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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29
The Hired Man on the Farm.

A common complaint here is like this:
A farmer hires hand for the season.
say 8 months at 800 per month. The
man draws his wages at the end of every
month and when harvest time comes,
pulls out and leaves his employer in the
lurch. We are asked how may this
thing be prevented. The simplest and
easiest way to d. is to have con tract
drawn up, STIMULATING that a certain part
of the wages shall be KEEP. back till the
end of the term for which the man is
hired, as security that he will abide by
the conditions of the contract. England
has laws which specially cover the re-
lations which exist between the man
who hires help on the farm and the man
who is hired, and man playing this
sort of trick would be hauled up be-
fore the nearest magistrate and fixed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29
Get Married.

4 topic discussed at recent Minnesota
'..rmers' Institute was, Shall the
lgriculturist and Horticultural marry"
ls seems like very queer question to
ind place among gathering Of farm
RS. AS well ask the question--does a
IAN need two legsg A wife is simply
AdispeGsable to the successful manage
ncn, of farm. Thousands of farmers
:ould, if they would, directly trdce their
! ccess to the administrative ability,
OIL sense, economy and prudence Of
cir wives-to the little woman who
! pired them to ambitious effort, whose
tuition prevented bad bargains, whose
eeriness lightened the burden Of dis
continent when trouble and failure
,me, whose watchful economy saved
any dollar to help pay the mortgage,
J. whose industry not only made the
ne pleasant and inviting but added
my dollar to the farms income. We
vc known five old bachelors who tried
f,rm it without a woman around.
ey always had dirty faces, wore dirty
IRIS, and slept in dirty bunk. No
'ay liked to work for them. They were
;ly, selfish, unfeeling, had no public
rit. Three Of 'em, while they made
-" low ccme 70 h"a end ard the
iers had better be dead. Marry or
urse. just as soon as you get $500 in
"A or its equivalent together, young
an, 60 ana spark the incest girl you
find. She'll be the best investment
~ will make as long as YOU live. A
nnk il ell right in monastery but has
place ON an Iowa farm. Don't 90 an
Il agricultural monk.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29
Got Even With The Lawyer.

This happened in Worth county-A
well to do farmer asked a lawyer friend
to some day when at the courthouse,
look at the records as to some little
thing touching the title to piece OF
land which the farmer was interested in.
The lawyer did so and later sent in his
bill for 80 for SO doing. The granger
paid it because he had to. Later on the
lawyer met the farmer in town and
asked him to take look at some stock
which was being fed on the lawyers
farm, which the farmer had to pass on
his way home. The farmer did so and
reported, and later sent the attorney a
bill for $40 for services, which the
attorney paid because he had to.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29
Wire Grass Uses.

There are hundreds Of thousands Of
acres of wire-grass sloughs all through
the north country, running way up al
most to the north pole. These sloughs
have been considered the most worth
less Of any land. Drainage has con-
verted vast amount of them into the
finest and most fruitful of fields, and now
mother use is found for them in the
grass which grows upon them, this grass
being of such fine, tough fibre, that a
most excellent binding Irvine is now be-
ng placed on the market made from it,
is well as good quality of burlap, bag
ring and mating. Today, where it is
,vail2ble, this grass commands higher
pr;ce than the best tame hay.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The investigation on the canned beef
proves that there is no such thing as
canned roast beef. 1t proves the truth
Of what we stated in these columns few
weeks ago-that only the poorest of
beef is used for canning purposes; that
it is first boiled and good share of its
nutritive value extracted and then
canned. The broth is further utilized
to make soup stock and beef extract
When, canned beef is eaten, it is equiv.
alent to chewing the rag.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29
A Burnt Offering.

1t is more than likely that he will die
Of the cholera next July, anyway. so
when he gets to be six weeks old and is
plump and fat, you play Herod on that
little black pig; stuff him and roast him
just as you would turkey; then invite
your neighbors in and have feast. You
want to cook him with a small cob in his
mouth and have him served with cur
rant jelly and plenty of rich brown
gravy. After doing this once, you will
raise four or five every season, just for
this sort of sacrifice and burnt offering.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29
Peas For Canning.

