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

The sum of 500 per year in cash and
what eggs and chickens the family can
use are easily obtained from what poul-
try may be kept upon the average farm
homestead given ordinary care and at
tention. This sum may be increased to
5000 where more fowls are kept and
more attention Is given them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01
White clover ana sweet clover bloom
make harvest days for the bees, and
they improve them to the limit.

A good garden well cared for is
worth not less than 500 to any fam
lily where there are six OF more persons
to feed duriag the year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

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
great rice eating nation and never will
be.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

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. 1t was
all right.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

The effort being made to induce the
settlement Of the south by the Italians,
who are coming to this country in such
large numbers, has much to commend
it, as the italian is specially adapted
to southern conditions.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

The pound and half spring chicken
costs the town man over 80 cents by
the time it is served on his table. Thus
common country dish becomes q
costly luxury In the city.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

The value of a man fixed as we
value a horse, just on his physical
ability, is about $4,000. When to tt ]
muscle is added some gray matter, be
rises in value just as a horse does
when he possesses more or less Of
standard blood and intelligence.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

No apple has come into such general
favor for all the latitude north of ~
degrees as the Wealthy. No apple has
a finer flavor, keeps better in cold
storage, is more prolific or handsomer
in appearance. It would be well if the
Wealthy could be more generally
planted in place Of 80 many inferior
varieties.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

AS an evidence of our willingness to
encourage spirit Of reciprocity with
Canada we gave that country almost
the whole Of our foreign cheese trade,
and we did 1t by palming off on the
Britishers filed and SKINNED cheese
for full creams.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

We have no bird IN the north which
can get off as. fine a concert pro-
granme as can the hooking bird Of the
south at midnight, when the moon Is
at full. Perched in the top of some
magnolia or gum tree, he will make
the night echo with his weird, wild mu-
sic by the hour together.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

The trouble is that the hired man
does not intend to remain hired man.
He is figuring to boss somebody him
self as soon as he can. And the hired
girl does not intend to remain a hired
girl, only till the chance comes when
she will want one herself.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

We are asked if there are any birds
at all which will eat the Colorado po-
tato bug. While there are none which
seem to be very fond Of a potato bug
diet, we have seen turkeys, ducks and
he rose breasted grosbeak eat them.
AS to any bird being check upon
these bugs, there is none, SO far as we
know.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

Nearly all farmers in the northwest
keep more or less hogs, but not one in
ten Of them realize the value of a rape
field as summer feed for their pigs.
Nothing grown on the farm will mako
cheaper hog feed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

A man who fed lot of beef cattle
the past winter, buying at $3.50 and
selling at $3.50. figures up after he sold
them that he had made just $3.50 per
head besides what the manure might
be worth. This sort Of work will never
put him in the cattle baron class. The
trouble was that he had a poor lot of
feeders to start with and then did not
know how to feed them, and there are
many just like him.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

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

The greatest value there is connected
with salt applied to the hay or fodder
when put in the now Of the barn is
not in its preservative quality, but in
making such feed more palatable when
fed out.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

We know Of one man who for years
has stuck to beef making of this type:
He buys up in the fall bunch Of the
best early calves he can find and then
pushes them for baby beef for the next
June market, and he has always been
able to make money at 1t, doing SO
when his neighbors feeding older cat
tie would fall down. 1t is always true
that the meat put on the young animal,
be it steer, sheep or hog, always costs
less than when put on the older ami
NAL,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

The centralized creamery working
with cream gathered from wide area
of territory, shipped to it by express,
Is doing splendid work in many Sec
tions Of the country, especially in those
parts where 1t was impossible to de-
velop the dairy business sufficiently to
justify the building and running of a
home creamery This new method has
made possible the taking up of the
dairy business in almost any locality
by any man. the equipment needed be-
Ing only the cows and farm separa-
tor, with q local cash market for all
the cream he can produce. Many a
man is now being put on his financial
feet as "a result Of the opportunities
offered by this new method. On the
other hand, wherever the home cream
cry exists 1t should receive the loyal
support of every man In the commu-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

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

So entirely has the factor of hand la:
Dor been dispensed with in the cultiva.
ton Of the corn crop that we know Of
many men who will not take the trou.
Bile to go through their fields and pull
out the milkweeds, the morning glory.
ragweeds and sunf1ower which the
pillow skipped in cultivation, when such
hand work would pay better than any
other work they could do.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

1t will always pay to take day Off
and visit the best farmer you know Of.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

