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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28
A Farmers Balance Sheet.

Ifany farmer who reads these notes
keeps correct debit and credit account
with his farm as would merchant
with his business, we would be glad to
have him send us a copy of his last
balance sheet. The fact contained
therein we would like to publish and
comment upon, emitting names of
course, If desired. Most farm book
keeping is done by guess. fla man
finds himself with 500 on hand and no
note or store bill to pay, he concludes
that he is ahead. Just how much was
made or lost on raising a crop, or q
colt, feeding bunch of cattle or hogs,
or any other of the many investments
and speculations of the farm, not one
man in one hundred knows anything
about. Why should he not know? He
should.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28
A Word With You.

We would like to have word Or
two round the corner with some Of our
farmer friends who read this, about
the conveniences furnished their good
wives for doing the never-ending house
work. How about the fuel and water
supply? How about soft water? How
about cooking utensils, stove and all
the rest? Are you riding bran new
sulky pillow and your wife trying to
cook your food on an old stove OF '62
pattern? Are you shut off the labor of
handling your hay, with your new hay
fork, and your wife rubbing the hide
off her knuckles on an old wash board
for want of a decent washing machine?
Do you have chute in the barn to let
the grain down from the bin above and
make your wife go five rods for all the
wood and water she uses? Don't that
old floor in the kitchen need replacing
with new one as badly as the horse
stalls?. You and mother sit down to-
gether as soon as you have read this
and see If there are not several little
conveniences which you could give her
which would make her work lighter
and easier. The mother in the farm
home has enough to do the good Lord
knows, even when things are fixed the
best way possible. ard
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28
He Raises White Clover Seed.

Here is a new wrinkle in north Iowa
agriculture-a man who makes the
raising of white clover seed the lead
ing feature of his farm work. H. Zirbel
of Owen township. Cerro Gordo county,
has farm of 100 acres and keeps lbs
acres Of 1t continuously in white clover
He gets one crop of seed year, which
averages from one to two bushels per
acre tor which he gets from S. to $l4
per bushel. He Keeps flock of sheep,
so hives of bees, fats two car loads OF
steers each year and buys all the hay,
oats and corn used on the place. He
says this special crop pays well, taking
it for series of years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28
Some 1908 Fruit Notes.

Small fruits have with us given the
best crop we ever raised. Plums have
shown the effect of the aphis pest of
last year and but few trees gave full
crop. Hawkeye and Wyant gave a
better yield than Rockford, DeSoto and
Stoddard. The Miner did better than
usual. Circulio destroyed the Russian
and eastern varieties completely. In
apples Wealthy, Utter's Red, Fameuse,
Haas, Duchess, Plum Cider bore good
crops. Patterns and Northwest Green
ings are beginning to bear and show up
large handsome fruit, though Patterns
drops badly. The exhibits of apples at
the fairs have been unusually fine and
demonstrate beyond question that
northern Iowa is strictly within very
choice apple belt.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28
Got a Hint.

A farmer got practical hint in this
manner two years ago. A late spring
frost killed all the apple bloom in his
orchard and save on one tree he did
not raise an apple. This tree-a
Wealthy--stoOd near haystack and a
snow drift piled up round its roots.
Later, a lot OF hay slipped from the
stack onto the snow. In the spring
this tree did not bloom with the others.
He thought it dead. Upon examin-
ing it he found the snow piled round
the roots under the hay. Ten days af-
ter the frost the tree bloomed and set a
very heavy crop of fruit and furnished
him the only apples he had thai year.
1t did not need college professor to
explain the why and the wherefore of
this
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

Minnesota state institutions have got
the daily rations of the inmates down
to q fine point. Ten cents day feeds
them and they are furnished an album
dance ofnutritious food. Outside, sane
people have to pay $500 a week for
prunes and hash.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28
The Next Test Winter.

