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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31
The Mistake He Made.

He was all right in wanting to set
out ten acre apple orchard and had
he gone to some well posted fruit
man and found out what kind of trees
to plant he would have been all right,
and would today, ten years later,
have had an orchard which would
have been of great value, but instead
he listened to 0 travelling tree ped.
dler, who unloaded onto him lot
of varieties which are proving to be
utterly worthless, one-tenth only of
his trees bringing him in any return
worth speaking of. This was a Sc.
rious blunuer to make, for he is too
old now to repair the damage. This
thing should always be borne in
mind in planting an orchard-for a
family orchard alone, variety of
trees will do no great harm, but if
such orchard is planted with view
of selling the fruit, the fewer the va
rieties planted the better, and they
should be of known hardy and salable
varieties.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31
Clover As a Fertilizer.

Clover is the only agent whereby
many portions of quarter section
farm can be fortified. The home
lots will readily absorb all the barn
yard fertilizer. The value of a two
year cropping of clover as a fertilizer
on the soil we have never seen exactly
stated; we have in mind one field
which we watched closely two
years ago, where the increase in the
yield of corn on piece of clover sod
for the first crop was easily twenty
bushels per acre, and it is not fair
to presume that this crop exhausted
all the fertility impaired to the soil
by the clover. With this easy and
effective way of restoring soil fertil.
ity and increasing crop productive.
ness it is constant surprise to us
that SO little clover is grown. The
gospel of clover culture needs preach.
ing all over the country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

III one has pear or an apple tree
in the orchard which blights to the
extent of one-fourth of the season 5
growth, the sooner such tree is cut
down and burned up the better. This
blight is to certain extent conta-
gious, and for this reason we will not
allow Transcendent crab tree to
grow in our orchard, Notwithstanding
that, while this crab will blight till
it looks as though it has passed
through the fire, it is rarely ever killed
by it. We watch for the blight and
when it first apears cut the twig back
and burn it up. This is the only rem
edy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

Where could one find more agricul.
tural woe than all through the hard
wheat section of the northwest among
those farmers who have waited for
the machine to thresh from the
shock? Rain after rain, flood after
flood has come upon the fields, until
it has been impossible to move an
engine and separator, and the black
ened shocks of grain have settled
down into the mass of ragweed a rot
ting, sodden mass. 1t is but too true
that some men have sense enough to
raise a crop and still not enough to
take proper care of it after they have
raised it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

Some of the agricultural colleges
Of the west have adopted novel and
very effective method of advertising
their institutions by sending out invi-
tations to farmers living over wide
area to spend day at such college
and examine it's workings and it's
facilities. A low rate is secured from
the railroads, and nice program is
prepared for the entertainment of
the visitors. Recently the Iowa agri-
cultural college assembled at Ames
over 5000 people, who were greatly
instructed and entertained in this
manner. This method proves 70 he
the best yet tried in securing stu
dents for the school,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31
The Farmer and the Hired Man.

The farmer hired the man in March
to work for him eight months at $22
per month, board and washing. II
was verbal contract, as such con-
tracts usually are. Nothing was said
about what would happen if the man
quit before his time was out. There
happened to be a good deal of rail-
road work in the neighborhood that
summer, and the contractors found
it hard to get men. They put wages
for shovellers up to 50 per day, and
along in July, just as haying was
coming on, our hired man as he was
blowing the corn became uneasy and
called himself fool for working for
twelve hours day on the farm for
less than a dollar, when he could get
So day for ten hours work on the
railroad. So the more he thought
about it the more he became dis
satisfied, and when the corn blowing
was finished he told his employer he
was going to quit, and wanted his
pay. The granger was pleasant with
him, and reminded him that he had
agreed to work for eight months, and
that it was not the fair or right thing
to quit when hired men were hard to
get and the work pressing. The man
said he did not care, he was going TO
quit and wanted his pay. Then the
granger told him that if he got his
pay it would be ut the end of law
suit, and for him to sue for il Just
as soon as he wanted to. The suit
was brought, The farmer put in
offset of the extra amount he was
compelled to pay for help during the
busy season, which came to over $50
more than he owed the man on his
wages and obtained judgment against
the man for the amount. This decis-
ion was based on good law and good
sense and snould be warning to
hired men and valuable pointer for
the men who hire them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31
GETTING Rid Of the Hardhead.