We are asked whether the big de-
partment stores are likely to become
permanent feature of our commercial
life. They are, and there will be more
Of them than there are now. Just what
effect they will have on the country
merchant Of the future is uncertain.
He has a difficult problem to meet, the
large capital of the big store giving it
every advantage in the matter of buy
ing. What seems to be practical So
luton Of the difficulty is being adopted
In some towns, the merchants getting
together and organizing a stock com
pany for the purpose of carrying on a
home department sto-e, adopting all
the economic methods Of the city insti-
tuition.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

It is never very hard times on that
farm where there is some sort Of prod
uce ready to turn off every month in
the year, such as cream, eggs, butter,
pork, fruit, honey, saying nothing Of
the grain crops and fat steers, and
where such crops are produced 1t is
also true that the soil can never get
very badly impoverished. An eighty
acre farm run on these lines will re-
turn the owner more net profit one
year with another than quarter Sec
ton carried on as so many are.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

The gospel of grass is good gospel
to study. There can be no erosion Of
the soil or depletion Of soil fertility
where grass grows. The growing of
grass means the feeding Of 1t, and this
means butter, cheese, milk, meats, and
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.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

THE great day finally arrived,
and no carnival could havebeen
more successful. The morning
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

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-
plishment than one would think. There
Is almost always some measly, selfish
old hog Of a farmer In the crowd who
will make every effort to not only hold
up his neighbors, but to hold up such
an Improvement, and the whole COM
munlty has to suffer for his meanness.
We know Of more than one case where,
if only the right man was in box to
head the procession, there would be q
mighty well attended funeral
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-01

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.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-12

the literary prize in 1902 to Bornson the famous
Norwegian novelist; the other, the Chemical prize
in 1908, to Arrhenius, the Swedish chemist of
Stockholm.
The choice of these Scandinavian judges is limited
to a certain extent by the nominations. 1t is true
that most of the judges also may nominate candidates.
but the judges few, the nominators are many.
For the four prizes adjudicated upon at Stockholm
nominations made by the Swedish Academy; by
the members resident foreign, of the Royal Academy
of Sciences of Sweden by the members of the Swedish
Nobel committees; by the professors of the various
universities in Sweden and Norway; or by professors
in foreign universities who may be named therefor
by the Swedish Academy finally by distinguished
men to whom the Academy may think good to send
an invitation to suggest nomination" All these NOM
nations with the writings of the persons nominated
be delivered to the Swedish Academy by Feb
TuaTy I.
For the Peace prize, which is awarded by COM
mittee sitting Chrstiania there is still wider body
of nominators Proposals for the prize for 1905 must
be sent to the Comite Nobel Norwegian, Victoria
terrasse g. Chrstiania Norway, to reach the
1nittee not later than April next. Among the persons
entitled to nominate competitors for prizes the
following: (1) Members of the Norwegian Nobel COM
New-York tribune., 1905-02-12


place In the last four
years aggregating roughly about three-quarters
Of million dollars have been distributed to those who
IN opinion OF certain Scandinavian authorities have
gories OF human activity. Every year the interest
accruing from the fortune which Nobel built up by
manufacturing dynamite IS divided into five equal
portions
one IS auocated for Literature a second for Peace
q third for Physics a fourth for Medicine and fifth
for Chemistry. Under each department aggregate
sum OF one hundred and fifty thousand dollars has
been given away award OF merit. As rule the
prizes given to only person in each department.
This rule although strictly adhered TO in the of
the prizes in Literature Medicine and Chemistry, has
been departed from repeatedly in the departments of
Physics and Peace The result of the distribution
Is that, not reckoning Monsieur and Madame Curie
as two persons because in wedock they one,
twenty prizes have been divided among twenty-five
persons.
The first thing that strikes the eve in looking over
the list OF those who have obtained the distinction
Of Nobel prize IS that without exception they belong
TO the Old World. No American far has obtained
recognition for the services regarded by Nobel as
worthy Of the highest honor In the list OF the twenty
five orals who have deserved best OF their generation
American finds place, neither does an Aslat1c,
African Australian, no Italian, Belgian or POrtu-
gaese has found place IN this International Honors
List.
The tventv-fOur prize winners come from the fol-
lowing nations Germany FIVE, Britain four, France
FIVE Switzerland three, Holland two, Russia, Sweden,
Norway. Spain and Denmark each. If the twenty
prizes taken the order IS the but France has
three, Switzerland and a half, and Holland one;
or 70 state roughly in dollars, the Germans have
received hundred thousand dollars, Britain
hundred and sixty thousand, France hundred and
twenty thousand, Switzerland sixty thousand while
seven other nations have received forty thousand
dollars each.
The first question that probably will occur to the
American reader IS how It TO pass that American
merit was 50 entirely overlooked Can it be due the
prejudice OF the adjudication? OF thing there IS
no doubt. Among the judges who award the prizes
IN these international Olympic games there IS not one
American.
Nobel, the rious founder, a Scandinavian, and
although he left his fortune all the world he pro-
vided his viii that distribution should be vested
IN scandinavian hands. He wrote: The prizes shall
be awarded as follows: For physical science and
chemistry by the Swedish Academy Of Sciences; for
physiology medical work, by the Caroline Institute
at Stockholm; for literature, by the Stockholm Acad
eny; and for peace work, by committee Of five mem
bers elected by the Norwegian Parliament. 1t IS my
express desire that in awarding the prizes account
shall be taken OF nationality in order that the prize
nav fall to the lot of the deserving, whether he be
Scandinavian not.
As matter Of fact, only two out of the twenty
prizes awarded up date have gone Scandinavians:
The Southern farm gazette., 1905-10-01


