Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-04

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1t is remarkable how quickly an old
cows pedigree will come to light when
she is run over by the cars.
We are Of the opinion that no mis-
take will be made If you shoot every
sparrow, crow and butcher bird you
| see.
The small farm will nearly always
pay a better rate Of interest on the
money invested than the large farm.
Most men try to cover too many acres
| There are two farm products which
always maintain good prices and are
never overproduced, and these are eggs
and butter. Cold storage will always
prevent any glut of the market in
either of these products.
A friend captured and tanned two
young foxes and they afforded a good
deal of amusement to his boys. How
ever, they got loose one night last fall
and cleaned up prize lot Of chickens
for one of his neighbors, and now our
friend has gone out of the fox business.
What publicity will do in extermi-
mating fraud is well illustrated in
the case Of the private refrigerator car
system. The press Of the country so
mercilessly exposed the rascality Of
this trust that it is practically busted,
and the railway corporations are in
stalling their own refrigerator serv-
ice, where all are treated alike.
A reader wishes to know II ROSTERS
are essential to egg production in the
poultry yard. Only where the eggs are
wanted for Matching purposes. Hens
will lay just as many eggs without
ROSTERS as with them, and the eggs
are claimed to keep longer and be bet
ter for eating and cooking purposes
when the head OF the harem is not
with the flock.
He plowed well. dragged his field
into good shape and planted his corn,
but found the middle Of May that he
must plant all over again Just because
he had not thought 1t worth while to
know for sure that his seed corn would
terminate. The result Is that his crop
will be late and quite likely will be
caught by the frost in the fall before
it is matured. He should know better
next year, but there are lots Of him
who won't learn.
We are asked about the veal calf,
how soon it should be marketed and
how it should be fed. The calf should
never go to market until it Is at least
month old, and we know of no better
way to make it At for market than to
give it all the new milk it will assini-
late. The veal calf should never get
acquainted with skim milk. The ami
; NAL is at it's best when six or seven
weeks old. No man with a conscience
will sell veal less than month old,
but lots Of men do.
We do not believe that any man
who limits his work to just eight hours
a day can ever make very much hnan-
cial Roadway. The men who make
money and get ahead have got to de-
! vote more time than this to their work.
theoretically, if a man works eight
hours, sleeps eight hours and devotes
eight hours to recreation and mental
improvement he is doing the right
thing, but in this busting and COM
petitive age eight hours work will not
build up bank account and get him
out of debt.
In the problem Of seeking a new
home and a new farm there are many
things to be considered. We would
place first Of all the question of the
natural fertility of the soil, then eli
mate and length Of working season,
then cost of clearing and fitting land
for cultivation, then the type of people
one would have for neighbors, then dis
lance from market. One can obtain
every desired advantage except the
first named in many Of the eastern
states, but the poor quality of the soil
offsets them all.
The June catch crop often becomes
one of the important crops on the
farm. There are almost always odd
corners and pieces of land which per-
haps were too wet for early cultivation
and sowing or where the seed may
have failed which can be used for a
late catch crop. Among the crops
which may be used for this purpose
are held corn planted thickly for fod-
der, the several kinds Of millet, buck
wheat, sorghum, to be cut for fodder.
These odds and ends Of fields should
by all means be thus used; otherwise
they become a patch Of rank weed
growth.