Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-27

Few people realize that one quart OF
milk has the same nutritiye value as
three-fourths of a pound OF steak.
Many do not use milk as food, but Us
| a drink.
This Is the time when you want to
get things snugged UP for winter. All
water pipes used to convey water dur
Ing the winter should be we'll covered
before the first cold blast comes on.
When bees are kept for honey or 1er
work in the orchard they become as
property, and the owner Is responsible
for any damage done by them. This is
necessary for the protection of the bees
as well as the neighbors.
Out in Arizona, where Irrigation sup
plants rainfall, good ten acre farm is
worth one ten times that size farther
east, and there Is just about one-tenth
as much civilization out there too. We
rarely find all the good things in one
place.
Little trouble is experienced in keep
ing the boy on the farm who wins SUBJ
stantial prizes in corn growing con-
tests. The success he attains in such
contests is all the evidence that is need
ed to prove that he is interested in ag-
riculture, and this, after all, is the hey
to the situation.
Some time before 1t freezes up q SUD-
ply Of clean sand should be put in the
cellar in which to pack the carrots,
turnips and other root crops of the
garden. Stored in this way they will
keep crisp and fresh for months and
come out in almost as good condition
as If taken from the garden.
If fish which contain too large a per
cent Of oil. such as whitefsh, lake
trout, ETC., an Objectionable feature to
some, are baked on piece of clean
pine board, much of the oil will be alb
sorbed In cooking, while the woody
favor which the fish will absorb from
the pine will give it a desirable taste.
AS rule, 1t is inadyisable to try to
raise type of corn in the northern
part Of the corn belt which one has to
reach above his chest to husk. Where
the stalks bear their ears higher than
this 1t not only causes Inconvenience in
husking, but indicates likelihood that
such corn does not mature sufficiently
early to escape the frost
While the statement Of the scientist
is to the effect that frosts have nothing
to do with the coloring Of the autumn
leaves, 1t was very noticeable on the
22d day of September that, with no
frost to date, every bush and tree still
wore its June-time dress of dark green.
While the leaf coloring is doubtless
due to chemical changes In the leaf it.
self, may it not be that frosts tend to
superinduce these conditions?
Fowls as well as horses and cattle
need exercise. One way to give them
this Is to make them do little scratch
Ing for living in other words, don't
place their food too conveniently or
pay too much attention to them. They
seem to know that they have supper
time, and they stand around and wait
instead of getting out and doing q lit
tie scratching on their own account.
Otherwise they get dumpy and fail to
maintain a good healthy condition.
There is much to be commended in
the plan followed by a good many
farmers in allowing the good wife to
have for her own all the money made
from the chickens and turkeys which
may be raised ON the farm. If she
should get every cent Of 1t, she would
be only getting what she has in nine
cases out Of ten earned, but yet
great deal less than she would be en-
titled to under an equitable division
Of the proceeds derived from the man
agement of the farm.
In view of the fact that oat straw
IL cut at the proper time and properly
stacked has fodder value of about
one-third that Of good timothy hay 1t is
at once apparent that the careless meth
cd which is followed by many farmers
In stacking the straw and the subse-
quent Indifferent way of utilizing 1t
involve definite and considerable
loss In the case mentioned, as with
some other products Of the farm, the
best use can be got from them only
when stock is kept on the farm in gen
erous quantities.
Three things are to be considered in
permitting the Immigrant to come into
our country. They are physique, desti-
nation and the presence or absence OF
disease. Those OF weak constitutions
flock to the large cities, where they
herd together IN tfIe tenement not only