Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-07
NUBBINs OF FARM NEWS

Representative Mann of Illinois has
introduced a bill in congress making If
misdemeanor to sell home or foreign
seeds or bulbs which are adulterated or
misbranded-a measure which every
farmer IN the land devoutly hopes may
pass.
A fruit grower in the Hood River vail
ley, oregon, recently sold forty boxes
OF winter banana apples at s12 a
box. Last year this crop amounted to
100000 boxes and brought an average
of 50 per box
The Vegetable Growers association
of Lawrence, Tenn, and other ASSOC
Citations in that part of the state have
contracted to dispose of the cante-
loupes grown on $500 acres to one
firm. This method of handling the
crop has proved very satisfactory, both
as to prices and in freight rates.
More manure spreaders were sold in
1907 than ever before. This fact indi-
Gates that farmers are finally waking
up.
Sixty-six Percheron horses recently
sold at Sioux City, Iowa for an average
of $406.50 each. One stallion brought
$1,210. BE sure, however, that these
horses were thoroughbreds and not
scrubs.
Maryland farmers are demanding
law requiring that all cases containing
cold storage eggs be labeled such, and
that restaurants, hotels, dining rooms
etc, be required to hang signs on the
walls, in order that the customer may
know what he is getting-whether cold
storage eggs, fresh eggs, or just
eggs.
The Caulif1ower association of Long
Island last year shipped 10000 bar
rels of cauliflower-a large increase
over the year before This gave the
growers of two towns upward Of $780,
600 for this crop alone
The plan of cooperative buying Of
supplies which was recently started by
the fruit growers of Kalamazoo, Mich,
has proven so successful that it is be-
ing adopted by farmers all over the
state. The Kalamazoo men, through
their agent, recently placed their order
for 10000 boxes with one firm, and
the saving effected for each individual
member was so great that all other
materials and staple food supplies will
be bought hereafter in this way
1t is estimated that 100000 BUSH
els of potatoes We're left 70 rot in the
ground in Aroostook county, Maine, and
100000 bushels more We're frozen in
the ground. 1t will require about
100000 bushels for seed for 1905
Growers in southwestern Michigan
I,o1, ~.
fine potatoes in that section and the
acreage this year will be very largely
increased.
Manufacture of industrial alcohol has
not increased as expected, and the in
terest in the subject by farmers has
been much less than was anticipated.
AS pointed out by the American Farm
World a year ago, the gasoline trust
took good care that the law which was
passed was SO drawn that the industry
could not flourish.
Lumber experts say that one-sixth
of this countrys standing timber,
estimated at 100000 100000 feet, is To-
Gated in Oregon and is worth about $12
per thousand There are 600 sawmills
employing 21,000 men at work in this
timber and they are making great in
roads.
A school of agriculture has been es-
tablished at Bookings, S. D., in con-
nection with the state college 1t will
open about the first of November next
and will continue for five months each
year. The work will include history,
civics, mathematics, English and every
branch of learning connected with ags
riculture,