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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19
Cold Storage.

The modern creamery system would
be almost impossible were it not for
the modern cold storage system
which has developed with it. So per.
fected are the best methods of mod.
ern refrigeration that June made but
ter is carried over till the winter sea-
son with scarcely any impairment of
its delicate flavor and thus the price
of butter is more nearly equalized
through the whole year than ever be-
fore. This fact is of inestimable ben
eft to the dairy interests. In the
matter of meats of all kinds the same
thing is true, the slaughter of ami
mails being carried on the whole year
through, making an even price and a
continuous demand.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

We cut and ate a Northwestern
Greening apple on the first of May
this year which had kept perfectly
in a common cellar and was in good
condition for eating. This for us
settles the question of the good keep
ing qualities of this variety. AS to
quality, while not high, it is better
favored apple than the Ben Davis.
The tree seems hardy all through
Iowa, southern Minnesota and east
ern Dakota, as well as Wisconsin,
where it originated. 1t would seem
as though here was a pretty good
winter apple Tor all this territory.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

Coming down the Washington coast
tain Richard Waterman in command,
asked him why mariners were SO
afraid of the Pacific coast and why the
disasters were so numerous and terri
Bile between Puget sound and the Gold
en- Gate. This was in 1890, and Water
country originally, had been a quiet
navigator in Pacific waters for 20
years. He and his vessel are now at
the bottom of the sea. We had round
ed Cape Flattery and were steaming
southwark for the entrance to the Co
Adams. The captain said
"The coast has never been charted as
it should be. We know a little some
thing through the government of where
the rocks are and the reefs and the
shoal water and the bars, but we don't
know enough. The coast, in my opin-
ion, is either a submarine range or a
range which is eventually coming up
out of the waters and going to make
more land, | don't know which, but
one trip find rocks at a certain place
and shallow water, and another trip
find no rocks there and plenty of deep
water. Sometimes the Columbia bar
is fair and sometimes it's a terror, and
there you are. 1t is the duty Of the
government to keep track of all these
changes and to chart the entire coast,
set it out with buoys and warnings
and indicate the free channels. That
would stop half Of the wrecks."-Chi-
cago Herald.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19
Virtue Aceordinr 70 Inv.

a great many shallow pated theorists
aHect to believe that the way to make
people good and to keep them good Is
ey Fencing them ID with prohibiiory
statutes. When anything goes wrong,
these WORTHLESS shout, Let us amend
the constitution If statutory regula-
ton were effective, the Ten Command
ments would pretty well cover the
ground. They have an authority that
cannot be given to merely human regu-
iatons, but though backed up by statu.
tory pains and penalties they are still
violated. 1t is personal amendment.
not statutory amendment. that keeps
IRE sweet and wholes6mh The world
L governed too much. sAiladelphia
Record. I1SA
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19
Old Things.

What to do with old things-things
that have served their time and are
no longer profitable to keep-is often
quite problem on the farm. The old
horse, if one which has long been a
faithful servant, should be humanely
killed and under no circumstances
traded off to some peddler or horse
jockey. In fact, it may be put down
as a safe rule DO go by that when u
horse has no value greater than five
dollars the proper thing to do is to
kill it as painlessly as possible. The
old cow is a different proposition, for
in sense her carcass has CONNER
cial value as meat food; but she
should not be sold to the local butch
er TO worry the jaws of law-abiding
country community, but should be
sent TO the canneries, where she can
tickle the palates of watering place
picnic parties. Old machinery should
be taken apart, the iron work sold as
junk and the woodwork used as fuel
Old rubbers, clothing and rags should
go to the peddler for new tinware.
Old hens, but then there should never
be any old hens on the farm, they
should all go to market as two-year-
olds. The old dog, lame and NANCY,
should be put out of the way with
chloroform and decently buried. IL
is well to watch and avoid the getting
of old things on ones hands, especial
ly in the line of all domestic animals.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.

