Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-17

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Many man will feed Ills family
WELL also his horses, cattle and hogs
who will deliberately and wantonly
starye his land.
The New York butchers are going, to
fight the beef trust and hereafter kill
their own meats. They have organized
strong company for this purpose.
Two new artesian wells have recent
~ been bored in South Dakota which
give a pressure of PCT pounds to the
square inch at the mouth of the pipe.
These wells are vcritable water pow
ers without the bother of a dam.
The dairy COW foraging for a living
in December stalk field is every way
Il COW out of place. Instead she should
be in a warm barn and be fed with all
the nutritious and succulent food she
will eat. 1t is simply impossible to run
a profitable dairy out of doors during
cold weather.
No new agricultural implement is be-
coming more popular or doing more
good than the manure spreader. The
best Of results follow its use, and the
factories are working overtime to turn
them out. 1t has about come to this
that the style of mans farming can
be determined by the fact whether he
owns and uses manure spreader.
The average farm should be so man.
aged that the poultry income would be
at least $3.50 per annum No branch
of farm work is more neglected than
this, and none would pay bigger re-
turns for more attention The average
she should be cared for as a money
maker.
Say, it's a great privilege when you
go to rest after the days labor to
feel that you don't owe any man a
cent, and still a greater one to get up
in the morning and, looking the old
world in the face, feel that the day
and your work belong to you alone.
Just simple freedom from debt would
be the highest type Of happiness for
| lots of humanity.
The wild barley, most pestiferous
weed which is spreading all over the
low pasture and meadow lands Of the
west, wants exactly the same condi-
lions Of soil and moisture that the red
| top grass does, and there is no better
way to get rid of this weed than to
seed the land with redtop, which will
soon run the wild barley out. Try this
and see.
Man clings to the barbarian and the
primitive with a great deal Of tenacity,
this evidenced by the fact that just as
long as the fishing and hunting in any
locality are good it is next to impossi-
BILE to get him into line with modern
progress. 1t is probably true that If all
the possums, coons and fish Of the
southern states could be eXterminated
it would be much easier to get the col
ored brother on his financial feet.
1t is almost certain that winter wheat
could be grown quite a bit north Of
the present northern line of the winter
wheat territory if some means could
be easily adopted to retain the winter
snowfall on the wheat This could be
done by planting corn six feet apart in
rows, leaving the stalks out all winter
and sowing the wheat In the well cul-
tivated space between the rows. A
| field SO treated would retain the snow
all winter and perfectly. protect the
wheat. 1t is not the freezing which
kills winter wheat, but the alternate
thawing and freezing and drying out
of the ground.
| A western man Is making quite
success of demonstrating wild Can
ada geese. He now has over seventy
and finds that they breed readily under
domestic confinement, but are loath to
| lose the wild instinct which prompts
them to migrate in the spring and fall,
and SO he has to keep their wings
clipped. The Canada goose Is one Of
the most graceful and beautiful of our
wild game birds, the very embodiment
of the artistic in wild life, and Its do
mesticatiou would prove real bene-
At to the country. Its flesh has the
genuine game flavor, and its call is the
most musical Of any of the goose fam
lily.
What is known as dry farming" a
new method Of treating the soil Of the
arid sections SO as to conserve what
rainfall and moisture are available, is
working wonders through large Sec
1 tion ~ tho 1,.oat American daeort