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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20

A prominent stock raiser says he
does not allow his calves to nurse their
dams but once. After this they are
Leu their mothers milk for two weeks.
The first week they are given two
quarts of milk in the morning, one
quart at noon and two quarts in the
evening. The second week they are
given three quarts twice a day, morn
ing and evening. During the next two
weeks the feed of the calf consists of
half whole and half skim milk, with a
pinch of f1axseed meal (made by grind
ing the whole seed) added to it, about
one ounce at feed. The quantity of
milk fed during this period (the second
two weeks) is about three quarts twice
a day.
After the calf Is a month old it is
given four quarts of skim milk twice
a day with an ounce of faxseed meal
and handful of mixed corn meal and
ground oats. The calf is taught to eat
this by putting the mixture in the milk
few times. Then the grain is fed dry,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
BY w. R. RUSHING.

Now is the time for every farmer to
see that his stock is protected from
frosty nights and chilly winds. The
cost of tightening up the stables is but
10 trif1e compared with the loss made
by stock that goes unprotected.
1t requires a great amount of iced
TO keep up the animal heat to overcome
1.-THE chilly winds.
| Probably the best spent time and
money in the farmers output at this
time of year is that used in preparing
to better take care of his live stock.
Don't delay this, but attend to 1t at
Eonce, for it may mean the difference
between profit and loss.
If you cannot give the proper care
to all of your live stock, then select the
hest of your animals for your own
breeding and feeding and sell the bal
iance at the very best prices that you
can obtain.
Get rid of it, however; better take
small loss at the present time than
much larger one later on because the
stock is in poor condition.
Keep no more than you can Keep
right. You can make a profit off
small number rightly kept, where you
would lose money trying to keep more
than you can properly care for. Right
now is the time to make this decision
as to what you can do, and then dis
pose of the balance
All stock that is to go to market can
be fattened at less expense before cold
weather sets in
When new animals are to be pur-
chased the early buyers get the choice.
In making this selection it should
not be done hastily. In fact, l have
known some breeders needing one ami
NAL to purchase four or five, and as
they develop, watch them, and then
make the final selection and sell the
ones not desired.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
PACKED READY FOR MARKET.
FARMING IN EGYPT

A sailor on board the Rhode Island
on the trip of the battleship fleet
around the world last year wrote
from Egypt describing graphically the
wonders of the pyramids and other
interesting things in that country OF
the farming there he says
"F'rom the statue of Rameses the
Great we went for long ride over
the splendidly irrigated land to the
tombs. The farming land was quito
a sight.
'"They have brought corn from the
United States and raise it here in
great quantities They also raise fine
wheat, clover, cabbages, lettuce ana
nearly all vegetables.
did you ever see an Egyptian plow
in museum? They use that kind
here now AS a rule they are drawn
by buIlocks, but / saw them plowing
with camels, bulls, bull and camel
and also by hand.
1T was strange sight. Quite diff
ferent from the riding gang plow they
luse at home"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20

poultry. If found necessary to conrlne
them, all that is needed is a shed or
house that will protect them from the
elements and marauders of all kinds,
and at the same time not be too con-
filming for them. Place the roosts we'll
up from the floor and keep the interior
perfectly clean and free from vermin.
In localities where it is not too cold
during the winter months, it is better
to allow the breeding stock to roost
out in the open, either in the trees, or
upon roosts prepared for them by
planting posts that project about eight
feet above the ground. Upon these
place long poles about two or two and
one-half inches in diameter for roosts.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
CURE FOR scoURs IN HORSES

For scours in horses small dose OF
castor oil (about two ounces) com
bined with an ounce Of laudanum and
given as drench with little linseed
cruel is excellent. In persistent cases
use an astringent such as oak-bark
tea. This is made by sleeping the
inner bark of white oak. A teacupfuI
of this tea combined with an ounce of
laudanum should be given as a drench
twice daily. Horses that are subject
to diarrf1oea while on the road should
be watered sparingly before and during
the drive.
Prepared chalk in one-half to ounce
doses twice daily is useful in such
casea.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
NUBBlNs OF FARM NEWS

