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

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Tough as is the elk, pint Of oats
fed to it will kill it.
The Lord has been very good to even
the lazy farmer this year, for the corn,
though not planted until the middle of
June, has all ripened up in fine shape.
The great trouble with that much
doomed wheat country Of the Cana
dian northwest is that there is only
work for the farmer about three
months in the year, and the rest of the
time he has to loaf.
1t seems almost impossible to pre-
serve any of our game animals and
birds or our best food and game fish
by any sort of legislation 1t seems to
be born in the average American that
all wild life belongs to him if he can
get at it, no matter what the law may
be.
1t never pays to foster any sort of
a manufacturing industry which is
under the control of a trust, for just
as soon us it is we'll started the trust
may buy it up and let it remain idle.
This thing has been done in almost
countless instances with oatmeal mills,
paper mills and many other enterprises.
A good deal Of fuss is made over the
turkey as centerpiece for the Thanks
giving dinner when, If people did but
know it, q six-weeks-old sucking pig
stuffed and baked, with small cob in
his mouth, can in point of palatability
and flavor eclipse any old gobbler ever
cooked. Try the pig and see-and do
not forget to put the cob in his mouth.
A case came to our notice lately
where the profit connected with grow
ing hogs was we'll illustrated. Two
shotes were bought in May at SIS each.
They were fed until the LIST of Septem-
Der, the food all bought save the grass.
When sold they brought $50, and, de-
Quoting the cost Of the food, they made
the owner a clean profit of 95 per cent
on his investment.
A friend Of ours told US recently that
he had farmed 100 acres of pretty good
land as grain farm for thirteen years
and that at the end Of that time lie was
no better off than when he commenced,
and that a year ago he put twenty-five
cows on his farm and has made more
clean money than he thought possible
to get out of the farm. Many others
have done this same thing and they all
give the same sort of testimony.
It Is quite an element Of success for
a farmer to adopt some fixed general
plan for the conduct of his farm and
then stick to it. 1t may be the dairy
or beef making, the keeping Of sheep
or the raising Of horses. The work of
the farm should be planned to con-
verge around this principal business,
whatever it may be, and It should not
be abandoned just because it does not
pay for time. 1t is the sticking to it
that wins out every time.
We came across man a few days
ago who has fine bunch of spring
pigs, just FIVE months old, which will
average over 200 pounds each. Ask
ing him how he managed to. secure
such rather remarkable weight for
that age, he said that he MIXED twenty
five cows and the pigs had had all the
separated sweet skim milk they would
eat from the time they were weaned
For want of just this ration many a
man has to keep his pigs until they
are eight months old before he can
make them touch the 200 pound mark. !:
1t Is worth just as much sometimes
to note ones failures as successes.
Now, here, in accordance with sugees-
lions given in these notes with regard
to securing field of alfalfa, we pre-
pared two acres Of land in nice shape
and sowed the seed about the 10th Of
August. The seed terminated nicely
and had just got well into the second
leaf when the pesky grasshoppers
found out 1t was well balanced RAJ
ton for them as well as for the domes-
tic animals on the farm, and in three
days had eaten every stalk of the al
falfa close to the ground, thus COM
pletely running the field. This is dis
couraglng, but we will try it again.
Three wet seasons - that Is, three
years in bringing to the
northwest and west a large volume of
rainfall during the crop season, to the
detriment of the crops in the grain
growing sections of that territory, have
very naturally resulted in giving the
SO called semiarid sections west of 1t
a sufficient rainfall to insure exception