No. l5.-l60 acres y mile from Aresian, y
D., % acres broke, no buildings 5000; oue-half
down.
No. 2.-l000 acres of fine timber land, prin-
J clpaly walnut and oak, very valuable for
lumber, miles from the county seat of Scott
county, Tenn. Some timber tracts In this
locality no better are held at so per acre.
This tract will go at the low price of $40 per
acre either as a whole or divided. A big in
yestment for some one to buy it and cut the
umoer for LUMBER. Would trade for income
town property, or improved farms.
No. S7.--A $1,000 stock of groceries. notions.
ETC.. and two story double store building, all
for $500, in Winnesheik county. Will trade
for land in this county.
No. l5.-l60 acres in Wichita county, Kan.
u mile from Coronado station ~ mile from
Leoti, the colnty seat; is free from sand
gravel or gumbo IS acres broke balance in
native grass; very fine piere; price $40 per
acre. VIII exchange.
No 39-A bargain in q hotel the Park
Hotel in the town of Calmar, Ia, formerly
held mt $1,000, now offered for the low price Of
5000. Owned by an aged widow who is
determined TO sell. money maker. Be
quick If you want it.
No. 4O.-A qnarter section of as fire a piece
of land in as good Il country as ever lay ont of
doors, 2 miles from K. r. town. All in crop,
IN Hamlin county, s. :, price SiS.35 per acre.
No H.--A. level and excellent Quarter all
tlllable, adjoining the r. r. village OF Ree
Heights, Hand county, 5. ID. 1t is worth a,
$1,000 OF any ones money.
No. PA piece of mill property, including
also good house, barn, etc, ON Turkey
river, in Winnesheik and Fayette countless in
Iowa, will sell $500, $500 down. or will trade
at 5000 for n. Dakota land
No. O.-A bargain: 100 acres y miles
southeast of DEBORAH good house aud gran
airy and warm stable, well and Windmill
price only $40 per acre, road 10 DEBORAH level.
No 52.-A farm of l55 acres. 7 miles west of
Lansing, ITO acres under ptow, cheap build
ings, some timber price s23 per acre.
No. 5l.-Imprnved farm. $50 acres good
buildings. springs, no acres cultivated
balance timber ana pasture, price SIS per acre.
\ number ofquarter sections In Hand and
Hyde counties, ). D., fine soil, al sou per
quarter, cash VIII soon be worth double,
S. K. wager, Agent,
calmar, iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

We would like to emphasis the
value of succulence in the food of
the dairy COW. We are aware that
analysis shows but trifiing differ
ence between the nutritive value of
many foods, whether fed green or
dry, but the COW will make a more
subtle analysis when she attempts to
convert these foods into milk. Ma
ture arranged that the COW should
give milk and care for her calf just at
the period when the grasses We're the
freshest and best. Succulence in food
means palatability ,palatability means
assimilation.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

Don't fool yourself with the prom
Use that when you have made your
pile you are going to lay off and en-
joy yourself. When you get ready
to lay off, if you ever do, you will
have lost the capacity for enjoying
anything save hard work and the
making of money. Happiness in liv-
ing very fortunately is given to men
in daily installments and cannot be
banked and checked out all in lump
at some future and far OF time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19
"Johnny, what distinguished for.

Johnny, what distinguished for.
eigner aided the Americans in the
revoiution?" Johnny (after pause)
--"God."
The oldest member Of the Grand
Army of the Republic is said to be
Harry Dornon of Michigan, who has
just passed his 103d year.
The Swedish mile is the longest mile
In the world, its length being exactly
11,700 yards, over six times as great
q distance as our standard measure.
ment.
For a hundred years the hamlet of
Rellevale, N. ~, has been temper.
ance town. Last week the original
prohibition party was defeated and
the first license granted.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

These May nights, with the mer-
curry closely bordering the frost line,
are anxious times for the grower OF
fruit. Two or three degrees differ
ence in the temperature then makes
the difference TO him between sr-
cess and failure. While we were not
compelled to it, we got all ready to
try the Florida plan of building
smudge fires in the orchard this year.
Fortunately the danger was safely
passed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The fear expressed at many of
the horticultural meetings last win
ter that the apple trees of the west
and northwest were in special danger
or injury by the cold of the winter,
because the trees carried nearly all
their leaves into and through the
winter seems not to have been well
founded, for apple orchards never
came through winter in better
shape. Possibly an exemption from
very low range of temperature DUR
ing the winter may have had some-
thing to do with their good condition.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

We find the Kaserin Augusta Vic
toria the most desirable white rose
for outdoor culture. 1t is free
bloomer under ordinary garden con-
ditions, is very fragrant and with
proper covering can be carried
through our northern winters safely.
The flower garden furnishes no more
beautiful flowers than these Kaserin
roses.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

