Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-04-18
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Edited for PUBLIC 0PINIONby
J. S. TRI00. Rockford. Iowa.
J. S. TRIOO. Rockford. Iowa.

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With pork worth a per cwt., potatoes
are worth about eight cents bushel to
feed t. hogs.
America raises 30 bushels OF corn for
ever, one Of it's population and only sew
on bushels of wheat.
The Australian wheat crop Of this
winter their summer) will only average
bout seven bushels per acre.
Before man goes into the dairy bus
ness, he should learn how to pick out
a good COW and how to feed her after he
gets her.
The spraying Of fruit trees when in
bloom and the keeping Of bees don't
work together at all. The spraying fin
ishts up the bees.
Maud S., the noted trotting mare
who died ately, aged twenty-six years,
lived a long life when it is considered
what a fast one it was.
Immense quantities of orange bios
SONS are shipped every winter from
Florida, with which to bedeck the fair
brides of the north country.
One Of the largest railwa~ corpora.
tions of the west is preparing to use the
vacant land along it's right Of way in the
culture of timber for railway ties.
The grape belt on the south side Of
Lake Erie produces 1890 car loads Of
choice grapes annually. The varieties
are most y Concords and Isabellas.
Judicious irrigation during the fruit
ing season doubled q crop Of strawber-
ries for us last season. This berry likes
q lot OF water after it comes 10 b. ON.
There is some probability that coin
of the value OF half d cent will be coined
by the government. There are whole
lot Of men who have been wanting some
such coin as this all their lives.
The wire nail, which during the past
few years has entirely driven the cut
nail from the market, is coming into dis
favor, especially when used as single
nail and the cut nail factories are start
ing up again.
The street fairs which are having such
a run through the country, are seriously
menacing the life of the old county
fair associations, in not few cases the
latter disposiDg of their property and
going out of the business
1t is never a recommendation to q
creamery butter m aker to boast of how
much water he can work into his but
ter. There are just as smart men in the
cities to buy the butter as there are in
the creameries to make it.
Silage will tahe the place OF roots as a
succulent winter ration for all animals.
1t is much more cheaply and easily pre-
pared than roots and in time will have
place on every well-regulated farm in
the country where stock is kept.
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The butter which brings the top price
in the London market is entirely fresh
NO salt being used. This butter comes
from France and Ireland largely and
brings about live cents per pound over
any other butter sold on that market.
The water in the river Jordan in Pal
estine is now being very largely used for
irrigating purposes As a result, the
Dead Sea, which it has fed for centuries,
is steadily lowering its level. The same
condition Of things applied to the Great
Salt Lake Of Utah.
$500 barrels of the best apples raised
in this country last year, which have
been carefully preser, ed in cold storage,
have been shipped to the Paris exposi-
ton. This exhibit will be supplemented
by summer and fall fruits OF this year q
growth, later on.
The l,aU Id steer dresses out from
OlO 10 fOU lbs. Ot meat. uc JOU lDS. Vi
offal. thirty years ago mostly wasted,
has, by reason OF modern invention and
methods, become immensely valuable.
We get butter, leather, glue, fertilizers
and no end of things out of it.
Sugar production has moved within
the past twenty years from the tropics
to the temperate zone. from the cane
fields TO the beet fields of the north, and
this in spite Of the fact that pound Of
cane sugar can be produced for just one
half the cost Of a pound of beet sugar.
The Michigan experiment station
gives the following results from CON-
parative test of broad and narrow tired
wagons: On good roads the drafts Of
broad and narrow tired wagons were
about equal; on plowed land narrow
tired wagon pulled As per cent harder
than wide tired one; on road with
sand two inches deep, % per cent hard
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