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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-20

club-root, and cut-worm. Where the
land has not been cropped to cabbage
before, and common sense methods of
| tillage are employed, pests are not
likely to prove troublesome except
| in particularly unfavorable seasons.
There again. local conditions prevent
the detailing Of any specific preventa-
tive or curative measure.
I wish to state that there is a grow
ing tendency in s me sections to dis
card the system Of transplanting lac
cabbages, In favor of planting the seed
directly in the field. This has proven
especially successful in the New Eng
land States However, for the farmer
who merely raises a few acres as a
side line the old way Is proba bly, the
safer; he had better let the CONNER
cial men experiment a little more be-
fore he gets out of the safe and sane
be aten paths.
Cauliflower a Fastidious Vegetable.
Caulifower is paying crop. as
there is always a good demand for it
in large cities, and 1t produces-a ire
mendous amount of salable vegetable.
,Caulihower does better at low alti-
tudes, where tie air Is moist and the
nights cool. Long Island is by far the
largest producing district in the coun-
try, and the climate and soil-condi-
lions there are almost ideal. Although
the farmers Of Long Island have been
raising cauli1ower for more than fifty
years to supply the New York market
Mr.. M. B. Fullerton, Superintendent Of
the Long Island Experim emit Farm
has shown them how to develop this
vegetable to high state Of perfection.
and increase the yield tremendously
Caulifower is grown In great vari-
ETY. of soils, but there is no doubt about
the fairly heavy clay loans with gra-
velly subsoils furnishing the best con-
ditions. The soil should be cool and
moist and these conditions do not
generally prevail in sandy soils. Irri-
cation is especially important for in
land locations.
1t is probably never desirabl to
apply fresh stable manures for cauli-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-20
TREATMENT OF THE WORK TEAMS
Collie Sometimes Caused By the Hot Tired
Too Much Green

When farm horse Is working hard
1t does not pay to let him eat grass
when it is green. The horse deserves
and should have a good roll on grass
Or ploWed land each time the harness
is removed, as II is a luxury and
helpful to the animal.
But he will thrive. work better and
remain healthier and more enduring
if fed hard feed during the busy
season.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-20

galleries for comparatively long dis
tances. Frequently the damage is not
discovered until the floors have settled
or the joists collapsed. In such cases,
extensive repairs and the removal oe
the damaged timber are often necas
sary. All wooden farm buildings are
liable to nfestation as, in fact. is any
timber that comes in contact with the
ground. Bridges. telephone and tee
graph poles, hop and bean poles, .mine
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-20
MARK THE GOsIdNGS.

Before the gos'ings obtain thefY
growth leg bands should be put ON tho
young birds, as 1t is difficult to dtsttn4
guish the young from the old In thS
fall after the young geese have made
their growth. The use Of leg bands u
the only sure way out Of difficulties a&
that season.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-20
"A Very Popular
Breed of Chickens
BY H. Il. Kempster.

The Light Brahma is the oldest ana
perhaps the best known and most POP.
ular of the feathered- legged chickens
Size is the quality that recommends
the Light Brahma. Where large and
slowly maturing fowls are desired, the
Light Brahma has no superior. but the
slowness of maturity is very obection-
able in the pullets. which. together
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-20

1t Is a noteworthy fact that the most
successful poultry farms of\today are
those that have started for sWall be-
ginning and gradually expanded az
business and experience warranted
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-20
TOBACCO FOR APHIs.

