Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-18

The ordinary community in the corn
belt does not raise kids enough to tend
q beet crop.
That arrangement of a fellows work
is wrong which only allows him to
have on his best toys for his wedding
md his funeral.
The early August blowing Of the
stubble is one of the simplest and cas-
lest ways of killing weeds in the corn
field next May and June.
More than one mother has bowed
her head in meek submission at the
loss Of dear babe, viewing it as the
hand of Providence, when death was
due solely to sour nursery bottle.
There's more than one granger that Is
this year kicking himself because he
snapped the easy job of riding Gull
tivator for the knee sore back breaking
job Of tending patch of sugar beets.
That land Is too sparsely settled
which has to import laborers to assist
In the harvesting Of it's crops condi-
ton, however, which has existed
throughout a large portion of the wheat
belt this season.
The Iowa pure food law recently
passed makes it an offense punishable
by heavy fine to use spoiled cream
in the manufacture of butter. 1t is
case where necessity Is going to be the
mother of cleanliness.
1t Is altogether too often the case
that the horse that is given the least
protection from fly pests suffers most
from undertaking and overgadding,
an exemplification in the animal world
of the truth that "to him that hath
shall be given"
We ran across an amusing case the
other day of rupture between neigh
bors which was the result of the one,
milkman, selling milk to the other,
from whom be had lately purchased a
family COW. What seemed good enough
to sell did not seem rich enough for
home consumption.
Other things being equal the spring
planted strawberry bed is always bet
ter than the fall, but quite satisfactory
results can be obtained with the Au-
gust planted bed if the ground is put
In good shape and there is sufficient
rain, or hydrant water can be furnish
ed while the bed is getting rooted.
Before this item appears in print the
new force of officials provided by the
federal meat inspection law will be
at work. 1t comprises 400 inspectors
and so veterinarians, who are chosen
by competitive examinations and must
have had at least one years experience
in slaughtering, curing or canning
meats, q practical acquaintance with
| the subjects dealt with being the chief
| requirement.
That is a level headed farmer, whose
| finances will Justify it, who has learned
| the lesson of taking life's comforts as
he goes along to the point Of buying a
two seated automobile and taking his
family to town to attend church Oh
Sunday. 1t not only provides a treat
for the wife and children and enables
the horses to take needed rest, but
adds to the opinion which he holds OF
himself as social and economic factor
The G. NJ. and st. P. railroad is this
year experimenting with new plan
for the destruction of grass and weeds
along its right of way. 1t consists OF
a weed burner carrying long kero
sene torch which extends the entire
| distance between the rails and to the
grass line on either side. If the device
proves effective it will accomplish the
work that is now attended to by vast
army Of section men the country over
A mellow and golden old age, al
estate which we all prize and love an6
hope some day to attain unto, Is merely
the harvest time of lifelong cheerful
ness, kindness and sympathy. While
these elements are to an extent inner
ent in the soil Of human nature-tem
permanent and dispositien-the harves
blessing from them can be greatly in
creased by painstaking care and cult
| voffnn a limo oP 4ho% ;1 %
once inspiring and accompanied b,
most satisfying results.
| The postofice department has lately
brought to earth in an Illinois town {
batch Of grafters who were getting
i fat of the sale of dope at dollar .
bottle which, they claimed, would pro