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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04
The Best Month.

October is the best month in the year;
there is then a let up in the rush and
hustle incident to the planting, cl.ltiva-
ting and harvest seasons; there is time
to go to the fair, or take day off fishing,
or 60 and see the good wife's relatives
down in Ohio. The weeds have quit
growing and the flies have quit biting,
and there is solid comfort in gathering
up the last crops of the year and getting
things snugged up for the winter. A
fellow looks through the dreamy haze
of the still October afternoon and sees
the well-flled corn cribs, the fast ripen-
ing tenants of the poultry yard, the
cows content on clover aftermath,
scents the fragrance OF far off prairie
fire, notes the wild fowl headed for the
south and hearing the welcome supper
call, goes to the house and feasts on
fried chicken and pumpkin pie, thank
full that his lot is cast in such pleasant
places-at least he should feel that way.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04
About Corn in the Farm Orchard,

A writer in horticultural journal
recommends corn as the best crop to
raise in young orchard. This state
ment needs qualifying. If the corn is
not planted within ten feet of the trees
and the vacant space either mulched or
well cultivated during the growing
season, corn is all right in the orchard,
but il it is planted close up to the young
trees and the season is other than wet
one, the corn will rob the trees of needed
moisture and hamper their growth, if it
does not kill them outright. Corn,
when growing, is voracious eater and
never-satisfied drinker, and woe to the
tree or plant which has to occupy
territory over which its hungry roots
extend. There is nothing better than
beans if some sort Of a crop must be
raised upon the land occupied by the
young trees. The bean is fertilizer
not robber of the soil.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04
Pioneer Pests.

In 1859 we raised ten acre field of
corn upon new farm on the Minnesota
frontier. the which after it got about
ripe we had to watch day and night al
most, to keep the sand-hill cranes, the
wild geese and the ducks from wholly
destroying. AS it was, they got over
half Of it and when we went through
the form of husking the crop. the field
looked as if a flock of sheep had been
pastured in it. "Good shooting?" you ask.
Well we should say SO, but what was the
use of killing game when there was no
use for it? In those days we would
have been glad to have snapped four
Canada geese or dozen mallards for
two pounds Of salt pork. Those days
are gone, but we would like to have just
one day in that old cornfield once more.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

When an Iowa dairy farmer buys a
car load of bran made from the wheat
raised on Minnesota or Dakota farm,
he gets the very best thing raised on
such farm-the rich, thick creams and
in Iowa it represents transfer of fertil-
ity which is all good for Iowa and all
bad for Dakota and Minnesota. 1t will
not always 60 on this way, for the wheat
raiser gets to the end of his rope more
quickly than does the grower Of any
other cereal crop. Iowa got to the end
of this business twenty years ago. She
now grows clover and corn and buys
bran and her farms get richer each year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

This season sees the saving Of q larger
per cent of the corn fodder through the
northwest than ever before. Little by
little corn-growers are awaking to the
fact that they cannot afford to waste
about half the value of the crop. The
new corn harvesting machines are doing
excellent work this year and making the
securing of the corn-fodder compar-
atively easy job. Much of this excel
lent fodder will be fed to fatting cattle
just as it comes from the shock; much
will be shredded, and not little thresh-
ed with an ordinary machine. The very
best way in which to use and prepare
this fodder is not yet fully determined;
enough, that farmers have got to the
point where the fodder is hereafter to
be largely saved instead of being wasted.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

Every improvement made on the rail
roads of the country, whether in the
shape of straighter road beds, lowered
grades, heavier engines or bigger cars,
reacts to the benefit of the farmers. The
road which can haul a ton of produce
for the smallest sum is the road which
invariably fixes the rate at which such
produce shall be hauled; perhaps not all
at once, but the ability to haul for the
least money as surely determines this
question of freights, as the ability to
sell given commodity for the smallest
sum settles it's value in the markets.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04
A Deserved Tribute.

