Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-01

A water pan placed on the lawn will
be largely patronized as well as highly
by the birds that nest
about your home.
The tame pigeon Is one Of the most
profitless propositions on the farm, its
use as pot pie timber seldom serving
to pay for its keep.
Satisfaction and misery are all too
often associated with consciousness
that fellow is better off or less favor
ably situated than his neighbors.
Ones real age is often more accu-
ately indicated by the way he feels
than by the color of his hair. The
mile post index is an unsatisfactory
one.
The condition of fellows bank
account is often quite accurately in
dicated by the manner in which he Gull
tivates his corn and the care he gives
his home premises.
Every man who is occupied in men
tai work owes it to himself to take at
least an hour of vigorous exercise or
manual labor every day. This will serve
to keep him up to tone and will prevent
his strings from swapping or rusting.
In the matter of raising corn crop
soils are much like men in the work
which is assigned them, soil of mod
crate or rather low fertility giving bet
ter results when there are two rather
than when there are three or four
stalks In the hill.
For the gardener or farmer a pro-
tracted dry spell simply means the
giving Of greater measure of time
and care to cultivation, as loose and
mellow condition of soil will quite
largely overcome all but the most ex-
IRENE drought effects.
The arrangements Of the home yard
and buildings should be such that the
odor Of the flower beds will reach the
passerby before that from the pigpen.
While the Poland China can't be beat
as mortgage litter or money raiser,
his place is out behind the barn.
Luther Burbank, who has justly earn
ed the cognomen Wizard" by reason
of the marvellous creations of his gen
Jus in horticultural lines, has this year
planted 1900 varieties of potatoes with
a view to developing type which
shall be more prolific than any yet
known as well as uniform in size and
proof against disease.
There is little excuse, except it be
downright physical inability, for any
family which has access to piece of
ground If they do not raise therefrom
during the summer supply of vegeta-
bles sufficient to carry them through
the winter. Poverty and restitution
both as regards food and raiment are
often but other names for downright
shiftIessness and laziness. Touching
the rewards she bestows Dame Nature
quite closely follows the adage, IF a
man will not work, neither shall he
eat.''
A granger taking whirl on the
board of trade stands about the same
chance of winning out that the fellow
does who bucks the wheel Of fortune
at the county fair, the prospect being
INDUCES will get skinned. The first
institution is maintained for the pur-
pose of picking the lambs, the second
for taking In the suckers, neither be-
ing operated for benevolent purposes.
There are nine chances to one that If
q fellow makes good on corn deal
he will get caught short on pork. Rails
Ing hogs for market Is therefore bet.
ter proposition all around than specu,
lating with the carcass or byproducts
on change.
An even casual observation Of plant
life reveals wonderful adaptation of
the plant to it's condition and degree
Of intelligence difficult to understand
In SO low a form of life. While we
readily note the fact, it Is not SO easy
to explain why the apple tree puts
forth supreme effort to produce fruit
when marked for death by some of its
numerous enemies, why the sunfowe1
keeps its bright face toward the sun
throughout the course of his journey
from the east unto the west, and sc
throughout the whole realm of nature
the same instructive intelligence is
shown, revealing not SO much conscious
manifestation on the part of the crea
ture in plant or animal realm as the
marvellous intelligence and oversight
Of an all wise and all powerful Crea
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