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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
WELL KEPT DRIKEWAYS
BY EVA aYMAN.eA1LLARD.

Looking at the grounds surrounding
she farm and suburban homes through
she country, the lack of well-planned
lnd well-cared-for driveways is notice.
lble; or where kept in good condition
they far too often lead to the barn by
lhe most direct line of approach. with
DO apparent care for the effect they
nave on the place a. a whole.
Granting that every loot of unneces-
bary driveway represents added labor.
Ind admitting that it must be well
cared for, or take from rather than add
TO the beauty of the place, brings one
10 the same fact that must be faced
in securing anything worth having-it
means work.
When considering the question of
whether or not the work is really
worth while, the first thought is, natu-
rally, of the identifying effect of the
curved lines as contrasted with straight
pnes.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
SAN JOSE SCALE

Most of the insects which infest or
chards injure the crop and not the
tree. The San Jose scale, however, if
permitted to run it's course, will en-
tirely destroy an orchard While as
many as sixty-five different plants and
trees may be attacked, the peach apple
and plum suffer the most San Jose
scale is distributed by the shipment
of infected nursery stock, by its own
efforts and by man himself, as we'll
as by horses, birds and insects. This
insect is seldom seen, as it conceals
itself with scaly covering from its
own body. The scale is very small,
one-twenty- fifth of an inch or less in
diameter, flat and nearly circular in
shape, grayish. with the center raised.
Upon lifting the scale one finds vel
lowish. soft-bodied creature without
legs or wings, but having a long, slen-
der .beak with which IT sucks the san
from the tree. Thousands of these lit
tie insects attaching themselves to
one tree will do much damage in a
single season. When found in an
orchard it should be cared for at once
Ordinarily it can be controlled by the
use of lime-sulphur solution, but in
case the trees are thoroughly infested
and nearly dead they should be cut
down and burned.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
TEXANS RAISING HOGS

Texas is said to be an ideal place to
RAISE hogs and ought to be raising
100000 hogs per year. The climate
is mild at all seasons; no winter being
SO severe that cold-proof shelters are
required, or summers SO hot but that
a shade tree will mitigate it.
In most sections water is plentiful
AS 10 feed and forage, everything that
hogs Ike to eat is produced in abund-
ance. Corn. milo maize, peanuts. SOW
oeans, half dozen varieties of meas
cottonseed meal for fattening purposes
besides alfalfa, sorghum, clover, oats
rape--all these and many more can be
raised there in profusion.
Even with all these natural advan-
tages comparatively few hogs are raised
in Texas. Everybody in the state
seems to have determined to raise cot
ton-but there is said to be a much
larger profit in thousand dollars
worth of hogs than thousand dollars
worth of cotton
Texas has made money out of cotton
but 1t can make more out of hogs. anf
the time is not far distant when the
cotton crop will be cut in half and the
crop of hogs doubled
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17

tip. Let the stick end extend out OF
the stack about two feet, over which
place cap. Then spread out the butt
OF cap to form roof over stack.
DO not wait until the hay is ripe
before you get out the machine OF
make the sticks to go in the top OF
stack. Have few poles or rails handy
on which to build the stacks. STACK
the cleanest and that freest from weeds
10 be stored in the barn, the roughesi
ana Weediest on the thinnest ground
or IN a sheltered place, and let the
cattle and sheep shelter around the
stacks during hard freezing weather
ny no means let the stock tramp iii
the meadows In wet weather
During freezing times top dress tn.
meadows with all available manure
Scatter this over evenly and note the
difference next haying time in that top.
dressed and that which is not.
In stacking clover or alfalfa he SIRE
10 top out with timothy or some
straight-strawed hay that will turn the
water For convenience in stacking
nay should stand in the shock two Of
three days, or even longer In fair
weather. 1t loses much weight and
lies much better in the stack. Do moi
stack any hay if you have room in the
barn for 1t.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
THE BEET SUGAR INDT7STRY
Inc secretary


