Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-31

II the cocklebur mas not yet got q
foothold on your farm you had better
keep an ego out for IL, for 1t is one 81
the peskiest of western weeds.
There is whole lot more satisfac-
ton in producing a thousand bushels
of corn on twenty acres than on forty
acres, and it can be done just as well
as not.
A man Is likely to have pretty poor
fare If he depends too much upon
Providence. All Biblical references "a
Providence imply whole lot of huy
ting before they become operative.
The best apples are quite apt to be
shy bearers and hence improbable
apples to raise. If one is in the apple
business in commercial way he must
have trees which will bear the fruit
This is the one redeeming feature of
the Ben Davis.
The time is fast coming in this coun.
try when either the Chinaman or the
Jap will be cordially welcomed as u
domestic drudge, as the doer of that
work in American homes which OUR
girls are too high toned or too ignorant
or too lazy to do.
If ablebodied men in this country find
themselves today out of employment it
is because they are either in the wrong
place or do not want to work. We do
not recall time when the demand for
labor was more urgent or the wages
paid more satisfactory.
The west has Just finished one Of the
most successful corn canning seasons
it has ever known. The crop Of sweet
corn was very large and every factory
ran to its full capacity during the sea.
son. The farmers made good money
whether the packers will or not.
Bronze grass and quack grass are
very closely allied in the matter Of
taking complete possession Of the soil
and being extremely difficult to get rid
of when once we'll established. The
bronze grass should never be sown on
any field which Is included in the reg
ular course of rotation. It's place is in
the permanent pasture.
1t Is worth repeating again that the
more a blue grass pasture is tousled
around with a disk and drag in the
early spring the better the pasture will
be. Many such pastures well disked
and dragged in the spring can be made
worth twice as much as pasture by
such treatment. 1t is good idea to
scatter little medium clover seed
over 1t just before the last time over
with the drag.
A raw story Is going the rounds Of
the press to the effect that a western
poultryman Is feeding large number
of ducks and geese on buttermilk at a
creamery, with the result that the birds
are doing finely and that the butter
milk ration converts their naturally
dark colored flesh into meat as white
as that of a chicken. II this were true
it would be valuable suggestion for
our colored brethren who would like to
tighten up their compilations. Some
men are great liars.
A poor man should take care, and
good care, Of his credit. It may not be
a big thing in dollars and cents, but it
is worth more proportionately to him
than it is to his richer neighbor. Buy
ing in small quantities, as the poor
man must necessarily, he should try to
pay cash, for when to the higher
prices, which he has to pay as a small
retail purchaser, there is added the
extra charge he pays when buying on
credit he very often pays nearly two
prices for the necessaries of life.
We noticed several carloads of range
steers on their way to market the other
day. They came from the far west,
and, what was rather remarkable, they
were aged steers, probably four to six
years old. They were big, rawboned
fellows, with great horns on them, just
like the old oxen we used to have, when
a yoke of them hauled nn old iron plow
which would not scour for us when q
boy good many years ago. This type
of beef has almost entirely disappeared
from the markets, the three-year-old
steer being about the extreme in point
of age.
That "other eighty" has quite often
proved poor investment for the west
ern farmer. Possessed with an in
ordinate lust for land, no sooner is the
old farm paid for than it is again
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