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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06
Big Dividends.

A stock holder in certain canning
factory in Iowa, which had a paid up
capital of $4,000, told us recently that
for the five years ending in 1897 he had
received dividend annually Of 80 per
cent on his stock; that for 1898 he
received dividend Of 80 per cent and
for the present year the enormous div
idend of 300 per cent. We think he
told us the truth, though he might have
lied. We do know, however, that
the farmers made good thing out OF
this canning factory, whatever the
stockholders may have done. We shan't
tell where this factory is located, but
you are quite likely to be eating some OF
its products, than which none better are
made.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

There ID no problem at present at
tracing 80 much interest from the
farmers of the corn belt as that Of util
izing the corn fodder of their corn fields.
Up to the present time the evident waste
in the corn fields has been permitted be-
cause OF the cheapness and abundance
Of hay from the wild grasses. These
grasses are gone, and the lands which
once produced them are now either con-
verified into farms or, if still pastured,
the native grasses exterminated by the
blue grass. Falling back upon timothy
and clover as substitutes, it was soon
discovered that the ton and a half land
more often less) of timothy taken from
an acre Of land made pretty high-priced
hay. Then the farmer thought of his
corn field and the last year 'or SO has
been studying that and the possibilities
connected with it, and he has'made some
very int resting discoveries. He found
out first that every acre of his corn field
produced him year by year more and
better fodder than he could get from an
acre of his timothy meadow. This much
is settled beyond dispute. Now he is
trying to find out the best and most eco
nomical method of saving and using this
newly found fodder. One tries the silo
another cuts and shreds; another hu ks
from the shock and feeds the stalks: an
other tumbles the bundles into TIE feed
lot and let's steers, cows, sheer. horses
and young stock do the huskino and
shredding. The est wav is not 'e'
wholly determined. 1t depends some
what on the kind of stock it is to he
fed to. The slo has many advantages
especially where dairy herd is Fer
but first cost OF silo and high priced
Dor to fill it are isadvantages. Shred
ding is meeting with much favor corn
being very clearly husked and the fod
der put in the best possible share for
feeding. The objections to this method
are cost of shredding and the difficulty
sometimes of keeping the shredded fod.
der in shape. These difficulties we look
to see largely overcome and we think
the final solution of the corn fodder
problem will be this: The corn viii nc
cut up at the proper time with ma
chine, just as is the grain. 1t will he
allowed to cure in the field until late fall
or early winter. 1t will then be hauled
to the barnyard and stacked in narrow
stacks. Two or three times during the
winter the shredder and husker will
come, operated by the owners Of thresh.
ing machines, and run out lot Of the
corn. The ears will be put IN the crib
and the fodder used in place Of hay.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06
What Is Cheap Land?

There is tremendous demand these
days for SO called cheap land. and it
becomes question Of much interest tc
know what really constitutes cheap
land. The common idea seems to be
that it is land in a state of nature,
wholly unimproved, remote from settle.
ments and civilization. but little regard
being had to the quality OF the soil or
the climatic conditions. Very much Of
this so called cheap land is really the
highest priced land to be found. Here
are a few illustrations: A sandy farm,
no matter how we'll located, is hardly
ever cheap farm. Such soil is not con.
genial to any Of the grasses, and without
grass it is hard to keep stock, and with
out stock it is difficult to make any
farm pay. Very broken and rough
farms are never cheap. On such land
cultivation of the soil insures washing,
and the native fertility OF such farm is
soon in the creeks and on its way to the
delta of the Mississippi. Rolling lands,
where the limestone or the gravel lies
very near the surface, cropping out on
on every little elevation, are never cheap
lands in the long run, being specially
susceptible to drought and hard to keep
in a fertile condition. Wet land may or
may not be cheap land. If so located
that perfect drainage may be secured,
it is quite likely to prove to be the
very cheapest land which can be bought
but if such drainage is not possible or to
be obtained only at very great outlay we
should 60 slow on it. There is this to
be said for this class of land: When
once reclaimed, it will prove to be the
best land to be had, possessing a stock
of stored fertility largely in excess of
any other land. 1t further is especially
adapted to the growth of all the grasses,
and good grass lands are never poor
lands. A run down farm is seldom a
cheap farm. When threshing ma
chine, the weed crop and the skin renter
have had their way with crop for %
or more years, the life is taken out of the
soil; and while, if originally good land
| it's fertility may be restored in time
still, it will be an expensive process at
best. Land is never cheap where the
water supply is of poor quality or diff
cult to obtain, or where the educationa
advantages for ones children are of the
poorest sort, or where the social and re-
ligious customs of ones neighbors are
wholly unlikable Land situated in q
latitude where the rainfall is unreliable
no matter how excellent the quality OF
the land may be, is never under any cir
cumstances cheap land, unless provision
for irrigation is secured with it. A de-
ticiency of moisture is fatal to all crops
and in those localities where the record:
for series of years show an uncertain
or meager rainfall it is supremest folly
to attempt agriculture as usually carried
On. The really cheap farm, more
likely than not, is what seems to be |
high priced one-good soil in gooc
condition, desirable neighbors, nearnes
to market. good climate, good water
Better forty acres under such condition.
than section where mans wife Il al
ways wanting to 60 back 70 her folks.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06
Paying Road Taxes in Corn.