In 1896 there were six beet sugar
factories in operation and one building,
having altogether capacity for slicing
5000 tons of beets daily In 1908 there
were sixty-four factories, with a total
capacity of $4,000 tons of beets daily
more than a twelve fold increase.
From 1898 to 1906 our production OF
beet sugar grew from $4,000 tons to
$4,000, an increase of more than thir-
teen-fold in eight years.
In 1896 41,OO0 acres of beets were
harvested; in 1906 $4,000 acres, OF
more than nine times as great an area
The price of beets. like prices OF
other farm products, has risen steadily
In 1896 the factories paid $410 per ton;
now they have to pay $5.35.
In 1898 the farmers had s64,ooo tons
of beets to sell to the factories, for
which they received $1.564,O00. In 1906
just eight years later, they had 1885,
900 tons of beets to sell and received
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17

tor them $2I604,o 00--a twelve-fold in
crease in beets and a fourteen fold in
crease In money returns.
Inc total amount paid out by fac
tories for beets during the past twelve
years amounts to $121,0o0,OO0.
The total capital invested in beet
sugar plants in this country is about
s.o,ooO 600, and this does not include
investments made by factory owners
IN farm lands, irrigation works, etc.
Beet sugar factories are now in sue
cessful operation in sixteen states.
Colorado leads all other states en-.
gagged in the industry. having sixteen
factories. In 1907 these pr.d,:ced 1884,
wv tons of sugar, or enough, If it had
been passed around, to give all the
people in the United States four pounds
apiece.
California and Michigan follow Colo
RADIO at respectful distance in the
race for second place. Michigan has
the same number of factories as Colo
RADIO, but their product is considerable,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
VALUE OF DAIRY SCHOOLS

1t is possible that there is many a
young man who has worked a couple
of years under good butter maker
or cheese maker who never went to
any dairy school, and who, in the pride
of his success, makes light of their
value, just as he does the dairy papers.
This young man is liable to hesitate
to lose" Gas he calls it, the time and
wages. and the saved-up capital nee
essary to take a term at the dairy
school.
We use the term close" because we
have heard that expression used by
many of the class referred to above;
the proper word is invest" and a
mighty good investment that few men
take one term but that they are anx-
ious to take another.
The value of the dairy school is not
so much in what the students actually
learn in practice and theory, but that
they learn to work with their brain
more, learn to work intelligently, and
learn to continue their own education
by reading technical papers and books
and thus acquire desire for an in
vestigation of the why's and where
fores of every little phenomenon OBJ
servable during their daily work.
1t Is not only from the teachers that
they receive their education, but it is
from their fellow students, who have
worked under various conditions: in
deed, we feel inclined to believe that
this is really the most valuable part OF
the course.
We do not hesitate to urge the young
men in the creameries and cheese fac
tories, as we'll as all young farmers, to
attend the dairy schools, even at a
most serious sacrifice. 1t will be the
best investment they will ever be able
to make.-B. e. Lara.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17

phase of the subject may be left with
the suggestion that where rounding a
building is not practicable, a bit of
special planting will break the line of
view and is desirable. also, as a means
OF securing additional beauty.
Viewed from the standpoint of labor
involved there is no denying that it
requires more to lay out and make a
long driveway than short one and
too, the longer one must be wider
one, or look like a streak through the
sod.
When, however the work of making
has been done that of keeping in good
condition is not proportionately greater
for the reason that in the curving, end
less driveway, a home made scraper. q
steady old horse, and a careful driver
will do the work with no greater OUTLAY
of time and strength than would be
required to keep the shorter and mar
over one in order by the power of the
man behind the hoe"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17

smaller. California has only nine
plants, but some of the latter are very
large From year to year the produce
tlon OF sugar is about the same in the
two states.
Utah has five factories and they are
strong producers Idaho and Wiscon-
SIN follow with four each, and there
are ten states with one factory each.
Inc most eastern factory is that at
Lyons, N. Y. Hamilton City, Cal, has
the most western factory; Los Ala
mitos, CAL, the most southern, and
Billings, Mont. the most northern.
The largest factory in the United
states, and one of the largest in the
world, is the one at ,Spreckels, Cal,
which is able to slice 5000 tons of
oeets in day, or 100 carloads of thirty
tons each.
me Oldest successful factory in the
United States is the one at Alvarado,
Cal, which was established in 1879 and
has been making beet sugar for thirty
years.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
BY j. WESLEY GRIFFIN.

The accompanying sketch shows one
of the best and cheapest hay stacking
outfits 1 have seen.
The material for same consists of
one stout pole 80 feet long; 200 feet of
No. or No. fence wire for guy lines;
100 feet 81 Inch rope for pulley rope;
rs feet 3-l6-inch line for trip and re-
turn; one pair of double blocks and
one single pulley and hay fork.
A, trip line; B, return line; c, pulley
rope; d, d, d, guy wires; e, pole: F.
F, pair of double blocks: G, single
pulley; II, track made by horse going
to and fro. No other instructions are
necessary, as the cut explains itself.
make the stacks as near the shape
as shown in the sketch as. possible
Each stack should contain four or five
tons, as the larger the stack the less
loss by the weather
The center of the stack while build
ing should be at all times the highest
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
RAIL FENCE PHILOSOPHY

