Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-16

bear this In mind.
Precaution both in the matter of dis.
ease epidemics and weed pests is vastly
cheaper than the process of eradica.
ton after either gets foothold.
At the close Of the Spanish-Ameri.
can war over 5000 Americans bought
farms in Cuba. The entire valtie of
the land purchased aggregated over
$5,O0O,OOO
The average boy is a good deal moro
satisfactory proposition in the onion
patch July 2 than he Is July 6, d fact
that we have received most convincing
proof of this summer.
The difference between 1000 and
$4,000 germs to the cubic inch is the
scientific way Of expressing the differ.
ence between clean and dirty milk.
Filth and germs are inseparable and
boon companions.
The man who owns valuable piece
of property and rents it to farm ten
ants year after year without giving it
his personal supervision occasionally
Will find III time that his property Is
depfeeiating iii value and i'll the end
that it will have to be sold at d sac.
rifice.
The stalk worm, to use common
term, is no respecter of plants and
shows no partiality, attacking the pig
weed with the same destructiyeness
that it does the potato vine, saliva or
aster. The worm Is q hard PROPOSE
ton, because there is no method Of
placing a poison III the places where
1t Feeds.
There Is stage Of bodily WEAKNESS
to which nothing contributes SO large
d measure Of comfort and refresh
ment as lying at full length on the
solid ground with arms and feet out
stretched. The very resistance felt in
this solid couch gives sense Of Sc
curity and restfulness that is found
In no other.
4 France has taken pains to perpetuate
>Rer forest reserves by the adoption Of
az law which compels the planting OF
q tree In the place Of every one that is
cut down. In view Of the we'll nigh
wholesale and ruthless destruction Of
the magnificent forest reserves III this
country plan similar to that followed
Ii France might we'll be adopted.
A man in the neighborhood has been
filling In and grading his lawn. After
the rich, fertile top dressing had been
added and smoothed down 1t was COW
cred with blue grass clippings which
had already gone to seed. He said that
he got better results in this way than
could be obtained by sowing the seed
in the ordinary manner.
It Is noticeable fact that the
farmers wives and daughters do most
of the trading these days. On recent
Saturday 1t was observed that the
streets Of thriving western town
were almost lined with light buggies
and vehicles, whereas, as d rule those
same streets were banked up with
heavy farm wagons. The farmers all
over the country are getting In their
heavy work these days.
A western New York friend writes
that no flowers which he had the past
spring were source of greater pleasure
to him than bed of English violets
several rods square in his orchard,
which We're planted years ago by pre-
vious tenant Of the place. In addition
to floral fragrance and beauty in the
spring they will also be source Of
delight during October and November.
Start a bed, for they are hardy, easily
cared for and pay for their keep.
There's world Of agricultural pros
perity and happiness involved in the
decision Of the man who Is satisfied
with the careful and competent work.
Ing Of eighty acres of land and for
whom the tax receipts and help bill In
volved in skinning over 600 acres have
no attraction. This matter of content
ment, of being satisfied with a reason
able worldly possession, is more i'm
portant factor in contributing to the
dignity and real worth of living than
any other material consideration Of
which we know.
Whenever it is possible for the young
woman to do SO she should supplement
her general or cultural education with
a course in domestic science While
there are in many such courses good
many culinary tufts and frills and non
essentials, yet she will acquire there In
six months a larger fund Of informa-
ton touching the science and funda-
mental facts of cooking than she could
stumble on to by herself in the course
of two or three years. If she has dis
corning mind, and every prospective
housewife should have this, she will be
able to separate the chaff from the
wheat in the course OF domestic science
mentioned, making use of that which Ia