If aphis trouble your chrysanthe-
NUNS mulch the soil with tobacco
stems and syringe the plants with
strong tobacco tea.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-20
NOW A NECESSITY,

In the shortening Of distances and
the bringing of people together the
automobile has taken its place along
.ide the telephone.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-20

Who ever saw a neglected corn field
make money for it, oWner7
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-07-20

With the dust bath the hen cleanses
her body.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09

and that will Iced to the shedding of lots of blud and the spending of mlyuns of mummy. It has been hoped by the grate statesmen of this country of all parties that Mexico would finely work out it's own salvasion and becum weary of anarky, crimes and misdemenors and settle down to svvilizason but at times like the present the outlook for such con summason seems dark and far away. The Mexican peepu hole air about attractive as an epe- demick of Asatic cholery. The look upon enny form of fssica exercise, exsept plain and fansy nsurgng
 with positive aversion They air opposed to reel work the Ansient and Independent Order of Walk ing Delegates No reel Americon citizen who is not the of a bunch of tin-pated mining stock or uther useless securities of Mexican pedigree has the leest desire for this country to Mexico enny part of it. if that anneXasion meens attempt to as
 semilate Mexican populasion of that territory. Of corse theere air hundreds of anneXasonists in the United States, but if you will puncture one of them under the skin at phase and get next to his finan
 sal department, you will discuvver that theeres reesun Theere air sevverel prominint statesmen and edditurs in this country who evvery time Mexico is mensoned rise rite up and begin to bite the pastur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09

Dawson two years ago. He says that Alaska and the Yukon will some day De among the chief potato lands of the world and that by proper plant breeding a potato can be evolved that will ma ture here to perfection. Even now the country is raising about all that it needs and the potato imports are decreasing. This year the crop is especially good and the potatoes are equal in quality to those brought in from the states.
 I regret I shall not have time to visit the farm of Dr. Faulkner. He tells me he is doing we'll with his cows, but that the milk market is limited and the ex- pense of dairy farming is high He is now paying s1Oo per ton for such food as hay, oats and barley. and chicken feed costs 6 cents a pound Cows sell for S250 head and calves ready to wean for about $40. Dr. Faulkner has paid as much as 25 cents for horse feed and he tells me that man once offered him S pound for timothy hay. Said he: That would have been at the rate of $2000 a ton. The only trouble was I had none on hand I had some hay which had been grown in the country I could have gotten 50 cents pound for that, but l needed 1t for my own stock" The doctor has 65 acres in hay this year, but he will keep the whole crop to feed his own cattle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09
Dressing Room Etiouette

Winifred Raymond, Tn July Southern
 Woman's.
 A few words in regard to dressing room etiquette might not come amiss just here. There are dressing room hogs, just as there are selfish persons who keep the end seat in church or on the street car No woman has the right to lock the door of Pullman car dressing room The woman who is possessed of such excess sive modesty that she cannot dress in the presence of other women should use the drawing room with its private dressing room. No woman has the right to "set there first" and spread her toilet articles and clothing over every part of the dress Ing room. Three women can dress in comparative comfort in the average Pull man dressing room by conserving their articles and their mo -ements to a few feet of space. It requires but very little tune and thought to feave things tidy behind you when you finish your toilet yet 1t is surprising how many really well bred women return to their seats with the soiled towel they used lying on the dress ing shelf, powder sprinkled over every- thing, and the hair that has been re- moved from the brush tangled into a mat and left on the chair or in the first place # was dropped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09

They have been bowling Ion to Mexico evver cents old Daz began to totter his thrown, and have
 indicated that Americon honor has been assassnated Americon citizens outraged, Americon commerce abused and for all theese things and sundry they insist that this guvvermint should countless numbers of it's citizens down to Mexico with insruc sions that they wallow in Mexicon gore till they air plum tired of it. Nuthing will wipe out theese insults they say-exsept large gobs of bud.
 "Ree-venge," they yelp They must have revenge for the rongs have suffered. But they air not in such hurry for revenge that they air rushing theere afur 1t themseves most of them prefer theere revenge surved cold They want revenge-they just must have it-but they air willing to send aftur it. They wait and undergo the trying ordeal of de- lay for old indefinite period rahur than go down theere and get theere revenge rite at hedquarturs They air willing for theere feer citizens who have finansal inturrest in Mexico go down to that hot and terrantuler stricken country aud avenge the flag and incidentally boost the prise of reel estate but they air not conspicuous in feeding the procession Not you would notise it. They air willing to remain back in New York, sitting before a mahogany desk and with theere trenchint pens rite btture and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09