Flower gardens are as valuable in their
way as vegetable gardens. They rem
der returns by their beauty and fra
GRANGE which add to the pleasure Of
living.
a quarter on the ground is worth
picking up. So is shovel which cost
twice as much. but lots of people do
not seem to think so.
Not a few of us miss great deal
by not seeing more of our neighbors
and friends. Social intercourse is
broadening and necessary.
Are you living in as good home as
your means Justify? 1t is a part OF
every mans duty to the community to
live as comfortably as possible
leaky barn is Door asset for a
thrifty farmer.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
GEESE MIXED The COWS

Michael Kolahepps, New Jerse.
farmer, recently discovered that hi
cows were being robbed of their mill
at night. He hired detective h,
watch for the thieves. Although h.
could discover no thieves during tn,
first two nights, the cows came up II
the morning minus their milk as usual
Finally it was discovered that Iare,
flock of geese from neighboring farm
We're in the habit of running with tn,
cows at night and when the animals,
lay down the geese helped themselves
to their milk. The farmer ifnpoundef
the geese and the owner had TO "a
fhe"n back through tha court.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
TREATMENT FOR sTRINGHALT

Stringhalt, a spasmodic contraction
of the voluntary muscles of the leg
usually occurs in animals of highly
nervous disposition. One of the most
frequent forms of stringhalt is a jerk
ing UP of the hind leg as the horse
travels, in many cases only when the
horse first starts.
This is often most severe in cold
weather and gradually increases as the
animal grows older, but it does not
seem to cause any suffering nor in
terfere with the general health Of the
animal.
In most cases of chorea (stringhalt)
medical treatment does not give ben
eft, but good results follow careful
feeding and tonics The food should
be nutritious, easily digested, of good
variety and abundant.
A mixture of oats, oil meal and bran
Is good. Three times week give the
following: Salt, four ounces; sulphur
two ounces; hard wood ashes, two
ounces-a tablespoonful in the feed
Also give Fowler's solution of arsenic
beginning with one half ounce doses in
the feed once daily, and gradually in
creasing by one-fourth ounce at q
time until one ounce is given at :
dose in the morning and at night. This
should be given for two weeks. Their
withheld two weeks and then re.
peated.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS

Bovine tuberculosis not only shortens
Tn, lives of cows, saps the profits Of
beef raising and reduces the efficiency
of a herd as a machine for producing
milk from feedstuffs, but spreads that
disease broadcast among other animals
and human beings. Few herds are free
from it, but it can be eradicated. The
Sacramento college in California has
shown that even if a large proportion
of a herd are diseased healthy one
may be obtained by isolating the dis
eased animals and keeping them only
for breeders, not allowing the calves
to feed on the mothers milk unless it
is sterilized.
Virginia, North Carolina and Tennes-
see have the undesirable distinction of
being the only states in the union in
which the slaughter of robins is per-
mitted by law. Recent Investigations
show that not less than 100000 robins
are killed in these three states during
the winter months. 1t is a fact that
every robin earns 81 in the destruction
of insects injurious to crops every year
The hunters sell them for cents
apiece. This is a waste of millions
of dollars and ought to appeal to the
hard, common sense of every farmer.
1t ought to be stopped in every state
A good watering device for small
chicks is an ordinary baking pan, such
as is used in bread-making, filled with
pebbles even full, with water poured
in to fill the pan. The pebbles should
be one and a half inches in diameter.
The chicks can walk over these and
drink from between them without dam
ger of being pushed into the water as
would be the case in an open pam A
whole brood can drink at one time
with this device. The pan and peb-
bles should be washed every day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
BEAU77FY THE FARM YARD
LEADING UP TO THE
or GOOD TASTE.
FARM HOUSE AN EVIDENCE

Such consideration, if carried far
enough, will show that spaciousness
is a fundamental element of beauty
and that curved lines have wonderful
power in seemingly increasing space
II (note the 'if) they are so carried
that one cannot see the entire length
of them at one glance.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
RHUBARB FROM SEED

In growing rhubarb from seed sow
in beds early in the spring in good
clean garden soil in rows twelve inches
apart and one inch deep. Thin the
plants to stand six inches apart and
cultivate throughout the summer. The
following fall or spring they should be
set out in rows i've feet apart and
three feet apart in the row. The sec
ond season stalks may be pulled freely.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17
CHEAP HAY-S7ACKING OUTFIT
PRACTICAL INEXPENSIVE AND CONVENIENT METHOD or cARc ron
HAY CROP
A PRACTICAL, INEXPENSIVE
The .HAY CROP

or fullest This will prevent leaks and
much damaged hay. The dotted lines
in the stack show the position of sticks
that hold the cap
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17

