Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-26

Tho hog which win not cot II nick
and probably has been s4ok sox week
br more.
Near noishhors and turkey raising
don't 60 we'll together. The turk i q
born forager.
The trinity Of road reform agents for
large section Of the country ID drain
hgs, gravel and wide tires.
A friend OF ours once cleaned up &c.
900 on corn option and inside Of six
months had Dropped $4,000 on lard
Flax Is a good tanner of refractory
soils. It leaves the field in good
mechanical condition for succeeding
crop.
Soils, climate and crops may vary
{ greatly in this country and do, but hui
man nature remains just the same .ev-
erywhere.
. 1t is all right to swap bosses when
crossing stream If you can get a
young horse for an old one by getting
your feet wet
! One year with another bushel Of
clover seed properly sowed and used
will be worth not less than SEQ to the
5 man who sows it.
The steel railway tie will have to be
furnished for less than a cent per
! pound before 1t will seriously compete
with wooden one.
The north country has no reliable
hedge plant, one which is entirely
8 hardy and long lived and which will
: make stock proof fence.
While the good Lord could make
good crop Of corn out Of the yellow and
' weedy July field, he never does It is
: always and ever nubbin proposition.
There Is at the st. Louis fair an in
teresting exhibit Of what may be done
: in the line Of decorative and cabinet
! work with the wood Of the catalpa
: tree.
When an old frame building Is torn
! down nowadays one Is reminded how
e completely the wire nail has displaced
l the old cut nail. these latter being now
out Of the market.
4 A good way to cure horse which is
g afraid of the cars is to take him to
Q the depot and. tying him securely, let
him stay and get used to them. It does
not take long to effect cure.
, It has come to this-that It is not easy
!. to find man who can either grind or
/ whet scythe, build stack of grain
which will shed water or who knows
how to butcher hog or a sheep.
8 Shippers Of stock to the Chicago
4 stockyards should take notice that the
t shipments are always overdone on
Mondays and Wednesdays Of each
week, to the serious loss Of the ship
: pers.
g So you want to get start, young
D man, do you? Well, you will earn, say,
81 this coming week. Just take So of
that and put it where you can't get at
o it and repeat this game every week for
c two years.
t A man never comes nearer wasting
s his time than when he cares for and
milks a COW which will only just pay
for her feed, and there Is an army Of
9 men doing this day and night all over
i the country.
+ The grade of civilization Of any peo-
d pie depends very largely upon the fer
tility of the soil upon which they live
Given rich soil, there high type of
: humanity; a poor soil. there the un-
t civilized and barbarian.
! Wherever society is classified and
a stratified, as in most of the old world
countries, it is always easier to get reli-
able domestic and farm help than I'M
e der republic, where every fellow Is
: just as good as every other fellow and
o wants to be boss.
8 The furniture business of America
e has become centralized at Grand Rap
ids, Mich. There the finest and most
artistic furniture in the world is pro-
t duced, and 10000 skilled workmcn
K find lucrative and permanent employ
J. ment. The rare and beautiful woods
9 of the whole world are sent there to
q be made up,
+ The only form Of breadstuffs import
ed by this country Is macaroni, vermi-
celli and spaghetti, the staple cereal
Y food of the Italians. The value Of such
d imports was S1,2OO,O14 for 1903. The