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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
SMALL HINTS ON FARM WORK.

Provide plenty of wood ashes and
salt for your pigs.
He who feeds his land well will be
fed.
Beauty is as beauty Does" applies
to home surroundings as well as peo-
pie.
Limbs that are diseased on trees are
best removed as soon as discovered,
regardless of the season or age of the
trees.
Every drop of liquid manure saved
on the farm is worth an ear of corn.
If concentrated food is purchased to
help out, the skinned milk fed to
hogs or pigs will pay for the purchase
Of such feeds.
When you hear the farmer say.
Gust my luck" in nine case out OF
ten if he were truthful he would ex-
claim, "just my laziness," or ''just my
|inattention.'
To find the number of cords there
ARE in pile of wood, multiply the
length by the width and height and
divide by 1913.
The first year of the colts life Is i'm
portant. Keep him growing the first
year, keep him growing the second
year, keep him growing the third year
and keep him growing the fourth year,
and If he is to be marketed have him
fat, for fat will often cover up q null
Ititude of defects.
If properly managed, an acre Will
supply through the silo ample feed for
a COW for one year.
Abundant food within easy reach is
what plants require in order to make
their best growth
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
FENCE RAIL PHILOSOPHY.

Good farming is impossible without
good teams.
The producer cannot control the
price. but should aim to produce
cheaper.
Study to do the greatest amount Of
work with the least outlay of labor.
The productiyeness and profitable
ness of the farmers business depends
ment.
It is the unproductive ings-things
that are neither growing nor pro-
ducing-that keep a farmer down.
One reason why animal husbandry
is profitable, cropping Is the saving in
|transportations when concentrated
products are marketed.
A system of farming which gives
poor crops is exhaustive and one
which give good crops builds UP the
farm.
A crop Of clover will put more veg
etable matter collected from sources
where the common plants cannot PEN
citrate than any other plant.
The feeding of grain to sheep will
make their wool grow faster and more
dense, and consequently q heavier
fleece will be the result.
Stable manure is the most practical
fertilizer known. for an application
of it means the adding of both the ele-
ments of fertility and humus.
With almost any crop or stock. be-
cause there is season Of unproflt-
ableness. is no reason why all the flu
ture will be the same.
The man who never held to any
business is nearly always the one to
invest when prices are high and sell
out when prices are low.
The farm products. must be put in
the form in which they will command
the most money and yet leave the
farm in the most productive condi-
| ton.
The best system of farming is that
which gives the largest returns for the
labor and capital invested and still
leaves the soil in condition to produce
maximum crops.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
NOTES OF THE HOG LOT.

When fed dry, shelled corn is more
economical than corn meal to feed
to fattening hogs.
To secure the best results, care
should be taken to feed the hogs ac-
cording to age, conditions and time of
marketing.
When an all-corn ration is fed to
growing pigs the muscles of the body
do not develop to their normal size.
Desirable breeding qualities in a
herd are fixed by long line of care
full selection and breeding.
The swine breeder is responsible not
only for the conditions he provides,
but for those he permits.
The successful swine raiser is the
practical one. He thinks out his work
and then works out his thoughts.
One man says he knows there is
money in hogs" because he put some
there. Not how to put money into
hogs, but how to get money from
hogs is more important.
See that the fattening hogs are pro-
tected from cold winds and rain. IT
requires additional corn to keep the
animal comfortable if exposed to in
clement weather.
The swine breeder of today cares
very little for theories that cannot be
practically applied. This is equally
true with those following other Lines
of farming.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27

so much wire. How hungry they
seemed.
1t is said to be common thing for
people living along the gulf coast to
feed oysters to their ferns and palms
This would be somewhat expensive
for us poor inland people, but they fire.
quently buy load of shell fish as we
buy coal, simply dumping them in a
pile in the back yard and keeping
them alive by occasional dousing with
salt water.
Watering the plants with unsalted
beat tea has also been successfully
tried by my neighbour.
Hearing these things one involun-
tarilv e--n'-''''s, How little we know
of our house-mates. the fern family
Who would have dreamed that they
too, have carnivorous tastes. Could
they have caught it dwelling so near
our dining tables ?''-I. A. c.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
WHY THE SEPARATOR PAYS
Some Men Say 1t Will Add Ten Dollars
Profit Yearly to Every Cow.
(By C. B. Benjamin