Fruit men in this latitude fear the
next test winter. The last one was in
1882. Out of that wreck the Duchess
apple under all conditions alone sur
vived. Hundreds Of new varieties of
apples. have since then come into bear
ing, but these have yet to run the
gauntlet of the next test winter. When
it comes we look for an awful slaugh-
ter, but expect to see many besides the
Duchess pull through.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

There is but one COW in Dawson City
and she sold for $500 short time ago.
Her milk brings from SIS to $50 each
day. Three hens sold there for 500.
Custards come high there, we take it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

The effort to furnish refrigerator
dressed beeffor our troops in q tropical
climate has been good deal of a fail
ure, over half of it spelling before 1t
could be used.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

We cover all our berry bushes in the
fall with the exception of the Older
raspberry, which seems perfectly hardy
uncovered under all conditions. In
north Iowa it is almost imperative that
the berry bushes have winter protec-
ton.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

Truth wears well. People have
learned that DeWitt's Little Early
Risers are reliable little pills for regu-
lating the bowels, curing constipation
and sick headache. They don't grippe.
E. ]. Weiser. 81
Mrs. A. G. Seavy is prepared to
take orders for all kinds Of home bak-
ing. Fresh Boston Brown Bread on
hand every Saturday. 60-tf
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

The onion raisers think a scurvy
trick has been played on them this fall
as they can only get about Is cents a
bushel for this antiscorbutic esculent.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

There is not much poetry about the
pumpkin, still well-made pumpkin
pie at this season of the year helps a
man to enjoy religion.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

If your nurse crop was bumper one
don't kick if your clover and grass
seed look pretty slim this fall. You
have had the fat old sow lay on her
pigs and smother them and that is
what your big nurse crop has done for
the grass seed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

We don't care If man has his barn
full of good hay, he misses it If he does
not have plenty of good corn fodder for
his milch COWS.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

1t is thought that the present great
crop of wheat will average 20 cents to
the producer, which means millions of
money for western farmers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

Southeastern Nebraska is developing
into the best peach-growing section of
the United States.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28
Basis OF Alarm.

y Civious--You who are In point with
pride at the very things your opponents
affect to view with alarm.
Politicus-C Certainly. They arc afraid
these things viii DO the means of keeping
us In, you sse. --Dstroit Journal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

We this week picked bushel of
Wealthy apples and wrapping each
apple separately in paper and packing
in a box, have put them in cool cellar
with a temperature of So to test their
keeping qualities SO treated. Will re-
nort ON same later on.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

Bennett thinks that when the farm
rooster has outlived his usefulness on
the farm he should be sent into the
city for our city cousins to eat. Wrong,
altogether wrong, Bennett. There is
no one who can work up the old rooster
as well as the hired man on the farm
where the rooster was raised.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

A man who is using one tells us that
the broad-tired low-wheeled wagon
Jugs team to death on the road. This
does not tally with the experiments
made at the Missouri station. Our
friend adds, however, that If everyone
used such wagons 1t would not be so
hard on the team to haul them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

Good cats, milk-fed, around the
barns, are the best rat-exterminators
we have up to date.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

The universe must be tipping towards
the south these late years, for here is
J. B. Mitchell of Cresco showing fine
lot of peaches at the Howard county
fair raised in that county and Judge
Rieneger of Charles City lot of nee
tarines raised at that place.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28
FARM, ORCHARD,
AND GARDEN.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford Iowa.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.

Duchess No. A is a nice apple, show
ing up this year very finely; it is late
fall fruit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28
Starting Right. :

There are some truths which will
bear reiterating and one of them is as
to starting right in the stock business.
1t may be set down as accepted agri-
cultural gospel that profitable farming
In Iowa lies in feeding up the products
of the farm on the farm to some kind
of stock and that well-bred stock of
any kind converts these products into
money with greater per cent of profit
to the owner than does common or
scrub stock. Now, If we were young
man just starting on an Iowa farm, we
would try and get hold of one or two
registered heifers, and do you realize
that at the end OF seven years, if we
had taken proper care in the matter of
selection and breeding, we would have
herd of not less than twenty choice
animals? You see it is just a matter of
starting right. Think this over. $500
invested in two such heifers at the be-
ginning would prove the best invest
ment you ever made.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

A piece of road leading from stone
quarry to small town was, by reason
Of the heavy loads hauled over 1t, al
ways cut into deep ruts and we'll nigh
impossible at times. A change from
the narrow-tired to wide-tired wheels
on the stone wagons entirely changed
the character of the road and made it
as smooth and hard as city pavement.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1898-09-28

WANTED SEVERAL TRUSTWORTHY
Wv persons In this state to manage our busi-
ness In their own and nearby counties. IL Is
mainly office work conducted at home. sal
airy straight $500 year and expenses-den-
mite bonafide, no more, no less salary.
Monthly SIS References. Enclose selfad-
dressed stamped envelope, Herbert 4. Hess,
Prest., Dept. M, Chicago. aeio
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-24
An Edison Invention.

