Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-14

The Texas strawberry is now on It's
way north and is being distributed ia
the consumers.
For the first time In many years the
United States is exporting more iron
and steel manufactured products than
1t Is importing.
There is this to be said for the China.
man: He never let's weeds grow in
any crop which he raises, even If he
has to work Sundays to pull them.
A tenant paying high rent for a high
priced farm can hardly make mis-
take If he pulls up for some new coun-
try and secures piece Of land Of his
own
Every woman is entitled to the privi.
lege Of having at least one club con-
nection. The many need 1T for mental
Improvement, and diversion and the
few the benefits of club to keep some
ugly old man inside the traces.
The postoffice department is doing
good service in the matter of securing
better roads by threatening to cancel
the rural mail route serviGA in those
sections where the farmers permit the
ton.
Among the birds which may be class.
ed as masons in the construction Of
their nests are the chimney and barn
swallow the robin and the pewee The
kingfsher is miner and engineer, as
is the bank swallow, while the oriols
is tailor and basketmaker.
The butter producing value Of cow
is more often determined by the num-
Der of pounds of milk she will give In
year than by the butter test Of her
milk. Few cows that give less than
5000 pounds Of milk in year are
worth keeping as dairy cows.
While majority Of the farmers Of
the country have greatly improved the
quality Of their hogs great many Of
them have been slow to appreciate the
value Of the same principle as applied
to their horses and cattle, and scrub
nags and skinny, understood bulls are
still common.
Lean bacon contains as much protein
and about twice as much digestible
fat as other meats, which makes it at
even a higher price per pound more
economical ration Bacon is easily .di-
gested and when combined with other
foods seems to exert favorable action
on the digestive process.
A writer extolling the merits Of the
sheep as a farm animal, among other
things, claimed that contact with sheep
had refining influence. That depends.
The language Of the good deacon who
had just had bout with the old buck
at the head Of the herd was anything
but of refined character.
In all raw materials produced on the
called manufacturer profit connect
ed with the conversion of such raw ma,
terial into some form Of finished prod
uct. Every wise farmer will aim to
secure as much Of this manufacturers
profit for himself as possible.
That northeast hillside which is too
steep to cultivate and not worth very
much for pasture is just the place for
an orchard or a nice grove Of ever4
greens. There are thousands Of just
such orchard sites all along the
streams. rivers and coulees, which for
this purpose are worth more than any
other acres on the farm.
The best remedy we know of for hog
cholera may be summed up thus:
Breed only from well matured parents
and keep corn away from the pigs un-
til they are year old, then finish them
for market. There may be no money
in raising hogs after this rule; still we
believe it would pay better than main
tanning hog cemetery on nearly every
farm in the country.
House hunting is not confined at this
season of the year to residents of our
cities. There is great game Of house
hunting going on among the birds. An
annual scrap takes place on our grounds
between the sparrows and the martins
for the possession of a strip of cornice,
while bluebird and wren fight long and
flercely to see which shall have the
knot hole in the old hickory stub.
The volume of our agricultural ex-
ports has been on steady increase
during the last ten years, and if the
rate of increase continues on a par
with that Of the early months Of 1909
the volume Of the years exports will
pass the billion dollar mark The truth