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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

One would think that creamery
managers would know enough by this
time so that they would quit making
consignments of their butter to ire
sponsible commission men, and yet
losses of this sort are occurring all
the time with men who ought to
know better. The strife to secure a
half cent above market quotations
promised by these fake houses re-
suits in losing the whole consign-
ment.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

Tests made as to the weight of eggs
laid by different breeds of fowls
showed that those of the Light Brah-
mas were the heaviest, weighing 2s
or. per dozen; those produced by the
Brown Leghorns were the smallest,
weighing Il OF. If the latter were
worth 1874 cents per dozen, the eggs
of the Brahmas were worth 21A
cents If sold by weight. The eggs of
the average hen will weight about
20 ounces per dozen,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

Prevailing agricultural and econom
ic conditions are placing large
amount of wealth in the hands of the
farmers of the country. Not for many
years have they been so favorably sit.
uated. 1t is hardly to be expected
that this favorable condition OF
things will continue indefinitely, and
1T seems to us as though the wise
man would seize the present oppor.
tunity to get square with the world
rather than to be tempted to increase
his line of indebtedness SThere is
an immense amount of satisfaction
in the feeling that one owes no man
a dollar. 1T is hardly within the
power of hard times to hurt the man
who lives on his own farm and who
is out of debt, in which particular he
has the advantage over men in any
other business or profession.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

A company with ample capital has
bought 5000 acres of land near
charleston, S. c., and is going into the
culture OF the tea plant on a large
scale. The question of labor is the
one big problem connected with the
enterprise. The crop has to be pick
ed over several times during the
growing season and must be done by
hand.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

just two things are responsible for
the very large amount of poor cheese
made and offered for sale in this
country; one, the lack of wen de-
veloped and educated nose on the man
who tends to the taking in and weigh
ing of the milk, and the other the cur
ing of the cheese at temperatures
running from so to 100 degrees; and
when the inefficient nose, at the
weigh can and the mercury on tear
get to working in conjunction it is
thGeasiest thing in the world to load
up~the shelves of the curing room
with fifty-pound stinkers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15
Skim Milk.

Skim milk is by all odds the mos.
valuable food produced on the farm.
A man is very foolish to permit it
to be wasted or injured in quality
before it is fed to the young things
on the farm. 1t makes hens law.
calves and pigs grow stout and
strong, is the salvation of the Young
turkeys. If you are sending your
milk to some far-off creamery to be
separated and getting back sour
and putrid quality of skim milk you
are losing far more than you think
for.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

The agricultural department last
year imported $50 new varieties of
seeds, plants and trees. OF course.
not all, perhaps not many, may prove
to be of value in this country, but it
will be strange if some do not. There
is such an infinite variety of climatic
and thermal conditions in United
States territory that some place may
be found where the product of almost
all other countries may be success
fully grown.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

At least one retired farmer in each
town in the west can make enough
to keep him all summer any year by
laying in supply of hay and wood
when the roads are good and prices
low to furnish his town neighbors
when the annual spring blockade of
bad roads comes. A man to make
this scheme pay does not want to
have any church connection and NAV
expect to be rated as pretty hard
man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

The crow blackbird is not wei
come tenant of the trees around the
home when he takes a notion to build
his nest therein. These birds usually
nest in colonies like the rocks. build
very rough and uncouth nests and
are quite foul in their habits while
rearing their young.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

Tests of the oil from tss newly de
veloped petroleum district of Texas
show that two and one-half barrels
of the oil equal one ton of soft coal
in yuel value. Should the supply
r. re to be permanent one it is
liKely to bring about marked revo-
luton in the fuel supply of the coun,
try at large.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

We are wont to think of Iceland as
a country of fisherman, glaciers and
Esquimaux. and it is of interest t.
note that short time ago there were
in that far north country 23,109 head
of cattle, 754,115 head of sheep and
42,470 ponies. The only farm crop
produced was hay-17O,0O tons.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

The sum of SITS was refused for a
Buff Plymouth Rock cockerel at the.
late Chicago poultry show, which fig
ures for rooster match up pretty
well with that of $1,000 for a Hereford
bull.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

California now produces the finest
prune in the world. The Prune-Grow-
ers' association of that state have
over 100 recipes for cooking and serv-
ing this delicious fruit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

We find the best time to trim an
orchard tree to be the last of May
OF the first of June, just when the
sap is in full flow. Trimmed then,
the wound very quickly heals over
with a new growth of bark.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

