Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-05-31
FARM, ORCHARD,
AND GARDEN.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
j. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.

600 cecoc~cccsecoc
A fast horse is apt to make a fast
boy.
1t will be no trick at all to cure the
clover hay crop this year.
The timothy, also, looks as though i
had been through hard winter.
Wine grapes will bring 81 more per
ton in California this season than last.
A ton of freight was carried last
season by the lake routes 1926 miles for
one dollar.
Remember if you ever have to fight
gasoline fire, put it out with -four
not water.
Long time municipal loans are being
placed all over the country at fraction
over 3 per cent interest.
A bunch of bananas as large as the
average is ripening in the greenhouse on
the college farm at Ames.
Muscatine proposes to pave some OF
her streets with clam-shells, the refuse
from the button factories.
The value of snow as winter protector
for plant life was never more apparent
than during the past winter.
There are more windmills in one
county in northern Iowa than in six
Missouri counties of the same size and
population.
The crust made by heavy rains on any
cultivated field crop should be broken
up, if possible, as soon as the ground is
dry.
Don't be surprised If 80 is an off year
for Iowa crops, to some extent. There
were fat years and lean years, even in
old Pharoah's time.
The Lougfield apple is killed with us
root and branch. 1t is evidently not
hardy enough for this northern Iowa
latitude, though so rated.
An oat crop with twenty-iIch straw
will usually beat one with forty-five inch
straw Oats over thirty inches in height
have hard work to stand up.
Kansas has great crop of apples in
sight. 100000 trees are doing their best.
1t seems like there's nothing too good
for Kansas the past three years.
1t has taken long time for the
scientists to find out that sugar was a
nutritive food, but they have done it at
last. The kid craving sweets, knows
what ne needs.
Horse meat is worth Just the same
price here that it is in Germany cents
per pound but there it Is wanted for
food and here the horse is wanted for
legitimate purposes.
This 26th day of 'ay corn conditions
through the Iowa corn belt are far from
promising. Wet and cold weather late
planting and more or less poor seed do
not augur large crop
The Longworth pear is being success
fully grown and fruited in Kossuth
county. This pear is hardy and nearly
free from blight. 1t deserves more at
tention than it receives.
Tehama county California, was visited
by frost April 30 which destroyed the
entire crop of apples, peaches, prunes,
grapes, in fact, all fruits. Iowa fruit
growers are not alone sufferers.
A native legume the common wild
would seem to have enough merit
to Justify its use as field crop. It is
hardy, very palatable and possesses all
the valuable fertitilzing qualities of
clover.
Our colored brother is not a success
In fact he is rarely found on farm
north of A degree north latitude. There
is one however in northern Minnesota
who has fine farm and works it very
successfully
During aperiod of fifty years the
bank of England made clean profit of
over S7,UI0OO0 from the one item alone
Of its.paper money, destroyed and never
pre- ehted for payment. Every bank of
paper money issue, enjoys revenue
from this source.
Eldora possesses the most curious
sandstone rock in Iowa-avery coarse
unstratifcd conglomeration, which
masons hew into shape with common
axes instead of mallet and chisel, While