PTHE manufacturers Of the sepa-
y rator claim for it clear profit
of $40 per COW per year, and to
prove this claim in the value of hand
separator on the farm, let us figure a
little.
An average dairy COW should give
165 pounds of butter in year by the
old process, gravity system of cream
gathering, which should bring 1 s cents
per pound, or $29.7O. With the CEN
trifugal separator, the same COW will
give 200 pounds butter, worth 20 cents,
or $40, difference of 5000. The
question may arise: Why the differ
ence In the selling price of butter ?
We can only answer from personal
experience, that the separator cream
makes better quality of butter from
the fact that the cream being Of the
same consistency ripens more evenly;
there is much less milk in 1t than in
the skinned cream; the cream Is
taken from the milk while it is in a
perfectly fresh and sweet condition,
no danger of its becoming sour or
taking on so many Objectionable odors
as it might when standing twelve or
twenty-four hours before being skim
med.
Ten cows in herd making a profit
of 5000 per COW per year, would
make profit of S103, or the cost of a
separator made good in one year with
a ten-cow dairy.
You may ask if it is not more work
to run separator than to skim milk ?
Our answer Is, the hand separator
places the work where 1t belongs and
makes tighter the work for the aver
age farmers wife, because the men
are expected to do the separating and
care for the skim milk, while fresh
and warm This by-product - skim
milk - is a very important factor in
the real value of a separator on the
farm. When properly fed, which is
Immediately after being separated, still
warm with the animal heat, it is of the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS.

In poultry keeping, the secret is
making the fowls comfortable during
all seasons Of the year. In nine cases
out of ten failure is due to neglect on
the part of the caretakers. For in
stance. how many neglect giving their
fowls sufficient water? Some have no
regular hours for feeding them and
keep them starving for hours in the
morning. especially If the weather is
cold and stormy, yet they expect the
hens to lay the same as if they were
well cared for.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
POULTRY AS A BUSINESS.

Is there progress in poultry keep
ing? Read the market reports. Look
at the amount of poultry advertising
done today as compared with five years
ago. How did the winter prices Of
eggs in the last five years of the nine
teenth century compare with those Of
the first five years of this? Thou
sands of people are today making a
comfortable living and many have be-
come Independent by raising poultry
and eggs for the market 1t has been
proven by experiments that it costs
no more to produce pound of poultry
than it does to produce pound of
pork or beef, yet poultry is always
worth more per pound than any other
meat and sells just as readily.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
THESE HINTS MAY HELP.

Keep the weeds from securing a
start by constant, thorough cultivation.
The best method OF paying for the
farm is to make 1t productive.
Labor is never spent in vain when
it leads to the accomplishment of good
results.
To make sheep pay. keep the best
sheep obtainable and give them the
best keep possible.
If by bad management you now gel
behind with your work. 1t will crowd
you all summer.
Much and thorough cultivation will
often make up to some extent the lack
of fertility In the soil.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
HELPS CLOVER
New York Man Gives Results of Its
Use on New England Soil.

New York Man Gives Results OF Its
Use on New England Soil.
&C. r. Barber, New York;
| TNHERE will probably always be
| j some politicians who will coin
eide with the maxim in rflymG
which says:
For forms of government let fools
contest:
That which is best administered Il
best
And so in several Of the departments
Of agricultural industry there will
never apparently, be absolute unity
In methods.
Some farmers will always chill up
potatoes regardless of the lay Of ths
land and the quality Of the soil. Some
farmers will plant in the old OF the
moon some in the new, and some
without any regard to either.
Some will maintain fertility of soil
on cultivated fields by growing clover.
while others Will use phosphate cost
ing about $25 a ton. and speaking OF
phosphate, the query is being agitated
among our farmers as to how much
the phosphate and some other of our
present commercial fertilizers, are
SoAAPobSd VI SypSuHt (tdnu pldStSIJs
which has the quality Of weight If not
of enrichment.
The time for the general use Of
gypsum on both meadows and cu1ti-
ated lands seems to have greatly d.
mtnished in these days Of progressive
farming, and yet there, are changes.
supposed to be In behalf Of better
conditions, that are not progressive.
On the door yard Of an abandoned
New England homestead where dwarfed
June grass had become thickened
mat, sowed in early spring time on a
strip Of the ground about two rods
long and three feet wide a liberal
amount of finely ground Nova Scotia
gypsum. The result was a rank
growth Of red clover. where for long
years before not a leaf Of clover Of
any kind had been seen.
| On the eastern shore Of cayuga lake.
in New York. where only few years
! ago thousands Of tons Of gypsum were
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
NEVER TOUCHED THE FARMER
(W. r. CELEBRITY