Sinking boulder or hardhead d
sometimes resorted to to clear III
field. This is very dangerous bust
ness. We have known Of two cases
near home where, as the digger was
working away to undermine the huge
rock, it caught him before he could
get out of the pit and crushed tbs
life out of him. Dynamite is the best
agent to use to get rid of these
stones. A half inch hole drilled into
them distance of eighteen inches,
and loaded with good charge Of dy.
Mantle will usually make short work
OF them; or, a hole may be punched
with a crowbar well under them,
when heavier charge of the explo.
sive will do the work; and we have
seen them well shattered by simply
laying the dynamite on the top Of
the stone, though this plan will not
always give satisfaction.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

The extended August rains reach
ed out over a good deal of the buf.
falo grass country to the decided de.
triment of that variety of grass as .
winter pasture. Late surA,rer and
fall rains prevent the perfect curing
of the June and July growth. or
rather cure it altogether too much,
bleaching it and making it almost
worthless as a winter food,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

A flock of dozen quail, perhaps
bewildered in their fight, lit down IN
one of the alleys of western town
not long since. Where they she lid
have found friends and admirers.
they were beset by men with guns,
seeking to slaughter them, and this
too in defiance of the law. But few
OF them escaped. 1t was a wauton
and cruel thing to do.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31
Ten Cents a Copy.

Only few more copies left. Send
and secure one before they are all gone.
A l6-page Atlas of China, IL X Ii
inches, kind soldeverywhere for 25 cts.
On sale atIall large stations of the B.,
Z. r.. & N. Ry., for 10 cents, or sent
postpaid to any address for 10 cents, by
JNo. G. FARMER, "A. q. p. &T.A.,
b., @. r. Il N. Ry.,
1928 Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

We saw lately $40 seeder, bought
new last spring and left in the field.
which the owner had cut round with
his reaper when he cut the grain
which the seeder had sown. Comment
is unnecessary.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

A well broken broncho for use as
a saddle horse on the farm Is good
thing. We do not like to see them
used for heavy hauling, whether in
the field or on the road, for they are
not fitted for this sort of work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

A carload of evaporated eggs was
lately shipped from Missouri city
70 the gold countries of Alaska. The
value of the car was $4,000 when
ready to ship. This is the most mon
sy we have heard of to be got into a
car of farm food products.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

Botanists tell us that there are
nearly one hundred varieties of edi-
BILE mushrooms. Many Of these grow
Wild in pasture, fence corner and tim
Der lot, yet are seldom used, lsvgely
for the reason that people general
cannot tell the difference between
edible and the poisonous vafleti
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31
The Wolf River apple, the lar

The Wolf River apple, the largest
and showiest apple of all Known va
rieties, should pe renamed as the
"County FAIR apple" for it's only
use is to make show at such occa-
sions. This apple has probably had
more flattering notices from the
country newspaper press than any
other, when for any other purpose
than show it is absolutely and en-
tirely worthless.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

The ancient psrabls refers to grain
which, when sowA, yielded an hun
dred fold, that In the mind of the
speaker being a maximum return, but
Mere we have before us several ears
Of corn, each Of which has thous-
and kernels of corn upon them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

Don't try to borrow a hoe or n
spade from a man who always keeps
such tools looking like polished sill
yer, for you may be sure that he will
blame him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

In Iowa and Minnesota as well as
South Dakota the jack rabbit is max
ing no perceptible increase in num-
bers. There are so many enemies for
him to dodge that he never can be-
come much of q nuisance.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

A stoppage of eight weeks of the
cotton mills of Manchester, England,
caused by the extreme high price of
the American staple, involves a loss
to its manufacturers and operatives
of S1oo,ooo,0oO.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

Wine is cheaper than milk IN many
parts of California, the wine selling
at from 80 to 40 cents per gallon and
the milk at from 40 to so cents. Milk
punch ought to be within the reach
of all out there.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

1t is bad thing for the dairy in
terests of community when a beef
bred calf let run with its mother viii
sell for $25 at eight months old 4
has the effect to make a man hltl
to milk a cow which will only bring
him in $50 year in butter product.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

It seems to be settled that rotation
is very necessary in the cultivation
of the sugar beet-that one crop OF
beets must not be followed by an
other.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

Sheep will effectually fix the morn
ing glories If they can have the run
Oh the field as a pasture fer two
years. This is probably the INST eff
fective and easy way to get rid of
this pest.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

Our experience is that the we'll
cared for lawn should not be cut af-
ter the fore part of September. but
the grass should be allowed to grow
and make a thick mat for the protec-
ton of the roots during the cold
weather.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

We hear good reports of the Bokara
peach which for hardness leads any
peach now grown. We hear of nice
peaches of this variety being raised
more than one hundred miles north
of the heretofore defined peach belt.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

