Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-05-24

is not more acceptable to them than is
the sunshine in winter.
a carload Of honey recently brought
$4,000 on the Kansas City MARKET be-
ing sold at 1925 per case.
One way to tell a good COW is to
watch those that the dairyman does not
want to sell, and vice versa, we might
add.
1t takes something more than simple
grit and push to win success. Asso-
ciated with these qualities there must
be intelligence and common sense.
The cabbage worm craze is thing
of the past, and people are now eating
regular rations Of boiled dinners and
sauerkraut without so much as q
thought as to the consequences.
The department Of agriculture has
recently issued bulletin No. PAT rela-
tive to the control of the codling moth
and apple scab. 1t is valuable circu-
lar and should be in the hands Of all
orchardists.
Some idea Of the extent to which
flower culture is carried-the point at
which it amounts to fad-is conveyed
In the news item which states that
$4,000 was recently paid for single
orchid at London flower sale.
In cases where King road drag Is
not available and one has not the time
at his disposal to make one roads may
be greatly improved by a thorough
treatment with common drag just
after rain and while the earth is still
in moist and mellow condition.
One hundred pounds Of wood ashes
contain five pounds of potash and are
particularly valuable as an orchard
fertilizer and as "a renovator; of loose,
sandy soils. Coal ashes, on the other
hand, possess no fertilizing value for
any growing crop and should not be
,sed.
The annual wall from southern peach
growers has been raised relative to an
alleged destruction Of 80 per cent Of
his years crop and the absolute ruin
Vt many orchards. One redeeming fea-
ire of the situation is that, as rule,
e peach growers are pessimistic and
morally more scared than hurt.
AS a general rule, all over the north
country where it has been used the
large tile for the culvert in the high
way is almost a total failure and it's
use for this purpose is being abandon
ed. The trouble is that watersis allow
d to settle on the bottom; then the
'ost comes and cracks the tile and
nders it worthless.
Farmers bulletin No. PA, issued
the department of agriculture, on
food value of different products,
ties that cottage cheese prepared
18th cream compares favorably both
composition and digestibility with
IF and other meats and that on the
N where milk is produced this food
ne of the cheapest that can be used.
A good example is just about as
atching as a bad one, and along agrt-
Iltural lines we think more So No
an can go to work and increase the
Effectiveness of his fields, raise bet
!. crops and stock, fix his home
rounds UP and put into his home
odern improvements but his less en-
arising neighbors are stimulated to
wv his example.
The general introduction Of the farm
parator and the shipment of the
cam to the central creameres have re-
lifted in materially lowering the grade
the butter made owing to the varia-
ion in the age and quality of the
cream. In order to overcome this trou-
bic the creameries have adopted the
plan of grading the cream received,
paying good premium for No. / and
a lesser price for No. 2.
A dairyman who ships his butter to
cream receiving station of a central
-cuu1Sly, WHERE ~ ~ teSCeu, complains
us that he is not given a fair test
nd wants to know what he can do to
emedy it. We know Of but one way,
ind that is to get a Babcock tester and
rest the cream himself before he ships
!. The expense is slight, and with the
machine he can tell at once whether he
getting square deal or not.
he plan of renting land on. shares
3 very old, it being a common practice
.nong the Romans. who exacted one
enth of the crop for the use of the
Ind. When the land in England was
occupied the same plan was followed
A farm of 1000 acres brought the fol-
lowing rent in the eighth century: Ten
asks of honey, II casks of strong ale,
casks of small ale, 300 loaves of
lead. 2 oxen, 10 wedders, 10 geese, 20
mems. 10 chickens, 10 cheeses. cask of
butter,t 5 salmon, 20 pounds of forage