Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-06

Experts are placing the wheat crop
of 1904 at 5T5,oO0,o0 bushels and the
probable price for the crop $1.20 per
bushel.
Every dog kept should pay his way.
II your dog can only wag his tail, howl
at the moon and fight fleas, better get
another dog or a pig.
We notice one thing nowadays-the
man who claimed that the tile drain
age of the wet lands was cause of
drought is keeping very quiet.
The state of Mississippi has always
furnished a good market for Texas
grain and hay, but the presence of the
boil weevil IN Texas cotton fields has
caused the closing of this market to
Texas products.
Cooperation among farmers could
find place in the matter of three or
four men Jointly owning an ensilage
cutting outfit. small thrashing ma
chine. a power feed grinder, a wood
saw and corn harvester.
Extremes in the matter Of rainfall
are not often found the same year IN
the same st tie, but the state of North
Dakota this year has been too wet in
the Red river valley on the eastern bor-
der and too dry 200 miles west.
The time loafed away by thousands
of men would IL used to earn even a
dollar day soon give them a start.
Half the people would rather be poor
and have good time than to deny
themselves. Work hard and accumn-
late property.
A lumberlnan tells US that length
cuts no figure in the price of the Pa
cif1c coast product, thirty foot stun
being the same price as fifteen foct.
When one has once seen those Wash
ington frs and cedars it is easy to see
why this should be so.
It transpires that many Of the fine
imported French prunes which are
sold at high prices In this country are
just common five cent California fruit
exported, fixed up and returned. 1t Is
Just the same way with many OF the
foreign brands of wine.
The Rubdeckia, or golden glow,
should be planted in sod to get the
best results. On rich and mellow soil
1t grows so tall and rampant that it
becomes a Disagreement to any lawn.
In sod it will rarely exceed height
of three feet and is an ornament.
A young and unusually well fitted
young man was refused the manage
ment OF large stock farm for the rca-
son that he was not married, and he
was unmarried Just because, as he
claimed, no nice girl would have him.
There should be some way to help such
a fellow out
1t lies with the railways alone to put
an end to the tramp nuisance. If the
roads will put an end to the migrations
of these parasites they will disappear,
for they will neither walk nor work.
Some Of the roads are doing this to the
very great relief of the communities
which they serve.
During the wet harvest seasons of
1902 and 1908 the losses entailed to
grain growers by attempting to thrash
their grain from the shock were enor-
nous. The lesson thus learned Is this
year bearing good fruit, and more
grain is being put in the stock this sea-
son than for many years.
It is almost impossible to prevent the
operator of the modern road grading
machine from making his grade too
high and his ditch too deep In those
places where the machine works well.
We have in mind a stretch of nice
smooth, dry prairie road which has
been recently butchered by one of
these outfits.
An experiment conducted at Ames
Agricultural college some years age
proved that from June 10 to Aug. IL
three cows in pasture, when it was al
It's very best, steadily shrank in their
milk yield, while three cows kept III
the barn and fed green food as steadily
gained in their milk, both lots being
fed grain ration.
A curious blunder was made when
the first electric arc lights were in.
stalled for street lighting, the lights
being placed on high towers on the
theory that elevation resulted in bet
ter distribution Of the light. Now they
are no longer elevated, but placed
within twenty feet of the ground, and
the lofty towers have been mostly re.
moved from the cities.