Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-02-15
FARM, ORCHARD,
AND GARDEN.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
j. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
J. S. TRIdd, Rockford, Iowa.

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We favor tax on sun-dogs and Q
good heavy one at that.
The first crop OF the new year--the ice
cPop--is one of the biggest we ever raised
The mercury has been playing some
pretty low down tricks the past ten days
The fruit buds did not start any h
speak of during the first week in Feb
ruary this year.
The late cold snap has not injured
north Iowa peach buds to any serious ex-
tent we are glad to report.
The mischievous typesetter made ne
gay two weeks ago that 30 cent corn
makes so cent farms for Iowa; when it
should have been $50 an acre farms
The tank-heater burning daily ten
cents worth Of cobs will easily save .
dollars worth Of food stuff il you have a
dairy of fifteen cows or fifteen fatting
steers
The beet sugar factory at Minneapolis
Is seeking to make contracts for beets
with the farmers Of Freedom county,
MINI. This makes a one-hundredmile
haul for the beets.
The man with pair Of good stylish
driving horses will be able to ask and
get big price for them the coming sea
con. 10000 such horses are wanted for
shipment to Europe.
VIM. Duff of volga City. went to
heaven by the ugly bull route last week.
This is hard way to die, because it is
always case Of misplaced confidence.
The bull is dead also, as usually happens.
Hicks says the earth is going through
Venus period, which causes such in
tense cold. Call old Venus off and give
us Mars, Jupiter, Sirius or some other
planetary supervision, Mr.. Hicks. Venus
g swindle.
Wisconsin apple men find that rye
straw, pulled before the grain is quite
.ipe, and set around the trunk Of the
trees and we'll bound thereto, will last
.wo years and that it makes the best
protection to be had.
An experimental acre of potatoes was
raised in England last year yielding 666
bushels. Fifteen loads of barnyard
manure, 300 lbs. Of superphosphate, 100
lbs. sulphate of ammonia and 10 lbs.
Auriate of potash were used as special
fertilizers for this crop.
We note with pleasure the disappear
ance of the dead song bird from my
lady's fine hat. At recent public gath
ering, where the ladies had on their very
oest buds, among hundred hats we
ookei over. not a bird of any sort was to
be seen on any Of them.
The condensed milk factory at Waverly
starting with only forty patrons, in one
month increased the number to ninety.
The prices paid by this factory for milk
will make the keeping Of cows very
profitable industry within the radius Of
The territory covered by it.
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Sunfowers have place on the farm
- q very excellent food for poultry. A
friend tells us that there is no food
which will fatten turkeys like sunfiower
seed. In southern Russia, from very
small beginning, the growing Of this crop
has assumed enormous proportions.
The canning factory at Waverly ad-
yertises for the sweet corn from 800
acres Of land and the Webster City fac
tory wants the product of HOO acres.
The price offered is "a per ton for the
mapped ears which will give the grower
from SIS to $40 per acre, besides the
fodder.
The Journal Of Independence noting
the abundance and cheapness Of cord
wood at that place finds, by referring to
ts files. that in an early day some forty
years ago, wood was 50 scarce and valu-
able that it sold for $40 per cord. 1t is
probably true that there is more wood
growing in the state to-day than ever
before.
Now here's bad luck for sure-a farm
n in Clay county raised nice lot Of
turkeys, or rather his good wife did, and
IN delivering the birds to the local
buyer. one got away and few through a
plate glass window which cost the farm
% e75 to make good. He went home
nuttering to himself "darn fool turkey
anyhow"
In Freedom county, Mimi, lately a lot
u elderly Scandinavian ladies met for
tea party and a pleasing feature of the
gathering was the bringing by them of
heir old spinning wheels and putting in
IN afternoon spinning, just as they used