Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-14

1t is the money man does not spend
the food lie does not eat and the enc
mics he does not have that make hin
rich, healthy and popular.
The farther north any variety O
corn Is grown the more finty will i
become until we reach the latitude
where none but the purely flint type.
can be grown.
| Some men are finding that 1t pay.
to top dress the corn after it is planted
and up, which can be readily done will
q manure spreader. There are nearly
always spots in every field which arr
greatly benefited by this treatment
Our friend found the same rule work
ed with his flock of sheep as applies tt
all of this crossing business. He
thought he could get better type OF
Cotswold and at the end of three years
found himself with just very ordi.
nary flock Of scrub sheep.
Wherever the plan Of dragging the
| dirt highway after a rain has been fol-
| lowed the past season the most salts
factory results have been obtained. The
smoothing and dragging it after rain
are the two most practical things re-
Gently developed toward insuring i'm
proved highways at little cost.
No cereal, is so cosmopolitan as the
wheat plant. 1t does well in Texas
and at Medicine Hat, in Mexico and
longitude, but few as to soils and sea-
sons and is more Indifferent to the limi-
tations Of a varying rainfall than any
other cereal. 1t only demands virgin
soil, hundred days of growing wealth
er and enough rain to keep its feet wet
Two lots Of range cattle were market
ed this winter in Chicago, each lot Of
the same age. One lot brought $3.25
per hundredweight and the other $4.75.
The stock had the same range in Dako-
ia, and the difference in price is wholly
explained by the fact that one owner
| gave his cattle no feed or care during
the winter and the other cared for and
fed his stock during the period when
the SHOWS covered the native grasses.
This case shows that 1t pays man to
be humane.
| We have always followed the plan,
where there was marked choice in the
doing Of different parts Of given piece
of work, of doing the hardest and worst
part first, applying this as principle
to all the work Of life. We have al
ways found that it paid, though of
course the natural tendency is to do
the easy things first. The hard and the
disagreeable things done and out of
the way, it is always pleasure to fin
tsh up the work. Then the longer the
hard things are put of the harder
they seem to do.
A reader complains that he cannot
use forty cent corn to produce twenty
cent butter. Guess he is right when
he feeds it to his cows in the ear.
/ Corn is mighty poor ration for the
milk cow. 1t may be used to good adj
vantage fed as silage, and well cured
corn fodder is all right, but ear corn
should be sold and bran, oats and clover
hay bought with the proceeds to feed
the COW. More dairymen fall down on
this corn proposition than any other
! one thing, they reasoning that If a
/ COW has all the corn she can use she
ought to give lots Of milk when she
can no more do it than could the He
brews make bricks without straw In
the olden time. To learn how to feed
COW is one Of the very first essentials
in successful dairying.
Whether an incubator can be made a
| profitable thing for the average poultry
| raiser depends upon the kind of incu-
bator and the kind Of person who
runs it. We have known many a case
where the owner Of an incubator really
wanted to kill the maker Of it about the
time when the first Matching came of,
and then we have known others who
thought they were the greatest inven-
ton Of the age. 1t is entirely possible
now to secure incubators which If CIV
en- reasonable care and attention will
I give good results. A great advantage
connected with their use is in being
able to raise early chickens, which for
! every purpose are worth very much
more than late ones. The man of the
house rarely takes kindly to an In
vestment of money in this machine by
his wife, and if, as sometimes hap
pens, she gets only four chicks from
six dozen eggs most men are mean
enough to never forget it and use the
fact as strong point in almost any
| sort of connubial row,