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

! The individual excellence OF the
l grade sire will seldom Justify its USE
| Texas is Dragging. as much. on her
crop Of Elberta peaches us on her cot
En crop.
The dwarf mountain pine is very
desirable tree for lawn decoration and
is hardy withal.
OF 368 species Of plants tested, the
seeds of the bean and clover families
longest retained their vitality.
| Sympathy is one Of the divine attri.
butes of humanity. but it is usually
worse than wasted when applied to the
tramp nuisance.
It Is reported that seedless apple
has been developed. If so, it will with
!. out any doubt be worked to the limit
q as a new swindle by fruit tree peddlers.
The wild instinct in man will never
II be entirely obliterated. 1t is always
easier to get the kids to hunt for wild
strawberries than 1t Is to pick tame
ones.
% We took toll from our strawb cry
bed for just four weeks this year. The
last were the best on the broad prin-
ciple that blessings brighten as they
g take their fight
le The crop outlook for the country at
large is not of such a character as to
Justify the belief that prices for farm
'e produce will be any lower than they
n have been for three years past.
d In Cuba they cut off the timber and
brush, then punch holes in the ground
and plant corn. 1t is never cultivated,
= but grows to a height Of sixteen feet
= and has to be husked by man on q
mule.
It Is q curious and rather unusual
fact In natural history that the chinch
u bug will leave the growing corn to feed
10 on foxtail grass, being a case where
i. one mean thing has natural affinity
IL for another.
Wheat yielding forty bushels an acre
u and weighing sixty pounds to the BUSH
II ell has been grown 800 miles northwest
81 of st. Paul. MINI. There is almost no
g limit to the wheat growing territory of
,e the fur northwest.
A man in New Jersey comes to the
le front with strawberry Of new va
d riety which measures three inches in
al diameter and weighs one-ffth of a
II pound, which seems to us like quite
Is OVERRIDING the strawberry business.
Some peculiar quality connected with
II the soil in the valley of the Hood
r river in Washington gives to the straw
q. berries there raised remarkable keep
q ing qualities, permitting the shipment
q. of the berries to points as distant as
u st. Paul in almost perfect condition.
There is no prettier sight than bass
:. wood or linden tree in full bloom, the
" bloom itself being one of natures
4OSSl IL cans. Lie lllllS DCll oAdpCo
y capsules, fragrant as the lily of the
- valley and full Of nectar, are great
= snap for the bees, and from this tree
they make their best honey.
" When the weeds in the cornfeld the
u last of June are US high as the corn
rs it will pay better to plow up the field
d and SOW some catch crop, such as mil
Is let or buckwheat The land will thus
&c be got in good shape for crep anoth-
y er year. 1t never pays to let the weeds
get the best of field for any half crop
n Of anything.
d. There is so much difference between
ty working with a well polished, sharp
ty hoe and rusty, dull one that we won
to der why any one will use the rusty
lie and dull one. There is only one way
in which to keep the kind of hoe first
named, and that is never to lend it. 1t
II should be as unloanable as your razor,
eli rubber boots and shotgun.
II We have one acre Of onions this year
III planted on piece of land which last
Ut year was half in corn and half in
re beans. 1t is very easy to note the
effect of these two crops upon the
crop of this year, that part which was
en- in beans last year being much the
re best. Beans are very good fertilizer,
ol working in the same way as clover.
nj
n Disaster beset the nest building eff
til forts Of the birds around our home this
tJ year. A song sparrow's nest in the
tt little cedar was visited too often by
the little folk, and the bird moved her
quarters A robins nest was despoiled
M hy the hlI1e iavs which sucked the