The farmers in this country arc
doing some pretty good work, for II
the last eight years there has been Az
increase in the value of farm propert,
in the United States of $4,000. 600. ooo
That's going some
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17

A MAMMOTH AMAZON TOMATO VINE
GROWN BY Z. N. WIGGIN, 2050 NORTH
VALLEY STREET, KANSAS CITY. KAN.
These tomatoes were delicious and did
not have hard green core like so
many large tomatoes have. A good
idea of the height of the vine can be
gained from the fact that Mr.. wiggin
is holding his hat in his hand as high
as he can reach.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17

Where the drive enters the grounds at either
end of the frontage, circles in a broad sweep
before the house and in easy curves leads en-
tirely around 1T and to the barn in the rear.
AS every place has differing condi-
tons calling for differing plans, this
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-17

Mr.. D. Lauricella of Long Beach,
Cal, states that from six cucumber
plants he gathered wagon load of
produce, which was sold at cents
each. He also raises the spineless cac-
tus. They will grow prickly pears the
size of Bartlett pear the second year
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-03-04
Consultation in German and English.

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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-03-04
WOULD DIVIDE TAX
Legislators at Madison Introduce
Bills To Give Counties Part
of inheritance Tax
TOO MUCH GOES TO STATE

Shall the county receive a larger
heritance taxes?
In answer to that question Assem-
| blyman J. I'll. Hamper of Racine and
Assemblyman G. f. Busacker of Mil
waukee have introduced bills to give
the counties ten times more than they
are now receiving. At the present
| time, the county receives five per cent
of the legacy tax collected from estates
within the county and the state re-
ceives the other ninety-fve per cent.
Both Of these assemblymen would give
the county one half of the total amount
of the tax. The amount retained by
the county is to go into the general
fund to pay regular county expenses
Assemblyman Hull of Black River
Falls would not change the amount
that the state is now receiving. At the
present time the amount received by
the state goes into the general fund
to pay the running expenses of state
government. Mr.. Hull would have the
fees collected by the state go into the
common school fund. At the present
time each school child in the state
brings to the school district in which
it lives about 1926 in tax money due
from the state. 1t is estimated that
if the Hull bill should pass the amount
that each child Of school age would
bring to the school district in which
he or she resided would be approximate
ly $500 annually. There is considera-
BILE sentiment in favor of the Hull
amendment Of the present law, on the
theory that the wealthy of the state
are better able to educate the people
than any others. 1t might also give
the wealthy some source Of gratifca-
tion to know that after death some
part of their money would go to the
cause of education.
Assemblyman ingalls, of Racine, has
still another proposed change to the
present law. It often happens that no
sooner is the estate of one person taxed
and transferred to another than the
person who becomes the new owner,
dies. This Immediately subjects the
original estate to a second tax Mr.
ingalls, proposes that no property pass
ing between two such parties (Which
has already paid an inheritance tax
shall be again taxed within two years
from such passing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-03-04
SOCIAL DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES
T. w. Nothing Would be Justice and
-! Anton Rynkewich Assessor

The Social Democrats of the city will
have a full ticket in the field at the
coming city election and many of the
petitions have already been filed with
the city clerk. Frank W. Nothing, the
well known Wisconsin street shoe deal
er has been named by the party as a
candidate for the Office of justice Of
the peace. Mr.. Nohling is recognized
as leader among the Social Democrats
Of the city and this is the first time
that he has been candidate for poll
teal honors. Anton Rynkewich, also
leader among the members of the
party, has been named as the nominee
for assessor. The petitions for these
men have been circulated in keeping
with referendum vote among the
party and they are assured the nomina
tons without opposition.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-03-04
NEXT SUNDAYS PLAY

What promises to be one of the most
enjoyable theatrical engagements of the
season will be the appearance at the
Rhode Opera House Sunday March Z of
Percie and Ferdy, "The Hall Room
Boys made famous by the cartoons
of the same name, by H. A. McGill in
the New York Journal Mr.. Joseph
William Clifton, the well known drama
tic author, has taken Ferdy, Percy, G.
Whatawad, the Millionbuck girls, old
Millionbucks, the widow B. Dam, Lord
Parkinson, Mr. E. z. Mark and other
well known cartoon characters, and has
evolved about them story that is said
to be one of the funniest Of latter day
cartoon comedies. The play is styled
musical farce comedy and the impe-
cunious HAL Room Boys are sur
rounded by the usual musical comedy
environments Of host Of pretty chorus
girls, funny comedians, an English pony
ballet, catchy songs, dances and special
ties, and a plot which keeps them in
hot water the better part of the
time. DIV