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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
Using the Separator.

In running separator do not have
the milk needlessly warm, says Ameri-
can Dairyman. Mr.. WAGNER. instruc-
tor in butter-making at Cornell Univer-
sity, teaches that so degrees is better
than higher temperature. He believes
that probably the most important point
in running separator is the thickness
of the cream, and says: Adjust your
separator so that your cream will be as
thick asyou can churn. BY this meanas
thick as can be and vet fall from end 10
end of a revolving churn and not stick
to the sides when churning. Such
cream will generally contain 35 to 10
per cent of fat. l consider this very
important point. Cream containing 40
per cent of fat will churn more quick
~ and leave less fat in the buttermilk
at 55 degrees than will cream contain
ing IS to 20 per cent at 60 degrees. The
secret of quick churning at the very
low temperature--52 to SO degrees.
which we know to be the best-is 20
have your cream very rich. This is an
advantage you cannot secure from cold
settings, it being difficult to obtain
cream of this class with much over IS
to 20 per cent of fat. The second point
of great importance is to cool the cream
at once to low temperature-at least
So degrees-and hold it there for q
few hours before warming it up to ripen.
Whenever. in summer time. we are
troubled with cream that coagulates
before it gets much acid, or with diff
ferent Cummings, which some Of US
have, feel sure that chilling the cream
directly from the separator. will help
greatly. We shall get better grain,
letter flayor, and more satisfactory re-
suits in every way. | believe that this
n after of careless handling of cream
after it is separated is the rock upon
which many butter-makers split.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
Feeding Poultry on Farms.

The time has been when poultry
was not thought deserving any atten-
ton at all from the farmer. 1t was as
or sweeping the rooms Of the dwelling
house. The hens were allowed to go
anywhere on the farm in the winter;
but they remained near the cattle,
seeking food wherever they could find
a morsel. Sometimes the farmers
wife, with her sympathy for helpless
creatures, would laboriously wend her
way through the snow to give her pets
a mess of corn; but so far rs the far
mer himself was concerned, he didn't
consider them worthy Of notice. But
the present day the farmer is more
prone TO make his mistakes in over
doing the work and in using little
Judgment in feeding. He feeds liber-
ally but depends too much on grain.
A slight change in the food will some
times accomplish much. When the
hens have been given corn exclusively
they require something that is radi-
cally different. Lean meat or a ration
composed of bran or linseed meal may
start the hens TO laying. simply because
such food is just what they require.
Grain is deficient in mineral matter,
and also abounds largely in starch.
Foods that contain less starch ana
more mineral matter and nitrogen will
be change that will cheaper the cost
OF the food. because more eggs will be
the result Corn is not favored as a
summer food, because it is too heat
ing and too fattening; but there is an
advantage in feeding corn To fowls
that are intended for market. DO not
attempt to fatten fowls on nothing but
corn. as they suffer from indigestion
Lot the fowls receive three meals
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
Hreed a Good Horse.

Should the farmer breed q foal that
promises well for the turf he may sell
it at a good profit. but the moment he
undertakes to develop it and profit by
it's racing qualities, he makes a de-
post against which his checks will
not be honored. But the farmer may
breed high class roadster, a coach
horse. or a draft horse. and If the
mating of the sire and dam is done
the foal, he will be assured Of success
But the quality cannot be neglected.
The sire and dam must represent what
you want in the foal. Should the sire
and dam not possess breeding, but
are the result of accident. you are not
assured that they will reproduce them
selves. The cheapness of the services
of a cross roads stallion should not
recommend him. Look first for con-
tinued breeding in the line you desire
then individuality, and the reasonable
ness OF the price may be considered
afterward. But you should remember
that the services of a well bred ami
NAL with good individuality are worth
more and can not be offered for the
price Of the scrub. The produce Of
the one promises a profit on your in
vestment, while the other will prove
deceptive and in all probability bring
you in debt. Horses demanded by the
present and future markets can not be
grown In herds on the western ranches
like cattle. Free grass" will not make
the massive draft animal. the high
stepping coacher, or the stylish, shape
ly driver. Herd life will not contrib
ute to that desirable disposition which
adds so much to the value Of an ami
NAL when called upon for service
j. r. Rippey.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
Piilsbury', Onsr.

