Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07

Owing to the scarcity and high price
f potatoes the past spring great
many men have found out how many
yes potato has.
The meadow lark is one of the birds
which like a man and his civilization. .
Ne have known them to nestFin pub
ic park time and again.
Put your best foot forward when the
stranger comes to you to sign SO call
ID order for goods, which later on will
urn up as promissory note at your
ocal bank. Put both feet forward
then.
Since we have seen what the Japa-
nese can do we feel like revising pre-
yious opinions as to the merits of a
rice civilization. If rice and fish will
insure such results the American peo-
pie should use more Of them.
The acre or two of evergreen sweet
corn planted the LIST of June alongside
the COW pasture where it may be hand
ily fed will make big difference in
the August and September cream
checks, more than you think for.
Our friend has only three square
rods of ground for a garden, but 1t is
surprising what a large amount OF ten
der and toothsome things he manages
to grow on this little plot by heavy
fertilizing and thorough cultivation.
Another $7,OOOO00 has been allotted
by the interior department for irriga-
ton schemes in the west. In twenty
years from now this irrigation ieglsla-
ton will be recognized as one OF the
most beneficial schemes ever under
taken by the general government.
The man with the automobile Will al
ways find more fault with the roads
than the man with the team and Wag-
on, but the man with the auto never
does anything to make them better e4-.
cept edit some paper to score the farm
ers for not doing more and better work
on the highways.
The world is full of people who live
miserable, dirty and useless lives just
because they do not know any better.
1t is the mission of modern education
to lift men up toward a better ana
higher conception of the possibilities
of life, and this applies nowhere with
greater force than to those who live
on the land.
:. The great prairie region Of the north
west does not have all the good things.
Here is the trailing arbutus, one of the
most beautiful and fragrant of the ear
ly spring flowers, which shuns the
prairie region and finds it's home among
the rocky, timbered and sterile soils of
the east, one Of natures delightful
compensations.
If a woman finds she does not want
to teach school, take up typewriting or
dressmaking or wish TO marry some
chump of man to work hard for him
the balance of her natural life for her
board and clothes let her take up the
hen business Any bright woman who
can manage to get run for the fowls
can make good living keeping poultry
and do it in any part of the country.
y,oily N pa1nctino
but the freight charges are so ex-
orbitant that the wheat raiser of Syria
finds it cheaper to load his wheat on
!, the backs of camels and give the camel
driver one half of the load for trans
: porting the other half to the sea via
;, Nazareth Railway officials in that
= country have not yet got to the poin'
where freight charges are based upor
what the traffic will bear.
Il There is hardly farm in the coun
:, try where it would not pay to Civ
= more attention to the poultry. TIL
:: - hen is the greatest money maker OF
= American farms today. The countr,
y cannot get enough eggs or chicken
- "
~ some of those cows which only jus
- barely pay their board and get lumber
- sash and paint and build some moder
-, yards and houses for the fowls, the
get some good breed and stick to it.
The goose is the most ancient of on
Z" domestic fowls. While Peter and til
~ old rooster are pretty far back it is {
~. ~ record that the Cabling of geese save
u, ancient Rome, and recently unearthe
d. records Of the Babylonian era Of dat
en 1000 BIC. show that geese We're con
gu mon birds in that time. These birt
y live to great age, and one which v
NC got hold of for a Thank sgiving fea
~ a few years ago gave every eviden'
le, of n Rabylonien texture and flavor