Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-04

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The late planting of corn and poor
seed is a combination which hardly
! ever wins.
| The Dragging about the prospect for
large crop of fruit is very often
hushed later on by the difficulty in
| finding market for it.
| A South Dakota woman who en-
tered some hens in the late Australian
egg laying contest where they took a
number Of first prizes, has no trouble
now in selling her old hens at $40 each.
The cement road culvert Is coming
into use, and it is easily the best mate
rial for this purpose which has yet
been tried. The wooden culvert is go
ing to disappear from the highways Of
the country inside Of ten years.
Fly time and hot weather coupled
with poor pasture are combination
which fixes no end of good cows. Try
a dark, cool barn and plenty of good
green food for the cows from 8 to 5
o'clock during dog days this year, and
see the cows hold up their milk.
A dairyman inquiries whether the pos
sibilities of the dairy COW have been
reached. If his cows are making only
It's pounds of butter year they have
not, but if they are making 400 pounds
they are. There is 225 pound butter
possibility connected with most of our
dairies-that much butter which they
get and don't.
The sharp competition which Is on be-
tween the steam roads and the. trolley
roadsAwhich SO far has resulted in a
serious loss Of traffic and profits to the
steam roads, is evolving a new system
Of transportation in the use of motor cars
to be operated by gasoline power, to be
used on the steam roads and thus Sc
cure SO far as possible for them all the
advantages of the trolley lines.
The new method Of treating the COM
mon earth roads Of the country, as out
lined In these notes lately, is spreading
with marvellous rapidity all over the
northwest The reports following it's
introduction into any locality are all Of
the same tenor-wonderfu improve
ment made in the condition Of the high
ways. The exceeding cheapness and
! simplicity Of the method commend it
to every community where bad earth
roads exist.
The state Of Minnesota has made q
great success Of the manufacture Of
binding Irvine by it's convicts at the
state penitentiary, the Irvine manufac-
tured being sold to the farmers of the
state at practically cost price. effecting
q saving to them which is estimated at
| 100000 for the current season. Now.
if the fax fiber which at present is
produced and goes to waste in the
state can be utilized in place of the i'm
ported fiber from Manila the farmers
of that state will soon have very cheap
| twine
The Americans are getting the NUT
ton eating habit. Heretofore they have
been welded to the sirloin steak, but
now they are catching on to the mer-
it's Of the mutton chop. This change
in taste means much for the future Of
the sheep man, for he can produce
pound Of mutton just as cheaply as
pound Of beef or pork, and in a way
cheaper, for the sheep will make good
meat out of much food which is gen.
orally wasted on the farm, while the
income from the wool may be counted
anyhow as SO much clean profit.
| In a western state where the road
laws were recently changed compelling
the payment Of the road tax in cash
instead Of permitting the farmer to
work out his tax in the old way thee
has been much kicking and protesting,
many resenting the change In the law
as an innovation which deprived them
Of an ancient right However, when
the road boss compelled them to work
they kicked harder than ever over the
fact that hey had to work for ten
hours and put in good hard days
work. They are now willing to pay
their tax without kicking.
An old man died at western poor
house recently, having been an inmate
Of the institution for seventeen years.
The local paper In commenting upca
the old mans death said he was an old
resident Of the place and that during
the years Of his active life had always
been rated as good citizen, but that,
while he had no bad habits, he never
was able to save dollar, and SO when
old age overlook him there was no.
where for him to &C save to the poor
house. We all Of us know of many
just such men, not exactly lazy or in