Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-11
NUBBINS OF FARM NEWS


The authorities of the Texas expert
ment station are advocating state seed
inspection.
Teachers in Illinois hereafter will be
. required to make the study of agri-
culture part of their work.
The cotton crop of 1907 aggregated
11,261,163 running bales as compared
with 13,305,265 bales in 1906.
Several of the western states are
planning to hold national corn ex-
position next December at Omaha,
Neb.
In order to insure a rice crop for
game birds along the Mississippi river
sportsmen are sowing large quantities
of wild rice seed.
Drought in parts of Texas this winter
has resulted in the loss of hundreds
of cattle. Many ranches were deserted
on account of lack of water.
The first seeding of spring wheat
this season was done by farmers near
Java s. D., and it is thought this will
be favorable season for the crop.
The government of Sweden is plan
ming a forestry exhibition to be held
at Stockholm in 1910. All the nations
of the world will be asked to take
part.
Clifford Pinchot chief forester of the
4 United States Department of Agricul-
ture, has been charged with grating by
congressman from California and Wy
oming.
/ Deeds of violence and hate are COM
mon in the tobacco war in Kentucky.
Not long ago man on the Independent
side of the controversy had a herd of
cattle poisoned.
Farmers OF Iowa are beginning to
realize the value of the cottonwood
groves on their farms. One man near
Clarion has just sold 10000 feet of cot
tonwood lumber for about $500.
Recently farmer of Grundy county,
Iowa, lost $500 worth of live stock by
a strawstack overturning. 1t had been
undermined by the stock, and as a re-
suit he is out nine cows and five hogs
Since 1888 the lumber cut of Michi-
gam has dwindled to about half. Re-
: Gently compiled statistics show that the
total production in 1907 was 1,743,5S
600 feet, reduction of 10 per cent from
the output of 1906.
Schools of New York are making ar
engagements for sending 5000 boys into
the country to work on farms this
summer Already 1000 boys have asked
to go and it is hoped that great COED
will come of the plan.
A farmer near Juietta, Idaho, has
discovered a new variety of wheat
which he says will yield 100 bushels
{ per acre. He found the plant growing
; wild in Alaska and brought home a
few kernels and planted them.
The widest nature faker story of
the new year comes from New Jer-
: sey, where a hen is reported to be able
2 to speak her mistress name and no
l tify the family when she has laid an
egg by rapping on the kitchen door.
The Wisconsin experiment station
has received a new style of cream sep
arator from Copenhagen, Denmark. 1t
is the first of it's kind to be brought to
America. Although a centrifugal ma
chine it is claimed to be superior to
Z American makes.
. 1t is claimed that over $4,000 wild
J horses are overrunning the forest re-
= serves of Nevada and farmers and
, stockmen have asked the government
+ to aid in exterminating them. The.
n are doing much damage to the farms
+ near the reserves.
A Southdown lamb won the cham.
: pionship in the carcass competition a
h Chicago and brought SO cents pc
y pound. Southdowns and their grades
t. won all prizes offered for carcasses eX
e, cept one that went to a Hampshire
Rambouillet cross bred.
A company has been organized 70
the purpose of dredging the Mississippi
river for sunken logs. 1t is claime'
V that the river bed is lined with timbe
n lost in the mud and mire and the pro
Is rnoters of the company are anticipating
If big profits from the new industry.
Due to an outbreak of fungous dis
y. ease in the cucumber districts of Wis
lg eonsn large packing concern ha
l. been forced to go out of business. TIL
r disease is said to be caused by atmos
re oheric conditions. The experts a
nj Washington have been asked to investi
Ill gate.
III Six trainloads of popcorn recently lei
eu Sac and Calhoun counties, Iowa. Tha
SO vas but half the crop raised in thu
a. popcorn a profitable crop. One ma
on had in $50 acres and harvested frol
fifty to sixty bushels per acre, and
RS is worth frssa 81 to s1.50 per bushel.