Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-03-21

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Michigan has nine beet sugar factO-
ries, costing s3,71l,796; 1919 farmers
raising bects, producing SOC, 576 tons, and
100000 pounds of sugar made, The
crop will give the farmers q, 1892 ,557 or
about e53 per acre, OF which one half ia
net profit. There is no trouble in plac
ing contracts now with Michigan FAR
mers to grow sugar beets.
The up-to-dste dairymen Of wiscon-
sin, Iowa and Minnesots are getting
monthly returns from their winter cows
Of not less than six dollars per head and
some are getting as mnch as eight dol.
lars. These men have carefully studied
cut what to fee the COW in order to
make her give milk. they feed = balanced
ration and ~ . result, the COW balances
up their cash account in fine shape.
The Ben Davis apple is good keeper
and always seller because of its pretty
and shiny red face Thus more of this
variety is raised in the Missouri and
Arkansas apple region than Of any other
variety. 1t is very poor apple in quail
ity. but when the dago has spit on them
and po'ishe them up and piled them
up on his fruit stand in the city, there is
. perennial crop OF suckers to buy them.
Farm tenants by the hundred are
moving from the states in the central
west where the land runs from - to ~
per acre, and are either settling on the
cheap lards Of the pakotas or OF north
ern Minnesota and Wisconsin, or else are
renting the good farms Of Iowa, Kansas
and Nebraska at from 81 to % per acre.
A southern farmer gave US this rea-
son why be dit not adopt the riding cul-
tivator for use ir his cotton and corn
fields that II the average darkey was
put on such machine to ride and work
1t the same time, he would fall asleep
before he got to the end OF the row and
would sleep there until his boss came
along and woke HIM up,
whom We know has for years made it
practice to limit the days work on his
farm to ten hours, and this includes the
milking end doing OF all the chores as
well as the work in the field. He has
fine crops, contented hired men and
time to enjoy himself socially and i'm
prove himself intellectually.
The higil-bred trottlng horse of this
country embodies the very best in the
matter OF endurance, action and speed.
The only deiicienc, is in size. This is
not any particular objection where they
are worked on ths turf, but when they
fail to develop sufficient peed to use on
the race course this lack OF size prevents
their use for other purposes. IL about
two hundred pounds could be added to
the weight OF the American trot' err he
would make one OF the finest carriage
horses in the world.
fraud on the dairy interests OF the coun-
try. 1t is made thus: All the badly
made, rank and unssleable butter OF
thoee communities where the creamery
has not educated the people up to better
methods, which finds Its. way into the
country store land thersi-s lot Of such
truck) is sent, to one ,of these process
factories in the cities, IL there melted
up, deodorized, MIXED with sweet milk
and sgain churned and masks on the
market as straight creamery goods
What with olso and this process" but
ter, honest dairy products have hard
row to hoe.
There is one fact which is having
marked tendency toward reducing the
siss Of American farms and that is the
growing scarcity Of help with which te
carry on the large farm. A farm has
got 70 b well Managed 10 make an,