Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-28

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There are portions Of Colorado in
which the ravages of the potato worm
amount to as high as per cent of the
entire crop raised.
In 1890 the leather and leather manu-
features Of the United States were
valued at $12,275, 40; In 1905 the total
for the same items was $3S,946,4 22.
There are many cases where the hlr-
ing of outside help for extra work in
the house will prove vastly more eco
nomical than the services Of physi.
clan following spell of overwork. !.
Every spot in the garden that Is
available may much more probably
grow some useful vegetable than
corresponding quantity Of weeds. Each
foot Of land should pay Its share Of
the taxes.
Cabbage growers along the Missis-
sippi river are concerned over the ap-
pearance Of cabbage lice, which are
doing much damage and are thought
to have been imported in shipments of
cabbage from the south.
The man who has a wife and fam
lily and who refuses to take the home
paper during the busy season because
he hasn't time to read it has an ex-
tremely warped and selfish disposition
and needs making over badly.
There would seem to be considerable
Justice in the proposal of the granger
of central state who holds that mas
much as owners Of automobiles share
equally with the farmer in the benefit
Of good highways they should be asked
to pay a portion Of the tax levied to
keep the road in repair.
Experiments which have been made
show that the runts in a drove Of hogs
do vastly better when kept in sepa-
rate pen, where they can have better
chance at the trough. When kept with
larger and more vigorous pigs they are
chased from pillar to post and have
little chance to get the food they need.
| While there Is no trait that should
be more generously exercised or whose
| effects are more wholesome or salu
tary than charity. it is badly prostitut
ed when its exercise affords a cloak
or shield for preventable rascalfty
There is the charity which uplifts and
| yet another which may tend to de
grade.
Perhaps there is no more charming
instance of gratitude than that to be
observed in the return which we re
ceive from the flowers to which we de
vote our care. A bed Of roses in oul
yard furnishes a daily thank Offering
| of beauty and fragrance, and though
Its messengers are mute they teach .
helpful lesson Of purity and unselfish
ness.
A section farm within a few mile
of the writer's home has an amount O
quack grass growing on it that woul
cover forty acres If it We're COLLECTED
on one patch. The passerby does no
need to. be told that this deplorabl
state Of affairs is the natural out
growth of long years Of neglect an
slipshod farming encouraged by yea
to year system of renting. Under thi
the landlord squeezes the renter, tn
renter skins the landlord, with the re
suit that there is very real agrlcu
tural devil to pay in the shape of be
!, fouled land and depleted soil fertility.
When once the start has been mad
1t is just as easy to raise thoroughbre
: as dunghill or scrub fowls, while tt
y satisfaction which comes from the raj
S ing of flock Of uniform color and siz
3 iY no mean consideration. The tho
0 oughbred fowls will usually lay as we
! as the scrubs and as rule bring
: better price when put on the marke
both on account of size and appearance
We know Of nearby farm which
: Is pleasure to pass by, simply becau'
= there are raised there each year fro
, $50 to $50 full blooded light Brahma
, The statement made would be as trl
v of any other variety Of chickens.
While it occupies relatively a We
humble place in the economy of natur
there is probably no one of her ere
lures that fulfills more useful nj
sion or in greater measure earns b
J. way than the common toad. That
e. performs great service for the farl
ID err and gardener Is shown from the Il
% lowing daily bill of fare: Caterpillar
o. cutworms, beetles, sow bugs, snai
4 grassheppers, moths, wireworms al
{. potato bugs, all of which damage t
re farmers crops to serious degrt
e One who has made close study of t
N matter found In the stomach of 0
p toad seventy seven thousand legG
y, worms, in another thirty-seven tie
II caterpillars. in a third sixty-five gyp
T. moths ond in q fourth fifty-five orr