Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-18
NUBBINs OF FARM NEWS

The Arkansas experiment station
raised 1,195 bushels of rice this last
season and it sold for 1894, less than
81 per bushel.
The Iowa experiment station is MAX
ing an apple storage experiment to find
out the best method of keeping apples
for winter use.
Green bugs are reported IN Okla
homa, but the state board OF agricul-
ture says that they have done little
damage this year
The largest consignment Of Belgian
horses ever brought into the southern
states has just been imported by e.
A. Blackstone of Baltimore, Md.
/ About $4,000 acres of land along the
western border of Utah have been dis
covered overtopped with salt. The
value of the lands is estimated at
| s400,O00,000.
| The Wisconsin experiment station
has proved that sugar beets can be
grown successfully in northern Wis
consin. In tests they yielded 1888 per
cent of sugar.
Secretary Wilson is planning to
demonstrate the manufacture of dena-
tured alcohol. He will install a plant
in one Of the buildings Of the depart
ment at Washington.
A freak horse covered with long,
curly hair was sold recently on the
! Chicago horse market. The animal re-
sembled buffalo in color and had a
swinging walk like bear
Secretary Wilson has advised the
park authorities of New York city to
! grow potatoes or corn in Central park
to get a stand of grass. Potatoes will
probably be the crop grown
A man of Birmingham Ala. has mr.
chased the Rodriguez ranch of 471,OO0
acres in the state Of Durango, Mex,
for $1.200,000. Included in the deal
are $4,000 head of goats and 5000 cat
| tie.
Thirty farmers in Kansas are COOP
Grating with the Agricultural Depart
ment in making a test with a new
species Of dry land alfalfa which ex-
perts have found in Peru, South Amer
| lea.
Thirty head Of Holstein cattle from a
stock farm in Wisconsin are on their
| way to Japan to he used for raising the
standard of Japanese cattle. The ship
ment is being made by wealthy Japa-
nese of Seattle, Wash.
Sixteen beet sugar factories in Mich
igan in 1907 produced 165, 900. 900
pounds of sugar. Nine thousand four
hundred acres were planted to beets
last year and farmers received s4,5OO.-
600 for their crops.
John P. Brown, the catalpa eSnert
has recently finished planting 200. 900
trees on his plantation at Carney. Ala.
and 100000 more Of small size in mrs
cry Besides this he has set 900, 900
trees for the L. G. N railroad.
Egyptian cotton has been success
fully grown in New Mexico and Ari-
iona by the bureau of plant industry.
Several million dollars worth of this
cotton is imported into the United
States each year and it's growth here
Will mean great saving
+ The noted millionaire plowmaler
James Oliver, died at his home at
South Bend, Ind, at the age of "a
years. He came to this country from
Scotland in 1884, poor and friendless
lad. In 1865 he invented the pillow that
gave him fame and fortune.
Professor w. L. Carlyle of the Colo.
RADIO Agricultural college has mr.
chased four Kentucky bred mares IN
add to the government stud maintained
at Fort Collins. They will be used in
the experiment for developing an
American type of carriage horse.
a woman near Beattie, Kan. kent
track OF the receipts from her poultry
for year. With the usual number ~
hens found on the average farm she
received last year s305. OF this amount
$3.50 was from egg sales and the re-
mainder from poultry. Besides selling
this amount she had both eggs and
chickens all year for her family table