Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-09

It looks as II America had mission
in feeding and ciyilizing the whole
world.
II the sheep are turned into the or
chard they should be watched every
minute they are there.
When man cares more to enlarge
his bank account than he does for his
boys, he is fixing things so the boys
will make short work Of his savings
when he is gone.
On the 1st of March cotton was
quoted higher than any Of the unwash-
ed woods of Texas, Montana, Wyoming
or Idaho The old saw will have to be
changed to "all cotton and yard
WIDE"
If we were raising boys we would
not raise trotting horses. The horse is
all right, but the average boy can't
handle such horses without wanting to
bet on them in race. Draft horses
and boys go well together.
Thousands Of acres Of pineapples
planted by northern men in Cuba are
going to insure low prices for this de-
licious fruit. The market felt the ef
feet of this new source of supply last
wear and will feel it still more this
year.
After siege of three or four months
Of hard wintry weather the date of the
coming of the first robin or bluebird
and the first flight Of wild fowl for
the north is always red letter day.
1t means spring, a new year with its
activities.
Missouri is fast forging. to the front
as the great apple state Of the Union,
but while she may produce the most
big red apples she will never produce
the best ones, the colder climate of
Canada and New York insuring fruit
of much better flavor.
What this country needs more than
anything else is relentless application
and enforcement of the old Biblical
motto to the effect that If man will
not work he shall not eat. The country
is as badly afflicted with this form of
parasitic life today as is sitting hen
with lice.
It is no small trial which the nice
young lady undergoes when tempted
by dish of nice crisp and toothsome
young onions at the supper table when
she is expecting her best fellow to call
during the evening. Onions and court
ing will not work together unless both
parties have bad breaths.
Southern farmers and truck growers
are making lots Of money out of cot
ton, cantaloupes and cabbages, while
the crop Of early potatoes taken from
quite generally good for 800 per acre.
There is many ten acre tract in the
Carolinas which was just ten dollar
scrub timber land few years ago
which is now bringing the owner in a
larger net return than many good
quarter section farm in the northwest.
Macaroni wheat has become an es-
tablished and very successful crop for
an immense territory in the northwest
semiarid region, where the annual rain
fall is from ten to thirteen inches, yields
Of from twenty to thirty bushels peracre
being secured where other varieties of
wheat prove almost total failure. 1t
is worth noting that this macaroni
wheat is very much richer in protein
content than other wheats and sug-
gests that even If it cannot find a
ready market for use In the manufac-
ture Of macaronf products it still will
prove most valuable food for stock.
Another irrigation scheme of great
magnitude is being undertaken by the
government in Wyoming. The Sho-
shone river is to be damned up in q
mountain canyon to make lake of
$500 acres and over 100 feet in depth,
at cost of $2,25O,OOO, the reservoir
when full to contain 100000, 900 GU
bic feet Of water, this is to be turned
on 100000 acres of what is now utter,
ly waste desert land. The walls of
this canyon are Of granite, and the
mouth Of the reservoir where the dam
will be built is only seventy-five feet
in width at the base between the walls
making it most ideal location for
such an enterprise.
A reader wishes to take up the bust
ness of raising tame pigeons and asks
for some suggestions-how to do it
will it pay, etc. We have known -four
men to take up this line Of work dur
ing the past few years, and they eacf
failed and gave it up at the end OF
two years. 1t will cost from $500 ur
to buy the parent stock and inclose the