A very general movement is on foot in
more than one northwestern state to
secure the payment Of all road taxes in
cash, instead of allowing such taxes to
be worked out. The only kick on this
will come from the men who think it is
profitable thing to quit blowing corn
in June and go to work on the road
for $3.50 day to work out their road
tax. A man who will do this is not
half smart, for there are three weeks in
June every day of which to the corn
raiser is worth not less than 81 and
more often $40. We know Of plenty of
corntelds which, for want Of property
care, will not give more than half crop,
the owner, as matter of fact, rea ly
paying $40 road tax with $75 worth Of
corn
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06
Evergreens on the Farm.

We know of far:I. of 160 acres. re-
Gently sold, which brought an extra s.
an acre solely on account of the fact
that there was l0-year-old evergreen
windbreak around the homestead-S80O
for 200 evergreen trees, and cheap at
that. They cost only fifteen cents each
n The first place and grew into money
this way while the owner worked and
while he slept The real value in an
economic way of such grove around a
homestead on these north western
o Aries, can hardly be estimated. 1t
saves fuel in the house, hay and corn in
the barn, and as comfort producer is
unexcelled both for man and beast
Still, not one farm in a hundred has
such grove. Can anybody tell why?
Don't get at it; that's the reason. For
less than 500 there are plenty OF nurs-
erynlen who would plant YOU such a
grove and guarantee every tree for five
ears, leaving nothing for you to do but
cultivate the trees while young through
summer. Try your local nursery.
man and see. In ten years the trees
would DO worth not lees than "a apiece.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE.
% acres Of heavy oak timber land from
which large quantity of lumber, piles, ties
and co,dwood cnn be cut. II is located in
Winnesheik County, low a, SIS er acre buys
IL. The wood will more than pay for the
lind.
Excellent 70, ms In Stevens County, Mimi,
In The sure crop country. Improved or un-
improved.
Lands in the best counties in s. Dakota,
where land is booming and advancing rapid
~ in price. ln'lh'ved lands from 81 to so
per hcr', unin proved from S. 10 Sl2 per acre.
Buy now and make money. Reduced rail-
road fare TO land seekers.
A fine residence lot in the town Of Calmar,
Iowa, for s22o.
Ar om house, with 8 lots, good well, in
talmar, Iowa.
Invest your money In real estate and make
more. Nothing more sure or SAFE. Why
drudge along TN Tented mi when you may
own n farm that Will gov in value each
year. Sell your $40 or SO and ana BUY some
for less than half, which will make } GU more
money.
ITO acres of fine,t kind OF land. lich black
soil, Tree FIR NJ sand, gn vel, alkali or gnmbo,
y u lie n IN Lee ii, he county seat of Wichi-
Ia county KanSn'; price u per acre; VIII eN-
change fU g~ d town properly.
60 acres in Nebraska, n lies from Stuart,
blacs liam SOL, g,od spring an the place;
price $40 per acre; will exchange.
40 acres IN southwestern Minnesota, in
well settled eountr, where crops never iaileu,
miles fr, m town OF 100 people; pIice slo per
acre.
240 acres well improved, frst-class build
ings every acre iillab anall-improved iarmi
price 30.
iOacres with excellent Improvements, all
! The necessary buildings Tor a good farm and
GOOD buildings al that The original owner
mortg,grd the lace for sirO. e died and
! the mortgage was force osed, the holder o
mortgage bought In the place AT sheriff sale
| { RS 81, and he has since died, ant the farm
Ia now thr wn ON the market ior the low price
OF $50 o; q snap. Nf
S. r. YA0ER, Agent,
| Calmar, Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

