Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-20

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A chicken hawk in pursuit Of spar
row dashed against by 10 foot
plate glass store window in western
town. Damage, S75. Bird killed.
North Dakota farms are showing up
fine this year, the FAX and wheat fields
where not damaged by the rust giving
an income of $40 an acre and over.
Men WHO feed cattle this winter
meet the combination of 31S cent feed
ers and 35 or 40 cent corn, combina-
ton which means meager profits for
them on the basis of s cent finished
beef.
And now the farmer Is having an
an electric bell placed in connection
with his rural mail box where the box
is located some distance from the
house. the mail carrier ringing the bell
when he delivers the mail. What next?
September last marked the largest
exports of cotton which this country
has ever known. the money value of
these exports aggregating $43, 100000.
Cotton in the south, corn in the corn
belt and whent in the wheat sections
will always prevent this country from
getting very poor.
A lady friend comes ut Us with ref
erence to the hired girl problem and
says that the average hired girl cannot
be recognized as social equal because
she lacks education, culture and re-
fnement, to which we reply that just
as soon as American women remove
the social bar which they have placed
on the domestic help they will at once
be able to get better educated and
more refined type of hired girls.
If you have your name stamped upon
your rural mail box have 1t put on the
side where it may be seen by the pass
.erby. 1t is always pleasure to know
the name of the owner of good farm
and is species Of advertising which
may prove Of not little benefit to him
some time. II your farm is poorly cared
for and you feel ashamed Of 1t, keep
your name off the box, for that gives
advertising Of another character.
There is mischief in thistle letting
Of a pretty little grapevine wind itself
gracefully and affectionately around
the trunk of some valued tree in your
dooryard. Year by year it will reach
out, grow thrifty and strong and make
a welcome arboreal shade, but it will
fix your tree, and in short time you
will lose both vine and tree. Woman
has been POLITICALLY likened to the
clinging vine on the tree, and with
some women 1t works just like the
vine and the tree.
-Four years ago he was representa-.
tive Of one of the largest railway sys.
TENS Of the west. He rode in a Pull
man and got his meals in a dining cal
most of the time and drew q salary OF
$4,000 per year. He had every chance
to go up still higher and was in line
for one of those $4,000 places which
are always ready for the right man
We met him one evening recently just
as he had borrowed a quarter Of 8
friend to secure some place to sleep fol
the night. Whisky did it.
The best things raised on the Amen
can farm may well be used by the
farmer who produces them-the best
milk, the richest cream, the incest pig
the choicest fruit and freshest eggs
In Europe the best things have to be
sold to pay rent and taxes, and the
farmer lives on what is left. 1t should
be particularly noted that the Ameri
can farmer never under any circum
stances uses stale eggs. He always
sees to it that his town cousin wres
ties with this problem.
Men with rough brush farms should
by all means look up the goat PROPOSE
ton. When one has once seen what
these beasts will do in retaining suct
land he will never feel like brushing
grubbing and burning to clear it up
A man in the spring of 1903 turned 30t
Of these goats on to 200 acre brush
farm. u tangle of hazel brush, brier
poplar and oak saplings, with a few
scattering trees on it. In just two sea
sons they have converted this trac1
into fine blue grass and white clover
pasture, and in two years more the
whole tract may be turned over witt
the plow, barring the few trees. Th.
hair and Increase will pay for the care
| of the flock.
While in general way we all know
/! that llnseed oil is made from faxseed
not all know how it is done. The fla
is cleaned, ground into meal and the1
J subjected to a heat of 400 deprees II