gard to selling Tor 10 per cent.
profit, and we don't doubt it
no, not in the least. But If ilr.
W. thinks he isn't getting his
share of the cash trade, why
don't he copy from those all
fired catalog houses, and offer
his ncighbors sufficient induce
mcnts 10 purchase from him
Our word for it. that. il he can
make il worth their while for
them TO make their purchases
AT or near home aud will publish
the fact SO that they will certain
| ly hear OF II, they will willingly.
gladly. ohccrfully do so. OF
this We arc assured.
Mr.. ". makes out the supply
merchant 10 be quite an accom-.
modaiing customer: aud claims
,ha; there - no kind or variety
ot farm produce ;ba, nc will no;
take IN exchange Tor his goods
and IN the way oil liquidation OF
debt. A. last resort he may.
but as a general rule, no. Like
Shylock of old. he wants his
pound OF flesh: he makes al
yanccs on nothing bnt cotton.
! and II ~ cotton. or tho hard.
cold, un!cciing cash he requires
A. paymcn, ior same. What
ever else he may eject 10 take i,
taken a. a ~ -rliicc. and the sac
rIiicc ~. IN every single III.
stance. At the expense os the
! poor dcysl u! debtor. Where.
then. ~ tho obligation 10 patron
&c the supply merchants cxclu-
~lfc!y when purchasing for cash
The way oar friend ". states
hrs case. II wound &c really pitt.
ful. were i, not 10 intensely,
ludlcrous,v drolj; he SAYS his
ncw b hor- arc making scapc.
goa, ot him and dumping their
surplus bacon, corn. peas, po.
;aiocs. chickens, eggs, bccswax.
,allow feathers, ycarlings. COWS.
etc. of on him. scc ming 10 think I
that ! will not take the money. /
and they continue 10 scad i,
of TO mail order houses"
II the good people OF Carthage,
Miss, arc 40 uncnlightencd and
bcnightcd a. not TO know that
this great and glorious country
in which they 1--we ~ n free coun.
try; and il they still insist
after seeing and reading these
lines forcing Mr.. W. To take (
the various products Of the farm
The Southern farm gazette., 1905-10-01
Catalog Houses

We wish n encro,ch uoon
vonr s,,ro and try rour n,,icnrc
long enonoh "a have few word :
IN cav in ,nsucr IN y p
Wriyht IN The Augus,I5fh ;ssue
of vorr v,1,,hlc journal
Thougn Nr Wrigb,'s article
was headed "C,,a,oy Houses =
the mill; in the rn,oanu;" in
,ha, yen,lc,,,n's article was =
nlea for home merchants.
Now VIC arc NOT going IN adyo-
cate the cause of the ra,alop
houses rei,bcr ,h,, ~ the
home merchant. tony prca,cx.
,.,o. M, hv uhoic ;pgfpl
Roth are vorl.;ng for ,bcu.
solves and their own in,ercs, cx.
cIns;veIv and no, ~ the ,n,crcs,
of ,he farmer Mr. " u,rs
"As lo,r a. tho farmers o,ap.
co,,o, and gc, their money oprc
, vc,r ,hnv uhorid .ce,d ,h.;r
money =, honc v.,b ,hn,r hor,c
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The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-03-28

First publication, March 7-o5.
Last publication, April 4-05.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-03-28
Ns%&>NEEN@AMIMMn8aNr.aNN\ m q