But few people know that very fine
quality of tea can be, and is now being
produced in the United States. There
is tea garden in operation at Summer
vile, s. c., which the past season pro-
duced 1000 pounds of very choice
quality of tea, worth not less than 81 per
pound. The government is starting
experiment tea gardens in other south
ern states. and a thorough test is to be
made as to the feasibility of America
growing its own tea. Cheap labor is
absolutely indispensable in tea culture
if it is to be made profitable, as the
leaves of the plant have to be picked off
one by one, the age and development OF
the leaf determining the quality of the
tea made from them. 1t would seem as
though this cheap labor might be secur.
ed among the colored children Of the
south.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

from our point of view, there seems
less excuse for keeping bulldog than
any other animal on four legs. A man
in Iowa got his two boys bull pup.
The pup grew. One day in rough and
tumble scuffle between the boys and the
dog the the nature of the beast asserted
itself and trouble began. The mother
interfered to protect the boys and the
brute fastened it's teeth deep in her
flesh and could hardly be choked loose.
Bulldogs belong to DULLES, prizetig hters
and other brutes of kindred nature, not
TO decent people.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

The girl who does housework for
wages hopes to get married ard have a
home of her own, and the hired man on
the farm hopes to have farm Of his own
and it is this very honorable ambition
on the part of both which largely un.
settles this hired help question. When
the country gets to raising old maids
who don't want toget married and hired
men who don't want to get ranches OF
their own, there will be no trouble with
the hired help.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

On a wide river bottom the other day
We saw in one large field over 100 stacks
of hay. Not stack in the lot had in il
over four tons of hay. The hay had evil
IDENTIFY been gathered and piled with a
goodwill. With ordinary fall and winter
weather there cannot be loss of less
than 25 per cent. The hay is worth "a
per ten in the stacks, and the waste
represents $500 at least. or more than it
cost to cut and secure in this fashion
the entire crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

The great crop Of corn and rough feed
all through the western states would,
under ordinary circumstances, result in
cheapening beef, but the courtcy is in
such prosperous condition and the de-
mand for good beef so far exceeds the
supply that the present surplus of food
for the stock is likely to make but little
difference in the price.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

While you have been gf thering that
% bushel an acre crop OF corn lately
has it occurred to you that picking such
corn is a pretty poor business? Have
you tried to find out why the crop was
so roor-whether it was poor seed, poor
land, poor cultivation, or what? There's
some reason for it, and you ought to
find out what it is.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

The primary cause of r"arly all I'M
profitable farming in the orthwest is
the effort to work too much land. The
an 80, the so acre man is wrestling with
quarter, and the 100 acre man is try
ing to work section, always behind.
always poorly rewarded, everlastingly p
daht
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06
FARM, ORCHARD, 4 !
4 4 AND GARDEN.
Edited for PUBLIC OPINION by
j. S. TRIGG, Rockford Iowa.
Edited for PUBLIC OPINION by
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.

we saw man 'caftlDg out to his
farm load of evergreens the other day
TO be planted. we suppose, for wind.
break. Here was another big blunder.
Those trees will nearly all be dead by
spring in spite of all he can do. Ever
green's should be moved in the spring,
Just after the new growth Of wood has
made good start. Some agent lie and
told this man that they could be planted
in the fall just as we'll as at any other
time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

Our agricultural creed is summed up
as follows: Less land to work; more
thorough culture; greater diversity of
stock and crtTs; better quality of
stock and enough of it to consume the
cereal products of the farm; pay as you
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

Inc model hired man may be treated
- ar equal and as q friend.
Tho IL year old COW and the two-ysar.
old hen have seen their best days.
No bird that we know OF lives to 50
good a purpose as the Thanksgiving
turkey.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

On general principles it be as
sumed that man who always has a
good pile of dry wood near the house is
pretty good to his wife.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