The manager of the electrical exposi
ton in Philadelphia asked Mr.. Edison to
send on Photographic cylinder setting
forth some of his latest ideas of cleo
trical interest. Mr.. Edison complied in
his own way. The message was as fol-
lows:
MY Dear Marks-You ask me to send
you a photographic cylinder for your lee
ture this evening and to say few words
to the audience. I do not think the audi
ence would take any interest in dry scien-
tific subjects, but perhaps they might be
interested in a little story that man
sent me on a photographic cylinder the
other day from San Francisco. In the
year 1878 a man from Massachusetts came
to California with a chronic liver COM
plant. He searched all over the coast for
a mineral spring to cure the disease, and
finally found down in the San Joaquin val
ley a spring the waters of which almost
instantly cured him. He thereupon start
ed a sannarium, and people all over the
world came and were quickly cured. Last
year this man died, and so powerful had
been the action of the waters that they
had to take his liver out and kill it with
a club. Yours truly, Edison
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-24
PERSONAL.

-Sarasate, the famous violinist, is a
Spaniard. He declares that his extraordi-
nary command over the violin is due to
the fact that he has practiced, on an
average, six hours day ever since he was
II years of age.
Private ]. f. Finley of the First Cali
fornia, who carried ammunition to the
Tenth Pennsylvania during the battle at
Malate, making several trips over a field
swept by the Spanish fire, is half Spanish
and is "A years old His mother speaks
only Spanish. His father, who is dead,
was a railroad man who had charge Of
the construction Of a part of the Southern
Pacific in Arizona.
Robert Taylor, the Oldest person in
Great Britain or ireland, who died re-
Gently at an age much above 100 years,
according to the Westminster Gazette,
was 1874 years old, having been born in
1854; others put his age at only 1l9. At
any rate, IL is on record that he served as
a hfer for the British troops during the
rebellion in Ireland. On the Introduction
of penny postage he was appointed post
master at Scarva, county Down, Ireland,
and held the office at his death, attending
to all business himself till a few days be-
fore he passed away. Last April Queen
Victoria sent him a framed portrait of
herself as a birthday gift. He was a
Methodist, and had built large hall back
of his house for religious service.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-24
Bottle of Wine with a burglar.

Burglar stories are ali the rage on
Mount Washington now Everybody has
one to tell. But the most thrilling of
Michael Hummel, says the Pitsburg Dis
patch. Mr.. Hummel is the proprietor of
a summer garden on Mount Oliver He
went home one morning about ? O'Clock
and saw a light in the dining room This
was something unusual and Mr.. Hummel
slipped quietly around to the dining room
door and entered. A burglar was crouch
ing in a corner behind a door,
'Hullo," said Mr.. Hummel, not the least
disconnected. What are you doing here?''
The burglar did not answer, but looked
sullzly at the master of the house.
Sit down. said Mr.. Hummel in a com
manding voice. When you come visiting
a man sit down when he tells you"
The burglar sat down and Mr.. Hummel
excused himself while he went to the
cellar and brought up a bottle of wine.
Getting a plate of cheese and some crack
ers from the sideboard, he drew his chair
up to the table and motloned for his guest
to join him. The burglar pulled his chair
up and the two went at the wine and the
lunch.
Flows business" asked Mr.. Hummel.
Bum" was The reply.
"Wen it'll pick up" said Mr.. Hummel,
cheerfully, Times are bad now. We're
not doing mucn business at all just now.
Don't get discouraged. Things will be-
gin coming your way pretty soon. How
much do you get a day."
About two or three dollars. Can't al
ways count on it, Tain't a stiddy biz.
why don't you try some other liner
inquired Mr.. Hummel.
The burglar shook his head. The two
talked on for a half hour, Mr.. Hummel
being greatly interested in his gunest
~. 4 rnrtsa wa
and Mr.. Hummel arose, with a yawn.
He opened the door and motioned the
burglar out.
The burglar looked at him questioningly
"Git out" said Mr. Hummel, w hen
man tells you to git out git out. I'm
sleepy and I'm going TO bed.
The burglar stepped out into the night.
Mr.. Hummel bolted and locked the door
and went to bed. He has never seen ms
burglar since.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-24
They Beat the slot Machine.