The wonderful new lam across the
river Nile in Egypt will irrigate a
tract of desert land as large as the
state of Connecticut. Upon this re.
claimed tract the beautiful staple OF
the Sea Island cotton can be produced
In perfection.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

most as hard a proposition to tackle
as King Solomon had with the women
and the babies. If we accommodated
the hired man by keeping a turse
for him we would have it understood
that he should take all risks as to his
horse; in fact, we do not like the
horse business with the hired man
as he then spends too much time out
nights.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

There is good deal connected with
being able TO select the good mothers
in the matter of raising farm ami
mails, and still more in the having
sense enough TO keep them year after
year as bree aers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

When men get to be as particular
about the kind and quality of seed
which they sow in their fields as they
are about the brand of tobacco which
they chew or smoke, there will be
better crops raised.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

14,325,OOO hogs were sold and
slaughtered in the packing house
markets. between the first of March
and the first of November last year.
Allowing twenty hogs to occupy one
square rod of ground, this total num-
Der would cover 4,477 acres, or TWEEN
ty-elght farms of 100 acres each. This
is big lot of grunt and grease.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

An epidemic causing blindness has
overtaken the vast foclxs of crows
in Virg mia, rendering them unable
to search for food, and as a result
they are starving to death by thou
sands. While this is bad for the
crows, it is not so bad for the farmers
whose crops they destroy and the
small birds whose nests they rob.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

The things which seem common
place enough to you are quite
likely to be very wonderful
things to that small boy of
yours. 1t is great help to re-
member that you were boy yourself
at one time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

Get a small package of alfalfa, soy
beans and rape, these three, and give
them an experimental trial this year.
Sow, say, rod square of each and
find out something for yourself.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

Maryland is the great canning
state of the Union. In 1900 there
were 33,600,0OO cans of tomatoes, H.
100000 cans of corn, 100000 cans of
peas and 100000 cans of peaches
put up in that state, the value of all
canned goods for the year being in
excess of S15,000,000.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

The increase of the box elder bug
has simply kept pace with the in
crease in the number of box elder
trees, and so long as we have the
trees, we are pretty sure to have the
bugs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

Time spent jim making the home lot
attractive and pleasant is always
time well spent. AS home looks
from the outside, SO it is more than
likely to look on the inside.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

Hogs have ranged thirty per cent
higher during the past twelve months
than for tie previous year. War and
prosperity are mostly responsible for
this advance.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

In the olden time the sower went
forth to sow and he sowed by hand
cut his crop with sickle, threshed
his grain with team of oxen on the
threshing floor and winnowed the
chaff from it with the winds of heav.
en-. In few remote parts of the
east these processes are still in
vogue.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

The dairymen of Jones county,
iowa, received the sum of 1866, 196.06
for their butter product during the
year 1900. This wealth was produced
too, without any perceptible impov-
erishment of the soil of the county.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

If you have plenty of water--a run
ming stream or big pond-near the
farm home, it is well enough to keep
some ducks, if not, then we would
let some one else raise the ducks.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

About the poorest use to put a
good farm to is to make it grow
Inothy seed. When so used the land
is annually robbed for the smallest
possible return.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

Paris Gibson, the new senator
from Montana, in 1877 started the
first wooden mill in Minneapolis. He
failed in the panic Of that year, but
a decade later paid all his debts, in.
uaiuding $4,000 to his old empr
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

We are asked il where hired man
is given permission to keep horse
in the barn of the man for whom he
works, and the horse gets kicked and
injured by one of his employers
horses, whether he can collect dam.
ap6s from his emplover. This in al.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

1t might be good idea for you to
plow up your last years hog yard and
sow it to rape. 1t will grow big
crop and the hogs will do well on it
later on.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

Further reports on the experiment
OF curing cheese at low tempera-
ture-about 60 degrees--are furnish
ed In bulletin from the New York
exnariment station and show that
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

"A farm may be worth only $50 an
acre to sell and still be worth 500 an
acre to keep.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15
FARM, ORCHARD, 4
4 - AND GARDEN.
PUBLIC oPNIoNby
J. s. TRIO0. Rockford. Iowa.
J. s. TRIO0. Rockford. Iowa.

A common garden rake is great
weed-Siller if only used at the proper
time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

The cherry is the best fruit and
the most difficult fruit to raise which
we have.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

cheese so cured scored five points
higher in flavor than those cured
in higher temperature.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-15