There is all too little sentiment in
business and the way Of the old world is
to grab and appropriate all good things
as they come along with never thought
as to their origin or OF the patient labor
and genius which invented OF begat
them for the good Of mankind. The
men who thus benefit the world seldom
live long enough to reap any fair need of
appreciation or financial reward for their
work. The men who developed the
Concord grape and the Ben Davis apple
are unknown even by name to thousands
OF men who make money growing these
fruits. Another case is that Of the man
who developed the Wealthy apple for
the northwest, in the doing of which he
conferred boon upon all growers of
this fruit in northwestern territory, the
value OF which cannot be over estimated.
This man-Peter M. Gideon of Excelsior,
Minnesota-is now an old man and poor
and some Iowa man who has been grow
ing 30 successfully these beautiful red
apples. suggests that each man in the
northwest growing the Wealthy set aside
each year the sum Of five cents for each
Wealthy tree in his orchard as tribute
to the old man for the grand work which
he did in producing this apple. We
know that this is pure sentiment and all
that, yet still it would be most fitting
thing to do and would bring into the
last days of good and noble life a
recognition and appreciation which
would make its sunset full Of radiance
and beauty.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

In the year 1890 this country imported
manufactured goods to the value Of
s356,65 $40; during the same period il
exported manufactured goods to the
value of s515, l02,376. Now note the
change; for the year ending August 1
1899 it imported manufactured goods to
the value of s259, SIC, 293 and sent abroad
the products of our mills and factories
to the value of 1886. 667,79 Herein car
be found the secret of much Of oul
present prosperity.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

The blue-ioint grass which was SC
abundant on the western prairies when
they were first settled, has disappeared
as result of settlement and cultivation
All efforts to propagate it have failed, fol
with the wild game and the Indian il
resents civilization. This is fact to be
regretted, as no better hay for the horse
can be found than that made from the
blue-joint grass There is but little
OF it left, save as it may be found along
the rights Of way of the railway com
pauiea
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

10 had tried various new-fangled
arrangements for sailing his STOCK but
he says the cheapest and hest thing
which he has ever tried is to take a
barrel of salt'out in the pasture and
place it somewhere near the water
trough, on the ground on it's side; then
drive four stakes so as to keep it from
rolling around; then cut hole in the
top big enough for critter to get its
nose into the barrel. There is no patent
on this and it works just as we'll as
though there was.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

thirteen leading Iowa creameries paid
an average of 151s cents for butter fat
for July, ten Kansas creameries paid an
average of IA CLIO and ten Minnesota
creameries 151s cents. The greatest
range was among the Iowa creameries,
one paying as low as ten cents and one
as high as nineteen cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

Lucky is the man who is SO situated
that he can look upon his big corn crop
of corn as simply SO much raw material
to be every bushel of it converted into
some form of finished meat or dairy pro-
duct. The man who sells the corn will
get twenty cents bushel and the man
who feeds it will get 40 or 80 cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

Around nearly all the cornfields in the
west will be found strip of land at
least twelve feet wide up next the wire
fence which is devoted to the production
of worthless and worse than worthless
weeds. The up to date farmer will seed
down to clover and timothy this strip,
thereby securing clear place on which
to turn his team when cultigating the
corn, and later will run the mower over
it and get bunch of nice hay. This
grass headland on farm is mark of
good farming.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

A car of cattle which sold lately at
the Chicago stock yards at $500 were
range beasts, put on feed October l, 1896
weighing S76 pounds each, and sold the
last of July 1899 weighing 1913 pounds
each. They were high grades.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

About the incest lot of fodder which
we have seen this year was lot of cut
corn, which had been sown thickly on a
five acre tract of rich land, and which
had been cut with harvester, bound
and shocked. We very much doubt if
there is any other plant or any other
method which will give as satisfactory
results where asupply of milk producing
fodder is wanted and where piece of
land can be devoted exclusively to it's
production. How many tons to the acre?
Well, not less than three, probably more.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

Where the finest forest trees grow,
there will always be found mulching
and moisture. If left alone the tree
will protect itself, its leaves year by year
accommodating beneath it to hold the
moisture and protect its roots. There is
an object lesson here for all growers OF
kroao
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

An Indiana con nunity is organizing
to boycott the coffee trust by pledging
the members of the organization not to
use any boughten coffee. The joke OF
this thing is that coffee is one of the few
commodities not in trust.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