The abnormally high price of flax
this year win undoubtedly induce
many man to pay big prices for
seed and SOW large area of IL next
yaar. We would not do it. Flax has
no place in any well ordered system
of crop rotation. 1t Is crop for a
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

There is one comfort, the squirrel
tail grass or wild barley cannot stand
even a little bit of frost, being as
sensitive to cold as q melon vine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

When man gets an assortment OF
shinaware with can of baking pow
der he had better let the hired man
eat the hot biscuit made from it,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

The worlds crop of wheat is 1885,
100000 bushels less year than last.
not enough to materially affect tn,
the price of this cereal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

The Bible speaks of the separation
Of the sheep and the goats, but when
they get to Chicago and are butchered
they both pass as mutton.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31
FARM, ORCHARD, r.
4 4 AND GARDEN.
Edited for PUBLIC oPINIoNby
J. s. TRIOO Rockford. Iowa.

Tnlrty below zero win fix the Bel
gtaa hare If they ever get loose and
have to HUSTLE for living.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

new country and new and unsub
dued soil. 1t is a soil'Jmpoverisher Oh
the first class.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-10-31

They overcome Weak
ness, irregularity and
omissions, increase Wig
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-03-07
Some Tall Corn Stories.

A Pennsylvania man travelling
through Kansas recently heard great
many corn stories, and thought he
would tell some of them in letter
home. This was how he did it.
Most of the streets are paved, the
grains OF corn being used as cobble-
stones, while the cobs are followed
out and used for sewer pipe. The husk
when taken off whole and stood on
end makes a nice tent for the children
to play in. 1t sounds queer 10 hear the
feed man tell the driver to take doz-
en- grains of horse feed over to Jack
sons livery stable. If 1t were not for
soft, deep soil here l don't see hcw
they ever would harvest the corn. .ls
the stalks would grow up in the air
as high as the Methodist church
steeple. However, when the ears get
too heavy their weight presses the
stalk down In the ground on an aver
age of ninety-two feet; this brings the
ear near enough to the ground to be
chopped off with an AK"
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-03-07
Fine Wool Scarce.

II anything has been emphasized by
this seasons wool market it is that the
finest grades of wool are in greater de-
mand than supply, and that the mill
owners are willing to pay a premium
fer such stocks. There is at present an
actual famine of fine wool in this
country. Not only here, but abroad,
100, for the Australian supply is small
and London is advancing its bids for
fine wool nearly every week We have
been exporting fine wool to London
until dealers are afraid to part with
any more until the new clip comes in.
In fact, the fear is expressed in East
ern markets that the supply of even
ordinary wool will be sufficient for the
spring demand What the new clip
viii lcontain in the way of fine wool is
only conjectural. but it is to be hoped
that there will be plenty of this grade,
for that means increased profit to the
growers. A good thing always means
Il DtIltI piOHl Ludh II ScCOuu Idte ClilhS
The only sure protection against a
reaction from present good times in
the wool trade is to add to the flocks
only such animals as will produce the
very finest fleece. Then, with good
feeding and care, one need have little
reason to fear troublesome times
ahead. One is safe in raising as many
high bred, good wool producing sheep
as his quarters will permit. There
was never surer business that prom
ised fair return. l do not mean to
say that riches or exorbitant profits
will be made thereby, but that coed
profits, satisfactory to sensible man,
must be assured. This view of the
matter can hardly be questioned by
those who have studied the present
wool market and the outlook of the
shep industry in this and other coun-
tries for the last six months. Our
fiocks are still too small to threaten
the future with surplus of wool, es-
pecially the higher grade.-E. A.
Smith In American Cultivator.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-03-07

In the Times of last evening MIR.
Henry G. Bohl gives utterance in a
glowing and decided manner to the ef-
feet that he is to be Marietta's next
Mayor; and giving the impression that
none others need apply.
Words are easily said. and are gen.
orally literally resorted to when a
man grows desperate. There are
people in Marietta-and many of them
who express themselves as highly
pleased with the outlook for the cleo
ton of Mr.. Sykes and the Republican
ticket. Marietta has a Republican
plurality ranging close up to five
hundred, and we predict that our COM
ing city election will show the plural
ity for Sykes to be not far short of
that number.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-03-07
Millionaire Hotel Owner Runs
Elevator For Fun.