While the Wall street spectators
were recently cutting high jinks-and
low ones ones too-and vast fortunes
were being lost in a day. the farmers
of the country were unaffected in the
slightest degree. The man who keeps
out of debt and does mot sell some
thing he hasn't got. need have no fear
of Wall street panics. These up
heavels in wild finance never cause
the cows to give less milk. the hens to
lay fewer eggs, or the trees to bear
less fruit
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
CITY FOLKS PAY WE'LL.

The supply of good poultry has
never yet equaled the demand. City
1olks prefer poultry products direct
from the farm and will pay any price
you ask for them: If you are near
town, become acquainted with those
VINO use poultry products and try to
supply their wants. There will be
money in your pocket for such trade.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
THE SHEEP BIT HIM.

An Indiana man who had spent a
lively half day in the vicinity of a
blind pig turned up at the doctor
off1ce late that night with several badly
assorted cuts and gashes in his face.
Asked how he cot them, he declared
that as he was crossing a farmers
meadow on his way home he was set
upon by q shaan and badly bitten.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
NO SOFT SNAPS FOR HER.

A Wisconsin hen that laid sos eggs
in four successive years roosts of her
own choice in coal shed and hustles
around for living like any common
barnyard fowl. She disdains the lux
ury of a warm house with curtains and
all the other modern appliances for
comfort and eats Nv herself. The 9TH
er hens on the place are beginning to
suspect that she is princess in dis
guise.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27

The old method of the haphazard
feeding of the swine and the lazy
mans method of throwing out corn
TO the hogs in quantity are fast be-
coming obsolete. The feeding of
swine has become a science. Rations
are prepared with definite end in
view.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
PLAN FOR CROP ROTATION.

The arrangement shown in the dia
gram is by Prof. w. ]. spillman, of
the Department of Agriculture, and
permits single road to reach every
field on the farm. The road is shown
by the double lines. The farm coa-
sists of ninety acres and the plan may
be adjusted to larger or smaller areas.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
OUR COMMON RED CLOVER.

There is no forage plant in all re-
spects so useful to the American farm
er as red clover, and when 1t is in full
bloom it will carry more swine to the
acre than any other tame grass ex-
cept alfalfa. After it has been grazed
to the earth few days will cause it
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27

Prof. r. A. Moore, of the Wisconsin
Experiment Station. who has discov-
cred the means Of discriminating OK
|eye-daisies, the cookie burr, blind
weed, rag weed and other weeds from
grain fields by spraying with iron sui
phate. Farmers are advised to write
to him for his bulletin on this subject.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27

The boy and the pig, generally
speaking, are the important factors
on the American stock farm.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27

A tree does not make profitable
shelter for farm implements in winter,
still many farmers continue to use
them. This picture shows an Illinoi.
field under which two machines were
stored to stand the storms of the sea-
son.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
TUPPER LIBRARY SEIZED.
Books attached by Member of Con-
gregatiOn for Loan of $1,000.

A deputy sheriff is now encamped in the parish
mouse OF the Madison Avenue Baptist Church in
east 3lst street. after having shown to the sexton
yesterday a writ Of attachment on the library of
the Rev DR.. Kerr Boyce Tupper the former pas
tor The sojoum of the Sherirs officer is likely
10 be of brief duration. however as a friend of
ment. called up John c. Coleman of No 100
hroadway' the lawyer who got the writ. and as
sured him that the 5000 which Dr. George J
Heimer, Mr.. COleman's client. lent to Dr. Tup-
per on December J. 1905, would be forthcoming at
once Mr.. Coleman at sent the news to DR..
HeITner, who was glad get 1t, as his many pre-
Vious futile attempts get the money back led
him to get the writ.
Dr. Helmer, who has an infirnary of osteop-
athy at No 1856 Madison avenue directly across
the street from the Madison Avenue Baptist
church. sat under DR.. Tupper when the minis
Ter occupied its pulpit. Mr. Coleman said last
hlght that the books We're the only tangible prop
erty OF Dr. Tupper's he had come across in his
search after DR.. Helmer had decided 10 get out
the attachment He said he did not know whether
the 5000 had been lent TO DR.. Tupper for invest
ments IN the stock market The attachment was
nonresident
Dr Iupper came to this city from the First Bap-
ust Church in Philadelphia in July, 1905. After his
resignation last month he suddenly disappeared,
Dul was discovered later In a little New Jersey
town not far from the Quaker CITY Then stories
came out that he owed large sums of money TO
former parlShioners in both New York and Phila-
aephla These sums, il rumored, had been
los IN unfortunate speculation but DR.. Tupper has
declared that he will pay back all the money he
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
ACADEMY HAS OPERA AGAIN.
East Side ImpresariO Gives Carmen" to
Crowded House at Low Prices.

