Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-10

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The asparagus bed is now doing its
full duty.
The wren and grosbeak showed up
Ma 2nd this year.
We made first cutting of our asparagus
bed April 2Sth this year.
Over one half of all the bees in Iowa
persisted the past winter.
Most farm homesteads will have
colt or two around them this season.
One farm in Howard county produced
$500 bushels Of spring wheat the past
year.
There is a certain condition OF soil in
the fresh broken patch of hazel brush
land which seems to especially suit the
potato
If YOU can't, or won't plant tree this
spring, at least drive willow stake in
the ground and see the Lord make tree
out of that.
"Dont be clam" still if you are one
AN Iowa clam you stand every chance
of being worked up into a set OF hand
some pearl buttons.
Tho grass headland of 10 feet in width
next the fence of the cultivated field Is
to be commended and to our mind is an
evidence of good farming.
Every bushel of grain, every pound of
beef, butter, pork, mutton, poultry, every
dozen of eggs raised in Iowa this year.
will be wanted at good prices.
Farm mortgages to the amount OF
S2OO,000,00) have been paid off in Kansas
during the past few years and no state
in the Union is more prosperous.
The exceptionally cold weather of
February destroyed over Sl,OOo,WO
worth of bulbs for the florists within
radius of forty miles of Chicago.
A lot of Hereford steers coming two
years old and weighing 1,lSO pounds,
topped the Kansas City market last
week at $3.50 Baby beef still leads.
The remedy for killed clover fields is
to SOW more. Bye and bye here in Iowa
all small grain sown will be seeded with
clover, just as one uses salt on ones
food.
A $3.50 mortgage ON a farm at per
cent was changed the past week, a
neighbor farmer Offering to take it at 8
per cent. These be hard times for the
Shyloclls.
A peach tree which has wintered
perfectly is reported from Clay county,
Iowa. II such tree pulled through the
past winter without protection, it will
pass rs an ironclad.
The food used to keep young animal
Just barely alive from November to May
is practically wasted 1t is better to
sell both critter and fodder in the fall
and buy anew in the spring.
1t is we'll enough to take look at the
railroads in their capacity as taxpayers
Most Iowa counties derive large revenue
from them, and to that extent, they light
en- the burden Of taxation on the farmer.
The clover plant lives two years, then
dies natural death. While there seems
to be exceptions to this rule, the except
ions win generally be found to arise
from the reseeding OF the firstyear's crop
The common people of Germany are
not kicking any over the canned beef OF
the beef In the quarter which they don't
ret, but 90 on munching sausage made
from old bus horses with that phlegma'
tic dignity which is so characteristic Of
that people.
The Scientific American, one of the
most reliable authorities on all phase.
of science and invention, pronounces the
claim made by Mr.. Irlpler That ne can
manufacture 10 gallons of liquid air a
am expenditure of two gallons as mos
stupendous fraud.
The obligation rests upon you, as
good citizen to either cremate or proper
" bury your dead animals and not hau
them off and leave them TO become al
offense to your neighbors. The law vii
compel you to do this if your neighbo
sees fit to invoke its aid.
A flock of hens running at large on
farm homestead win not yield tn
profit the same flock would yarded ant
properly fed and cared for. A friend o
ours who has tried both ways tells Il
that he gets nearly twice as many egg
under the last named method as he di,
when his flock ran wild.
There is no agricultural prosperity il
the whole wide world which equals tina
enjoyed by the western farmer who feed
out the raw material raised on his farm
the seller of beef, pork, butter, mutton
eops. poultry and the like. The farr