Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1908-04-25
NuBBlNs OF FARM NEWS

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Ihere are 694 students studying ag-
riculture at the Wisconsin university
Spring seeding is on in full swing
in North Dakota fully a month earlier
than last year.
! The drought in the Rio Grande val
ley of Texas has been broken and peo-
pie are rejoicing.
Two business men Of Illinois recent
~ purchased a 625-acre ranch in Iowa
for $25 an acre. 1t will be used as a
stock farm.
The condition of winter wheat. on
April ! indicated final yield of 493,-
s9S,OO0 bushels, according to the gov
ernment crop report.
An agricultural expert from South
Africa is in Texas studying the dry
farming methods employed there for
the benefit of his own country.
More than twenty-five steam plows
nave been at work in Sully county,
South Dakota, this spring. turning ur
more than section Of land a day
In one county in Texas the black
birds are so thick this spring they
are destroying the corn. Some farm
ers say they will have to replant
The Southern Cotton association has
made arrangements with the Farmers
union for holding what remains of the
cotton crop in order to stimulate bet
ter prices.
Farmers of Shelby county, Iowa, have
found out that seed corn taken from
cribs, however carefully selected, will
not grow nearly as we'll as where it is
taken from shocks.
At a Shorthorn cattle sale in Wis
consin recently forty-seven head sold
at an average Of SALT. The top, price
of the sale was s2.75O, paid for 10
months old bull calf.
In order to protect the water sheds
In the irrigation countries of the west
the government will restrict grazing
on the banks Of streams supplying
water for irrigation purposes.
The Kansas Agricultural college has
sent nine samples Of seed corn to
India, an assortment of grain to Rus
sla, besides smaller lots of seeds to
Australia and South America.
The secretary of the interior has re-
stored to public entry and settlement
di6,oOo acres Of land in Montana which
was withdrawn in connection with the
Little Missouri irrigation project.
dwarf steer hardly more than 3
feet high and less than feet in length
and weighing $40 pounds was sold re-
Gently at Chicago for $50. 1t will be
exhibited at an amusement park.
Farmers Of North Dakota are PLAN
hlns TO SOW less spring wheat this sea-
son and more of the other cereals. This
IS due to the good outlook for the win
ter wheat crop in the United States.
While plowing on his California
ranch Spaniard ran his plowshare
INTO a box containing $4,000 in the
eight-sided gold slugs used years ago
! in California by the Spanish people.
| Ihe Missouri state board Of agricul-
ture has asked Ernest Kellerstrass the
poultry fancier of Missouri, for a nor.
tralt OF the famous hen Peg which he
recently refused to sell to Paderewsli
for $4,000.
A Missouri farmer with is feet of
beard has recently been photographed
| Thirty years ago he made a wager that
II certain man was not elected he
would never touch razor to his face
| and he lost.
| Farmers between Shumway and Eff
flngham, ILL.,, have taken possession Of
IN unused railroad track and have
"igged up handcar that is propelled
~ pole. They use it for hauling
| heir produce to market
:. Due to the presence of cattle dis
'ases many of the work animals Of the
philippine islands are dying off The
ssembly has been asked to offer a.
orize of $4,000 to any one who will
find cure for the diseases.
The bureau of statistics of the T1n;ted
states Department of Agriculture an
1ounces that the healthfulness of farm,
animals was better on April / than II
was last year and losses from disea So
with the exception of swine we've
smaller.
Farmers are truck raisers around
Glenwood. Iowa, and are Interested Il,
the raising of asparagus, and NAV firm
their entire attention to the cu,t;v.
ton OF the crop for canning purposes
In the east from 500 to s4oo per acre
is realized from asparagus.
1t is reported that lamb was a.
cldentally locked in a barn near Lon
don and was not discovered for sever
weeks Although it had no feed ~
water, 1t was found alive and its ~
covery is expected. 1t was ! n,asa
found. s''a 0nen