Grand opera at popular prices moved stage
west of the Bowery last night and rang forth in
the Academy of Music. with Carmen as its first
offering. To judge by the enthusiasm Of more than
two thousand persons who focked 10 the great
place once New York's chief home of opera, opera
al 81 for the best seats Is likely become perma-
nent.
The singers were billed the Roya! italian
Grand Opera Company" and their inlpresario,
Gaetano DAmato, said that they had been in this
their first public appearance. Carmen sung
by Nine. lrma MOnu Baldini. and Don Jose by
Amadeo Alemani Both of them received many
curtain calls and hatcaT load of flowers. Ed
uardo Boccalari. the conductor got big wreath
Mr.; D'Amato. who is a Mayors marshal and a
deputy chief Of the bureau OF licenses. we'll as
Dernocratic leader and disciple OF Apollo and
the MUSES., made neat little speech after the
second act He said that Mr.. Hammerstein had
built up following of persons willing TO pay So
for an orchestra seat If you give US your sup
port" he said. well perhaps astonish the musI-
cal world by what We'll do for we believe there's
a great chance for popular priced opera here. If
steal away into the night"
Mr.. DAmatO has produced low priced opera on
the East Side for three years, and this IS his first
great venture west Of there For week the op-
era Will be at the Academy, and will then move
for three weeks to the Grand Opera House, in
Eighth Avenue. After that, Mr.. d 'Amato says.
''Nho knows but the pubc?'
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
IN MEMORY OF JUDGE TOWNSEND
Criminal Branch of United States Circuit
Court Adjourns in Respect to His Memory.

United states Judges Lacombe. Holt. Hough and
Martin met yesterday in the Criminal Branch OF
the United States Circuit Court and adjourned for
the remainder of :he day. out OF respect for the
memory OF Judge William X Townsend United
States Circuit Judge, whose sudden death IN New
Haven Sunday morning had just been officially
announced. United States Attorney Stimson
United Ssates Commissioners Shields and Alex
ander, United States Marshal HenkeI and Deputy
Clerk Edick also present.
The official announcement OF the death
made by United States Commissioner Shields as
clerk Of the Circuit Court Mr. Stimson made a
brief address and moved for the adjournment OF
the federal courts for the day and for Tuesday
also.
Judge Towusend regarded expert in
patent cases. He student of mechanics
Some OF his inventions have proved successes En-
Judge Wallace to the Federal Building
during the day and arranged to accompany Judges
IacoInbe. Holt, Adams. HOugh, Martin and Coke
and other federal officials to the funeral at New
Haven to-day.
Speculation is rife as TO the successor OF Judge
Townsend. and United States Commissioner Ridge
way has been mentioned prominently Judge
Townsend ebout the Federal Building on sat
was therefore O great surprise TO his associates.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
ANOTHER COHAN ROOF PLAY.
Running for Office" Turns Up Again as
"The Honeymooners" at New Amsterdam

