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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18

The late cold weather Of 1907 caused
bllght on very large acreage of
peaches in nearly every section of the
country. The California experiment
station has been experimenting with
blight for several years and Professor
Ralph e. Smith, who conducted the
experiments, asserts that by proper at
tention the grower can properly pro-
.tect his trees from blight at a mini
mum expense. Hts recommendations
follow:
Spray thoroughly with Bordeaux
mixture between Nov. / and Dec. Is.
Use thirty pounds Of blue stone and
thirty-five pounds of quick lime to 200
gallons Of water
Prune II possible before spraying,
out do not delay on this account.
About Feb. 15, or Just before the
buds open in colder climates, spray
again with Bordeaux, say 2O-20-2 200, or
lime, salt and sulphur
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18
SOME OF vINcENTs GOOD THINGS

Don't be afraid of fresh air because
the days are, getting a little cooler
Fresh air never hurt ANYBODY. Fling
the windows wide open every day and
let the wind blow through every room
in the house. Farmer folk ought to
be the longest lived of any people on
earth.
II you want to know whether vopr
man is succeeding with the cows or
not just watch him when he is out
with them in the yard. If they crowd
about him and want to be petted. make
up your mind that there is money for
that man in farming. If they all send
for dear life when they see him COM
ing--well. there is room for doubt on
that subject. Go a little slow before
you bank too heavily on his prospects.
Some folks talk about being a slave
to cattle. THAI is all nonsense. Farm
ing is our business. The only way to
win in 1t is to look out for all its in
terests, Cattle are source of great
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18
TO KILL WORMS

Can you tell me how to keep cater
pillars or web worms from disturbing
bees in their hive? l have small
colony ard the ants and caterpillars
are very troublesome. These caterpil-
lars not only eat the honey. but also
kill the young bees. If you can give
me any information on this subject I
will be grateful.-Mrs. r. l.. Spencer
Florida
The best way to keep ants and cat
erpilIars from a hive is to mount the
hives on legs and set each leg into a
can half filled with kerosene oil Each
leg will be a little island" and the
nests effectually barred,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18
Lime WILL SPOIL MANURE.
Causes Big Loss of Ammonia by
Decomposition and Renders
the Fertilizer Useless.
By CLINTON NJ. suu1rz.

subscriber living in Hancock
county, ILL.,, writes that the manure at
the back of his barn does not rot as
Iast as he thinks it ought and says he
believes if he We're to throw lime on
II decomposition would result more
quickly Indeed it would, but the lime
would cause an immense loss of
ammonia and practically destroy the
value of the manure.
Our correspondent should not keep
a big pile of stable manure" as he
describes it, We are constantly urg-
ing our subscribers to spread manure
as soon as possible after it is made.
The place for manure is in the field.
not in high piles behind the barn.
The loss of ammonia by draining
from the manure left to rot in piles is
enormous and whenever a farmer sees
the dark streams that ooze out from
the bottom and trickle away he is
looking at his good money running
away.
II manure is thrown out of doors
1t should be cleaned up at least once
a week and spread upon the fields.
This is not difficult matter if man
ure spreader is used. Whenever a load
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18
NuBBINs OF FARM NEWS

The Oregon potato yield is twice as
large as that of last year and the quail
ity is good.
The broomcorn crop of Texas county,
Oklahoma, alone will bring the farm
ers 100000 this year.
Timothy hay has sold in Chicago this
season at $2l per ton, the highest price
ever paid there. The scarcity is due
more to shortage in cars than a
shortage of the crop.
The longest continuous shipment of
horses made in America ended at Pull
man, WASH, where a consignment of
of animals from England had been on
board ship and express car fifteen
days.
j. j. Howard of Bellevue, Kan, has
brought suit for $4,000 against the
American Express company for the
death of hog while being shipped
from the Iowa state fair grounds to
Lincoln, Neb.
The National Association of Agricul-
tural Implement Manufacturers, hav-
ing a short time ago announced rise
in prices, now says the terms of credit
sixty to ninety days.
A band of $4,000 sheep were driven
from Roswell N. NJ, to feeding
grounds in southern Arizona. They
cleared off the vegetation of strip a
mile wide clean as a whistle in their
progress through the country.
F. G. French, an aged farmer of
Guthrie, Okla, and his wife made a
trip in buggy drawn by single
horse from their home to Paris, Ont,
and back, a distance of $500 miles.
The journey consumed six months.
The Agricultural Department has
sent large number of bumblebees to
its agents in the Philippine islands to
be used in experiments in the cross fer
Of certain plants. Common
bees have proved to be unequal to the
work.
]. c. Deilman of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
has bought 5000 acres of land near
Falfurris, Tex, upon which he will es-
tablish colony operated as a cooper
ative commune. The land will be
owned in common and the labor will
be. equally divided.
secretary CoDurn Oh the Kansas
Agricultural Department announces
that the growing of castor beans and
hemp has been abandoned by the farm
ers of that state because they are un-
profitable. In 1879 the castor bean
crop sold for $750,0O0.
G. G. Walker a stock shipper of
Howard county, Missouri, who has
been in Jail in the City of Mexico near
ly two years, charged with disfiguring
forty mich cows by striking them with
a knife, has been sentenced to serve
four years in Mexican prison.
The Night Riders of Kentucky are
still spreading death and destruction
among farmers who refuse to join the
Tobacco Growers Protective associa-
ton. Recently gang of these muir
derers visited the homes of three farm
ers near Hopkinsville, fired about 100
shots into their houses, wounding wom-
en- and children, and destroyed their
tobacco sheds. The next day the per-
secuted farmers went to town and
Joined the union
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18

