Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

c,ES2 w %~x8BSY III
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1t will always pay to take day of
and visit the best farmer you know Of
The best thing to do with the hog
yard is to plow it up and SOW it to rape
If done any time before Aug. /.
A Texas man Is going to start bee
ranch with queen bees imported at
cost of S25 to $500 per bee This sort
ought to make golden honey.
We saw farmer with his wife and
eight children in carriage the other
day. A pair of big draft horses with
plow harness drew the load. It was
all right
About the time a fellow for the Sec ..
ond time gathers up the remains Of his
windmill wrecked by summer storm
he begins to fall in love with the nasty
little gasoline engine.
In general way we much prefer
the low headed fruit tree for all the
prairie country. Such trees suffer much
less from sun scald and from the wear
and tear Of the winds.
Texas has overdone the Bermuda
onion business and is sending more to
market than the people can eat Up to
this season they have been the best
paying crop raised on the farms of the 81
country.
The greatest value there is connected {
with salt applied to the hay or fodder {
when put in the now Of the barn is s
not in its preservative quality, but in I
making such feed more palatable when ]
fed out.
Nearly all farmers In the northwest
keep more or less hogs, but not one in
ten Of them realize the value Of rape 1
field as summer feed for their pigs. {
Nothing grown on the farm will mako ,
cheaper hog feed.
We note that the production Of rice '
in this country has more than caught !
up with the home demand, and this,
too, with only very limited area de-
voted to its culture. We are not a
great rice eating nation and never will I
be- s
AS an evidence Of our willingness to /
encourage spirit Of reciprocity with I
Canada we gave that country almost :
the whole Of our foreign cheese trade, I
and we did it by palming off on the I
Britishers filed and SKINNED cheese /
for full creams. :
The value Of man fixed as we
value a horse, Just on his physical h
ability, is about $4,000. When to IL J /
muscle is added some gray matter, be /
rises in value just as a horse does r
when he possesses more or less Of i
standard blood and intelligence. .
The sum of 500 per year in cash and t
what eggs and chickens the family can I
use are easily obtained from what poul- +
try may be kept upon the average farm Il
homestead given ordinary care and at n
tention. This sum may be increased to
5000 where more fowls are kept and
more attention Is given them. f
We are asked If there are any birds t
at all which will eat the Colorado po- p
tato bug While there are none which t
seem to be very fond of potato bug v
diet, we have seen turkeys, ducks and a
he rose breasted grosbeak eat them. v
AS to any bird being a check upon q
these bugs, there is none, so far as we t
know. v
The gospel Of grass is good gospel
to study. There can be no erosion of
the soil or depletion Of soil fertility n
where grass grows. The growing of n
grass means the feeding of 1t, and this !;
means butter, cheese, milk, meats, and q
these mean profitable agriculture "All .
flesh is grass" is the text of this gospel,
and wherever it is preached and prac- :
ticed there will be found good farming !,
and prosperity. .
A farm hand in Iowa had some diff :.
Guilty with his employer and was dis =
charged. He then turned round and :.
sued his employer for over time, claim ;,
ing some $50 for work done after what :
are called regulation working hours. :,
The case is now pending, and for the =
first time we are likely to get legal
ruling on the question of whether there
are any legal limits to the number Of
hours work which may be extorted ),
from the farm hand. !,
Cooperative effort never finds bet =
ter work than where all the land own =
ers work tremendously together to Sc !
cure the proper drainage of their land +
But, strange as it may seem. this happy :
result Is far more difficult of accom- I
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