Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-04-25
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J. S. TRl0U Rockford. Iowa.
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J. S. TRl00, Rockford, Iowa.

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The wool on the average sheep will
bring its owner about one dollar this
year.
The state Of Iowa paid $1,000 for a
Polled Angus COW for the herd at the
Ames agricultural college.
Monthly roses-the tea roses-will do
better il SO planted that they are shaded
from the afternoon sun.
A ton Of clover hay cut at the right
time and properly cured is worth as much
as two tons as it is commonly secured in
the clover belt.
The cost Of the seeds sent out by con-
gressmen this year was s68, 450, which is,
from our point Of view, practical waste
Of the public funds.
Local pride should prompt man to
keep the weeds cut on the highway
bounding his farm, even if the law did
not require him to do it.
Celery raised on land ferti lied with
the sewage from public hospital has
been found to transmit typhoid fever
germs to those who used it.
Whatever the seed corn may do, or
not do, in the way OF terminating, you
can safely depend upon all the weed
seeds terminating in good shape.
The Doddies, or Polled Angus cattle
lead in the sales of the season in the
amount paid for breeding cattle, seventy
head realizing an average Of S579 each.
On Scotch farm, highly cultivated,
the yield for the last year is reported at
81 bushels of barley per acre, GA OF
wheat, 80 Of oats and $50 of potatoes.
The motherly old hen and her chick
ems is always pretty sight, but the
sentiment gets all knocked out of the
case when she gets to work with her
brood in the newly made flower garden.
English agriculture, with all it's mag
nificence of root crops, has nothing that
will compare in point of economy and
value as succulent stock ration with
the corn crop and the silo of America.
A first class dairy COW is never dear
at $50 The poor COW is dear at any
price il kept as a dairy COW. To many
men COW is COW, and such never
know, nor do they seem to care to know,
whether a COW pays her way or not.
The farm hand is getting from s2 to
a per month more for his work this sea
son than ever before. 1t is becoming
quite problem how to profitably use
help which costs S35 per month and over
q the management Of the average farm.
Smaller farms mean more civilized
communities, better schools, better soci-
ETY., telephone service, and in the near
future rural mail delivery; they mean a
better type Of agriculture, better stock
greater variety of crops, freedom from
hired help.
A sheep, rightly named Judas Iscar-
iot," which for many years had been
used at one of the big Chicago slaughter
houses to lead other sheep to the slaugh-
ter pen, went on strike lately and as q
result met his death.
The men who make conspicuous
success in stock breeding are those who
select some one breed and stick to it,
ever seeking to produce the best Of
which such breed may be capable. The
men who fail are largely those who are
always shifting around in the matter Of
breeds.
The best way we have found to get rid
OF dandelions in the lawn is to watch fol-
the coming of the circus and then Offer
the boys five cents bushel for the dan
dys cut up by the roots. 1t is surprising
uhat a lot NJ thesp paStc ope ran oat ric