The last meeting of the w. C. T
U. at the Congregational church
on March 81 was we'll attended
and full of interest
The members have a difficult
work before them; but their labor
is r the betterment of humanity,
and as they are not working for the
glory or applause of this world,
they are ever encouraged to 60 on,
leaving all tn The hands of One
WHO will not forget labor of love
and sacrifice.
Everyone knows that the use of
liquor shortens life, and here is
what Roderick M. Moore, Actuary
of the United Kingdom Temper
ance and General Provident 1nsti-
tuition (life insurance) gives as the
experience of that company con-
corning 81 years. time and 124, 673
individual cases. All the required
data are included for each case.
Abstainers are kept separate
from moderate drinkers, and, being
closely the same in number, age,
and social condition, the experience
of this company proves the follow.
ing to be true;
First, that non-abstainers as
sured in the institution are good
average lives.
Second, that the abstainers show
marked superiority to the non.
abstainers throughout the entire
working years of life, for both
sexes, however tested. The com.
parison is made with moderate
drinkers only, but the most start.
ling part of the report is the
number of deaths, the figures being
-
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-03-28
Send Me the Names

Of your friends or relatives in
the East who are contemplating
movement to the West during
the Spring or Summer.
There will be in effect during
the Spring months, from all
Eastern points to every section
of the West, greatly reduced
rates (both one way and round
trip, and it will be to their
interest that you give me the
names of parties who may be
induced by these rates to come
West. No matter where they
are located, we will have our
representatives call upon or
write to them and advise them
of the cheapest and best way to
make the trip.
Call upon or address
G. A. WALKER, Gen'l Agt.
Chicago & Northwestern Ry.
Pc. Box $50, Salt Lake, Utah.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-03-28
MOUNTAIN HOME BUSINESS

Business with us at Mountain
Home has been very satisfactory,
and we believe the fact that we are
the Oldest and most permanent
piano house in the state is having
it's weight with piano and organ
buyers.
We have done remarkable bus.
mess in Mountain Home and
vicinity, of which we are proud.
We do the largest organ business
in the entire Northwest, as Farrand
d Crown organs know no peer.
Requests for catalogues given
prompt attention.
WISE PIANO HOUSE.
Gil Main St., OPP. Pc, Boise, Idaho.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-03-28

The Provident Savings Assur-
ance Society of New York points to
this report with satisfaction, as it
justifes the New York company's
plan of conducting, separately, an
Abstainers' Department, claiming
there is more profit to be divided
in that department because there
are fewer deaths.
In life insurance, at least, total
abstinence has a definite money
value.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-03-28
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To Geo. M. Payne, his heirs. legal representa-.
tives or assigns:
You are hereby notified that have expended
during the year 1904 one hundred (sl00) dol
lars in labor and improvements upon the
Champion " lode mining claim, situate
in Bear Creek Mining District, Gilmore
county, Idaho: said labor and improve
ments having been made or performed in
order to hold said claim, under the pro-
visions of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, and the amendments thereof concern
ing annual labor upon mining claims: being
the amount required to hold said lode claim
for the period ending on December 81, 1904.
You are further notified that have expend-
ed during the year 1904 one hundred ($100)
dollars in labor and improvements upon the
said hereinbefore described lode mining
claim, being the amount required to hold
said claim for the period ending December
81, 1904.
And if within ninety days from the personal
service OF this notice upon you, or within nine
ty days after the publication thereof, you fail
or refuse to contribute your proportion OF
such expenditure as co-owner, which amount,
$500, or s6666 upon said claim, together with
costs of this advertisement, etc., your interest
in the claim above referred to will be-
come the property of the subscriber,
your co-owner, who has made the required
expenditures for the year 1904, by the terms Of
said Revised Statutes.
Payment can be made to
W. j. EDW0RTHY,
Rocky Bar, Idaho.
Dated February 4, 1905.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-03-28
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department OF the Interior,
Land Office at Boise, Idaho,

department. Oh inc lHteTlOT,
Land Office at Boise, Idaho,
February IS, 1906
Notice 10 hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim
and that said proof will be made before
Clerk of Probate Court, at Mountain Home
Idaho, on April IS, 1905. viz; Homestead
application No. 1888, Columbus W. Holiday
guardian OF the minor heirs OF Laura A. Hol
liday, deceased, Mountain Home, Idaho, for
the seq NE Ia, M Sc Ia, and sWA Sc Ia
Sec. IA, 7. u.s., r. E.. B, M.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his cultivation of said land, viz:
Commodore Jackson, Seth Heath, Thomas
Wayte and John R. Butler, all of Mountain
Home, Idaho.
HARRY J.sYMs,
Register.
First publication, March 7-05.
Last mobilization April 4-05.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-03-28
NOTICE

An examination for Eighth Grade pupils
will be held at the Office of the County Super.
intendent March 81, %, %, 1905.
LILLE B. VERT,
County School Superintendent.
Dated March 4, 1905,
Mountain Home, Idaho. "a