How to get rich?" echoed Million
aire Bradbury, who runs the elevator
in his own hotel in San Francisco
Just as easy as anything else on
earth.
Fix your mind upon 1t. Give up
everything else. Give up friends.
children, peace and comforts.
Pleasure? Take 1t is as take it
seeing the dollars come in"
The millionaire banged open the ele-
vator door to let out a nervous lady,
whose room was on the top floor.
banged 1t shut again, and pulled the
wire rope for the downward trip. He
had lapsed into silence. The bitter
smile with which he had uttered this
philosophy of wealth had given place
to the placidity of conscientious ele-
vator man.
customed to being piloted up and
down the SHAFT by the proprietor of
the house. Only strangers are aston
ished at the spectacle Of $1,000 dia-
mond sclntilating in the shirt bosom
of the elevator man. Timid persons
are relieved that this important func-
tionary thinks too much of the work
in hand to read a novel when on duty.
"Why do work?" he said at a lat
er period, when the business of the ell
evator was dull. Because l have
worked all my life. l have a right to
keep on working If want to. A man s
got to work to live That's what bone
and muscle are given us for. When
you shut down your engine your boiler
is going to burst"
| Are there any other poineer mil
lionaires of San Francisco who keep
on working?" asked an inquisitive by
NO. because they are all dead" re-
piled Mr.. Bradbury, sententiously
But they did while they lived--Falr
Flood, O'B1den, Stanford, Crocker
Blythe and all the rest OF 'em.
II tell you a mans fool to leave of
working, no matter how rich he may
be. He's got to keep his nose to the
grindstone. or he'll go all to pieces. -.
San Francisco Cor. New York World.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-03-07
Fire Losses in Ohio in 1899.

State Superintendent Of Insurance
Matthews has issued statement Of
fire insurance business done in Ohio
during the year 1899 as compared with
the year 1898.
For the year 1898 the premiums re-
ceived by all companies were $7,576,-
400.87, while the receipts for 1899 show
an excess over the preceding years OF
SAG. .ss1.5s. The percentage of fire
losses incurred on premiums during
1898 was 5s.6. while these losses dur
ing the past year show the percentage
OF loss TO have been SOL or an in
crease OF nearly 81 per cent.
The losses in 1898 were $4.517, ,55S.92.
while in 1899 they reached the enor-
nous figure Of s7,723.ss445. There is
some argument IN these figures in
supporting the pending fire marshal
bill.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-03-07
A Credit To Us.

1t will surprise many people to
learn that next to France the United
States will be the largest exhibitor at
rhe Faris- exposition and will occupy
the largest space. Commissioner Cen
eral Peck has worked hard for the
creditable representation of this coun-
try, and his labors have been notably
successful The United States gov
ernment building is one of the finest
cf the national structures on the banks
Of the Seine and altogether no Ameri-
can need be ashamed of the part his
counfrymen are to play in the great
,how.-Providence Journal.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-03-07
What "Under Fi-eo Means.

The following are extracts from a.
letter from a seageant In the Seaford
hlghlandersa, dated December 10, says
the London Telegraph.
The Black Watch In front made an
attempt to charge the position, but we
had to retire and simply run for it, the
enemy blazing at us all the way and
cropping our fellows like sklttles from
their splendid positions.
"There was nothing for it but to lie
down and pretend to be dead, and this
did about 8: 80 a. M, till, suppose, G
p m, the sun pouring down on me all
the tide, and not drink Of water all
day, and dare not stir hand or foot,
and expecting every minute to be my
last. / could hear nothing but the
cries, means and prayers OF the
wounded all around me, but l darent
so much as look UP to see who they
were. Shots and shells were going
over me all day from the enemy and
our side, and plenty of them striking
within yard of mel mean bullets
not shells-and yet they never hit me
II believe some of the fellows lost
their heads and walked right up to the
enemy's place, singing till they drop.
ped them. One youngster lying close
to me said he would make a dart fol
it about p. m. / tried my best tt
persuade him not to, but he would go
A couple of seconds later l could heal
them pitUing at him, and then hi:
groans for about minute, and ther
he was quiet.
About this time the sun began t
get fearfully hot, and began to feel I
In the legs which were now very pain
full and swollen, because l was parch
ed with thirst Most cf the wounded
around me had ceased groaning b!
this time. AS it began to get dark
managed to wrlggle my body through
the shrub further back, and after
had been at it for some time, on look
ing up found myself right in front o
another .intrenchment Of the enemy
They sent a few rounds at me but the,
struck just in front and ricochetet
over my head. After a bit, it gettin!
darker. got up and walked by. ant
there was nothing but dead highland
ers all over the place"