Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-15

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Somebody has figured 1t out that
there is more nutriment in quart of
skim milk than quart o. oysters, but
the knowledge of this fact will not
cut down the rations of the calves and
the pigs.
The grape reaches its finest develop
ment in California. Near Santa Bar
bara is a grape vine the stem of which
is fifty-four inches in circumference
and which has yielded ten tons of
grapes in single season.
1t used to be claimed that the west
could not produce as good quality
many years took the lead in the corn
canning industry This is now chang
ed. The western packed corn occupies
I first place in the markets of the coun-
try.
The lumber interests of the states of
Washington and Oregon paid two Of
the transcontinental roads during 1908
( the enormous sum of 500, 100000 for
/ freights on their products, this sum be-
ing over one-third of the entire freight
receipts of the two roads. The freight
on car of lumber from that section
looks like about $3.50 by the time it ar
rives in the central west.
There is a rugged beauty about the
oaks possessed by no other of our for
est trees-a sturdy, storm defying, in
dependent type of forest life which
makes them to other trees what the
Norseman Is to the italian or Hindoo.
They meet the oncoming winter in
khaki uniform and sturdily dare the
wintry blasts to do their worst. Slow
of growth and long lived, they typify
the pioneers of the Country:
The small farm solves many prob
lens. 1t gives a man good neighbors
and better social and church privi-
leges, 1t secures better schools, ribs one
Of the hired help nuisance, eompels
more intensive systems Of agriculture
and a. more intelligent rotation of
crops, brings better highways ana COM
pels the keeping of only the best
grades Of domestic. animals. Most men
have too much land for their own good
and for the good Of the country at
large.
/ There are lot Of nen in the west
who will harvest seventy bushels or
more Of fine corn to the acre this fall;,
and it will not be the result Of luck
/. with them either. These men should
be made to come to the farm Institutes
this. winter and tell just how they
We're able t. accomplish this result,
and the fellows who only raised TWEEN
ty-five or thirty bushels an acre should
be rounded up and made to henr the
story. If more corn is ever raised it
will not be by planting more acres, but
By increasing the yield
Hemp, tobacco and cotton have worn
the very life out Of much of the best
of southern Soils These plants are a
soil robbing triumvirate and, working
in conjunction with winter rains on
piowed and unfrozen fields, have
brought the land to the point where,
like the old dray horse, it refuses to
work any more Nature will in q
measure remedy this evil if let alone,
for she will quickly clothe these bar
ten fields with a growth of forest, and
TN a hundred years from now new
generation and, let as hope, wiser
one may again cultivate the soil with
success and profit.
In this land Of plenty it is hard to
realize that one-tenth Of the people of
Great Britain so to bed hungry every
night Fhis may be good for their
fivers, but 1t is mi W-y tough on their
stomachs. How would you like to be
an freshman with a wife and ten chill
dren and have to ask blessing three
times a day over dish of praties
boiled with the skins OH ana pitcher
Of sour sl.i.n milk? No dyspepsia or
patent medicines there. If a bit of
meat can be got occasionally it is saved
for the OLD man, while the kids are
! & RA'Shi LIZ plANliCSC VI SSSlLS3 u11l eat IL.
/, Zoo much fasting and prayer FOR us.
I When one gets field of bronze grass
he has got slayer, something which
will stick by him closer than u poor re-
iation. We lately examined a three
acre bronze grass meadow; or, rather.
what was one last gear: The owner
desired to plow the field and use the
land for other crops Such mass and
tangie Of tough ibrous roots as the
piow turned over is seldoss seen. This
field was dragged and pnitS erized with
disk two or three times during the
summer and was finally hand raked to
4 get the roots out of the soil. In Octo-
Der; after working at it all summer, the
field was In fair shape for another
crop. Fhe lesson we got from this is
that you don't want to sow the Hun
garian bronze grass Unless you want ii
for a permanent meadow or pasture,
for It seems to possess all the devilish
/. devices for multiplication; for extern
! sion, of tenaeftr Hf tffe d4a ras,,,pa.