Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-23

7, January %, 1904
A clover snggestion-"In the morning
,,aC ADhEAu bw thy seed, and in the evening with
- UeANUIIN fold not thy hand"
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--0 The finest prunes In the world are
eG&ssNh Il now grown and cured in Washington
as61 I'll state. The best have hitherto come
NsagsssssE "a il from France and Italy.
n ESSo II A brand new kind of poultry food is
XIX on the market selling for $50 per ton
u ~ II Analysed, tits just alfalfa hay ground
nAH-@l | up and the price converted from SIC
sA@l@1l | per ton to $50. Grind it yourself.
--aJi Where but few are kept it is
rarely. that either the best kind OF
..sopo =. COWS compose the dairy or that the
soLcfrro best milk producing rations are fed
The COW as side issue on the farm is
= never at her best
The town COW Is usually much bet
ter fed and cared for than her country
nho happihess relative 1t costs SO much to keep
aeeo 10y acfe COW in town that only good are
efeo eienV. worth keeping and only by liberal and
proper feeding they be made to
tobacco raised nav their way
ida brought 4S
n grown Cuban farmer who stuck up red flag in
state brought front of his house the highway to
notify the cream hauler to stop also
scared of two tramps, pedder OF
the poorest Of fruit trees and county politician who
in Chicago re. took the flag for indication Of con-
ugh to pay the tagious disease
had better have
ed at home. It is possible for improved methods
Of agriculture to redeem much of the
past fall corn poor wornout farm land of the eastern
showed the re- states Alfalfa is working wonders in
II per cent of many localities forestry will do much
cob And this while the COW and the clover field as
re all the cob ISOLATED with the silo and the corn.
field will do still more.
inc logs in the The most successful fruit growers of
g since. There the west and of the east also. are
lot that would united in opinion that the best way
utt end being for orchard is to give it thor
the pine ough cultivation up to July Is and
consn. then SOW a cover crop for winter pro
lection. The next best method is to
icemen gather keep the orchard IN clover
tx inches thick
,hile at St. Paul We saw an evergreen windbreak the
cubes twenty other day twenty years old which was
ence Just about the victim of the blunder OF
In climate of arranging the trees too thickly when
country. they were set out. The Wlndbreak on
this grove up ten feet in the air,
raj huntcr and the lower limbs Of the trees having
which respect been all killed of by crowding
many Of his
W of more than The man with large, well lighted,
% all day from sunny barn basement which never
rabbit or to freezes has, in the north country at
Mt be hired for least many advantages his neigh
n honest days Dor who does not have His cows
will give more milk. he may raise early
filters of pigs and January lambs, he
re the best va may have plenty Of eggs all winter and
to plant This ne VIII lake mncn comIoII IN caring
answered salts for his stock
soils and localf
can give Is to The English sparrow, which has pre-
fu strawberry epted every available nook and
lily AS gen of cornice barn. shed and house nest
Crescent Be ing places, is taking possession OF
CLYDE will do the eyergreens and shade trees and dis
are favorable figuring them with its uncouth nests
The well meaning patriot who frs,
brought these birds to America should
,o. hos sold have been court martialed and sent to
,ent 5oo n00 the penitentary for life.
cans war This
or all the ODDS The colored man, the old mule and
Mig the rope harness may not be very uI
ancient sroa to date and attractive outfit but Just
hoera infected the same 1t is the combination which
fro, Missouri Is mostly to be credited with the pro
known ocuoh VI Jus tnosL VaiuApie crop III tne
tho Russian country next to corn. II 1t were moi
pots +o eating for this hard times outfit the worlG
o Apbt ~ he would have to get along with shir
and go to bed while it was being wash
ed
u iake lofn VI This hired man came into legacy OF
:. W.. ). ~ $4,000 from the estate of deceased
t-10t :. ~oA'ts uncle. He was Just common plug Of
. ,e $3.50, 49,. @ hired man and had never had 5000 a
lns ooins - one time in his life before. He wen
~ nu y. east and got his money and returning
the bottom aid homo ptna,no for Az a,a, az
be hopeless to worthy or+ w ,,d fona ~ Ma,
The fact Is, the man had corne+ad +ha +, ~ ,.,
lntry has been oraenhac,s nd .nas ,a,,,,s,
ss =. a' anu forth, evidently having the time Of hi
his lake. things 49, - ~ 4 Nse
ugh In this hui The beet sugar crop OF tho sta+ea 4
about time TO about 10000 tons the past season
practice Of trap This is only fraction of the
Ne condemn the OF sugar consumed and to make The
Philippine cock growing of this small amount of bee
sports Of the sugar possible In this country of hp,
ID yet for down priced labor tariff ia imposed on al
ality we doubt imported sugar which is one of tn,