Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-21

It is better to get along without a
pmoking hired man than lose good
barn.
The red hog and the French Cana
dian are very much alike in one partic-
ular at least-they both raise big fami-
lies.
The incest time to hoe the garden or
cultivate the cornfeld is when there
are no weeds to be seen, but you kill
them just the same.
Four days of 80 degree temperature
In June will do more for the corn crop
than four weeks of IS degree tempera-
ture in May. Corn develops wonderful
~ quick when given heat and moisture
and warm nights.
The Argentine Republic is coming to
the front as an important exporter Of
cereals. From January to May Of this
year there were 24,596,0OO bushels Of
fax and 5O.592,OOO bushels of wheat
sent from that country to other coun-
tries.
The hsst thing which can be said for
the skunk is that he is great lover Of
cutworms, but he also likes young
chickens. Our experience with this
odorous brute Is that on the whole he
is an agricultural pest and should be
exterminated.
Perhaps the simplest and most easily
remembered of any recipe for saving
seed corn is this: Pick it before frost in
the fall and keep it where it cannot
freeze during the winter. Cut this out
and paste it up where you can read it
until you know it by heart.
There Is little satisfaction or profit
In trying to crop the apple orchard
after it is six years old The roots Of
the trees by that time so fully occupy
the ground that no crop will do well.
The best thing is cultivation, with
some cover crop for winter or the seed
ing down with clover.
A mistake is always made and bad
one, too, when timothy seed is mixed
with the grass seed sown on the lawn.
1t always makes patchy and uneven
lawn and is very difficult to extermi-
IN in, f1,Sc ic
and outgrows the blue grass. Keep
timothy and red clover off the lawn.
One Of the very best peas for garden
use is the Champion of England, but
as it requires to be supported it is a
good deal of bother to care for. We
have picket fence bordering our gar
den, and this year we have planted
this pea close to the fence, expecting to
see it climb the fence and support it.
self.
the other day, bed six rods long and
one rod wide. 1t took just about half
day to do the work after the land was
prepared. No work which we will do
this year will pay SO large return.
What variety did we plant? The Dun
lap, which is making fine record in
this part Of the west.
Your neighbor will always be found
to have some peculiarities-will look
at things and do things differently
from you. 1t will do much to promote
good neighborly feeling between you
and him If you look with kindness and
charity upon his peculiarities and give
him credit for good intentions and hon
est purposes until compelled to think
otherwise.
The windmill on the farm should be
made to do far more useful work than
it usually, does. 1t should do the
churning, the separating, turn the
grindstone, the corn shelter and the
feed grinder, and specially should be
made to furnish the farm home with a
supply of water under pressure. AS it
is, nine out of ten mills do nothing but
pump the water for the stock.
Our respect for the hen hawk was
increased when we saw one drop down
by the edge of a creek recently and
hook on to four foot bull snake. The
snake was big load for the hawk,
and some Of the antics which the bird
and the reptile cut up when up in the
air were very amusing. The hawk
won out, however, and lugged the
snake off to its nest in the top Of. big
tree.
We had rather be hired man than
monk, for the monk has to wear q
cowl and gown, work hard his life
long for nothing, can't take his best
girl out for ride on Sunday, has to
tumble out of bed at 2 o'clock in the