A friend Of ours, who is interested in
large cannery tells us that there would
be lot of money for farmers in raising
peas for canning purposes. Peas are a
crop which may be sown atintervals and
the canaing season much prolonged.
While there are large profits for them, the
farmers cannot be induced to try this
crop as it involves more or less hand
work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

Buchanan county supervisors saved
he county $4,000 last year by having
he county bridge work done by days
work under their own supervision in
stead Of letting the work out by contract.
Some counties could save as much by
,ssersing these methods. tall depends
on the kind Of men elected a. super visor
Some old ROSTERS elected as supervisors
can work a bridge job so as to make
quite wad of money out of it. We
have known an old supervisor to charge
the county $3.50 per diem and sl.75
mileage for committee work, and all he
did was to get out of his buggy when he
was going to town, look under new
bridge and spit couple Of times in the
creek.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29
F, Hy In Bceeding.

A good deal OF foolish work is being
done in this manner-pure blooded
animals are crossed, representing ex-
treInes in types, expecting to combioe
in the progeny the excelleHcies Of both
breeds, with the almost certain result
that the worst kind of scrubs are pro
duced. This applies to the dairy, the
horse, the poultry yard. Special breeds
are created for spe cial purposes-nev
forget this fact.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

Where our highways are finally graded
and finished, we would favor the restor-
alton of the unoccupied part of the
highway to the adjoining farms, so that
it might be utilized and cultivated.
This unused strip ofland bordering each
farm in the state, is for the most part
a weed-producing, vermin harboring
nuisance, and is so little used and so
seldom needed for public use that there
is no excuse for it's retention as part
Of the highway.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The chief evil of trusts lies in the do
'truction OF competition. When you
,atronize the department stores of the
Zig cities you are doing your best to
Guild up one OF the worst trusts in the
ntire country. So, IL you do this thing,
( looks inconsistent for you to set up a
atriotic howl about the trusts in other
hes of business. Thousands OF empty
ores and ruined merchants bear mute
itness to the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
oxer of this department store trust.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The worst thing which all public
school teachers have to contend with is
the lack of parental care and discipline
Of the children in the home. The teacher
is too often expected not only to de-
velop the intellectual side of the child. but
also to teach those lessons Of obedience
TO properly constituted authority which
should be taught in the home. Our
teachers are not only expected to teach,
but to civilize. They are expected to do
The same work as the foreign missionary
md do not get half as much credit for
ioing it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

Trotting stock is looking up. Here
are three sales last week in New York
Rubenstein, PAGER, $1,000; Pilot Boy
$500; Bessie Bonehill, 81 $50; trotting
team Vert and b. c., $500.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

Much interest is felt by all fruit-grow-
ers as to what will be the real result
Of the past cold winter upon fruit trees.
We incline to the opinion that it will
be developed that it is not extreme cold
which kills our apple trees when they
enter the winter with a well-ripened
growth of new wood, but rather, that
it is thawing and freezing unseason-
ably warm weather in the early spring
months starting the sap, succeeded by
hard freezing, which does the mischief
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

Now here is whack on the snoot
which draws blood-the Cattle Growers
Association while in session last week
ut Fit. Worth Tex, and which covers the
whole of the cattle territory of the west,
resolved not to ship another car of stock
to Chicago until the 50 switching charge
made by the railroads was abolished.
These men will ship to Kansas City and
Omaha instead. Now wa n that old
pirate by the lake come down.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The Argentine killed 10000 cattle
last year. Most Of this product was ex-
ported in the shape of hides, ta!low,
beef extract, and the like. America
will have to keep an eye on her competi-
tors south of tho equator.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The state Horticultural society is
going to shortly issue bulletin giving
a list of best fruits to plant in Iowa.
Some kinds which are being doomed
will get it in the neck if this society does
its duty.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The cheap woven wire fence now to
be obtained simplifes the question OF
keeping sheep wonderfully. Sheepmust
either be fenced in or herded, otherwise
they become the biggest nuisance on the
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

While every factory in the country is
running on full time, good beef animals
will not 60 below five cents. When the
American workman is making $3.50 a
day right along, fifteen cents of it always
goes for beefsteak.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The New York Herald charges that
horses are slain for food all around New
York. 1t is probable that the free
lunch counters in the city fairly whin-
ney -Ex.
Yes, the evidence is Whitney wurst
unavoidably.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The beef investigating committee will
do the public favor by looking into
the tough steak business as we'll as the
canned beef question. The steak we
must have, the canned goods we can let
aIrna
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

A Mitchell county reader takes excep-
lion to sweet clover being classed as an
Iowa weed. This plant has its uses for
bee food and as fodder plant under
certain climatic and soil conditions
where better things will not grow, but
is general introduction would be mis-
fortune for Iowa. 1t is one of those
persistent plants which, like the English
sparrow, is almost impossible of eradica-
ion. Our critic thinks sweet clover
would be better to raise ON the roadsides
than ragweed. True, but why raise rag
weedY
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The horse business is to see marked
revival this season. 1t is to be hoped
that old methods will not be repeated,
and indiscriminate breeding resorted to.
Two classes of horses are in special de-
mand--heavy draft and good roadsters.
You can't combine the two in one
animal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

