Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-11-07

Ine burrows which mortgage places
IN the farm are quite often to be found
as much on the face of the farmers
wife as out in the plowcd field.
Sowing and planting good seed is
one thing and sowing and planting it
In well prepared seed bed is another
and almost Of rs much Importance so
far as the crop is concerned.
The hog is naturally very clean an
iinal, considering that he belongs to
the scavenger tribe, when he Is given
half chance. Filthy hog yards are
often primary causes of sick and dead
hogs.
We are Of the opinion that Mr.. Hub
bard is entitled to far greater need
Of recognition for the introduction of
the famous squash which bears bis
name than is Mr.. Benjamin Davis for
his work in horticultural way.
A friend recently drained large
swamp on his farm, and, looking it
over with him, we discovered that he
had thus exposed a four foot bed Of
most excellent peat. AS he has tc buy
all his fuel at high prices, there should
be something right there on his own
farm worth looking up.
|. When man grows crop of grain on
his farm and hauls it OF to market he
has been drawing on the principal of
his capital and not using the interest,
been selling the phosphates. the nj
trates, the potash and the humus of his
soil. which he must later replace if he
would keep his account properly bal
anced.
Young man, If you are in debt and
are eating up today what you expect
to earn and pay for next month try an
oatmeal diet for thirty days and get
square with the world and hereafter
pay as you go. The oatmeal will not
hurt youth fact, will be good thing
for you. A poor man has no business
to run his face for food to eat unless
ho, is a tramp pure and simple.
Five years ago we top grated TWEEN
ty-five Duchess trees one year old with
a dozen varieties Of apples which are
not rated as hardy where we live. The
experiment to date is success, the
trees being very thrifty and just be-
ginning to bear. The weak point Of
tender apple tree lies in its root sys-
TEN and trunk, and we have reasoned
that If these were made entirely hardy
the tenderer varieties might be raised.
Judgments for a matter Of $1,5Oo
against the owner and driver are prov
Ing the most effective brake yet in
vented for the reasonable manage
ment Of the automobile. 1t should be
the prime object of the owners Of these
machines to make friends with the
travelling pubic who from the nature
Of things regard the road devils with
well grounded hatred, and it Is the few
fools with machines who make all the
trouble. 8
The corn crop of the west is big
enough so that no eight hour day will
do for the gathering of it. Help Is
scarce, the ears many and big, much Of
the crop badly down from the action
of the storms, and it is all important
to secure the crop before the SHOWS
fall. 1t looks as If the girls will have
to take hand in this good work, which
will mean for them three feathers in
their winter hat and we'll developed
muscle which will come in handy later
on when they have to teach school or
spank their own kids
The average quarter section farm
should have not less than twenty acres
seeded to clover each year. This will!
keep forty acres Of the farm in clover
all the time and permit the turning
over each year Of twenty acres Of
clover sod for the corn crop, this course
Of treatment absolutely assuring very
large and profitable crops of corn.
Then there should be cows enough to
take care Of the clover as pasture
and eat up the hay which would be
produced. A farm so handled would
not fall to make money for the owner,
and a. lot of it too.
It is too bad that most men do not
realize what pest the Canada thistle
and quack grass are on the farm until
these things have got good start and
1t becomes almost impossible to Grad
icate them. We. know of an eighty acre
farm in Iowa which is now covered
with the thistle, which the neighbors
have seen. develop from just small