A farmer near Wisler's Hill, Pa,
killed hog % months old which
weighed 726 pounds dressed and yield
ed six cans of lard. The size Of the
cans, which is really the nub of the
story, is not given.
The late oliver Dalrymple of Cassel-
ton, N. D., had 1900 acres of land, en-
ployed 500 men and 500 horses to work
the farm. They used $50 gang plows
that turn from three to eighteen fur
rows at time, seventy gang drills,
$50 celf-binding harvesters and twelve
steam threshing outfits, and shipped
two trainloads of wheat every day dur
ing the threshing season.
Herman Fusthoff, a dairyman of ST.
Louis, NO., turned twenty-five of his
cows into luscious cornfield to give
them a treat. In a short time they
were all suffering from a malady
known as 'Eoven," and five of the
COWS died.
The flet beetle in British Columbia
by it's depredations has made the situa-
ton in the hop fields there almost
hopeless-one prominent firm alone los
ing s150.o0O.
A Long Branch, N. J., woman dis
covered among her flowers freak
plant which combines three distinct
varieties-azalea, rose and tulip-grown
upon single stem, the blends being
perfect.
In the Purdue building recently re-
modelled and equipped by the Indiana
board of agriculture, the Purdue ex-
pertinent station and school of agri-
culture will place mammoth exhibit
BY means of grains, fruits, large
photographs, charts and other mate
rails, the results of experiments will be
presented Demonstrations in making
spray mixtures and applying same
Judging stock, selection of seeds, etc.
will also be given.
More than $4,000 gas engines have
been purchased by farmers of the
United States in the last two year.
and the demand seems to be growing
steadily.
At one stroke of the lieutenant gov.
ernor,s pen, 150,0O0,000 acres of fores
land in British Columbia aave beer
placed in reserves This includes every
acre of the provinces timber lands ex.
cept what has been leased. This is a.
much land as was put in the nationa
forests of this country between tn,
years 1891 and 1907.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
SOME BROWN SWISS RECORDS

The following records relative to the
milking qualities of Brown Swiss cat
tie are those of four cows the prop
erty Of the Michigan Agricultural col
lege:
Becky, 9633.3 pounds Of milk and
424.9 pounds Of butter; average per
cent of fat, 3.77.
F College Becky, 1882 pounds Of
milk and 1879 pounds Of butter; aver
age per cent of fat, 3.s7
College Becky H., 9477.s pounds of
milk and 416.3 pounds Of butter; aver
per cent Of fat, 3.7s.
College Bravura, s12o1 pounds of
milk and 1868 pounds of butter; aver
age per cent Of fat, 4.29.
These reports were made within
period of twelve months, under normal
conditions as to food, care and man
agement-i. e., they were not fed to the
| limit in order to produce records,
hence the above figures do not repre-
sent the limit Of their possibilities.
At this time the four COWS were
eleven, six, five and seven years Of age
respectively, and their average weights
in the order named were 1,225, 1,250,
1000 and 1850 pounds.
These cows manifested marked
persistency as mixers, continuing to
produce a good flow throughout a long
period They make up good-sized and
shapely udders.
AS regards disposition they are ex-
| tremely docile and easily handled.
4 Their performance has been surprise,
as they are possessed of large, strong
frames with heavy beefy quarters, the
body in general carrying much more
flesh than the typical dairy COW.
Last year we visited the Barton farm
In northern Illinois, where Brown Swiss
COWS are kept exclusively, and the rec
ords of milk were better than those
of the average dairy cow. The milk
from this herd is all sold at prices
above the average to one or two cate--
ers in Chicago who make a speciality
of serving superior food to their GUS
toners.
Carroll county, Indiana, boasts of 8
skunk farm. On this farm there are al
present about 1900 live animals. The
owner is building factory for the
manufacture of fertilizer and the rem
dering of skunk oil. After the skunks
have reached certain age they are
killed and the hides sold. The fat is
rendered and sold for medicinal pur-
poses.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
BY THoMAs NJ. oIsEL.