One rose grower tells us that the
rose wants all the sunshine it can
get, while another says that the
monthly roses particularly will do
better if so planted that they are
shaded from the heat of the after
noon midsummer sun. We have no.
ticed this fact that when exposed to
the full heat of the August sun the
blossoms are smaller than when
grown partially in the shade.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The time employed in the growing
the care of the home premises, would
keep any farm homestead in perfect
condition and care for a good garden
and small fruit. These two would
be worth 500 to any man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

We never like to see a man on his
way to church driving a horse with a
raw shoulder. Common humanity
takes precedence of REORGANIZATION,
and under such circumstances if a
man cannot walk to church he should
stay at home and read his bible.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

We do not try to grow all the nice
flowers, for that would take up per-
sons whole time. We find that roses,
cannas, dahlias, pansies, geraniums,
coleus and crysanthemums are among
those which give the largest return
for the work put on them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19
The Greatest
Hair Grower
on Earth!

WORD with you-one that may sound
IA like fairy tale. but nevertheless is
true-as true as that the sun shines, as
that the rain falls to water the earth
! have spent my whole life in Xperimenting
in the pursuit of discovering and compound
ing this New Modern Antiseptic Remedy, and
! may truthfully say its successful culmina-
ton comes TO me as the result of years OF in
cessant work. ofdays spent in toll and nights
IN wakeful studiousness. Thus it is / am able
TO say to YOU that
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

1t is unfortunate that the best time
in which to do road work is just when
the corn needs the most attention. AS
an argument for paying all road
taxes in cash we wish to say that no
man can afford to neglect his corn
field in June to go and do road work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

Nothing seems to burn easier
than creamery where it is short
on patronage, overdrawn ON bank ac.
count and fairly well insured. Under
these conditions the slack coal in the
boiler room is almost sure to gener.
ate spontaneous combustion.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

With dry weather after the straw
Derys begin to bloom you can easily
double your crop by irrigating the
bed. From the blooming to the ripen-
ing time strawberries are the thirst
lest plants in the garden.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

A carload of hogs upon its
arrival at the stock yards in Chicago
weighed 5000 pounds. The hogs
were unloaded, fed two bushels of
corn and watered and then were re-
weighed, showing gain of 531
pounds, this gain representing the
sum of $31 at the price at which they
We're sold.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The country grain merchant is
about calls for margins, or fear that
by the board of trade sharks. The
temptation to take a flyer on some
option besets them all the time, with
the result that this sort of business
absorbs all their profits and some
times all their capital also.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The rose-breasted grosbeak has a
wonderful liking for peas--a sort of
a depraved appetite in this direction.
Not content with stripping the peas
from the pods when they become
large enough to eat, he likes to nip
the tender shoots from the vines
just about as soon as they appear
above ground. This is a trait pecu-
liar to this bird alone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

Asparagus should be cut when
three inches high and then cut three
inches below the surface of the
ground. So cut it is at its best. If
allowed to grow to height of six or
eight inches it becomes simply greens
and not asparagus.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

Where the writer lives the Colorado
potato beetle has almost entirely dis
appeared. For long period of years
this pest seemed 10 be as much of a
fixture as the cAlnch bug and mus
quito. What caused il 10 ga we do
not know, but probably some sort of
parasite which could eat its eggs
faster than it could lay them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

1t costs 35 cents per hundred
pounds to produce cotton in the
states of Alabama apd Georgia. When
the cotton so produced sells for min,
cents per pound, as it does today.
1t is easy to see why the darkies all
are gay.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

As general rule it is the early
sown small grains which produce the
best crops and of the best quality.
When the soil is in suitable condition
in the spring, oats, wheat and barley
cannot be sown too soon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The sugar makers of Jamaica COM
plain bitterly of the competition of
the beet sugar countries. This
seems strange when pound of cane
sugar can be produced for a cent a
pound less than pound of beet
sugar
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

So long as man is all the time face
to face with the arbitrary law that he
shall only reap that which he has
sown, it follows that it would pay to
take more care in the selection of the
seed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

When a man puts good money into
farm he does not have to worry
about calls for margins or fear that
some gang of cutthroats are going
to work up a corner and destroy the
value of his land.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

