Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-04

Fish, more than any other OF our
neat foods, lose flavor and are injured
by being placed in cold storage. To
freeze fss is to spoil it.
Japan raised the largest crop Of rice
last year which she has had for many
years, Providence thus smiling on her
effort to protect her liberty.
In Denmark the farmers have a
large cooperative egg marketing con-
Germ, and every member working off q
bad egg is fined $1.25. If such rule
was in vogue in this country it would
bankrupt the farmers paying the f1nes.
It is always risky business to try
to make grain field out Of meadow
tract unless it is properly drained.
While such land is all right in dry
years, it is terrible aggrayation in
wet one. Lots Of men know this only
too well,
A COW that will make 300 pounds of
butter in year is better worth $75
than one that will only make $50
pounds is $50, for the reason that the
last named COW will hardly pay for the
food she eats, while the first named
will give her owner handsome profit.
A New Jersey market gardener has
l20 rods of fence around his garden.
On this fence line and growing right
under it he has planted pieplant, and
from this 100 rods of pieplant he sells
every year enough to bring him from
$3.50 to 5000, his returns last year being
Slo2.
Many women like to drive spirited
| horse, but man never does more
foolish thing than when he lets his
wife take the chances on managing a
runaway or high strung animal. The
average woman's nerve and physical
strength are not usually equal to the
risks Of such proceeding.
There is much benefit to be derived
from frequent changes of seed-wheat,
oats, barley, corn. 1t always pays for
man on sandy farm to get his seed
from grain grown on clay farm, and
vice versa. With potatoes, wheat and
oats and barley it will always pay to
get seed from those more northerly
sections where these things attain their
best development.
A grove of soft maple trees planted
twenty-five years ago was cut of last
winter, and f1fty-fiye cords of four foot
wood per acre was secured from it. As
the land was worth an average Of $50
per acre during that time and the wood
Melted the owner So per cord, it is easy
to see that he at least lost no money In
planting the grove and in addition had
enjoyed its protection and beauty.
We have it from the Iowa expert
4 mental station that If alfalfa is given
the benefit Of good supply Of horse
manure when sown it will do much tc
insure the success of the plant. This
fertilizer furnishes an available sup
ply Of nitrogen for the young plant
until it can develop the bacteria which
will furnish it supply from the at
mosphere. This is good point made.
The pocket gopher and sweet clover
seem to like to work together. The
rights of way Of the railroad through
the west are quite largely occupied by
this queer combination, and curious
thing about it is that, while the gopher
will honeycomb the entire strip be
tween the track and the fence and tht
clover grow there most luxuriantly
neither Of them ever crosses the fence
line into the cultivated field to any ex
tent.
The very novel method Of spreading
agricultural information among tn,
farmers by sending out special train
carrying instructors and stopping il
each town on the line for half an hou
and holding meeting in the car i
being taken up by many of the western
: roads with great success and profit t.
the farmer All the trunk lines II
Iowa will run these special trains thi
winter, while Missouri, South Dakot
and Nebraska are following the fash
ion.
The blue joint grass which was 8
abundant on the western prairies whe
they We're first settled has disappears
as result of settlement and cultiva
} ton. All efforts to propagate it hay
failed, for, with the wild game and tn
) Indian, it resents civilization. This Is
, fact to be regretted, as no better ha
for the horse can be found than tina
) made from the blue joint grass, Their
, is but little Of it left save as 1t may b