Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-26

We agair wish to rsMark that wne-e
the Wealthy apple will do well it is
the best favored, most productive and
best all round apple in America today.
The cement sllo is here and is prov
ing an unqualified success. 1t is cheap,
1t is durable and substantial, and will.
we believe, prove to be tie coming
material for silo construction.
Flesh food forms a good nutritious
ration for the man who works hard
with his hands, but the man of seden-
tary habits will enjoy much better
health If he eats as little meat as pos
sible.
If workingman with family TO
support can manage to get hold Of
good garden, pig, COW and twenty
hens he has more than half solved the
problem Of living for his family. This
fact should receive more attention than
it does as one way to get the poor
man on his financial feet.
We are frequently asked when post
timber should be cut to insure the
greatest durability for the posts. The
consensus Of experience shows that
post timber cut in July or August and
thoroughly seasoned before being used
will greatly outlast that cut during the
winter and set in the ground the next
spring.
If the second crop Of clover is suf-
ficiently fortified SO that each head
will show an average Of nine seeds it
will pay to cut the crop for seed; other
wise it will not. The per cent of seed
contained may be determined before
the crop natures for seed and when it
may be most proftably cut for hay
should the fertilization prove imper-
feet.
Skim milk Is one Of the most valu-
able products Of any farm. 1t is rich
In protein content and the one thing
which is needed by all the young things
on the farm to make them grow lusty
and strong. 1t never should be fed
to matured animals if there are any
young things-calves, pigs and colts
to feed it to. 1t is especially good food
for laying hens and young chicks, and
no hi1if1, 70 nix of clyi mil l.
on the farm is one Of theeJustifcations
for keeping dairy of cows.
England pays to Denmark $46, OO0,O 600
year for the one item of butter, and
the queer thing is that while we can
sell the Danes good share of the
dairy rations used in the manufacture
Of this butter we are still unable to
sell the Englishman the butter. Per-
haps the time will come when we will
adopt the same rigid system Of inspec-
ton and manufacture employed by the
Danes and as carefully study the tastes
anu notions of the English people as
closely as they do, but it is not here
yet.
Probably no phase Of cooperative
work among farmers has proved more
successful than has the insurance bust
ness. Almost without exception the
county mutual insurance company,
combining its risks to farm property
wherever found, is an entire success,
affording reliable class Of insurance
at very low cost. The cooperative
idea has also worked well with cream
cries and cheese factories and to some
extent with grain buying and grain
shipping concerns. The idea has not
met with the same measure of success
when applied to merchandising.
1t is pretty well settled that the
progeny Of dairy herds will not make
beef at profit. It may be done in q
few exceptional cases with the progeny
Of extra good mixers in the Shorthorn
and Red Polled breeds, but very rarely
indeed with that of any Of the SO called
dairy breeds. And it will be found
that the better the dairy herd the more
worthless the calves will prove as feed
ers. The beef business and the butter
| business run in exactly opposite direc
lions, always have and always will
In the one case the food goes into fesh
and fat on the ribs; in the other into
| milk In ths udder. Some beef bred
cows will pay to milk, but their dairy
performance is always secondary.
There is great reluctance to adopt
the wide tired wagon for heavy haul
ing on our dirt roads, and it grows
largely out of the fact that men, as
they run, have an ingrained dislike tt
contribute anything toward the i'm
provement of the roads when theil
neighbors will not Go their share. The
| general use of the drag and the wide