For tina next week everyone purchasing q
4S H. sack of Piiisbury's Best Flour will
receive a novel and useful rotary biscuit
cutter free This biscuit cutter which
Pillsbury gives away with his flour cannot
be bought elsewhere and can only be Sc
cured by buying a sack of Pillsbury's Best.
Pillsbury has sent l00,0 900 biscuit cutters
to Iowa, to be given away by the grocers
selling his flour during the next week.
They are extensively advertising their -four
in Iowa and are evidently intent upon
winning the trade. Their trade mark is
pills bury's Best Feeds the World" One
would think them nearly correct in TIE
assertion when he stops to think that they
turn out q, 2O3 barrels of -four every work
ing day in the year.
To those not familiar with the striking
merits of this flour, it may be interesting to
learn that the wheat for Pillsbury's Best is
selected only by chemical analysis. Not
hundredth part of the wheat grown in
America is good enough for it. The wheat
with the most health giving nutrimect IL
used. The rest is sold.
Pillsbury's Best is n high grade -four,
made from wheat grown in the famous Red
River Valley of North Dakota, and they
claim it makes more bread better bread
and winter bread than any other Hour.
Mr. C.. A. Pillsbury makes the statement
over his own signature that Pillsbury's
Best goes one-fifth farther than any other
flour milIed. He therefore contends that 1t
is cheaper for a housewife to use Pillsbury's
Best than co use an inferior -four
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
Diphtheria In Fowls.

This disease is common in the fall
months, says Farm Journal. We have
already had several inquiries indicat-
ing that it has come to the fiocks OF
our readers. The first symptom usu-
ally noticed is heavy, difficult breath
ing and stretching up of the neck.
After awhile the comb turns purple
and the bird suffocates. We do not
know of any ''sure cure" for this very
troublesome complaint, but recon-
mend trial of the following: Take
a large, long shoe box and make par
tition a foot from the small end and
cover the bottom Of this small apart
ment with coal ashes. Mix a table
spoonful each OF pine tar, turpen-
tine and sulphur, adding few drops
of carboiic acid and a pinch Of gum
camphor Heat brick very hot and
lay it on the ashes. Now put the bird
or birds in the large apartment, drop
n spoonful of the mixture on the hot
brick and cover with a cloth. Watch
carefully and be ready to remove the
patients at once after two or three
minutes exposure TO the fumes. 1t is
easy to kill them by suffocation. An
examination will show q whitish men,
brane forming in the throat. The for
nation of this may sometimes be
checked by spraying the throat with
peroxide of hydrogen or with this
formula 1 ounce glycerine, drops
nitric acid. / gill water. All affected
birds should be separated from the
general flock. and care should be exer-
cised in handling them, as it is thought
the contagion may be communicated
to human beings. Those who use
homeopathic remedies should give
Mercurius Iodatum every two hours
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

wewere informed that the sales amount
ed to hundreds of pounds weekly, and
brought in no inconsiderable revenue
as by-product of a not distant cream
cry. This cheese is nothing but milk
allowed to thicken and then is cooked
and 'wheyed off" and simply prepared,
not even pressed into cakes. Here was
hint, says correspondent or the
Practical Farmer that might have been
made of service to many. Numbers
of farms have few COWS, and there
seems only one way to dispose OF the
milk, that of making butter. Why
should not these women who spend
hours q day in making butter to ex-
change for groceries at eight cents
pound make the milk into cottage
cheese, and have it sold at somo fam
lily supply house, or even ind
few customers and furnish as
tn. would butter. There is no
great margin of profit as there
once was in butter and cheese
making, and If the by-products OF the
dairy room could be better utilized, or
the milk itself turned into new chan
nels, and made into some of what are
known as the fancies, or even dain-
ties, 1t would seem that it would be the
more profitable way. Now that this
country is to consume all of it's butter
and cheese, it would suggest itself as
a business proposition that the meth
DDS of manufacture take on wider
range, and instead of just butter and
cheese, we should have variety of the
cheeses, and put up in it's many fancy
forms. Last year. as low as was the
price of cheese, this country imported
a million and half dollars worth of
fancy cheese from Europe. Why not
make this variety at home?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

THERE WAS A TALL MAN.
Icy bitches. 1t seemed to her as il in
all the troubles that she had known
and carried before this, there had al
ways been some hope TO hold, as il
she had never looked poverty full in
the face and seen it's cold and pitiless
look before. She looked anxiously
down the road, with horrible shrink
ing and dread at the thought of being
asked, out of pity. TO join in some
Thanksgiving feast, but there was no.
body coming with gifts in hand Once
she had been full of love for such days,
whether at home or abroad. but some
thing had chilled her very heart now.
poor old woman.
Her nearest neighbor had been fore
most of those who wished her to go to
the town-farm. and he had said more
than once that il was the only sensible
thing. But John Mander was waiting
patiently to get her tiny farm into his
own hands. He had advanced some
money upon it in her extremity, and
pretended that there was still debt,
after he had cleared her wood lot to
pay himself back He would pillow over
the graves in the field-corner and fell
the great elms, and waited for his poor
prey like spider. He had often re-
preached her for being too generous to
worthless people in the past and COM
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