sarcastick editorials the failurs of the admins trasion and the atrasstcs of Mexicons in gennerel for the inspirasion and support of the army in Mex ico but they air not taking enny notiseabull chances by putting themselves ennywheere in range of the border.
 If actuel armed conflict cums with Mexico and it looks as if it must who will be at the frunt? Who will be the leedurs and the workers in passifyng that hotbed of disease, rebellion and iterasy? Who will thecre breethng akili dust and suffering the hardships the sunbaked plains and, treacherous mountain fastnesses of Mexico? Not the loud and vo sfferus defenders of Americon honor and commurse, you may depend upon it; not the indignint dRnma- gogues who have been prodding the present and the past administrations and handicaping all effurts to avoid war mo- they air not so indgnint that they air willing to do ennything fo0lish-they will swalloT theere rage, manfully struggling to hold themselves in check, and give the poor Mexicans chance sporting chance with the reguler and the brave boys who say nuthing to start TOW, but when cums air Johnny the spot in defense of theere country and it's flag. Slowly and surely we have been driven into conflict with unfortunate and misrued Mexico It mite yet ovver for the present
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09

|7EW YORK, July S,-(Speeiao N Without the aid of statistics |% but by mentally registered ana |3fI recorded observation and study it is possible, believe, to prove New York city, so long and so uni h,lv considered nerve wrecker, IS |eality, a nerve steadier if adhered |or a sufficient length of time
 ho has not said, or heard. at, some something like, "Oh, I would not I in New York; it is too unnerving' |pace is too fast; it is too exciting; ] are too many dangers there" Yet has ever heard that from one who lived in Manhattan-and Manhattan he heart of the danger zone-make statement? your constitution is strong enough and 1t, try cold bath upon arisins Ae morning; at first it will give you pck that may be almost painful; you
 gasp for breath and hustle out or water. But the glow that will fol- the rub down will be enjoyable, ana ku persist in the treatment, you VIII
 to enjoy your cold bath so much
 you will feel a distinct depression br any reason, you should be forced prego it. New York is something
 that-only more so. It offers more Fent kinds of shocks; fortifies your es from more different angles. until
 Il almost enable you to go through
 eck on the subway without an ac- ated heart beat turally, the visitor from the small
 thrown into this metropolitan vor-
 lis generally glad to escape as soon
 ossible. He feels so many sensa-
 that the old home town never pro b, yet he notices that others do not
 to be in sympathy with him in lis
 sensations. and he dislikes what he |D b their coldnesa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09

the Washington Square section? Harlem publishes daily paper of it's own, and for it's own residents, and in that are stories" that get the first page and per- haps a column or more which the Park Row daiies do not concern themselves about in the least.
 However, quiet little game of draw poker, pulled off in your own apartment, with about four others present, may be as much of an event to you as if you were back in the village witnessing a cir GUS parade, together with every other resident of the village. who is able to get out of bed. And within ones own little circle of friends and acquaintances here, one may enjoy all the advantages and spicy thrills of what would be known in small town as village gossip"
 It is an odd little place-New York and the more try to explain it to you, from first one angle, then another, the more I realize how hopeless is the task of ever giving you the correct impress sion in toto, unless you come and look it over long enough to let the nerves get steady, the first impression period pass, and the fascination of the metropo- lis creep upon you, as it will unqueston- ably creep, sooner or later.
 But how can one hope to explain a place which has been called everything from "a municipal deformity to the worlds wonder city,; from the coldest place on earth" to "a vertabe summer resort; from the only town to live in'' to mo place for a home loving man.; from the home of wealth. to the home of poverty; from "Giddy Gotham" to the Isle of Temptation; and from New Amsterdam to "Lil ol' Moo Yok?"
 And now" comments an editor friend, who has just censored my copy, you have thrown cold water on the whole proposition by comraring it to a cold morning plunge"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09