Valuable as the steer calf is today you
need have no scruples about converting
your Jersey bred male calf into veal
in the shortest possible time. This is
the only way in which brief life can be
made useful one.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

Here's a new wrinkle in dairying-a
Denver agricultural paper says that
there are altogether too many dairymen
in the state of Colorado who thiuk they
cannot milk cow unless calf is suck
ing on the opposite side.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

The right to shoot as well as the right
to vote will have to be extended to the
conductors and brakemen of the railways
of the country if this tramp nuisance is
ever abated.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

A June temperature and June rations
make it easy for old bossy to fill the
pail and set all the hens to cackling
Now if you want milk in January and
eggs in February, all you have to do is
to make June conditions and feed a
June ration as near as you can.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

A certain rich mining district in
Australia is wholly destitute of water.
All water used has to be brought from
far away and costs the consumer over
one dollar gallon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04
FARM, ORCHARD,
AND GARDEN.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
]. S. TRIOO, Rockford, Iowa.
J. S. TRIOG, Rockford, Iowa.

When farm product is selling below
the cost of production, and the up to
date farmer will know when this is the
case, it is always safe to hold such pro-
duct, provided it can be done without
loss or deterioration. For instance: in
1897 corn and oats sold for ten cents a
bushel. 1t cost not less than twenty
cents a bushel to produce them. The
man who held these crops doubled his
money by holding them, inside of twenty
months.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

Among hundred cornfields which we
noted as we passed them not long since.
but one was Absolutely free from weeds.
There was flock OF sheep on that farm
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-10-04

When corn is worth % cents bushel,
separated milk has nutritivc value Of
about fifteen cents per hundred.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-08-24
The Care Of Lamps.

Southern Farm Magazine.
Many housekeepers think there is
nothing to learn about the care of
lamps, but there are many small items
in their management that make great
difference in the amount of light and
comfort derived from them. When a
lamp is first lighted, turn the flame
low until the fue has become warm,
and the flue will not be so likely to
break. Another precaution in regard
to lamp fues is to put them in a pan
full of cold water and heat the water
slowly until it is boiling. Take the pan
off and allow them to cool gradually.
This toughens the glass so they do not
break so easily.
When you put new wick in lamp
leave two or three inches extending
above the burner, turn it upside down
into the oil until thoroughly saturated,
then put the burner on the lamp and
turn the wick down to the proper height.
When wick has burned awhile, if one
part is a little higher than the other it
will char first, and, when we'll charred,
can be rubbed off, leaving it even on top.
The burners should be cleaned once
week, and the best and easiest way is
to boil them in water in which pearline
has been dissolved. Put heaping tea
spoonful in a quart of water, put the
burners in it and boil ten minutes.
This removes all the gummy substance
that collects in the tubes, causing them
to give better light and greatly less
ening the danger OF explosion. When
they are taken from the water, polish
with piece of soft flannel.
A lamp that has stood several hours
with a little oil in i: should be filled
| before it is lighted. The Oil generates
gas when the bowl is almost empty,
which may explode if the lamp is
lighted without filling.
To prevent the oil from oozing out
on the burner, turn the wick low when
it is not lighted.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-08-24
Learning, But at Great Cost.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
The Quartermaster' Department at
San Francisco has now on hand cloth
ing, supplies and equipments suffici-
ent for an army of 100000 men, so that
both the out going recruits and incom-
ing volunteers will be we'll taken
care of in this regard. The vast re-
sources of the country have been drawn
upon to some purpose IN thus rapidly
accumlating military stores on the Pc
cifc coast, and it woulu be impossible
now, or at any time in the future, to
find the Federal army without proper
and ample equipments. So much
has been learned, at all events, in the
nation's quick plunge into a state OF
war.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-08-24
TRAINS GOING NORTH.

