Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-07
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study and patient toll worked out and,
as he thinks, established the theory
that weather changes, so far as the
seasons are concerned, work on Q
twenty-eight year cycle, this period OF
time giving the extremes of drought,
flood. heat and cold. For the north
west he predicts succeeding the wet
seasons Of 1902 and 1903 gradual re-
turn to drier conditions until this
tendency eliminates in some years OF
drought. These weather conditions are
a good deal like the fair sex-one may
think he has them pretty well analyz-
ed. but they will always break out in
some new place.
You see, he kept bees, $50 swarms OF.
them and his neighbof was in the
fruit business, had seventy-tive acres
of apple orchard. The fruit man
sprayed his trees just as they came In
to bloom, and the neighbours bees, COM
ing to the orchard for honey from the
apple bloom, were poisoned and killed.
Then the bee man sued the fruit man
for damages, when the court ruled
thnt the bees were trespassers and
threw the case out Of court. This oc-
CURED in the state of Illinois. Inc
fruit man did wrong, we think, IN
spraying just at that time, when just
as good results could have been Sc
cured by doing it little earlier or
later.
We are asked what shall .be done
with the egg eating hen. If the cul-
prit can be identified in the flock she
should be killed at once, for the habit,
like the whisky habit, when once &C
ouired is hard to break. There are two
causes which may originate this habit
one the lack of sufficient amount
of heterogeneous food, the other lack
of shell forming material. Given an
occasional ration Of some meat food
and plenty Of crushed oyster Shells the
provoking causes are removed. 1t is a
mistake to feed the hens eggshells, as
they are thus taught to break them for
themselves.
When man buys evergreens OF
some distant nurseryman the chances
are that the trees will not grow, for
they were practically dead when he
got them. If the roots of an evergreen
are once allowed to become dry after
digging, resinous crust forms over
them which is impervious to moisture,
and the tree is dead. The conifers are
as easily transplanted as decfduous
trees when proper care is taken to
avoid the difficulty mentioned, and the
. best way is to get your trees at the
nursery and see them dug.
, California is land of varied CROP
products, more so than any other state
= 4 in the Union 1t is also a countr!
a where more fortunes are made and los
t in an agricultural and Horticultural
e way than any other place, where ther'
is much shifting of crops, where splen
did vineyards are rooted out to maxi
e way for the orange, where the oAang
$. is grubbed out, to be succeeded by tn
70 olive or English walnut, where over
d production and Improbable prices ar
,e the very common result.
A. The value of the exports Of farr
-e products amounts to the large sum o
n 100000 for each day of the veal
ID We furnish bread for the European
~ oats for his horses and his own breal
ST fast, beef for his dinner, apples an
dried fruits for his dessert and cotto
to clothe the world with. Columbu
Of did great thing for the race when b
20 discovered this country.
n The older we grow the more pleasul
n. seems to be associated with being o,
he of debt Better fewer acres, less styl
let q smaller sphere in which to move,
err smaller business and no debt to carr
ok than to cut wide swath and hay
H. overdue notes to meet.
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