How many houses have supply of
nuts for winter? But few can as the
nut-bearing trees have almost entirely
been destroyed.
The pecan and hickory were cut for
wagon and handle timber down to the
small saplings; where once were large
groves of shellbarks there now are
only thickets of small sprouts and
vines and in but a few years more
a pecan or shellbark cannot be had
unless it is cultivated. Some few
are now planting a few trees near the
home, but on hill land they make slow
progress and it will be many years
before they receive the fruits Of their
labor.
The proper place for planting trees
of this kind is low, dark or black soil
near a, small creek or river. On this
kind of soil they make rapid growth,
often bearing nuts the sixth or seventh
year after planting, and in planting a
grove of shellbarks or pecans the
ground should be cleared of all other
sprouts and kept in that condition I'M
til the trees are large enough to care
for themselves, say when they are ten
years old.
The nuts should be planted twenty
five feet apart each way, three or four
in a place. AT the end of the first
year cut out to one in place, leaving
the incest sprout. Hickory or pecan
should always be planted where wanted
as transplanting often spells the tree,
as they cannot be removed without
damage to the tap root and that often
causes the tree to blast or not fruit at
all.
But, where they are left to grow
where planted they seldom, if ever, fail
to fruit.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20

The door snourd be left open all day
that they may come and go at pleasure
Within this house they may be fed in
cold, snowy weather.
In Canada one of the most success
full turkey growers has a double-in-
closed apartment house for his breed
ing stock in winter, connected with
which is an inclosed run that will pro-
tect them from the elements, at the
same time furnishing opportunity for
open-air exercise during the day. This
kind of house is most useful in cold
climates. but it might be used in all
localities and prevent midnight ma
RAIDERS of all kinds from carrying
away the turkeys.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20

must be provided, a house may be
built that is fashioned after many of
our poultry houses with the sIanting
roof; an open ventilator should be
placed in front, close to the roof, and
never be closed except in cold weather.
The roosts should be placed on level
in the front of the house, with a slid
ing or rolling door IN the rear. Only
light enough is needed for the turkeys
to see the way to and from the roosts.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
DEATH IN DIRTY MILK CANS

Death turks in dirty milk cans wher-
ever found If the babies escape
poisoning it is by accident only. The
cheap milk cans are easily indented
when the tin begins to crack, leaving
assures for milk and water and acid.
Under such conditions the tin peels
and falls off and the cans quickly be-
come unfit for use.
The only way to prevent the use of
insanitary and dangerous milk cans
is by close inspection on the part of
the creameries and condenseries and
city dealers. Cans should be examined
frequently and all rusty or broken ves-
sells should be promptly condemned.
1t is estimated that 1856. 5s7, 900
bushels of corn We're raised in the
United States last year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
TO INTRODUCE A BEE QUEEN

use Potts queen-cages, which can
also be used as cell -protectors or nur-
series. The differences between these
and the regular Benton cages are:
l. The candy hole is made from the
end. using only a half-inch bit.
2. A half-inch hole is made through
the side into the center compartment.
3. The top and side covers are of
perforated metal and cut SO that they
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
BY t. F. McGREw.

Turkeys do better when they can
roost in the open. If well fed they will
thrive more in the shelter of the trees
than in a Close confined house, The
troubles that arise from allowing them
to live in these trees are that they
become wild and frequently are stolen.
If housed, their quarters should be airy,
roomy and perfectly clean. 1t is not
wise to have them roost with other
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
BOOSTING PLACES FOR TURKEYS

Roasting places of this kind are bet
ter sheltered when located on the south
side of tie barn or building. The
writer has seen a flock of turkeys
which go the year round to such a
roost; they belong to one of the most
successful growers of Rhode Island,
and they live continually in the open.
not having even the shelter of the
trees.
In colder climates, where shelter
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20
HOW OLD is BIDDY /?