Heretofore the general supposition has
been that the only way to beat a nicke-dn-
the-slot machine is not to play it, says the
New York Times. That there is another
way number of East Side saloon keepers
have within the past few days learned 10
their sorrow. That way is to take the
machine bodily, slot, nichels and all, and
wander with it into unknown fields.
That at least, is what a couple OF swim
oilers did in half dozen or more East
Side saloons last week. Displaying a
badge numbered 62. and a clumsily forged
receipts, signed "Chief Devery," they ap-
peared in the several saloons, and, repre-
senting themselves to be agents OF a Law
and Order Society,"" stated that they had
come to confiscate the machines, which
were being maintained in violation of law.
They tnen placed the machines in black
wagon bearing the mystic letters d. U. S.
on the side, and drove off.
Dublin Mike" a big Irish bartender in
Il saloon at Third avenue and Forty-ninth
street, was the last man they visited.
''Be jabbers, and yez can't have 1t, so
yez can't" he said in rich brogue.
"Oh, but we can" came the answer.
The Hibernian continued to protest, and
to satisfy himself the swindlers deliberate
ly called in a policeman, and, displaying
their badge and wagon, SO convinced him
that he advised Mike to surrender, which
the Irishman did but with bad grace.
Then the men drove off with the machine
and its contents.
Capt. McClusky of the detective bureau
is on the lookout for the swindlers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-24
Overlooked.

From the Chicago Evening Post.
He wouldn't look well in a novel.
He wouldn't be praised in a play,
His homes neither palace nor howell
He's only man of to-day.
He couldn't do much with a saber,
If carnage and riot were rife;
He merely can suffer and labor
A hero of everyday life.
lie isn't delightfully."- daring,
He isn't a maidens ideal,
His love and devotion declaring
A hero of ballads and steel,
He's merely a man who is fighting
The battle of civilized times
A ballad that's whitening, blighting,
Unsung in the troubadours rhymes.
He's really but one of the many,
Determined and patient and bold,
Whose struggles as noble as any
BY poet or novelist>told.
And later, when Time writes the story
OF those who've been valiant in strife,
A page will be due to the glory
OF heroes of every day life.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-24
BRIGHT BITS.

Tor goodness sake, wear some other
bathing dress Dora; that isn't decent"
"All right, John; lend me yours"
And even then he didn't seem to be
pleased.-Pick-Me-Up.
How often do you want me to tell
you not to make that noise, Johnnie"'
said the father.
II would rather you wouldn't tell me at
at ALL" replied Jack.-Philadelphi North
American.
-Dethroned-
Once he called her his queen;
Once she called him her king;
But that monarchy fell when she found
A flaw in the stone in her ring.
Chicago Daily News.
-Encoura gement.-He: l wish 1 could
occupy the fist place in your heart, but
l know that your admirers name is le-
gion.
The Coquette: Well, be good, and I'll
I'll advance you ten numbers.-Puck.
when I asked for a raise I told my
employer I had grown gray in his SER
vice"
What did he say?'
"He said if l had worked anywhere
else ] would probably have got bald
Chicago Record.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-24
Only Once

The New York World announces that
the President has reached the conclusion
to retain only one of the Philippine Is
landslide island of Luzon The World
may be right, but we are inclined to the
opinion that the Worlds announcement is.
not authentic. In the first place it is
doubtful if the President has made up his
mind about the matter If he has reached
a decision it is not probable that he has
made it known to any one who would give
it to the public. The Worlds announce
ment is doubtless only a guess
The island of Luzon is the gem of the
Islands. If we should take 1t Spain would
not have a very strong desire for the
others. 1t is the largest of the islands,
having an area of about IS, 900 square miles,
Manila, the capital of the Philippines, is
situated on it and it contains very mucn
larger population than any of the others.
The World hasn't got very much glory
out of the war and it is not likely to get
any important Information as to the Pres
idents policy In respect TO any of the
territory which has come into our pos
session ahead of other papers.
When the expedition to Santiago was
projected the World tried to make it APP
pear that it was folly to send an army
there-that SPANS power in Cuba would
never be broken until Havana was cap
tured In fact, the World made itself
almost ridiculous by it's frantic demands
that Havana should be attacked at once.
1t did not know anything about the situa-
ton then, and 1t Is safe to say that IL
knows nothing about the instructions
which the President win give the peace
commissioners.