Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-08

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- He is in a
Iro,ond hoe cnfq.roa &c., - esting for
poor crops of potatoes owing to rot A anu .ne !.
new variety Of potato said to be rot .ne 'n"ne'
proof is commanding exorbitant prices
as result. any ni'
red squirr
friend asks us 1vhv Il 10 +ho+ mon q genuine
will saw wood with bucksaw for gaSest' w
living when they might earn more OF any io'
money by keeping poultry. We do not ior ioou /,
know. 1t is just ignorance. probably, loWea 70
that there is any better way theniseise
excitement
While wheat brings so cents corn 40
cents beef Sal hooa "a h,++ar Ok Two We
cents and eggs 20 cents there will be macaron1
no real hard times in this country. It greatest
takes fifteen cent corn and $3.50 hogs OF the we
to get the business coos ne tho coun+rv tied to tie
out of mash. mum. Nov
micelli, 81
Congress has given the denart7nent tories, VIII
of apricultm.e the largo snnn of so5o not be dr.
600 with which to fight the cotton boil yaro alons
weevtl, larger sum than has ever
before been given by the government FRIEND
to eradicate farm pest but the stake farmer, b,
is large, crop worth $500 1000 a seed corn
year. side Of tt
corn plant
Ragweedand ironweed are two pests latitude a
which are able to hold their own with rules OF 81
blue grass and under certain@conditions Wheimed
will sometimes entirely kill it out. If cause his
these weeds have hold IN the hlue ming nearl
grass pasture it is good policv TO rim in state
the moving machine over the pastnre grow all Il
just as they come into bloom. prices Tor
A decen+ ona Goa ,oox,no. eou,,, There al
community in the west recently had siliai anu
a lot Of nice fat horse meat palmed An.o e4uei
off on them for steer beef. They ate tei tneln
it and pronounced it good The man ~ wa "a
who played the joke on them showed WoiA 1ne'
his wisdom by leaving the communi- . paiiei VI
ty before the fraud was discovered. 'nen nan
The Scotch pine does we'll on the and eIuo,
clay hills and also on the low and wet NTH Tho =
land For southern Minnesota and craor,erv
northern Iowa rate it as one Of the +bo n,;dd11
80 80 " ~. ny " inc .ie IL filing off
like some ladies' it begins to lose its chicl,en
beauty and becomes bit scraggy and
ragged. In Tiers
The invention of the,reapfng machine .rodros-a
threw 26000O00 men out Of job interest r
that is, the machines at work today in of rho corr
the world represent the labor Of that a. hoine, =
number Of men. Eclipsng this story NOT nroy;d
is the one that the falls Of the Fam the navnoe
oeDl .Asei' r. Aliiea' Il AuAy utnzeo, best samp
would result in turning 100000 MT devote
horses out to grass giving water lectures q,
power more than five times as great its nhases
as that Of Niagara falls. fold for n
The-exper
Given plenty of corn in the fields many new
and an open body Of spring water, the about this
wild mallard duck will winter as far ing, cultul
north latitude AZ. Not far from enough UT
where we live large flock Of these presented
birds is wintering under the condi- beyond a I
lions named, while the Ice is two feet sible to il
thick in the river and the mercury the .cornf,
down at times to 30 below zero. The acre.
migration Of all. our wild fowl Is sim
ply question Of securing, food. and Here;fss
water. six years,
alarm in
Avery. curious fact was brought to to fms
light lately. Right in the immediate puddled a
vicinity Of the location of the first ing to pro
creamery which was ever operated the ten sbushe
farmers are now selling their milk to farm was
make twenty-five cent butter and buy purpose.
ing oleomargarine for their own USE was done
In this respect they are following the farm, we
example of our Danish friends, who he did wi
have done this for a long time. The duced to a
oleo costs just one-half as much as the then sowr
butter brings. alfalfa SCI
times the
If that blue grass pasture seems to allowed t
have sort of run out, become weedy During IL
with bare spots here and there, get furnished
out your disk just as soon as the frost acre Of al
is out ten inches, put on four horses, The field
load the machine with all they can year he ra
pull and 60 over that pasture both ty-fve bus
ways twice, then give it thorough the field il
narrowing and SOW four quarts Of me- other croI
dunn clover to the acre before the last give some
time over with the harrow. If you will ed hint
do this, you will have no reason to find
any Pou rr,it1 hot,