and came in himself laden with pieces
of the nearest fence to keep the fire go
ing in the meantime. They must cook
the steak for supper right away; they
must find the package of tea among all
the other bundles; they must get good
fires started in both the bedrooms.
Why, Mother Robb didn't seem to be
ready for company from out Wes:! The
great cheerful fellow hurried about the
tiny house, and the little, old woman
limped after him, forgetting everything
but hospitality. Had not she house
for John to come to? Were not her
old chairs and tables in their places
still? And he remembered everything
and kissed her as they stood before the
fire as If she were girl.
He had found plenty of hard times,
but luck had come at last He had
struck luck, and this was the end of a
great year.
mo, couldn't seem to write letters;
no use to complain o. the worst. an |
wanted to tell you the best when |
came; and he told it while she cooked
the supper. mo. l want goin' to write
no foolish letters" John repeated. He
was afraid he should cry himself when
he found out how bad things had been
and they sat down to supper together,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
Oh! Turkey with cranberry jellyi
Oh! Doughnuts and pudding and pit

If there IS ever time when we want
our turkey to be tender and juicy. il is
for the Thanksgiving dinner 1t is not
every housekeeper who knows how to
select turkey, though it is not a diff
cult matter. The best turkeys have
smooth, black legs with soft, loose
spurs. and are short and plump. The
end OF the breast bone should be soft
and flexible. The breasts are full, and
the flesh plump and white.
The cooking is fully as important as
the selection, and the preparation for
Il should be carefully attended to.
A turkey is greatly improved by
drawing the sinews from the legs. This
converts the otherwise coarse and
tough flesh of the drumstick into deli
cate meat.
II you prefer to stuff your turkey,
place enough in slit of neck to fill the
cavity made by removing the crop; fill
the breast with the remainder and sew
firmly.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

Just as they used to when he was a
homeless orphan boy, whom nobody
else wanted in winter weather while he
was crippled and could not work. She
could not be kinder now than she was
then but she looked so poor and old!
He saw her taste her cup Of tea and set
it down again. with trembling hand
and look at him. mo, / wanted to
come myself" he clustered. wiping his
eyes and trying to laugh. And you're
going to have everything you need to
make you comfortable longs you live,
Mother Robb!'
She looked at him again and nodded,
but she did not even try to speak.
There was good. hot supper ready.
and her own folks had come; 1t was the
night before THANKSGIVING.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

day, and OF variety Of anything that
they will eat, allowing mess of chop
ped grass or clover, and give the corn
at night. as much as the hens will eat.
Every other day give mess of equal
parts of bran and ground oats, with a
gill of linseed meal in the mixture for
dozen hens. Keep the poultry house
clean, and the fowls will fatten rap-
idly.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
The Faults and Fo,lies OF the Age

Are numerous but OF the latter none are
III IRE ridiculous than the promiscuous and
random use of laxative pills and other dras
tic cathartics. These wrench. convulse anC
weaken both the stomach and bowels. II
Hostetter's Stomach Btters be used ms teaC
of these no-remedies, the result is accom-
plished without pain and with great benefit
to the bowels, the stomach and liver. Use
this remedy W hen constipation is manifested
and thereby prevent il from becoming
oh
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

Kitchen and a tiny bedroom that led
out of it, and there still remained the
best room and bedroom, with the
low garrett overhead. There had been
a time. after she was left alone, when
Mrs. Robb could help those who We're
poorer than herself She owned pig,
and was strong enough not only to do
a woman's work inside her house, but
also a mans work outside in her piece
OF garden ground. At last sickness and
age had come hand in hand, those two
relentless enemies Of the poor, and to-
gether they had wasted her strength
and substance. She had always been
looked up TO by her neighbors as be-
ing independent, but now she was left,
lame-footed and lame-handed, with a
debt to carry. and her bare land, and
the house ill-provisioned to stand the
siege of time. For while she man
aged to get on. but at last it began to
be whispered about that it was no use
for any one to be so proud; 1T was cas-
Ter for the whole town to care for her
than for a few neighbors, and she had
better go to the poorhouse before win
ter and be done with ii. At this ter
rible suggestion her brave heart
seemed to stand still. The people
whom she cared most for happened TO
be poor, and she could no longer go
into their households to make herself Of
use. The veiy elms overhead seemed
to say "No" as they groaned in the late
,mn winds, and there was some
tag appealing even to strange pass
ers-by in the look of the little gray
house. with Mrs. Robb's pale. worried
face at the window.
Anniversaries are days to make other
people happy in, but sometimes when
they come they seem TO be full Of sha-
dows, and the power of giving Joy to
others. that inalienable right which
ought to tighten the saddest heart, the
most Indifferent sympathy, sometimes
even this seems to be withdrawn. So
poor old Mary Ann Robb sat at her
window on the afternoon before
Thanksgiving and felt herself to be
poor and sorrowful indeed. Across the
frozen road she looked eastward over
a great stretch OF cold meadow-land,
brown and windswept and crossed by
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

The readers of this paper viii be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in all it's stages, and that Is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure known to the medical fraternity.
Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re-
quires a constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces OF the system thereby destroying
the foundation OF the disease and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature In doing
its work. The proprietors have go much
faith in its curative powers that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any case
that il fails to cure. Send for list OF tes-
timonials.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

Thanksgiving Day Is timely pre-
paration for Christmas. A thankful
heart makes one desire to share good
gifts with poorer nelghbor, and so
by the time Christmas Day appears the
spirit of selflshness has been sup
pressed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
He Couldn't Believe II.