Eggs at IL cents per dozen are one
of the most nutritious and cheapest
foods to be obtained.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-14

daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs
4 IL. Frawley March s.
Mr.. 9, Milton Chasewll give at Yer
mont academy one of his inimitable
evenings in magic aud mystery His
performance embraces every kind of
magic known to the art. He has made
the magical art study and has been the
inventor and manufacturer for the princ-
pal magicians of the world His tricks
are many of them new and the old ones
are gwen in such superior manner, and
20 ditterent from what one ordinarily
sees that they seem like new tricks. Do
got forget the date, Saturday, March 23.
WESLEYAN MALE QUARTET
The concert by the Wesleyan Male
quartet Saturday evening was an occa-
SION OF unalloyed delight to the large au-
alence who greeted their first appearance
n TINS place. The program was remark
able for its variety and choice selection,
and every number received enthusiastic
encore which met with most generous
aud kindly response.
The solos by MesSrs. Farmer and Rose
We're rendered with rare taste and deli
gate Interpretation and the bass obligato
oy Mr.. Truesdale showed a richness and
volume of tone quite unusual.
The quartet singing was beautiful in
IT'S rare harmony and the intelligent
rendering of both sacred and secular
aumbers, touching the deeper aud more
sacred feelings of the heart in the beau
! tiful Remember Now Thy Creator,
and again convulsing their audience will
s burleSque of the old fashioned singing
school, and a most convincing recon-
lnendation of Jenk's Vegetable com
pound.
The whiStling of the 'Mocking Bird
by 6. J. Ireland was exquisite in sweet
ness and execution, and the two-part en-
core showed wonderful skill.
! William T. Houston as humoriSt anC
song imitator was host in himself. Hi
marvellous imitation of German stree
band showed wonderful and unusua
talent and was received with overwhelm
ing applause while his ludicrous charac
ter sketches won equal favor. Thes,
young artists show remarkable talen
and most careful and thorough training
and it would seem that brilliant future
awaits them.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-14
B|ak|ey's New Store

Drop us postal and we will send
our agent out to see you with 500
samples.
, 1901-06-10
BULL CAMP SAID TO
RESEMBLE RAMBLER.

Some of the business men of Lara
mic last year started to work an aban-
doned mining claim which was sunk to
a depth of fifty feet, says the Buffalo
Bulletin. They proceeded with their
development work for "A few feet. when
they suddenly came upon a rich body
of copper ore. and have been hauling
the same to the railroad and shipping
it to Denver and Chicago.
The property was sold this week to
Denver parties for $500. 900. $500. 900
worth of ore being in sight at time of
sale. Business men and ranChmen OF
Johnson county should emulate the ox,
ample as set forth by these people and
the results will, in all probability, if
the proper judgment is used. be the
same.
One expert who has seen this coun.
try near Laramie and where his mine
was sold, called the Rambler. says that
the formation and the country in gen.
eral resembles Il own Bull camp in
every particular, both as to the char
acter of the rock and the general for
nation of the stratas.
, 1901-06-10
TROUT FISHING.

The season for catching fish has
that is. the legal season has been open.
The real season. however, when the
lusty trout strikes the fly. will not open
til almost the first day of July. The
trout is discriminating. He takes his
food in season. When the ground is
moist with frequent ain and worms
roll along the bottom of the stream, he
feeds on the bottom. and the bait fish
erman enjoys himself. That is not the
real sport. To lure the big fellows
from under willows and o~vcrhanging
banks with the artificial fly constitutes
the highest and clcanest sport the ang-
Ter enjoys. There is no worm box to
carry: no handling of wriggling. Craw-
ling things With reel by ones side
II the light bamboo in hand, there is
nothing to mar the pleasure.
July |. when the mosquito bites the
hardest and the gnat and the fly are
lively over the surface of the water,
the trout feeds on the surface to a
large extent and then the artificial fly
comes into play. Particularly is this
true of the Big and Little Laramie riv-
ers, where the water remains high very
late in the season. And in these
streams, too. the fish are by far of
liner flesh and gamier than those of
the small streams. for the reason that
the water is sufficient to permit them
to grow and is high and cold late into
the warm season elsewhere.
1t is hard to wait, but there is little
use for the genuine lover of fly fishing
to make the attempt much before the
first of July, unless he Graves dt;ap-
pointment.
, 1901-06-10
WHY THERE is NEED
FOR COPPER MINES.

Some idea may be gained of the in.
creasing demand for copper and the
never-Ceasing search for veins of cop
per ore by such items as the following:
An order has just been filed in Con.
nectiCut for ! 900, 900 pounds of copper
trolly wire for an electric road in In.
dia. The reels upon which the wire
was wound required near 10000 feet
of lumber for their construction. The
reels and wire combined will weight l..
500, 600 pounds. Twenty-seven cars
and two engines will be used in trans.
porting the shipment to tidewater.
, 1901-06-10
THE PROLONGATION OF LIFE.