The comfortable aerial gardens top OF the
New Amsterdam Theatre opened for their
fourth season last evening with The
Honeymooncrs," revised edition by George NJ.
Cohan of the farce Running for OfHce" which
played the Savoy Theatre d few years ago.
George NJ. Cohan played the part Of Augustus
Wright. a football player. who had just arrived
from college at the scene of the play. Hazenut
VT. Miss Gertrude Hoffman took the part OF
Madeline Tiger Augustus Wrlght's sweetheart.
Jerry J. Cohan acted John Tiger. a Prohibition
candidate for the mayoralty OF the town. who is
fighting Andrew Riley, mayor Of the town and
running for a second term. After number of
complications Tiger wins the race and the plot is
completed.
Many catchy songs won the applause of large
audience. Among the most popular THE
Musical Comedy Maid" Wed Thank You Very
Kindly. Mr.. Bingham" and Lets Take Old
Fashioned Walk"
In the third act Miss Hoffman gained much ap-
pIause by her limitations of Eddie Foy, Miss Anna
Held and the Gibson girl. Among the others in the
cast were William Keogh, James II Manning, Jack
Webster. Jonathan Keefe Miss Leona Anderson and
] Smith Marba.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
DOUMA REPEALs OBNOXIOUS LAWS
Two of NJ stolypin's Measures to Suppress
Sedition Voted Down.

St Petersburg June 3.-The lower house Of
parliament to-day held another working session
and repealed three obnoxious laws, two of which
were temporary measures instituted by Premier
Stolypin TO combat the revolution. The first
provided for the punishment Of persons publicly
expressing approval Of political crimes, and the
second excluded from military service persons
who were accused of political crimes or were
under police supervision.
The repeal Of the third law, penalizing private
instruction in Poland. was at the request Of the
ministry This measure was passed at the
height of the Russianizing campaign in Poland.
The manor house Of NJ. Alexander Stakovitch
father % two members Of the lower house has
been burned by peasants IN TYer.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
OPENING AT HAMMERsTEIN ROOF.
"The Mute Revue" Pleases Large Audience
Vaudeville Besides.

Nothing pleased the large audience which pre-
sented itself for the opening Of the Hammersten
Roof Garden last night much did The Mute
Revue" a corner on the roof apty lends itself
10 unusual comparisons with many Broadway pro-
ductons Of the last season.
The titles depleted through some keen. consistent
feature are: The Road 10 Yesterday a frolIc-
some monkey in a cage: The Rich NJ. Hoggen-
heimer," good sized tat porker; Cousin Kate"
q in her manger: Rose StahI. stall bedecked
with roses; Caught N the Rain a clothesIins
full Of washing; The Rose Of the Rancho"
rosebush; The Man Of the Hour" Teddy bear:
David Warheld battleheld: "For,y-ave Minutes
from Broadway Long Island farm for sale.
OF the vaudeville bin presented Barnolds dog
ard monkey pantOmime company. presenting "A
Hot Time in DogTille." received the most generous
applause from the audience. Collins and Hart.
Rice and Provost. Gus Edwards's School Boys ard
Girls The Sunny SOUTH willy Painter trio.
That" Quartet and Les Camille trio all did their
share 10 make up bill of the usual Hamnersteiu
standard.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
AMERICAN COMMISSION AT NAPLES
Emigrant Headquarters Inspected-To Visit
Other italian Ports.

Naples, June 3-The American immigration
Commission. Of which William Paul Dillingham;,
United States Senator from Vermont is chair
man. has arrived here for the purpose Of study
ing local emigration conditions. The members
oI the commission to-day visited the emigrant
hesoquarters and then watched the embarka-
0Sh o. large number Of emigrants on different
teaiilers- They also inspected the plant for
-o uisihfeciion Of the belongings of the emil
sahts and made Inquiries of several emigrant
No.. IN naples the commission VIII go TO Capri.
hers ain ~iIoh II Will visit Rome where the mem
Signor T,,tert received by the Foreign Minister.
"iH go 10 Genoa. i''i'ie 'iie commissioner
New-York tribune., 1907-06-04
MRS. MARY E. RRoWER.

Mrs Mary Z. Brewer wife Of ex-Park Commits
sIoner George V. Brewer, Of Brooklyn. died yes
terday at her home, No. 1854 Park Place she was
born IN Brooklyn fifty-seven years ago. and was
married TO Mr. Brewer when twenty years old She
was n member of the Women's Auxiliary of the
New York Society for the Preservation and Mark
ing OF Historic Sites, and of the oldest
members OF the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian
Church Mrs. Brewer lifelong friend of the
Rev DR. Theodore L. Cuyler. She leaves two
daughters and two sons the latter being lawyers
DR. C'uyler and DR.. c. B. McAffee. the present pas
tor the church, Will otticiate at the funeral at
her homo tomorrow afternoon.