Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-19
Do not buiid silo until you have
personally visited man who is using
one successfully.

Do not buIid silo until you have
personally visited man who is using
one successfully.
B. The world wants 1900, 900 bales of
cotton from the United States now ana
will want 1000 600 bales more by 1905.
+ Life is too short to husk out shocked
corn by hand. 1t should be fed in the
bundle, be shredded or thrashed. Bet
ter yet.is tito put 1t into a silo.
Yes, you can well afford to pay per
cent for money to build either silo
or good barn. The silo will pay you
20 per cent and the barn at least 10
per cent. M
One Texas county has voted the sum
Of 100000 for the purpose Of building
good roads and will vote more when
that it gone. The winter roads of that
state on the black waxy soils are prob
4 ably the very worst to be found in the
| Union.
The best seed potatoes to be had are
raised in North Dakota, northern Wis
consin and Minnesota. Such seed is
better worth dollar bushel for plant
ing in Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois and
other states south than home grown
seed is worth 10 cents.
Soil has more to do with successful
fruit culture than any other thing. On
the stiff white oak clay soil of limit
ed section in southern Iowa the pear is
a great success. On all the drift soils
Of theprairie sections of the same state
the pear is total failure. 1t is just
a matter of soil, not Of elevation, lati-
tude or temperature.
There Is much agitation going on
now about the inadequate wages paid
the country schoolma'am. Probably
she is not fairly paid, but If her wages
are raised will 1t not make it more Diff
ficult for some nice FELLOW to get her
for wife? And that is the best use
ever made Of these winsome and inter-
esting creatures. This is point which
should not be overlooked.
Because a valuable variety Of fruit
the apple, for INSTANCES originated in
far north latitude 1t does not follow
that such variety will be hardy. The
Wealthy apple would have been just as
good fruit for the north country had
it originated In Missouri instead Of
Minnesota. The key to hardness lies
| in the kind Of seed sown-whether it
came from known hardy parentage.
A reader, dairyman, living in the
north country wishes to know wheth-
er 1t would prove practicable to grow
cowpeas and corn together so as to Sc
cure better balanced dairy ration.
| We hardly think that 1t would. The
cowpea would need all the sunshine
and heat it can get in order to make a
crop up in the north country, and these
it would not get when grown with a
crop of corn.
| The work being done In the line Of
| improving the type Of our corn by the
experiment stations in the states Of
Illinois and Iowa is producing very
marked results. Exhibits Of improved
corn are one of the principal features
Of all institutes this winter, and for
| the first time corn growers are really
learning what good corn is like and
what may be done in improving the
type Of corn grown.
We have before referred to the in
teresting experiment being carried on
at the Ames qa.) experiment station
the crossing of a drove of twenty seven
thoroughbred Galloway heifers with a
snow white Shorthorn sire. The station
now has two crops of calves as re-
suit Of this cross, about 70 per cent of
which are blue gray color and carry
ing all the fine beef points of their an
cestors.
A miserable little muskrat cost the
state of New York the sum Of $4,000
not long since. The little beast bored
hole into the retaining wall of canal
| WhClC Lie W dtcl WdS Ut u lGSel dUONe
the surrounding country. The water
from first trucking through soon en-
larged the opening, bursting the wall
of the canal and flooding the adjacent
territory, while it emptied the canal
and tied up navigation. The levees of
the Mississippi river have no greater
enemy than the insignificant crawfish
for the same reason.
He was sort Of joyless beggar, a
twentieth century parasite, unshaven,
| dirty and repulsive. Wi.hal he was
well built and ablebodied, minus NOR
al sense, self respect and common de-
cency. He roamed from place to place
begging handouts. soaring timid wom-
en-, pilfering where he could, roostins
on brake beams and in coal cars, hui
man entity which society brands as an
outcast and which the world We're we'll
rid of. He should be forcibly seized
/ by government authority and impress
ed into the army of the Philippines or
be set to firing on some battleship. 1t
is of no use to work up maudlin SYM
pathy for this kind. They need no
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