The special need of the farms in the
corn belt is a greater variety of nitrog
enous crops. Crops of this kind are very
limited in lumber which may be
successfully grown under the semi
tropical conditions of the corn belt ter.
ritory. Clover is. the principal standby
and this frequently fails owing to tho
difficulty of getting a good catch Of
seed. Peas do not do well as general
thing, though more of them might be
grown than there are. This territory
needs cheap substitute for bran, some
crop which may be surely and easily
raised to 60 with the corn which SO
seldom fails. We feed too much corn to
hogs, to cows. to sheep, to all young
animals.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

We saw sparrow building nest on
the 4th OF November last. Birds with
an instinct of this sort can never be
eXterminated.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-12-06

A friend asked us this week whether
his in, estment in half section OF par
TALLY improved, though somewhat wet,
prairie land in northeastern Iowa at SO
per acre was good one. 1t is. 1t is
q better investment than the same
money put into an per cent first mort
gage on any western farm. For period
of ten years to come, it will pay him not
less than per cent and, besides, will
more than double in value. The wet
won't hurt it a bit if he can drain it,
northwestern frog ponds having way
of turning out rs bushels of corn to the
acre Just az soon as the water is taken
from them.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-11-23
BUCKEYE PICK-UPS.
THE wH1TEcApPING CASE.
A Mob Tore Down the Large Livery Barn
of Edward Jackson 1T West Liberty
and Turned the Horses Loose.

BELLEFoNTAINE, O., Nov. 20.-There
was sequel to the West Liberty
"whitecapping case early Sunday morn
ing when a mob of that place tore
down the large livery barn of Edward
jackson and turned the horses loose.
jackson was one of the trio, con-
sisting of two colored men and a white
woman, Jackson's daughter-in-law,
taken from the Jail at West Liberty
early Saturday morning by mob and
tarred and feathered and run out OF
town. The trio came to this city
where Nell Jackson, who was severely
beaten, lies critically i'll, the result of
internal injuries. jackson is nearly
blind from vitrol thrown in his eyes.
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Give the Children a Drink

Called Grain.O. 1t is delicious, appe
tizing. nourishing food drink to take the
place of coffee. Sold by all grocers and
liked by all.who used it because when
properly prepared it tastes like the finest
coffee but is free from all injurious prop.
critics. Grain.O aids digestion and
strengthens the nerves. 1t is not stim.
ulant but health builder, and children
as well as adults, can drink it with great
benefit. Costs about / as much as cof.
fee. 10 and, 25c.
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Revolution In Colombia.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 2O.-The
British steamer Atrato, from Barran-
quilla Tuesday and Colon Friday, re-
ports a widespread revolutionary
movement in Colombia and grave
outlook. Her cargo she landed with
difficulty, and she was unable to secure
an outward cargo owing to the sus-
pension of inland transportation.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-11-23

BowLING GREEN, O., Nov. 20.-Recol-
lections of the mysterious death OF
Mrs. Peter Peney at Tontogany on the
night of March 4, 1895. were revived
here by the marriage of the dead
woman's husband to his brothers wife,
Mrs. Lydia Peney, of Monclovia. The
body of Mrs. Peney was found at the
Office of DIR. A. Eddmon, at Tontog any,
and the arrest, trial and acquittal OF
the doctor and hi> wife FOLLOWED.
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Conductor VIII Lose q Limb.

MACARTHUR, O., Nov. 2O-Charles
Stephenson, of Middleport, C., II. ".
and 7. freight conductor, will lose a
limb as the result of wreck near
Creola. Stephenson's train was stand
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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-11-23
ION of His Head Blown on.

BUCYRus O., Nov. 20.-Several miles
north of Bucyrus, c. Welland blew off
the top of his sons head. Mr.. Wei.
land and his twin sons went out rabbit
hunting. They were passing through
some underbrush when the gun car.
ried by the father was accidentally
discharged, the entire load taking eff
feet in the head of the son. The ghast-
ly sight completely Frustrated the
father.
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To Wash Brushes and Combs.

To wash hair brushes and combs, dis.
solve a tablespoonful OF Gold Dust Wash
ing Powder in boiling water when it is
nearly cold, dab the bristles up and
down, without allowing the backs oi
the brushes to become wet when the
brushes are clean, dip them in plain
cold water, and dry them either by the
fire or in the open air.
Soap turns the ivory.back combs or
brushes yellow, but Gold Dust does not
injure them.