Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-30

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The Wealthy apple makes a cider
vinegar OF the very highest quality.
A windmill on sixty or eighty foot
tower is a transient farm fixture al
best.
A rainfall Of four inches In twenty
four hours is considered quite extraor
binary in this country. but Manila
had rainfall OF seventeen inches In
that time recently.
The reclamation Of wnste land by
irrigation projects, and the building OF
the Panama canal will be the two dis,
tinguishing features Of the coming dec
ade in this country.
Yes, you cnn afford to pay per cent
interest to get tho money necessary to
build stlo, and II you are in the dairy
business you will find it the bcst in.
vestment you ever made.
Late press dispatches state that tim.
Der to the value Of SIC, 0o0, 900 has been
lately destroyed by forest fires in New.
foundland. The fire and the n1 nre
fast finishing up the forests of the con.
tinent.
The first crop Of alfalfa, usually
ready to cut in June. is hard crop to
put into hay, as the weather will not
permit Of the curing. A friend gets
over this trouble by dumping the frst
crop into the silo and says 1t works
well.
Western CANADA, the finest wheat
growing section Of America. is coming
to the front this year with $4,000, 900
bushels Of No. hard wheat. This
amount can very easily be increased to
400.0O0.0OO bushels and will be II the
price Of this cereal will justify its pro-
duction.
Electrical power is now being deliv-
cred and sold In Pacific coast cities for
less money than the power could be
generated BY steam. even II the fuel for
the furnaces was laid down free OF
cost. The snow on the mountains Is be.
ing made to do the worlds work on the
plains below.
Potatoes are md should be the poor
mans daily ration, but when they sour
around the dollar and dollar and halt
mark. as they have for the past two
years, they become the rich mans lux
ury. A dollar Is too much for the
tubers; Is cents is too much. Forty
cents at retail is fair living price.
A neighbor has lately been using dy.
Mantle very successfully in connec.
ton with the removal Of lot Of large
stumps. A hole bored to the center OF
the stump and charge Of dynamite
inserted result in the splitting up and
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of a stump so 1t Is
easily pulled out with stump puiler.
It may be said to the credit Of agri.
culture as regular business that
strikes, lockouts. walking delegates,
dynamite and bloodshed do not and
probably never Gun touch the farm
II the farm help should unionize and
strike, the farmers would just let the
men go, and the farm work would be
shaped to such an amount as tho man
and his folks could attend to.
There are three no1ious weeds which
are gaining m alarming foothold
among the best agricultural sections OF
the west-red sorrel, quack grass and
wild barley. We know Of one eighty
acre field of oats which the quack
grass fairly swamped and almost ruin
ed, Of many pasture where red sor.
rel and wild barley are surely killing
out all other types Of grass life.
1t is not just clear why it should be
so. but man who has repeatedly tried
1t tells us that IL the seed crop Of red
clover is piowed under, the land planted
to corn the next season and oats o,
barley to follow the corn, there will b.
almost Invariably fine stand Of Glove,
among the small grain crop. THIS is 9
rather narrow system Of rotation. but
II It were followed up the fertility Of
the soil would be immensely increased
I'VE would give 1t trial.
For the first time the Arkansas RI
berta peach has been q standard com
modify in all western cities. And suet
peaches! No southern fruit has eve,
compared with then, in size, beauty o,
favor, And money In ryoutnp IAN