Johnny-Pa, you said Mr.. Piper was I.
self-made man, didn't you.
Pa-Yes
Johnny-Well, he ain't.
Ha-Why do you think he isn't9
Johuuy-I.ook q his red hair and freckles
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
At the Wrong Place.

who was that gentleman at the door
Jane!"
Il don't know, mum. / told him that he
had called at the wrong house.
How in the world do you know he did,
Because he had no bill to present
mnfu ~
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
Good Poultry Exhibits.

We have noticed at some of the fairs
this year that the poultry exhibits were
especially fine. We presume the same
is true of most Of the fairs we did not
visit. There certainly appears to be a
steady improvement in the character
of the birds shown. II all would visit
the poultry departments of the fairs
much might be learned. There are
little improvements in feeding, water
ing and care that will more than repay
the close attention needed to discover
them. The poultry men are all the
time hitting on new devices and some
of them are very original. A little
thing sometimes becomes a great con-
venience. The hard times have evil
IDENTIFY not discouraged the poultry
men. The large number of birds ex-
hibited shows conclusively that the flu
ture prospects are regarded as fairly
bright. 1t is probable that the hard
times have had less effect on the
poultry industry than most any other.
Geese are fattened in large numbers
in some places of the European conti-
nent, especially in the neighborhood IS
Strasburg-a place celebrated for itn
pies. There geese have a shepherd to
tend them, as sheep have. The birds
are reared by the peasantry, every one
of whom is possessed of some stock of
these valued fowls. and. says Rural
Life ian old English work., the shep-
herd every morning wakes the echoes
of the village by the sound of a trum-
pet. with which he assemblies his
feathered flock. which, in company of
a herd of pigs, repair to the pasture on
the common devoted to that purpose.
In the evening the shepherd leads back
his flock, but before they arrive at the
village almost all the geese take flight,
rise above the roofs and settle down in
their respective homes.
Raising Lilacs.-It is an easy way of
raising lilacs to SOW the seed. The pods
are gathered in the fall and sown In
the spring. They soon sprout, but
make only two or three inches of
growth the first year. 1t is these seed
ings which give the new sorts. and to
them We are indebted for the many
shades of color, running from white to
purple.-Ex.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
Such Ignorance.

johnnie. is your brother back at col
lege!" asked the girl who is deeply inter-
ested in the'subiect of her inquiry.
Nav. he's quarterback" proudly an
swered the youngster
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
low Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm---A Few
Hints to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.

OF long since the
writer was in a
large restaurant,
and on a side table
was a large vesse lin
which was heaped
.twenty or more
pounds of common
C t a g g cheese,
which was being
rapidly sold for ten
cents a pound. and
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

Piso's Cure for Consumption is the best OF
all cough cares.-GeqcW. Lott la5uchsfF,
La, August 70, 1895.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

A Christian should not only forgive his
enemies, but when occasion arises he should
forgive his friends.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

Microscopists say that the strongest mi
croscopes do not probably, reveal the low
est stages of animal life
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

In England less than ninety years ago it
was not unusual for Il man to sell his wife
into servitude.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

Over ,2o0, 600 acres of the earth's surface
is devoted 10 LIBERALIZATION of tobacco.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

Just try a Zoe box of Cascarets, the fines
liver and bowel regulator ever made.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup
ForchdTen tee,hng softens thegunis, reduces infam
nation ailays PAIN ind collie. IS bottle
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

TO CURE A COLD LONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AL
Druggists refund the monev II Ii fails TO cure PC
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24
Address.

F. ]. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. o.
Sold by Druggists. Iac.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

Telegraph operators in Germany receive
S.. IL u week; in Italy, 500
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

HERE was a sad
heart in the low
storied, dark little
house that stood
humbly by the
roadside u II q e r
some tall elms.
Small as her house
was, old Mrs. Robb
found it too large
for herself alone;
she only needed the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-11-24

as If her heart was going to break with
Joy. He left her in the rocking chair
and came and went in his old bonny
way, bringing in his store of gifts and
provisions. 1t was better than any
dream. He laughed and talked and
went out to send the man to bring a
wagonful of wood from John Mander's,