Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-02

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Starvation is and should be the ulti.
mate remedy for the man who can and
won't work.
Clay for the sand road and sand for
the clay road is always in order as a
means Of securing better roads.
There are two things which it is diff
ficult to teach horses to do-one is to
walk fast and the other to move
heavy load slowly.
A wagon will last about six years
!: left to stand outdoors and will last
twice as long If properly housed. Same
rule applies to all machinery.
There is more sense in teaching the
elementary principles of agriculture in
the public schools than there is in
many Of the fads which receive atten.
ton.
Eggs are now graded as flrsts. sec
onds, thirds and dirties. which grading
means difference in price of over 5
cents O dozen between the best and
the worst.
1t costs about $65 to produce an
acre of well cared for onions. The
crop should be as much as 500 BUSH
els. and one year with another it will
sell for 40 cents per bushel.
Florida agricultural enthusiasts claim
that they can make pound of beef or
pork with cassava roots at half the cost
it can be made in the corn belt. Bring
on the root beef and bacon and let's see
what it is like.
Good crops of corn may be made
even if it is not knee high by the Fourth
of July. 1t is July and August tropical
warmth which makes this crop, and 1t
makes very fast when the questions
OF neat AMI moisture are just right
Colorado feeders report net profit
of $50 on steers fed and fitted for mar.
ket on sugar beet pulp and alfalfa.
Whether this profit should be credited
to the pulp or the alfalfa is not stated.
Perhaps it was the happy combination
of the two.
Europe took 100000 barrels OF
American apples last year at good
prices. This year the foreign crop is
good, and the demand on this country
will be light. The crop of the eastern
states will not be as large as last year,
but of better quality.
Politics and agriculture are happily
blended in the congressional distribu.
ton Of seeds. How many legislators
would lose their Jobs were it not fol-
the seeds 1t is hard to tell, but this
much is true-the seeds are worth more
in political than IN agricultural way
shrub than clump Of common elder
berry bushes. They do not sucker bad
| ly, have a very delicate and pretty
| foliage and are of singular beauty
when covered with masses of white
bloom or later with their rich purple
| clusters of berries.
A friend wishes to know whether II
| hurts the asparagus bod to cut it back
in July. It is about the worst thing
which can possibly be done for it. as II
intlicts an injury from which 1t will
not recover in years. Any plant cut
back when in full growth and before
maturity suffers irreparable damage
Cold storage is a total flzzle wher
applied to strawberries. The mere
placing of the berries in a refrigerator
car in the south country for shipment
north for only few days almost en-
l
this berry as with woman-its beauty
and delicacy cannot be preserved arti
ficially.
The whole business world is now
watching the crops. These crops
mean lot of newly created wealth
+ Men may buy and sell till doomsdaJ
and the world be none the richer, but
when some man has raised pound Of
cotton, bushel Of corn, fat hog OF
a brood Of chickens the country is by
that much the richer.
A cemented cellar hard water under
pressure and soft water handy, hard
wood kitchen floor and modern cook
ing range would take the wrinkles Out
of many good woman's face. With
domestic help so hard to obtain it IL
economy to provide the housekeepei
with every obtainable facility for do