Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-10

1t will pay any farmer big money
to give a trolley company free right
of way across his farm.
A few of those Igorottes from the
Philippines with fierce appetite for
dog meat could be made use OF in al
most any civilized community.
Minnesota has law which forbids
the keeping of hogs at slaughter houses
to eat the offal of the animals killed
on the face of 1t not bad law.
We know Of dozen evergreen wind
breaks, now ten years old, which are
valued at $1,000 by the men who plant
ed them. None Of them cost over $50
to set out.
II a man could only make as much
money out Of the COW by letting the
calf suck her as he can by milking her
1t would greatly tend to solve the dali
ry problem.
The state Of Missouri will send to
the worlds fair at St. Louis a four
inch section of monster cypress tree
growing in that state. It is twelve feet
in diameter.
The exports Of cereals from Russia
amount to 200,O0O,0OO bushels, and ev-
cry bushel of it should be kept in that
country to feed the people, but they are
forced to sell and then starve.
Frozen combs decrease egg produc
ton; therefore in the north country
the fowl with double comb is far
less liable to suffer from freezing than
the one with single comb.
The completion of the Panama canal
will greatly emphasize the Importance
Of the Mississippi river as water
way and the gulf ports as points of
export for the products Of the central
west.
China produced 2,000,000,O00 pounds
Of tea in 1908. The experiment sta
ton in the Carolinas produced 1900
pounds. The growing Of tea is only
possible where the cheapest Of hand
labor can be obtained.
There is good demand for blooded
stock, particularly cattle and sheep, in
the Argentine Republic. A lot Of fair
~ good Hereford bulls and cows were
recently sold there, which brought
eight times as much as they cost in this
country.
The field mice, which have been so
unusually numerous the past year all
over the west, not only made ruinous
havoc in the apple orchards, but also
barked evergreen trees to such an ex-
tent as to destroy them. There is dire
need Of more owls, hawks and cats.
The woman who has been worrying
over her incubator, setting $50 eggs and
getting six chickens, can afford con-
siderable satisfaction to her neighbor
who has ten old hens bring off eighty
chicks by calling on her. The pleasure
in living is so largely made up of this
sort of contrasts
1t is claimed that they have plant
in Hawaii the juice Of which applied
to the toughest meat will make it as
tender as spring chicken. The agri-
cultural department at Washington
would do the people great service by
looking this matter up, for there are
all too many old farrow cows and an
Gent ROSTERS on the market to be dis
posed of somehow.
An Iowa boy wants to know how to
grow peanuts in that state. We do not
think it can be successfully done so
far as attempting to grow them as
field crop, the seasons not being long
enough or hot enough. There are many
years when lima beans, eggplant, mel
ons and other semitropical things
have hard pull to mature, and we
should class the goober with them.
The most beautiful geraniums that
we saw in bloom the past winter
were some that were kept all the time
in north bay window where the sun
never reached them. All the dubious
plants : hyacinths, narcissuses, jon
quils, lilies, as well as violets, chrysan-
themums, ferns and palms-will do bet
ter at the north window than at the
south one In the sun.
There has been a warm controversy
on in Michigan over the robin, the
fruit growers voting the bird a pest
and nuisance, while all the rest of the
people are friends Of the bird. While
we find the robin quite thief, so far
as fruit is concerned, we still believe
he does more good than harm, and even
If he does not we are willing to pay
something for his CHEEKY presence and