There are many fields on many
farms than which nothing would be
better for than summer fallow-
three OF four plowings during the
summer. ms is very effective wal
In which TO clean up foul field and
put 1T in good shape for a crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The least satisfactory evergreens
for the west and northwest are the
spruces. While they are pretty when
young, they become rusty and ragged
in the lower limbs when fifteen years
old. Either the white, Scotch or Aus
trian pines are preferable.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The Surprise plum of the Americana
family was exhibited at the Mime
sofa State Horticultural society last
winter of size equal to any of the
California and Oregon fruit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

Don't begrudge the hired man day
off on rainy day if you expect him
to put in extra time to get the hay
in or top out the grain stack, without
extra pay. Hired men are very hui
man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

Here are two don'ts-Don't try tc
do your own blasting with dynamite
and don't try to sink one of those
prairie boulders. Either is quite
likely to compel an administrator to
be appointed to settle up your es.
tate.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The beet sugar would seem to be
especially adapted to Mormon condi-
tions, for the old man has plenty of
women and kids of his own to thin
out the beets.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The great northwest has enjoyed
three fat crop years and not only
good crops, but good prices for them.
The May outlook for another good
crop is all that could be desired, with
the general level of prices for ali
farm products higher than for three
years past.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The home market is the small fruit
growers best market. When this is
supplied and he has to pack and ship
to outside markets the profits on the
business rapidly shorten up.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

with her incubator it is a good time
for the man of the house to leave
her to say things to herself which
would not look well in print.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The care which is given a calf dur
ing the first two months of its life
just about settles the question of
whether it will prove profitable ami
NAL to keep or not.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19
l Can Grow You a
Full Head Of Hair

No matterif you have been bald for Thirty
years or more. This modern autiseptic treat
ment is purely vegetable compound. II is
pure as heavens tear drops. IL is natures
own remedy. 1t is, therefore, with fsith my
offer To you will bring fruit Some will say:
II nave tried all treatments; nothing can do
me any good. have spent too much money
without getting benefit Others believed their
remedy was best, just you do" But was
one ever SO sure that he let you take a costly
remedy? Take IL under my guarantee and
ma out lit is a success. Should this remedy
fail, you will have all your money back to
buy other remedies with. This is an offer
which nobody else ever made you-nobody
else dare 70 make you-nobody ever will. III
you are discouraged because Others failed try
mine AT MY RISK
do not send out any samples or G. o. ID.
packages. Reference-Dunn's or Bradstreet,s
Commercial Agencies, or any bank in the city.
one bottle will convince the most skeptical
that have in this new discovery all | claim
PRICES, per bottle. SO, IS and Sl0 Send
draft T. o. order or express order Remen-
Der II IL fails-your money back.
Address 7-lyr
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

When you are in doubt about the
freshness of a lot of eggs it is better
all round to fry them for breakfast
than to send them by the kids to the
local grocery man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

Game is becoming so scarce that
the town sports find a good deal of
sport in shooting gophers, practice
in which they should be encouraged.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

Horses are good deal like men in
this, that some are willing to pull all
the load and others are more than
willing that they should.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

There is altogether too much old
buck mutton disguised with mint
sauce passing as spring lamb.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

Celery likes best peaty soil, not
one where the water stands near the
surface, but an old peat bog which
has been we'll drained.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

Well bred animals need good care.
Many a man falls down by buying
pure bred stock and giving it only
scrub care.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The man who set out strawberry
bed last year and properly cared for
it is now reaping rich reward.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

A man never gets enough money
damages when railway is laid out
diagonally through his farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The cotton crop of Texas for 1900
was 2,43s,555 bales, worth to the
growers over $100,000,000.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

We have been sent samples OF
printing paper made from the fiber
Of The ramie plant, the frst we have
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

ever seen. The paper is of excellent
quality, almost as tough as though
made of rag fiber, and takes fine
finish.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19

The cleo laws are just about as
hard to enforce as the prohibitory
laws.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19
White Slippers
for June Events.

This is the month that is notable
for school graduations and happy
weddings, and both events demand
the wearing of dainty white slip
pers by the fair ones. We are cater
ing to these needs and would be
pleased to serve you. We carry
various grades, from 81 90 a pair
upward.
j. @. Hexom.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19
We w ant to
Sell Shoes
j. @. Hexom.

To every family within reach of
our store. We carry a stylish, re-
liable stock of all kinds or foot
wear, and believe we can suit your
tastes. We know our prices are as
low as any, and we guarantee to
tit your feet PERFECTLY. We would
be pleased to have you give us a
trial.
j. G.. HexOm.