tDally except Monday. tDaily ex-
cept Sunday.
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad,
Yadkln Division Main Line--Train
leaves Wilmington, 9 90 a. M, arrives
Fayetteville II Is p. m, leaves Fayette-
vile II 25 p. M, arrives Sanford 43
.. IN. Returning leaves Sanford 2 80
p. m., arriyes Fayetteville 3 IS p. m,
leaves Fayetteville 3 so p. m, arrives
Wilmington so p. m.
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad,
BenncttsyiIle Branch-Train leaves
Bennettsville 8 Is a. M, Maxton 8 20
a. m., Red Springs 8 50 a. M, Hope
Mills 10 ~ a. M, arrives Fayetteville
10 55 a. m. Returning leaves Fayette-
vile 40 p. M, Hope Mills 55 p. M,
,. M, arrives Bennettsville Is p. m.
Connections at Fayetteville with
train No. IS, at Maxton with the Caro-
lima Central Railroad, at Red Springs
with the Red Springs and Bowmore
Railroad, at Sanford with the Seaboard
Air Line and Southern Railway, at
Gulf with the Durham and Charlotte
Railroad.
Train on the Sc :land Neck Branch
Road leaves Weldon :35 D m., Halifax
Is p. M, arrives Scotland Neck at
5 :OS p. m, Greenvllle 81 p. M, Kins-
ton Z :55 p. m. Returning leaves
Klnston7 so a. M, Greenyille 8 80 a.
m., arriving Halifax at IL :1S a. M,
Weldon II :33 a. m, daily except Sum
day.
Trains on Washington Branch leave
Washington 8 10 a. m. and 2 80 p. M,
arrive Parmele 9 10 a. m. and cop.
M, returning leave Parme]e 8 :35 a. m.
and 6 80 p. M, arrive Washington
IL :o0 a. m. and Z 80 p. M, daily ex-
cept Sunday.
Train leaves Tarboro, N. c., daily
except Sunday 5 80 p. m, Sunday,
:l5 p. No., arrives Plymouth 40 p.
m :, 6 10 p. H., Returning, leaves Ply
mouth daily except Sunday Z 80 a. m,
and Sunday 8 100 a. M, arrives Tarboro
10 O5 &. M, II 100 a. m.
Train on Midland n. G. Branch
leaves Goldsboro daily, except Sunday.
Z :05 a. M, arriving Smithfield 8 10 a.
m. Returning leaves Smithfield 8 90
a. m. arrives at Goldsboro 10 20 a. n /,
Trains on Nashville Branch leave
Rocky Mount at 8 80 a. M, 3 40 p. m (.
arrive Nashville 10 10 a. m., 4 :O3 pm,
Spring Hope 10 40 a. M, 4 :25 p. m.
Returning leave Spring Hope IL 100 a.
M. 4 80 p. m., Nashville IL % a. m,
5 % p. M, arrive at Rocky Mount
II "a a. M, 6 100 p. M, daily except
Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch leaves War
saw for Clinton daily, except Sunday,
IL 40 a. m. and 4 :15 p. m. Return
ing leaves Clinton at Z 100 a. m. and
2 80 p. m.
Train No. IS makes close connection
at Weldon for all points North daily,
all rail via Richmond.
HI. NJ. EMERSON,
GeuI Pass. Agent.
J. r. KENLY, Genl Manager.
T. NJ. EMERSON, Traffic Manager.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-08-24
Presidents Resolutions.

Selected.
Three of our early presidents, James
Madison, Lndrew. Jackson and John
Quincy Adams, once signed the follow
ing resolution "Beirg satisfied from
observation and experience, as we'll from
medical testimony, that ardent spirits
and drink is not only needless, but
hurtful, and that the entire disuse OF
it would tend to promote the health,
the virtue and the happiness OF the
community, we hereby express our
conviction that should the people OF
the United States, and especially the
young men, discountenance entirely
the use of it, they not only promote
their personal benefit, but the good OF
our country and the world"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-08-24
NO. "a
Must StarYe to Live.
London Mail.

