Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-05

The best types Of corn will not be
produced in Missouri for some time, as
there it pays almost as well to raise
cobs for pipe timber as It does to raise
corn as q cereal.
The box elder tree is greatly helped
to become fine shade tree by vigor-
GUS pruning when young. If let alone
it will almost always develop into
sprawling and unshapely tree.
We venture to remark, in view Of the
peculiar climatic freaks Of Kansas, that
it is a great country for ruin when it
is not needed; also for dry weather
when rain is wanted the worst way.
We find no crop like beans to put
field in fine shape for succeeding
crop. They leave the land clean and
free from weeds and in nice mechanical
condition, besides doing not little in
fertilizing the soil.
The best cereal crops in the world
are produced in North Dakota and
western Canada both in yield and quail
ity of grain. The climatic conditions
there found are unequaled for wheat,
oats. barley and fax.
The application Of the dynamo to
water power gives every waterfall, no
matter where located, money value.
Wise men recognizing this fact are
picking up all available water powers,
for they will all be used in the near
future.
The corn crop is distinctively an
American crop, the 100000 600 BUSH
els or more produced each year being
nearly all consumed in this country.
Only in two years, 1897 and 1899, was
there so much as 10 per cent Of the
crop exported. This crop forms the
basis of all our enormous meat, poultry
and stock production.
The actual conjunctions Of the stars
and planets, upon which lot of hifa-
lutin long range weather forecasts are
made, it should be remembered. took
| place long before the knowledge Of
such conjunctive weather breeding
conditions reached our earth. Itwould
seem as though this fact ought to show
the fallacy of such weather prophecies.
In the clearing of timber farms in
northeast Missouri we notice that it is
a common practice to leave the black
walnut trees. Just for ornament and
as bearers of nuts this plan is all right
but it is hopeless method of trying tc
grow the trees into saw logs for, being
scattered, they make short trunks and
enormous tops and are thus of little
value for lumber.
A ten dollar passage rate from Euro
pean countries to America this sum
mer is resulting in great house clean
ing of the old world at our expense
True, some most worthy poor Of those
countries will come here and develop
into good citizens, but we have more
Arabs, Assyrians, dagoes, anarchists
buns and beggars here now than WI
know how to assimilate.
About everything grown in the wa.
of green forage has been tried for fill
ing the silo, and the result of all tn
, experiments is that no crop SO wei
, fills the bill, taking ease and econom,
Of handling and value as ensilage, a
> our common field corn cut when tn
Z ears are well glazed. This makes tn
: silo fit into the ordinary farm econom
all through the corn belt.
: A tramp printer called the othe
d morning and wanted money enoug
: to get breakfast. He was forty-fvt
. and the indelible mark Of fast and dis
sipated living was written on every lin
!. Of his face. When asked why it wa
that he, an ablebodied man at forty
five, with no family to support, ha
q to beg for something to eat, he sal
he had been having a devil Of goo
time. About as we'll try to bale OF
. the Atlantic ocean with teaspoon a
n to try to do anything for this sor
Il There Is nothing left for him but
l. beg, drink, starve and die.
|. Disease and old age are two mai
5. factors in the prosperity Of souther
d California, strange as it may seer
q The great white plague drives its vi
= tins to seek a temporary relief und'
:. its Italian skies and amid it's pere
= NAL sunshine, while the thin blood al
# stffened joints Of the aged make
Al most delightful exchange of northel
9. cold for midwinter summer time Of tt
l. coast country. Thus 1t comes tn
a these California climatic condition
have distinct market value, which
bound to increase as the years go
IL The aged or imbecile tourist is Il
best crop which that country afford
"a just as it is in both Italy and Swize
: land.