Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-02-18
NUBBINs OF FARM NEWS

Sheep growers near Roseburg, Ore,
are offering $40 per head for every
coyote killed
The state of Vermont has built a
S60,0O0 Gairy with a special reference
to teaching farm boys and girls how
to make good butter and market their
products
The farms of Kansas produced $19,-
100000 more produce last year than in
1906. The wheat crop alone amounted
to nearly $60,000,000 and the corn crop
about S63,000,OO0.
An Illinois railroad Strain ran into
flock of Angora goats recently. The
long hair of the animals wound around
the wheels of the trucks and caused a
disastrous wreck
farmers wife living near Spauld-
ing, Wis, who became afraid of the
banks, deposited 1912 in an old stock
ing and in moment of forgetfulness
threW it in the fire.
The members of the Bee Keepers
association of the United States, which
met in Chicago recently, declared that
the pure food law has increased the
demand for and sale of pure honey
The telephone is now being largely
used in the country districts for the
benefit OF bed-ridden persons, who are
connected with church pulpits and are
thus enabled to hear the sermon and
singing.
j. S. Newman, a Montana sheepman,
got $500 damages from the Great
Northern railway because a shipment
of his sheep We're starved in the cars
! until they "ate the wool off each 9TH
er's backs"
Luther Burbanks thornless cactus,
which promises to be valuable forage
plant, grows to a length Of about three
| feet by one foot wide, three inches
thick and has a surface similar to that
of watermelon.
| A twenty-three apple orchard was
recently sold by John Touchette of
Centerville ILL.,, for $4,000 cash. The
orchard is Fl years old and it's annual
crop has brought from $4,000 to $4,000
for several years.
| A bill has been introduced in con-
gress to establish postal savings banks
which are to pay per cent to the
! depositors and to be under the super
vision Of the postmaster general and
secretary of the treasury.
Expert peach growers of Michigan
say that the hard freeze of last year
will Prove benefit as it really cleared
out and rid the state Of hundreds of
worthless orchards. New ones will be
planted to take their place.
The International Harvester COM
pany has been found guilty on forty
two counts by a Kansas jury at To-
peEa for violation of the trust law
The penalty is $1,000 on each count,
| but the company has taken an appeal.
New England farmers make good
money by selling ferns, which grow
plentifully in the rocky highlands.
Piclaers are paid 40 cents per 1000, tied
up in punches of twenty five and de-
liverad at the railroad station. A crop
can only be picked every second year.
California fruit growers have petit
toned congress to repeal the Chinese
exclusion act because they want Chi
namen to pick fruit and harvest veget-
ables. They claim that unless they
can get Chinese help the growers of
that state will lose millions of dollars
The Milwaukee Railway company re-
Gently pleaded guilty to violation of the
twenty eight hour stock shipment law
and was fined by Judge Lands Of Chi
cago. In several cases cattle were held
in cars without food or water for pc
riods ranging from thirty to thirty
four hours. Indictments against other
roads are pending.
The Santa ITe Railway company has
/ bought an additional 10000 acres Of
land in San Diego county, California,
| 1000 acres of which will be given over
exclusively to the growing of eucalyp-
tus trees for ties. Although some of
the trees will be large enough to make
a single tie in about eight years none
will be cut until fifteen years after
planting, when each tree will make two
| ties.