Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-10

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Cold storage Is being successfully
used to protect the seeds Of the various
legumcs- beans, peas, eec.--from the
ravages Of the wecvil.
1t is generally supposed that the raw
ages Of the corn root Worm are con-
fined to those fields which are kept
continually in corn With no rotation OF
crop, but a friend tells us that much of
his corn is injured by this pest on Il
field which had previously TO this year
been continuously in blue grass for a
period Of seventeen years.
Prospects now point to the securing
Of one OF the best matured crops OF
corn harvested for many years. The
season has been very favorable, hot
August proving the salvation Of the
crop. The quality OF the corn will be
of the best, and, being wNl maturea, it
will naturally have q greater feeding
value than when the frost catches it
In an immature stage
We really wish that quail were no
better eating than the crow, and then
1t might be possible for us to keep n
stock of these pretty and most useful
birds around our farms. AS it is, If
the little fellows survive an arctic win
dodge the skunks and the hawks, some
miserable pot hunter will annihi!atc
the whole bunch at one pot shot as
they are huddled under a bush, by the
time winter comes, and then go off
al Drag how many he killed at one
shot. The Chinese and Japs do far
better than we, for they protect their
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tame as domestic fowls.
We watched an old man the other
day trying to repair the picket fence
which inclosed his garden. He must
have been very old, for he could not
take step without the aid Of his
cane and his hand trembled SO that he
could hardly hold the hammer and his
efforts to drive nail were painful to
see. Noting him at work in his feeble
and almost useless way we were i'm
pressed with the fact that man hates
to give up working, and it Ia we'll it Is
SO, for work is q panacea for more Of
life's troubles than any other thing,
and this old man fixing this fence sug-
gested how well it is for us all to keep
doing something to make the world
better, even If 1t has to be- done with
painful effort and trembling hands.
In considering the varied things
which may be rightly credited to the
administration Of our worthy president
we incline to think that so far as this
country Is concerned the legislation
| providing for the reclamation of the
desert by means Of irrigation will in
the end prove to be the most far reach
ing and beneficial. AS the several irri.
cation projects now under way are
sized up, it appears that an empire OF
the most fertile land on earth is by
means Of irrigation to be made avail.
able as homes for the American people
We have lately inspected line of agri
cultural products from some Of the
irrigated farms of Wyoming, and these
samples, at least, SO far eclipse similar
products of the nonirrigated sections
that what we have been wont to term
the best farm land on the continent is
simply outclassed.
When an animal, or, for that matter
man, is carefully trained for the do
ing Of some particular kind Of work II
is noticeable that his progeny will al
ways take more readily to that partic
ular kind Of work than the progeny Of
individuals not so trained. 1t Is cult
Nol4AEo ILLS lCl1tCISy hISil hElo ACodlC
ed in giving US some OF the most valu
able types of animals we have. The
st. Bernard dog because Of this ances
trail training needs little effort to make
him the searcher and rescuer of los
travellers in mountain regions; the
young hound readily takes to the tract
Of the rabbit or deer, the setter to thu
trail of the winged wild fowl, the shep
herd dog to the care and hcrding O.
the flock of sheep. Following this Law
has given us the many types Of fame,
pigeons and poultry, and the same rul'
worked to its ultimate end has givel
Us all our improved breeds Of domesti
animals.
Small gas plants for the use Of GU,
smaller towns are rapidly coming int,
use, affording cheap fuel supply ant
means Of illumination. They are mad