Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-26

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The hired man will always do best
when his boss sets him a good exam
pie.
1t takes ginseng seed eighteen
months to terminate, while purslane
and foxtail require only about that
many hours.
The law will not let you turn the wa
ter from your farm on to your neighbor
to his injury save as it flows down a
natural water course over his land.
Bronze grass, speltz, macaroni wheat
and alfalfa are four things which are
adding millions of acres Of tlllable land
to the arabic acreage of the semiarid
west.
We never see clipped horse in early
spring but we are reminded of the
cruelty Of such a fad. No artificial
method Of protection can take the place
of the winter coat nature provides.
In certain parts Of Africa, where the
grasshoppeys have made clean sweep
of the country, the only things in the
way Of vegetation left are the leaves
of the coffee trees. These they would
not eat, while they even ate the bark
of other trees.
Two South Dakota boys have invent
ed a method Of extermina ting prairie
dogs which they have patented and
which is such pronounced success
that 1t is said that the boys will make
q fortune out of it.
American beef has almost completely
captured the English market. A few
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the British market it could only be sold
disguised as English beef; now the
English beef has to be sold under the
American brand.
In one Of the irrigation districts of
India the value of the first crop raised
exceeded the entire cost of the work.
The same thing will prove true to a
lesser degree with several Of the irriga-
ton schemes which the American gov
eminent has now under way in the
arid west.
The highways in many parts Of Ger
many are lined with handsome rows
of fruit trees. Their product is pro-
tected by law and when fit to pick is
sold at auction and the proceeds de-
voted to the improvement Of the high
way. The European does some things
better than the American.
II you want to realize what the de-
velopment Of the cold storage industry
has done for the country recall the
time few years ago when your April
and May eggs sold for 6 cents dozen
and the best butter you could make for
10 cents pound. Cold storage has
doubled the price to the producer of
both commodities.
All through the corn belt it Is now
we'll settled that the silo offers the
cheapest and most economical method
Of getting all the value out of the corn
crop and securing supply of sue
culent winter forage for the stock on
the farm. This truth makes Roadway
slowly, but the time is coming when
the siio will be an accompaniment Of
the big red barn on every well man
aged western farm.
A Chicago florist who was candi-
date for alderman Of that city did an
altogether unique thing on Easter Sun
day to propitiate the voters of his
ward. He lavishly decorated the
twenty nine churches in his ward with
the choicest floral wealth Of his green
houses and saw to it that every man,
woman and child received carnation.
This is ever so much nicer than tap
ping lot Of pony kegs
Good beef sold for cent a pound in
the reign Of Queen Elizabeth in Eng
land. Pork sold at the same price,
chicken at 2 cents and fat goose at 8
cents. That was before the days Of
knives and forks, chimneys for the
houses, glass for windows guns and
gunpowder, and when every man had
to provide his own armor, pike and
bow and arrow and be ready on a mo-
ment's warning to join the army. This
was when the courts hung a man for
stealing as small sum as $3.50, or
sheep, or for killing game on the bar
on's estate.
Birds have almost as hard q time
making a final selection of place in
which to build nest as some folks do
in hunting house to live in. We
watched robin the other day engaged
in hunting place for nest. He Gt
was the male bird was engaged in
sizing up the crotch of small elm
tree. He got into the crotch to see