Irrigation is bringing under cultiva-
ton hundreds of thousands of acres of
land that have never before produced
anything but sage brush and cactus.
The picture herewith shows some
sweet potatoes OF an average crop
raised in the San Luis valley. Three
years ago this land was absolutely
barren, but in 1907 many farmers real
lied net profit of from $40 to 500 per
acre.
The government operations in irri-
cation are attracting the keen atten-
ton of the small farmers Of the east
and the effect Of the great areas that
are being Watered will doubtless be far
reaching in it's influence on eastern ag-
riculture.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18
KEEPING MILK COOL

One of the great drawbacks TO SUM
mer dairying is the lack of ice or 9TH
err means of keeping milk at proper
temperature. Any farmer through
whose land runs a stream of water or
upon which are springs within easy
access OF the house can by some in
genuity build spring houses through
which the water may pass and answer
every purpose of ice.
me picture in this article shows a
spring house on the farm of Charles
ross near Cedarville. Ill. In this
house cream and butter are held AZ az,
average temperature of 4S degrees ali
through the summer.
Mr.. Foss. who was formerly scboo,
teacher, is now running ninety.
acre dairy farm. the total production
OF which in 1907 was in excess Of
$4,000. 1898 u
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18
SELLING HAY FROM THE FARM

The man that does this year after
Ar knocks the props from under his
FIN and sooner or late. comes TO
ant.
Every ton of hay produced costs
something of farm fertility. That mn
Pc SO. Something cannot be had at
! cost OF nothing. Take that ton of
hay away to the city and sell it and
put nothing back in it's place, and so
much has gone out of the very life of
ne farm Follow that practice for any
.ngth Of tire and does it not seem
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18

A Connecticut farmer has rugged up
an ingenious hollow post which is in
tended to make it possible for cattle
and hogs to apply oil or other mix
lures for the determination of vermin
to themselves. 1T is made of heavy
sheet zinc, perforated with holes
through which the oil or other mix
ture oozess slowly. His idea is that
animals will resort to this rubbing post
for relief, but the experience of most
farmers is that hogs and cattle viii
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18

prefer to rub themselves against al
renee or newly painted barn. 1t is not
likely that this rubbing post will ever
come into general use, although it is
now being manufactured and offered
for sale to a moderate extent.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18

o most OF the large ranches and
entey taken the
a ] by traction engines from time
t M are also done by traction putting
to
@ hng Tor single farmer
as harvesting by
engines Manufacturers
fore they use in the - @ seais oe
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18
till we look at the thermometer, then
the sweat suddenly breaks out or we
make a bee line for the stove.

till we look at the thermometer, then
the sweat suddenly breaks out or we
make a bee line for the stove.
It took a great many years for us to
actually know that whole wheat
-four" graham -four and other coarse
finest flour.
We have known some mighty poor
specimens of human beings come from
families who claimed blue blood. Same
way with chickens. It's more in the
strain than the breed.
If you have any money you want to
give the folks that make farm imple-
ments send it to them in good, bust
ness-like way, but don't do it by leav-
ing your machinery around the farm
where the wind, the rain, the sunshine
and the snow will destroy it.
One reason why we do not get rid
of the weeds on our farms is because
we try to cultivate too much land. To
keep weeds down crops must be Gull
tivated all the time and if we have
more land than we can cover as often
as needs be the weeds will get the bet
ter of us every time. Except our grain
farmers, whose large acreage is neces-
sary to make money, we believe in the
small farm well titled" rather than
the big farm half worked and crops
smothered by weeds.
1t is the mission of the farmer to
do more than raise COW, horse, or
make a few pounds of butter, more or
less each year. The best farmer and
the one who comes nearest to being
the ideal in his profession is the one
who has the happiest home, who keeps
CHEEKY about his work, who stands up
for the right always and every time
and serves his country in every spot |
and place to the best of his ability. |
Such a man will grow good crops; he
will never come to want and he will be
a blessing to the world.
The likelihood is that there will be a
shortage again this year in farm help.
We will have to piece out by getting !,
some more good farm machinery. Take
the new hay leaders and side delivery
rakes for haying, what help they
are! Same way with hay carriers in
the barns. And the up-to-date har-
rows and seeders are not to be sneezed
at. They are the best substitutes for
hired help we can get. We will need
more and more of them as the time
goes by, unless we can get at it and
raise more boys who will love the farm
and be willing to stay on it.
The Illinois Central railroad in the
past season made some experiments in
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18

Pure blood in COW will not make
up for lack of food. A thoroughbred
must eat the same as a scrub.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-18

A thermometer will cause more I'M
easiness in household than most
things. We seldom feel uncomfortable