English authorities hold that there
is no certain test of age in fowls. But
they admit that in general the spurs
both Of hens and cocks will distinguish
a two-year-old bird.
There are exceptions, however. IN
which really young birds devotion ola
looking spurs, while really second-vear
birds preserve the short, rounded snurs
of cockerel.
The texture of the legs is n e,,id.
to some extent, and SO are the deIicacy
and freshness Of the skin of the fare
and comb, but still an occasiona, ran
will preserve her youthful appearance
to a startling degree.
The skin of the body is better test,
as II becomes coarser and dryer-look-
ing with age.
Formerly the wing feathers were
considered an absolute test as between
pullet and hen, even after the long
practice of early breeding had made
the melting of early pullets quite COM
mon.
An Australian authority says that a
pullet will show rose colered veins on
the surface of the skin under the
wings.
There will also be long, silky hairs
growing there. After a year old these
hairs disappear, as also do the veins,
and the skin grows white and veinless.
1t is more difficult to Judge the age
of water fowls than Of other poultry
partly from the absence of spurs part
ly from greater longevity and partly
because the water keeps their legs soft
and fresh.
Ducks waddle more heavily as thew
grow older, and after two or three
years they acquire depression dowr
the breast.
An abdominal pouch of considerable
size indicates great age in geese
Turkeys UP to year old are SAID
to have black feet, which grow pink III
to three years Of age, when they
gradually turn gray and dull.
| Age in pigeons is often told by the
color of the breast. In SQUADS tn,
| flesh looks whitish as seen through
the skin, but becomes more and NOR,
purplish as the bird grows older.
4
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20

after the skim milk Feeding this dry
material after the skim milk is fin
ished prevents the calves from sucking
each other when they are let out of the
stanchions in which they are fed. The
quantity of grain is gradually increased
until at two months of age the calf is
receiving a quart of the mixture day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20

do no catch the clothing.
A. These covers are put on with
screw, which serves as hinge, and
can be frightened with one turn Of the
screwdriver, so that the imprisoned
bees cannot force open the doors and
escape, which I have seen them do
when laid down temporarily.
The convenience and advantage of
these cages will readily be seen in the
following operations:
Go to your nucleus colony and pick
up the comb with the queen; grasp IT
with the left hand, also hold your queen
cage with the left hand, your thumb
over the opened side door. Now, with
the right hand pick off your queen and
she will easily pass through the half
inch door. three eighths or quarter
inch is not nearly so convenient. You
can cage as many bees as you wish
with seldom a sting. The covers are
SO cut that they will not catch the
clothing and pull open on the way to
the out apiary.-Joseph Gray, Long
Eaton, England.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20

The government would establish
demonstration farms to instruct farm
ers locating on lands covered by its
irrigation enterprises in the arid west
The farms are to be located in Colo
RADIO, Wyoming, South Dakota and
Montana.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-20

William E. Bail, farmer near Otis,
Tex, realized $1,000 from the seed
taken from a twenty-four-a acre patch
of alfalfa
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-09
Utilities Bill Approved.

Jefferson City.-The house commit
tee on ways and means reported IA
vorably the Wade public utilities bill,
which delegates power to a state com
mission of five members, appointed by
the governor, tyo absolutely control
the p~ublic-service corporations in the
state, and abolishes the utilities
boards of st. Louis and Kansas City,
created by the Legislature in 1908, and
the board of railroad and warehouse
commissioners.
The salary of the commissioners is
fixed at $500 a year. The bill has
the Endorsement of Governor Hadley,
who aided in drafting it. There Is
little probability of the measure pass
ing the senate in its present form,
even if it should get by in the house,
where it is certain to be strongly OPP
posed, principally because it central
ICES too much authority in a state
board.
There are sixteen members of the
committee, and four of them came in
after the vote had been taken increas-
ing the attendance to twelve. Repre-
sentative Wallace Crossley, of John
son county, vas n of the latter. He
demanded a reconsideration of the
vote, which showed seven in favor of
the bill and five against it.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-09

Homer is said to have nodded, and
even a veteran and gifted jurist like
chief Justice Fuller of the United
States supreme court will occasionally
be guilty of a break" When swearing
In President Taft on Inauguration day,
In repeating the oath he made it read
that Mr.. Taft was obligated to faith.
fully execute the constitution" instead
OF the office of president. Secretary of
State Knox, who has a ready wit,
stood by and is reported to have re-
marked in an undertone to the presi-
dent: Don't do it." Whether he did
or not the constitution is quite safe
from molestation.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-09
HAD A RIGHT MERRY FINE.
Presents and Souvenirs Distributed on
casey's Birthday.

