Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-23

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Guinea hens are like politicians
useful for the noise they make and in
having no market value.
Popcorn and peanuts are unknown
in every country save this. Here they
represent millions of dollars yearly.
The oleo fraud died hard; SO did hu
man slavery, but emancipation was Sc
cured at last for both the COW and the
colored man.
We never could see just why the
state should pay man $1,000 for doing
less work than he did in private ca.
pacity for $1,000.
There should be some way Of taking
care of the first cutting Of the alfalfa
field in June in the silo. This first CROP
it is almost impossible to save US good
hay.
The attractiveness and salableness
Of fruit depend much upon the pack
age and the taste displayed in putting
1t up. The same principle applies tc
the ladies.
A reformed tramp giving lecture
said that the worst thing he found con
nected with hobo life was the good ad
vice the women persisted in giving
him with handout.
Stockmen with finished beef cattle
and fat hogs on hand, with ffty-five
cent corn to buy to hold them. are moi
feeling overly sweet about the strike
at the packing houses In Chicago.
Because of the cold, the snow and
the ice there, are only about a hundred
days in yehr when railway construc
ton work can be carried on along
much of the route Of the Siberian rail
way in Russia.
A woman who had our sympathy
was one who canned a lot of straw
berries only to find out too late tina,
by some stupid blunder the grocery
man had got salt mixed with the sugar
which he sent her. What this woman
thought was undoubtedly unfit t
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An old corn grower says that whel
a crop Of 90 bushels an acre is secured
the corn costs 13 cents bushel to pro
duce, for so bushels 1t is Is cents, TO
40 bushels 10 cents, for IS bushels 2:
cents and for 80 bushels 30 cents
These figures are not very far out O
the way, and 1t is thus easy to know
when you are selling corn below th,
cost Of production.
1t is typical Of the American that b,
will always seek for the easiest way t,
do hard things. The marvellous inven
tive genius Of the country originates IL
this trait of character. Give Yanke,
any job Of hard work, and ten to on
before he has 1t completed he will hav,
discovered some easier method Of do
ing 1t. The foreigner will fudge alonl
in the old way, the way Of his ances
tors; the Yankee never.
We saw the girl in the cor1held tn
other day-a sunbonneted, blue cali
coed, bright eyed miss of sixteen-han
ding the lines over nice team ant
cultivating in good shape from six t
eight acres Of corn day. She locke,
up as the train sped by, and we got t
thinking as we passed her how man.
worse things she might be doing. Mex
winter this same girl is quite likely t
be at some college trying to take
place higher up.
If man is trying to make livini
on a run down and wornout farm il
any of the eastern or central states b
should look up the alfalfa proposition
II he can grow alfalfa, the way of hi
redemption Is clear. We certainl,
would not give the old farm away ur
til we had seen what alfalfa could d
for it. Near Rochester, N. Y, is a farm
which has been thus redeemed by cow
and alfalfa and raised in value fror
| $50 per acre to over 500.
1t was agreed among the neighbor
of certain community that 1t SHOULD
rain on certain afternoon, and al
would be ready for it, but at the las
minute 1t was found that Farmer T
had two tons of hay out, Mrs. G. wa
to have an outdoor tea party, an
Neighbor Jones had not got his turnip
and buckwheat sowed, while Miss L.
Sunday school class had planned for
picnic, and they gave up the Job o
repulatfno tho roinfoM co. $ho;r eord