elsewhere. They obtain their
music on the hire system, as 1t were, and
It is generally Of the type we most de-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
u An Exquisite Nalr. Dressing

only for, an occasional shave, talked to
me for six months about the fine razor
he had at home. I told him that as
we seemed to have none in the shop to
suit him., / should be obliged If he
would bring it around for me to look
IT. He did. Well, sir, it was a meat
*. I would as soon think of shaving
a man with a carving knife. But
shaved him with it, and he never
naeDad - - -...4 +. @%---n r. 49,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
THE RAZOR CRANK
He Is the Fellow With a Half Dozen
Varieties.

"A man may be; quite rational and
reasonable in all ordinary affairs, and
yet be quite daffy on the subject of
razors here-one. for every day in the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27

-
A striking evidence Of the wonder
full advance which the United States
is making in the development of in
dustries, the many uses to which
electricity is put, and the remarkable
strides made by our railroads, is the
ly sending representatives to this
country to study and report upon our
methods. An English syndicate a
few months ago sent an agent over
here to report upon the latest phases
Of our railroad development. A flat
tering commentary upon our general
progress was the space devoted to
the great railway systems west Of Chi
cago. The train service in the west
was found to be uniformly the best
in America, and the management Of
the Milwaukee road must have been
gratified to know that its Pioneer
Limited trains were singled out as
the acme Of perfection.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27
Only s47.so to Hot Springs and Re.

only $41.oU 10 HOC springs anu lie.
Via est. Louis Short Line), Min
neapolis & st. Louis North Star Linn
ited." Trains stop at main entrance
to Worlds Fair Grounds at ST. Louis.
Thru Pullman Sleepers and free reclin-
ing chair cars to ST. Louis daily. Call
on j. G. Ricke1 City Ticket Agent, No.
1 washington Ave S.
A very animated scene was present.
ed at the union depot last evening just
before the Pioneer Limited Of the Mil
waukee pulled out for the East. An
unusually large number Of Twin City
| people were among the passengers.
This remarkably popular service of
| the ''Old Milwaukee" surely takes
Settlers Rates
| Only $16.95 to Denver; $14.10 to Ok
lahoma City; $1,000 to Galveston, for
one-way tickets via the Minneapolis &
st. Louis Railroad. Calf on or write
J. G.. Rickel, City Ticket Agent, No. 1
| Washington Ave. S.
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-27

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