Shooting Philippines around the cane
brakes of Manila is good deal like
shooting rats around = corncrib on an
Iowa farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

But one variety OF apples is found to
be injured by the past winter among the
hundreds of varieties growing at the
college orchards at Ames.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

Palatability has much to do with the
value of ration This is why we should
always strive to preserve the fragrance
in hay and any curr food stuff.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

Some day in the future the large area
of waste land embraced within the rail
road rights of way viii be improved
will be levelled off and cultivated.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

A lama co farmer had bout
with buck sheel, last week and when
his hired man pulled the old fellow out
IF the ring, he had changed his opinion
As to the mild and gentle nature of the
sheep. 1t was his good luck that it was
buck sheep and not buck COW that
Dlayed with him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

A locomotive which can haul load OF
300 tons on road with 65 foot grades
IAN as easily haul 1000 tons on a road
limited to % foot grades. The fierce
competition on freight hauls is CON-
polling many Of the roads to either low
Or their heavy gradients or build new
cutoffs avoiding them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

Iowa corn is worth two cents a bushel
more than Illinois corn for export this
year owing to it's better quality.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The oriole always selects tree with
pendant limbs in which to build its
nest. Favorite trees are elms and cotton
woods.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

Twenty-Five farmers attending re-
cent farmers institute, said that they
took daily papers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

A communicative in a north
Iowa town has net profit of $1,000
which he could take any day on the
small stock Of broom corn he has oil
hand, provided he would sell it. Fhis
he cannot do, as he must keep his bust
ness going. He will probably be able to
raise the price of his brooms 80 as to
make it some way.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

400 carloads Of strawberries are said to
be in sight in the Arkansas valley for
May delivery.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The condition of the winter wheat
crop is placed for March a. rs per cent
Of a full crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

Iowa canning facAariss are con4menc.
ing the seasons buAinass under very
favorable conditions. The prospective
make Of the canneries is already placed
and sold at good figures. This business
10 capable of much enlargement in this
state
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

1t is easily possible to raise six tons of
sweet corn ears on one acre. This at
H.00 per ton-the price paid by the
canneries, makes the growing Of this
crop very profitable one. and the
farmers in the vicinity Of the canneries
are tumbling over each other to make
contracts
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The tornado in Oklahoma was the
first reliable "a Of spring we have had
this year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

There will ''e no Iowa peaches this
year. The February cold killed them
ALI
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The produce exchanges Of the country
are many of them adopting tie very SEN
siblc plan of f3ading eggs. There never
was The least sense in paying the same
price for Loo of dirty little Dominique
eggs as for the nice, large, clean eggs ct
the Houdans, Cochirs etc. There should
be exactly the - penalty placed on
poor eggs that tLele is on poor butter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-03-29

The average winter losses on the west
ern ranges are placed at from ten to
fifteen per cent. Where stock was fed
and cared for during the billiards, the
losses were light, while where cattle
were left to shift for themselves the loss
ran up as high as fifty per cent. Amy
man who will let fifty per cent of his
stock perish for want of care needs
hanging.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-16
WORE MANHATTAN COMEDY.
yrIlrH BOARD DROPS VENTILATION
IND RETURNS TO "SWAY.n