chickens and is devoting his energy to hogs and potatoes, with crops of turnips and oats now and then on the side.
 I went to see Bily's farms in company with him and Dr. G. M. Faulkner, the acting United States consul at Dawson. Dr. Faulkner has a dairy farm of 200 acres on the opposite side of the river from where the Klondike flows in. He has Jerseys and Holsteins and supplies most of the milk and cream for Dawson, charging $1.50 gallon for his milk and selling cream at $2 a quart. He is posted on farming conditions, having some land on the islands, as well.
 Leaving Dawson we started up the Yu- kon in a gasoline boat about three feet in width and 40 feet long. The boat had a big paddle wheel at the end and this was attached by a long iron shaft to the engine. We had gone only two miles up the river when the shaft broke and we had to row ourselves to the nearest island and walk. The island was devoted 10 farming and we found the farms the best going. We left the beach and made our way through the potato rows from one little patch to ai.otner. The first farm we visited was owned by a SWede named Nelson He has Il acres under cultivation, one-half itI potatoes and the other half in oats The oats is grown for hay and it is now being cut. Some of it stood in shocks as high as my head. The remainder was uncut and the grain reached half way to my waist. As we looked 1 asked Billy the price the oats- hay would bring His reply was: Sixty dollars ton."
 The potato vines were in blossom. They were in long rows of beautiful green spotted with flowers of a delicate white. I asked MT. Nelson what he expected to get for his crop He fixed the price ct s90 a ton, saying that it might go as high as $100. Thereupon Billy told me that Nelson was. good business man and gave me the details of one crop from three acres that had yielded him $3700 in cash. That was when the Guggenheim syndicate began to dredge out the gold of the Klondike. They were employing large numbers of men and potatoes were scarce. Nelson, who mad just harvested crop of 13 tons, got 1872 cents pound or $270 per ton for the whole. Since then he has raised nothing but potatoes and oats.
 As we left MT. Nelson it was after g o'clock in the evening. but the sun was still high in the heavens and I was able to take snapshot of him standing in front of his cabin Like Chicken Billy, ne is unmarried.
 The next farm we passed through was devoted to potatoes and carrots. There was woman in charge She told me that the carrots paid as well as the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09
FARMING IN THE YUKON

log henneries which have been turned into pig pens. The buildings are warmed with good stoves, and the fires have to be on day and night. There are 13 log buildings on the farm and most of them are devoted to pigs.
 Chicken Billy started into the hog busi- ness with IA sucking pigs, the most of which had taken prizes at the agricultu- ral fair at Vancouver. He bought them there and shipped them into the Klon- dike and they cost him s6O apiece, or $S70 in all. They arrived in good shape and are now full grown hogs. They are Duroc-Jerseys, Berkshires and York shires.
 He keeps them for breeding only. He has already had a number of filters from s15 to s25 for each pig when it is six weeks of age-that is, ready for weaning.s He sold 100 last year.
 I went with Billy from pen to pen to examine the stock. It is said that a man may be known by the way animals act in his presence. If they like him he is to be trusted, if not, he is good man to watch. If this is so, Chicken Billy is fitted to sprout angels wings. His hogs seem to love him. He talks to them as though they were human. He speaks and they will lie down and turn over just like pet dogs. One of his biggest boars does tricks.
 I was especially interested in the babies of the hog pens. The young are of all ages from little red piggies as big as a kitten to lusty black Berkshires of the size of a fox terrier. During the winter the pigs are fed upon potatoes and grain The food is cooked and served red hot morning and evening.
 In taking care of the animals Billy saves every bit of manure The soil of the Yukon needs fertilzing and this by product is worth about S37 per hog per annum. Such fertilizer in the United States, Billy says, is worth not more than SIP.
 Leaving the pigs, we went to the farm house. This is log cabin of two rooms and kitchen. The earth is banked up around the outside to keep out the cold. plant for the winer. We washed our hands in a tin basin outside the door and then went in to dinner The meal was delicious. We had eggs fresh from the hens, and they were fried with ham cooked in a gravy that made the meat fairly melt in our mouths. We had mealy potatoes grown in the Yukon as sweet as any that ever came out of Ire land although they had been harvested more than a year. We had good bread made by Billys hired man, and all the green cucumbers we could possibly eat. Cucumbers are a delicacy in this part
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09

