Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-13

California is noted for its hospitality,
and this is all right for the state large.
ly lives of It's visitors.
Any education Is lamentably defec.
tive which makes the young man or wo-
man look with contempt on good, hon
est hard work.
The demand for Christmas trees Is
becoming serious menace to the re-
foresting Of much territory where it is
a shame to destroy the young trees.
Where man has dairy Of ten cows
1t will pay him well to buy a separator.
The machine will pay for itself with
that number Of cows in little over a
year.
Better relations are being established
between the horse and the automobile.
The horse no longer wants to run away
and tear everything to pieces when he
sees one.
The genuine Swiss cheese is to be
made in this country, a colony of Swiss
farmers In Missouri having taken up
the manufacture Of this popular brand
Of the cheese.
One funny phase Of western agricul-
ture consists in the leasing Of musk
rat marshes by the owners and the
mortgaging Of the frog crop, things
which are actually done in some Of the
wet sections Of the northwest.
A 1000 pound horse sold in Chicago
recently for $500. There is pointer
here for horse raisers. The market
always wants the large horse at good
figure. There were lot Of 1000 pound
horses sold the. same day for SIS or
less.
Some of the SO called most highly civ.
ilized people Of Europe might well learn
something from the Japanese in the
matter of personal cleanliness. The
Jap battles often and keeps clean, while
some Of the people who rate him as
heather do not battle once year.
The American people have eaten
more mutton the past year than ever
before and are eating up their sheep
faster than they can breed them. This
is good thing in way, for there is
no more profitable animal to keep on
the farm than the sheep when present
prices for wool and mutton prevail.
II never done before, at least next
spring try the experiment of SO clean.
ing all seed grain that none but the
best and most perfect kernels shall be
used for seed. No matter If you can
get only twenty bushels out Of hun.
dred bushels of this sort Of seed, it will
prove to be the biggest paying job
which you will do during the whole
year.
A field of corn which gave last year
an authenticated yield Of LAT bushels
per acre was grown thus: An old blue
grass pasture was turned over in Sep
TENDER, 1904. The field was thoroughly
disked and narrowed to get the seed
bed in the very best condition. The
corn was then planted In rows two
feet apart, the kernels six inches apart
In, the row. The cultivation was done
with single horse cultvator.
A, few years ago twas regarded a.
something rather remarkable for
man to husk 100 bushels Of corn in one
day. During the past three years this
record has been so frequently beaten
that. 100 bushels is regarded as only
men are beating this record, two young
women in Iowa having exceeded 40
bushels, one of whom got married as
soon as the corn was gathered, and the
other obtained nice piano for her
very extraordinary work, and possibly
the prize drawn by the last one was
the better, for she will at least know
where 1t is nights.
A man who had lived on western
farm for forty years and who was q
lover of trees was very proud Of an
elm which he had planted when the
country was new in front of his house
near the public highway. Circum-
stances compelled him recently to sell
the farm, and one may judge Of his
feelings when the very first thing
which the new owner, a foreigner, did
was to go at this beautiful tree with
an ak and fell it to the ground. He
felt, no doubt, as Tennyson express.
ed it.,
Oh. would that my tongue could utter
Tho thoughts that arise in me!
, The department Of agriculture could
do no more practical and useful thing
right now than to issue q bulletin de-