-.--.,. rL.x v.u.,t.,,u. Ia
More U..,oa.r,.,. wh,,. r, cos.
us W. 81. ora s,o,x q, s,r,c,,rn,
o,eI Wv. -, an. rI.v.,sa R.,I,o.J.
A.. -, :, u..,,,,
The puoho nearins y, .no DoaIu " h'a'',
,syated cars was not great popular success.
yo,h,ne was said about ventilation OF cars. n
.,.,a road men were there. although the
complaint made TO the Board BY Capt. Chad
w,or OF the cruiser New York was chiefly
.s.Ip.t surface cars. and the only person
asked to testify was one OF the Health Boards
inspectors who had q lot to say about the
weakness OF the elevated road structure. a
form OF attack already knocked out py the
s,.,s Railroad Com missionsrs.
The Manhattan r'e'a''u .oau onv " "au
That company wa. represented BY Mr.. Davies
.rsl manager. The room was crowded. Sew
'ra Of the men were ' Wn.ann Nv. MN sn . ,h.
eat behind fresiuen. mu'pny spas upon ."o
floor In violation OF Section l84 OF the Sanitary
Code, and every window was snu. ,,e ,n IRE rres
idsnt Murphy anu us essoe'a'o' y" wv , Uv",u
who meet In that room every week. didn't
seem " ~. -. "a I.-..r nari..
unoeafaoie W w, ,, au.
exclaimed: Mr.. President, can't We have one
-,,Iov open iust little way7"
VINO" opem .sne nj. hail and anil,
The president rang ms peli anu saiu
james" James said "slr'' and came to at
hnuon' NJ was ''u w ~"
did open q window at the BACK OF the room
and, to quote Capt. Chadwick's letter, gave
avery one 4 cold BY the strong thrush OF air
ssroes their feet" All the women went away
theu.
a preliminary. President Murphy an
,annced that he had received lot complaints
sssinst the Manhattan Elevated Road and
that some NJ them were 70 the effect that
tbsre was not toilet room at every station.
"Wr Davies said that the Board. OF Health
undoubtedly had right to compel the COM
pspY 10 keep tho toilet rooms that II had In
good condition. but declared that It did not
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-16
Auction Sales.

At tho New York Real Estate ,salesroom yes.
the vacant plot ASK 100. on the east side Of
to Th 6s i7l csnpsss
5S e 9ss Ss A sS, e o Pss
SeE s :Sd g sss b
Nos s. aPo j, u W..s lits6 Stree. Gf 10
swany for 81 OYER encgmbrapsss: als3 the
SsSoss sy.n S,Sf BSsS Ss st.
cumbrances: also the six-story fat Nos. 81 and
ss Bank r.: sn eSy.s se ~.
NayHower avenue. $50 feet north OF Pelham
road, to the same buyer for Sal over en-
Bryan A. Kennelly4 Co sold. In partition. the
- Grand street. TO Thomas. q. Herbert Tor
and Academy street. to John Connolly for
:;S52 Sd 1pf Nc. III sss :s three:
and 500 Brnome street to N Amend for $47. 900.
Richard y Htrn:tt 4 Go, sola p Iorsclo:urs
70 the plaintiff. Helen X. Adams, for $4,000.
fs$:n. AL Prss. ~: y, TO
William Kennslly sold. In >foreelosure. the
four three:story irams Oats. Sos l2tO 70 l2te
$500, SSaal Nos. 1912 TO 1246 to J. c. schrad'r
sr saef d%sas lbs Ws.s isSs
ss, ,s s to the plaintiff s.Shia = Beech for
80: so5 West lssth street. to the plaintiff.
Philip A. snyth .Sld: IN fo55sSels.uss, The the
street. to the plaintiff, Abby &. Marshall for
$4,000. and the similar dw:lli9S, Ne "a. ad-
Samuel Goidsticker sold. In fereclosurs. the
three. story brick dwelling, No. 80 west
!35th street to the plaintiff. Sophia L. Beech.
for 80 600
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-16
REAL ESTATE NEWS.

The business transacted in the brokerage
branch Of the realty market yesterday was in
excess OF that Of any previous day this week,
both in the number and in the importance OF
the sales. The dealing. which was well distrib-
uted. included nearly every kind OF property.
Sales OF vacant property on Central Park
West and on Second avenue constituted the
more important OF the transactions. hut there
was considerable activity In improved prop
erty. and the sales OF this nature embraced q
large slx-story apartm ent-houss on 112th
street. which was an Investment purchase
strictly. and several fve.story fats and private
dwellings
Tho Central Park West sales were those OF
two corner plots. each 100xl25. one being the
northwest corner OF Ninety first street and tho
other the northwest corner OF Seventeen
street The Ninety-frst street Mot 10 occupied
By an unfinished building. which was intended
to be large apartment-house The steel franc
work Ia completed up to the fourth story.
but the stone work extends only to
the second. The property was bought by the
present seller. Daniel A. Lofing. from Som
Brothers. who took II as MORTGAGES last sum-
mer. Tho name OF the present buyer 10 with.
held. The Seventeen street corner was bought
by Mr.. Loring. giving the two transactions the
appearance OF q trade. II Il said. however,
by those conversant with the details. that such
is not tho case.
The day was q particularly busy one In the
auction room. whore . number OF offerings
were disposed Of. The sales. although numer-
Gus and well attended. were not wholly satisfao-
tory. as there was q certain amount OF indef.
niteness regarding the buyers OF several par
cells. which led to the belief that the property
reverted to interested persons. although IL was
reported otherwise. There wero also num-