Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-16

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When strawberries will net the grow
er cents box they are profitable
crop to raise.
Wherever are located the Danes
there will be found about the best type
Of agriculture which the country can
show up.
The west Is OVERRIDING the corn. can
merry business. We know Of one large
cannery which has all of its last years
pack on hand, for which it can get no
offer.
The law Of water Is that It will not
stay In any place if it can possibly get
away. A full understanding of this
law. as applied to roads is Of great ben
eft.
We are asked whether frost hurts
corn in the spring just after it is up.
Frost always hurts corn at any time of
its growth, but it is better to have it
catch the frost in May than in Septem.
Der.
It Is beautiful arrangement that
men will put up with almost any sort
Of cooking during the first year of
their married life. Later it begins to
tell on them, and they either take to
drink or dyspepsia.
After the Danish farmer has paid
$50 fine for putting into his co-opera.
tive market single bad egg he there.
after becomes like Caesars wife
"above suspicion" Something Of this
kind is needed III this country.
An Englishman recently arrived in
the corn growing section Of this coun-
try remarked to resident: II don't
understand about this bloomin' stuff
you call corn. Please tell me, when the
little bush grows out Of the side of it
Is it ripe?'
The colored farmer Of the south with
good healthy bank account is rapidly
Offering solution Of part OF the vex.
ed race problem in that section. It is
said that when Brudder Jones can draw
his, check in four figures and have II
honored at the local bank he is never
after referred to as "Nigger JONES'"
A partial system Of drainage for 8
sloughy section Of the west has result
ed in stocking many Of the remaining
ponds and .sloughs with fish, the sup.
position being that the big ditch, hav.
ing river connection, tempted the fish
away from the river and they have
found their way inland through the
tile drains.
It is a good time just now to go slow
on buying sheep. They are high priced
and by the time you get your flock go
ing they may be improbable. We have
known more than one flock Of five dol,
lar ewes sold for dollar head inside
of two years after buying them. The
right time to buy sheep is when every
man who has them wants to give them
away.
The railways Of the country are vital.
ly interested in the matter Of improved
highways Bad roads disturb the even
on6 rnrr,oI 80 Fo,r,, o,1,o,
to market, piling up acres Of empty
cars in the yards during q period of
bad roads and overtaxing the carrying
capacity Of the roads at others. Bad
roads also tend to cause marked fuc-
tuations In the market value Of farm
products.
The men who own automobiles are
as much interested in the country road
as any class. We incline to the belief
that it would be the right thing to
place good tax on all such machines
and devote the proceeds exclusively t.
the improvements Of the roads. Only
rarely are the country roads Of the
west in such shape as to permit OF
much pleasure using them in auto
travel. What with mudholes, pitch
holes, ruts, roughness. tour across
country is robbed of nearly all pleasure
We stood by pasture fence few
days since which lnclosed lot II
which were quietly feeding ten head Of
American buffalo, huge, ungainly
brutes, the last Of their race. The
were stupid, listless, Indifferent, living
under protest, as it were, like their ole
! enemies, the Indian and the wolf, GU
Of place away from home under civi
lied conditions. The chances are tina
in spite Of every effort man can make
the buffalo will become extinct inside
Of fifty years. He belongs to the past
to the wild.
It seems like good deal Of work fol
a farmer to have to treat his seed pota
toes with corrosive sublimate to pre-
vent rot, his seed oats with formali1
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