Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-23

A turkey today is worth as much
money as was sheep few years ago.
1t may be noted here that the King
drag makes an excellent snowplow
and can be used to great advantage for
this purpose.
Just for fertilizing purposes the
mammoth clover is the best. Its root
system is larger, and it will afford a
heavier crop to plow under to supply
humus to the soil.
A few women can make good crust
for custard or pumpkin pie which is
palatable and digestible, but many
cannot. These last should make the
crust and bake it before putting in the
filing.
The fact seems to be established be.
yond controversy that the corn crop
nine years out of ten will be better
one and mature at least ten days EARL.
er If planted on fall blowing rather
than on spring blowing
The central west is in a general way
not good fruit section. Extremes Of
temperature often defeat the best ef-
forts of the horticulturist. If one
would go where climatic conditions arc
kind and favorable he must seek the
Pacific coast.
A German farmer living in the west
gets thousand dollar draft for every
child born in his family from his rich
father in the old country. 1t looks as
though he were trying to bankrupt the
old man, for he has had twelve remit
tances in fifteen years.
The bee men furnish the best Of sci.
entific testimony that such product
rs artificial comb honey is an impossi.
bility, the bee alone possessing the
power to cap the cells. The adulter-
ated honey could be made, the artificial
comb can be made, but the combina-
l1OA Cdl14OI Dc ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
The up to date cook will learn how
best to prepare the low priced cuts of
meat. Ten pounds Of beef can be
bought for 80 cents or ten pounds can
be bought for $1.50, and the fifty cent
lot Of meat will contain just as much
nutrition and may be made just as pal
atable if the cook only knows beans,
but most cooks don't
There are 1915, $50 acres Of alfalfa
growing in the five states Of Colorado,
Utah, California, Idaho and Washing
ton, and the acreage is increasing
greatly each year. 1t is good for four
crops year in all these states and in
some Of them for six. In connection
with the irrigation projects it is prov
ing the most valuable Of any crop
which can be raised.
1t is just as true today as it ever
was that the safest and most honor
able way for man to secure COM
petence is to do 1t little by little, tax
ing lifetime for the work. The haste
to be rich and make money fast is the
economic curse Of America today. Ev-
cry man wants to draw prize In the
business lottery and Is seldom content
with small Savings and safe invest
ments.
North Of latitude As degrees all ten
der thfngs-roses, raspberries, black
berries and the nke-need to be well
protected with an earth covering In
order to insure their living through the
severe winters. While we have a few
varieties Of the rose and raspberry
which will pull through occasionally,
they are still not of the choice sorts,
and even these are benefited by prop
er winter protection.
The many corn shows where men ex-
hibit corn-ten ears or more-in COM
petition for premiums reveal the fact
that many men have very crude ideas
of what good corn really is. The big
gest ears Of corn are by no means the
best ears Of corn any more than the
biggest horse is the best horse, and yet
three-fourths Of our corn raisers have
the idea that size is the principal thing
in good ear Of corn. These are be-
ing educated to a more correct and bet
ter ideal of the good ear of corn as q
result Of these corn exhibits.
It is good thing to make definite
plans for the farm work of the year,
decide how the crop shall be distrib-
uted and rotated, how much stock shall
be kept and of what kind; see If little
tile draining will not reclaim an acre
or two Of waste land. plan to seed
some Of the wet spots down which can
not be drained and get them into alsike