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

One thousand American bred hogs
have been sent to Europe the past year
for breeding purposes.
We have always favored the placing
of sufficient tax on dogs so that men
sustaining damage by them could be
1t looks as If the making and use
of the new cement blocks for building
purposes will seriously affect the cut
stone and brick industries.
1t requires cows, pigs, poultry, fruit
and vegetables to make high priced
land pay. 1t cannot be profitably used
in the production Of cereal crops or hay
to sell.
A crop Of corn Of fifty bushels to the
acre, worth 40 cents bushel, is very
reasonable proposition, still it makes
the land which will produce it easily
worth 500 per acre.
The Austrians and Italians who come
to this country become, unless restrain
ed by force Of law, the most merciless
of our best song birds.
They will kill every bird they can find.
1t looks us though the orange bust
ness is being overdone. More oranges
are being produced than the people can
consume. They have been as cheap as
potatoes all through the west during
the winter.
The wonderful and continued pros
perity Of the south is one of the most
features Of the present
economic development of the country.
1t seems strange that it has been so
long delayed.
We never until this year heard of a
swarm of bees starting out on hunt
for location early in April, when win
ter still had a good grip, but this
spring swarm took possession Of a
vacant space in a cream hauler's wag-
on thus early in the season.
If man can secure a good tenant
on term Of years the farm so rented,
If let on shares, will one year with
another bring in much better income
for the landlords than where it is rent
ed for cash, but one needs the right
sort of tenant and the long lease.
Not many people keep poultry with
profit in town. The range is so circum-
scribed, all food has to be bought, and
unless great care is taken the enforced
confinement impairs the laying ability
Of the fowls. A dozen hens may per-
haps be profitably kept on the average
town premises, but not many more.
The problem of what to do with the
old and faithful horse that has out
lived his usefulness and become an ex-
pense to keep is very common one
Some trade him to a horse Jockey:
some let him live and starve; some
finish him up with hard work. Bet
ter by fur humanely kill the old serv-
ant.
It has been found that the mocking
bird of the south is a sworn enemy Of
the cotton boil weevil, and some of the
cotton growing states have passed very
stringent laws for the protection of this
bird. Nearly all of our insect pests
would be held in check by some form
Of bird life if man were only wise
enough to permit the birds to live.
rather significant fact which is
brought to our attention is that Of a
man who is farming only twenty acres
Of land, who is building new home
with all modern conveniences, while
his neighbor who tries to farm a half
section Is worrying about taxes, inter
est and hired men and gets but peace
and comfort. 1t will be good thing
when men come to learn that 1t is the
small farm which is the profitable one.
A man who had several fine spruce
md pines in his front yard took
notion to trim them up. When the
Job was done his trees were spoiled,
for an evergreen on top Of ten foot
pole is the most unsightly and unat-
tractive Of all lawn trees. Their beau
" lies in their heavy base, and to
have these symmetrical bases the trees
must have room to develop, and when
they are planted eight or ten feet
apart they can never develop satisfac-
torily.
The west, the prairie section where
he dirt road is the only road possible.
S to be indebted to Missouri farmer
FOR cheap and very simple device
ten inch log. ten feet long, split, and
the two sections fastened one behind
he other-to be used in smoothing
Town the rough and rutty highway,
Ind from the use of which most salts
factory results are obtained. 1t is the
'ut which holds the rainfall and makes