Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-05

Worthless wastes OF the west are to 4
be regenerated by alfalfa and the ca
talpa.
Things will never go just exactly
right until the good dog fails to get
hold of the poison put out for the bad
dog.
The Georgia peach is at that stage Of
development which will make any fur
ther lying about the condition Of the
Delaware crop entirely unnecessary.
/. It is always safe to take up land and
make home and farm where alfalfa
will grow, for with this crop alone
right smart lot of money can be made
from the land.
Now some wiseacre is out with the
statement that strawberries beget In
digestion Be that as it may, they are
the best excuse for dyspepsia there Is
on the market.
A granger friend of ours thought he
would take in cheap railroad excur-
sion because he could have ride of
400 miles for $2.25. AS he was robbed
Of his watch and $40 by pickpocket
he is of the opinion he will pay full
fare next time.
We note marked difference in the
bearing age of some Fameuse apples
top worked on Hibernal stocks and
some top worked on the Brier Sweet
crab, the latter bearing heavily in six
years, while the former have not yet
produced an apple.
The board of supervisors of west
ern county which pays a bounty Of
IS for an adult wolf and one Of So for
pup wolves has got to settle the prob
lem of just when a wolf ceases to be
a puppy, having to pay bounty on
some half grown wolves.
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furrow with his pillow is quite apt to be
good plowman. Why pillow with
crooked rows or set out crooked row
of trees or build crooked fence? 1t
is just as easy to do work on straight
lines, and it is every way more salts
factory.
It is probably true that the dragging
of the cornfeld just as the corn is
coming up and after it is up does some
damage to the stand; but, on the other
hand, it thereby receives sort of Gull
tivation which no other tool save the
weeder can give it If the ground is
cloddy or filled with old cornstalks we
would not use the drag.
| A kind hearted philanthropist, refer
ring to the value Of the quail as a
friend of the agriculturist in the eat
ing of weed seeds and pestiferous in
sect life, advises people to order some
other bird put on their toast. This is
almost unnecessary, for they usually
get squads, sparrows or spring chicken
when quail is ordered anyway.
Some nicely engraved letter heads
some fake references and quotations
of farm produce above market figures
enabled New York sharper to lately
transfer some $4,000 Of hard earned
money from gullible country shippers
to his own jeans. If oil other crops
were only as sure as the sucker crol
what country this would be!
The red fox increases in numbe
with settlement and civilization. Thu
eastern states are overrun with them
They were entirely unknown in lows
and Minnesota forty years ago, tn
prairie wolf occupying their field
Now the wolves are about exterm1
mated, and the fox is becoming plenti
full, one county in Iowa having pai'
bounties on hundred killed last win
ter.
: Many wonders in wood are to
: seen ut the great st. Louis fair. Their
: are hollow sections Of the big frs Q
Washington, ten feet in diameter; saw
3 ed plank three inches thick, twelv
, feet long and eight feet wide; say
g log which, lying on the ground,
, eighteen inches above a tall man
e head, and a tree trunk cut into fou1
teen foot saw logs placed end to ent
nine logs Of it three feet in diameter 9
the butt and thirty inches at the top,
9 The agricultural department is OF
Il with story detailing how a Methods
' parson keeps twenty-five cows whic
8 bring him in $2,40O year on fourtee
acres Of what was awhile ago one {
g the poorest little farms in Pennsylv;
y MIA. These cows are soiled and kept
the barn the year round. and all the
food is produced on the farm. When
= preacher and the agricultural depar
q want info M orpo,