Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-06

Some Of tho Colorado apple orchards
have returned their owners as much as
$500 per aero the past season.
It is very remarkable how many pedi.
greed cattle get killed by the cars
Scrubs rarely ever stray on to the
tracks.
Oklahoma land Of good quality would
be cheap at $T5 an acre If used for
cotton production at anything like pres.
ent prices for the staple.
The falls of the Zambezi river, in AT.
RIGA, known as the Victoria falls, would
IL utilized for the generation Of power
develop power equal to that OF 85,.
100000 horses.
The south is fast becoming vast
hotbed and winter garden for the north
country. As result we are getting
both vegetables and fruits in season
and out Of season.
We know of one man who always
feels good at this time Of the year, and
oil because he makes it rule to pay all
his debts at this time and start the new
year owing not any man.
1t takes the first thirty bushels Of
corn produced on an acre Of land to
pay cost of production. So If you have
not raised over twenty-five bushels to
the acre you can tell Just what Is the
matter with you.
Europe produced 2,150,O00 tons more
beet sugar last year than ever before.
When we get the Philippine islanders
at work on sugar we will be virtually
Independent of any foreign country for
our sugar supply.
One-half bale of cotton to the acre is
to the southern farmer just about what
forty bushels Of corn to the acre are to
the northern farmer. A few cotton
growers get one bale to the acre, which
corresponds to the few men In the
north who raise eighty bushels Of corn
to the acre.
In Iowa, the great corn state, the in.
terest taken by the farm boys In the
improvement of the crop is one Of the
most helpful agencies at work toward
this end. The enthusiasm of these boys
Is infectious, and many man is learn.
ing how to grow corn from his twelve.
yearold boy.
Western farmers have been altogeth.
er too much interested in teams of
draft horses exhibited at the various
state fairs purely for advertising pur.
poses by lot of old brewers. A fine
horse never appears to greater disad-
vantage than when he Is hauling beer
wagon or. a man when he is carrying q
load Of the stuff.
The farm hand wanted today is not
so much seller of crude muscle as
one trained in the handling OF machin
cry and stock More and more is the
machine being made to do the work CT
the man on the farm, and the man who
understands how to handle machinery
to the best advantage is the man who
is wanted on the farms Of the country.
The temptdt lion with the average mea1
seller is SO great to make his sausage
meat up Of all sorts Of scraps and odds
and ends in our larger towns it Is prac
tically impossible to buy pound o.
good sausage meat for love or money
1t seems strange that this should be 81
| when there is an almost unlimited de
mand for a fine article Of sausage a
big prices.
It is said that 5000, 600 Of the peopA
of England are out Of employment, al
on the ragged edge of poverty ant
many Of them half starved. Could the.
only be sent to the United States Their,
would be work and food in plenty 70
all. The women are wanted as domes
tic help, the men as laborers on farm
and in factory and mine. Rich mel
with money to throw to the dogs nigh
better turn their philanthropy In thi
direction than to the establishment o
libraries and colleges.
We think that one reason why ez
perimental plats of alfalfa in the state
east Of the Missouri river so often fai
turning yellow and dying out, is tina
the soil where sown is deficient in nj
trogen and the plant, being gros
user Of nitrogen, perishes for lack o
| ii, while, like q calf, If it can be prop
erly and adequately fed until it ca,
take care Of itself by getting it's ow,
nitrogen appropriatins machinery int
operation, It would become an ear
matter to secure held Of this valus
Bile legums. Assuming this to be