potatoes and said that she and her hus- band enjoyed their summer home on the Yukon. They live in Dawson in winter.
 Leaving this farm, we found ourselves at the end of the island, but there was another island upstream about a half mile away. Billy put his hands around his mouth and shouted, whereupon a man came out of the bushes of the second island and waved his hands at us. It was Billys farmer. He was told to bring canoe and carry us over the water from one place to another. AS soon as we landed, Billy ordered him to start get ting supper and to have the meal ready by the time we had taken a look at the stock and the farm. He went with the man to the hothouse and picked a half dozen big cucumbers to cut up for salad, and then sent him on to the henneries to gather some eggs.
 In the meantime, Chicken Billy, pr. Faulkner and I took look at the hot house, where cucumbers and tomatoes are raised for the markets of Dawson. This is one of the most interesting features of farming in the far north. There are more than 25 big hothouses In Dawson
 
 though Billy says his farm makes more than any two of the others. Up to July of this year he has sold over 300 cucum- bers, and by the end of the season he will have sold twice that many more. His first cucumbers brought him more than $l a dozen, the next dropped to $3.50 dozen, and on the average the crop of the year will net about 20 cents for each and every cucumber sold. If his figures are right his cucumber receipts from the hothouse this year will be over $500. He picked Ill this week, and the vines are still loaded.
 The prices of tomatoes are equally high. and he has good crop under glass
 This hothouse is about 30 feet wide and 50 feet long. It consists of great pit walled with logs to the surface of the ground and above that a framework covered with glass, forming glass walls and glass roof. The house is kept warm by wood fires, 1OO-gallon gasoline tank having been made into a stove for the purpose. The plants are set out in beds upon low tables which are connected with network of wires. The vines of the cucumbers and tomatoes are trained on the wires. They run up the walls and hang down from the roof. Many of the cucumbers are over 10 inches in length and the largest tomatoes are big ger than the heads of some babies
 Leaving the hothouses, we took look at the hogs. During the summer they are kept in incosures out in the open, although they have sleeping pens or cov- cred platforms on which they crawl at night In the winter they live in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-09
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY---By Allen Griffin Johnson

say such things as quoted in the fore going.
 But this is not true of those who hang on awhile. And here observation comes in to prove that the person who is ac- customed to life in Manhattan has steadier set of nerves than the man on the farm down in Quiet county. The farmers life is tranquil; his brain ac- tivity is generally confined to a certain number of cells, leaving others unused often throughout his whole life. Almost anything is out of the ordinary to him; if he sees a snake he gets nervous shock generally
 On the other hand, if a New Yorker saw snake, I doubt if he would jump or show fright in nine cases out of ten. His first thought would probably be that it was a fake snake put there to frighten him. You see, he sees so many city snakes" and so many fake ones. that he is more or less hardened to them.
 He has heard the cry of Wolff so often that a real wolf would have to ap- pear before him with positive identitica- tion as such. before he would believe it was one and by that time the possible nervous shock would have been safely passed over
 Every one of his brain cells is at least given an opportunity for exercise He has grown accustomed to think quickly in view of the fact that quick thought is often necessary to his physical as well as his financial security, and the unusual has long ago become the ordinary to him.
 "Oh," you say, q don't believe all that. New York is not different from any other city-only larger-and human nature Is the same the world over"-but you don't say that if you know New York. If it isn't different, then It ss the best imi- tation of a difference that the world can produce.
 And so. it is not difficult to deduce that