The latest method of %prolonging hu.
man life is reported from Paris, and
consists in cXpelling all the microbes,
of which the body has millions. they
especially ~througing in the large in
testines. this expulsion to be effected
by producing in the organism antimi,
crpbiC seCTCtiOns or ferments destruC.
tive of the antitOXin of the bacteria
A little thing like that ought to be
easy to do. provided the subject is not
given to drink. Next. we must shorten
those large intestines. which are
simply Il survival. an anachronism. so
to speak inherited by us from a state
of lower Development" That is plain
enough. but if this is so. what becomes
Of natural selection" What have We
got these things for yet if they are
unnecessary and harmful, and why
does not the process of natural sClcc-
ton eliminate them. as it does so many
things that are outgrown in a species
or a race? That is the question that
was in fact asked. as reported. and the
reply was that there had not yet been
time tor natural selection to do its
work. but hat his would come in time.
1t 5 further alleged that the expulsion
of he microbes will, when systemati-
cally done, double the period of youth,
and raise the maximum of the normal
span of life to ninety and one hundred
years at least" If there is no mistake
about this, and if the shortening of the
large intestines will help as mach as
the expulsion of the microbes. there is
lots more fun in store for the human
race thai it has I'VE had yet. The aC-
Il goes on to say that the shorten
ing referred to has been known to med
lcal science, with positive advantage
TO life and heath" All these cheerful
forecasts and statements come from
Paris, and that they do so. illustrates
anew the genial influence of the SUI.
VlNal of the f%ittest." in ideas at least
Tor no people need the prolongation of
life more thar the French, so that they
may begin again to make a decent
showing in the census reports.-Salt
Lake Tribune.
, 1901-06-10


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, 1901-06-10
DELIGHTFUL ENTERTAINMENT
BY MUSIC Pupil 6

'~os
tn" piano recital given at the pro
cathedral Saturday evening. June |. by
the pupils of Mrs. Winant Oliver was
very much enjoyed by a large and APP
prrcIative audience. The platform was
beautifully decorated with greens and
flags and presented a pleasing appear,
ancv to the eye.
Much enthusiasm was expressed
over the artistic rendering and techni,
cal control of the compositions played
by the pupils, which were executed with
tn" calmncss of conscious ability. and
altogether without notes.
RDhccca Cook. a pupil of IA years,
played the difficult Chopin Fantastic
"ImTromptu in mastery style. Miss
Helen Manasse also rendered Jacl's
dance of the Fairies" with an arts
tic touch and splendid Interpretation
\ number of others could also he
mentioned, who showed much talent
and give promise of "A future; not only
doing much honor to themselves. but
rejecting great credit on the untirinl
energy and ability of Their teacher.
Tn" trio by Mcssrs. Latimer Gray
VIII SChilling and Louis DeLariO. wa
very much enjoyed. as was also tho
singing of Mrs. Stella Epson. who
though suffering from a sore throat
rendered the sweet and well know
song 20 Promise Me" in a most pleas
ing and sympathetic manner.
, 1901-06-10
CONVENIENT POCKET MAPS
OF STATE OF WYOMING

There having been so many calls re-
Gently for maps Of the State of Wyo-
ming, The Republican has been prompt
ed to put in a supply for its patrons.
The map selected is issued by Rand,
McNally q Co, and is up-to-d;t' in az
cry particular. 1t is arranged in neat
book form and is suitable for carrying
in ones pocket, is neatly covered and
very durable. In addition to the map.
there is a large AMOUNT of valuable IN
formation concerning the state con
tanned in the book. 1t has a new II Or
iginal compilation and ready index,
showing in detail the entire railroad
system, the express company doing
business Ovcr each road and accurate
ly locates all cities, towns, postotfices,
railroad stations, villages, counties, isl
ands, lakes, rivers, etc.
The special features of this pocket
map are: Locating the branch or par,
ticuIar division of railroad upon which
each station is situated; the nearest
i'"'iihS poiHL Vi All Ioc"l places "eSiS'
mating money order postotices; tele.
sI"ph StaI'ohS' anu naming the com
p""S uo'nS BUSINESS DIT 'he point "nSIe
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, 1901-06-10
LETTER FROM BROTHER
OF ROBERT GALE.

County Clerk James McGibbon is
Just in receipt OF a letter from Henry
Gale. dated at Waterloo Cottage. Cahir,
County Tipperary. ireland. May u. in
which he says, in speaking of the death
of his brother, Robert Gale, in this
city:
We have heard with very great re
greet of my dear brothers death. as we
had been looking forward to seeing him
this year. 1t is IA consolation to know
that he was not quite a stranger in a
strange land, as you tell us he had
many friends in Laramie. He was al.
ways such a willing, kind. unselhsh, fel.
low
There follows some paragraphs re.
Iating to business matters. and Mr..
Gale asks the address OF the clergy,
man who officiatcd at the funeral of his
brother. that he may thank him per,
sonally.