Medical science has taken up the
focd question so closely during recent
years and gone to such trouble and ex-
rense to find out every deleterlous quail
ity in articles of everyday consump-
ton, that the man who studies hygiene
attentlvely can only eat-if he believes
all he reads-at the great risk of cor
tracing disease or poisoning himself.
Bread is not to be thought OF as an
article OF diet. 1t is a treacherous
compound, consisting largely of alum
and potatoes, and, concoctcd in some
insanity cellar, it is teeming with mi
crohes and totally unfit for food.
No careful man VIII touch beef ow-
ing to the number of tuberculous car
casses which are constantly being plac-
ed upon the market. Mutton and
lamb are also to be taboced on similar
grounds, and no one would think 0!
touching pork for fear the late lament
ed piggy might haye died of swine fe-
yer.
The vegetarian chortles in his Joy
and points out that none OF these
things, except bread, affects his style
of dining. But his triumph is short.
lived. Root vegetables are to be dread
ed because of wire-worm, tomatoes in
duce cancer, cabbages may become poi
sonous by the application Of improper
fertilizers, and, therefore, are best left
alone, while in addition to the disease
microhe which devotes its attention to
the potato, there is always the risk OF
damage to the digestive organs.
Butter and milk are poisoned with
boracic acid and other noxious preserv-
atiycs, 10 say nothing OF the artificial
coloring matter which is frequently
added. Eggs are dangerous, because
50 many Of them are packed in lime
to keep them good, and recently, too,
French bacillus has found his way
in through the she'll. In addition to
other drawbacks, cheese helps to ruin
digestion.
Raw fruit helps along cholera to
great extent. IT also contains prus-
sic acid round the skin, plps and stone.
When cooked it induces dysentery.
Of timed and potted stuffs little
need be said, except that the solder Of
the tins makes for lead poisoning, and
potted meats have recently been showI,
to be simply mass OF spice, rotten
filth and garbage.
With beverages the same difficulties
present themselves to the careful feed
er. Beer, wines Or spirits are not to
be thought Of. They affect the brain
and eyes, and act injuriously upon the
coating Of the stomach. Tea and col
fee may set up insanity, but at the least
they are sure to induce dyspepsia.
| Water is full OF disease germs, and,
if distilled, becomes dangerous by rea-
son of its lack of mineral matter in So
luton.
Poultry, ii fresh, appears to be the
| most wholesome sort Of dish, as there
is only vague, undecided sort OF mi
crobe to its account. Therefore, duck
and green peas appear to be the dish
to make stand upon; but let the
pease be fresh, as the timed sort are
poisonous, owing to solution of sui
phate of copper being employed to
give them fresh, bright color.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-08-24

Those who are giving small patches
of celery their attention will find soap
suds excellent. The prize-winner at
one of the leading State fairs, whose
celery was far superior to all others,
and who was successful in winning ev-
cry year, for long time kept his meth
DDS secret, but for consideration he
made known that in addition to the
use of manure fertilizers, etc., as usual
lily practiced, he applied the soap-suds
to celery on wash days. The same
treatment is also exec llent for aspara-
gus.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-08-24
EoY OVER FIFTY YEARS.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup mas
hoan 7 ,sed for over fifty years by NIL, MI.
tons tons 1T mothers for their children "hl1e
,aa'h,na. ,lo''E y, with perfect success. II
soothas sees the child, softens the gums, -
sGD.ne savs al pain, cures wind colo, ana Is
the best remedy for Dlarcl'oea' -, n,edi.
relieve the poor little sune,e1 ararv mart
ately. Sold by Druggists N e'eey eents 81
Of the world. Twenty-Five ~ s Mrs
I. ,,aftle Be sure and ask ior ~ W. -
WinsIow,s VII Soothing Syrup, ana s1 1aKo =
Iothar kind. 81.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-08-24

You assume no risk when you buy
Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. E. T. Whitehead
& Co. will refund your money If you
are not satisfied after using it. 1t is
everywhere admitted to be the most
successful remedy in use for bowel
complaints and the only one that new
er tails. It is pleasant, safe and re-
liable.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-08-24

TIE GREAT REMEDY OF the day is
unqestionably Pain Killer, for the in-
slant relief of all scalds, burns, bruises
ETC., and tor pains in the stomach and
bowels as we'll as in sudden attacks OF
Cholera DIorbus. No family should
pretend to Keep house without it al
WAYS by them. Avoid substitutes.
there is but ono Pain Killer, Perry
Davis. Price 25c. and SOC.