"Yis," began Mrs. O'Toole, I'VE see,
It was Casey's birthday Yesterday, an
Casey brought home two bottles of
rale stuff-one inside an one outside
to sillybrate the occasion. an they
fist had the tonne Of their lives last
avenin'. Iv'rybody happy an iv'rybody
handin' out presents an souvenirs OF
the evint to iv'rybody else!
Casey gave his wife an his mother
in-law a black eye apiece; his wife
give Casey a punch in the bread
basket; his motherin-law give him q
side swipe with a skillet; an Casey
give the old lady another black eye to
keep company with the first one; an
the police come an give Casey a ride
to the station house; an this mornin'
the Judge took a hand in the game, an
give Casey ten days!
"Oh, twas a gran sillybration they
had all round, wild "Reminiscences an
souvenirs handed out regardless Of tx
pense or who they happened to hit!"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-09
To Save Our Ewes.

There is a Biblical injunction
against hiding our light under a
bushel." Yet it is probable that in a
short time nearly everyone who has
gas or electricity for lighting will be
literally covering the source of light
with a metal shade that looks very
much like a small bushel measure.
For several years, lighting experts and
more particularly specialists in eye
troubles have decried the evil effects
upon the eye of the direct rays from
our modern brilliant light sources
This has been made more evident by
the introduction and general use of
the new high candle-power metallic
hlament incandescent lamps. There
have, therefore, been many attempts
to devise a method of interior illumina-
ton by which the rays are reflected
once at least before reaching the eye.
There is a considerable number of in
stallations in which this indirect il.
Elimination" is applied in different
ways, the most successful heretofore
being that in which the light is hidden
behind brackets around the edge Of the
DON and reflected towards the cell
Ing. 1t has been very limited in appli-
cation owing to the loss, or absorption
of light by the rejecting surfaces, ex-
plains the Technical World Magazine,
but where the expense is not consid-
cred, very pleasing results were pro.
duced. Recent developments have
been made that probably mark an
epoch in interior lighting and will
make indirect illumination a very gen.
eral system. In order to make this
method commercially available, that is,
bring it within the reach of the man of
ordinary means, two things were nee
essary.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-09

The New Jersey legislature is con.
sidering a bill to prohibit children
under 16 years of age from attendance
at theaters unless accompanied by
their parents or guardians. The nickel
show has become a social problem in
the east, and is in a way becoming a
social problem in the west. Insubor.
'dination to teachers and parents is not
decreasing under the influence of film
picture exhibits and flashy popular
songs. Boy bandits are becoming
o numerous than ever. No Won
der, e<claims the Milwaukee Evening
Wisconsin, that the New Jersey solons
think it time that radical action should
be taken to keep young America from
growing old too fast.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-09

The ordinary run of American
poesy is steadily improving, and at a
rate quite reasonable in the long his,
tory of literature, where a thousand
stanzas are as a single line in the sight
of the muse. Take a hundred maya.
zines dated within the decade, ex.
claims the New York Post, pick their
best ten poems, and you will see how
lucky the singers of our old sub.
colonial school were to be born early.
But the tide has run strongest along
the coast Of Bohemia; in our colleges
1t has long seemed to be ebbing. Not
even that noble immaturity which
often appears in undergraduate prose
has made itself felt in much under,
graduate verse. Football, here, fresh.
men and eccentric professors are the
stock themes Of 95 per cent. of such
e%fusions. while the remaining five pei
cent. are college widows or bur.
1esquers on Horace.