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White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09
WHAT ARE THE ESSENTIAL.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN US?

In the course of his remarks at
the Presidential reception in FL
Paso. Secretary Hay said:
Ladies and Gentlemen of Ell
Paso:
''As you all know, my name is
not in the program of the days
proceedings and | would not be
justified in doing anything more
than to thank you most sincerely
for this cordial welcome. It has
been lesson that none of us will
ever forget. To travel however
hastily through this great state
of Texas is an education. We
might read tables of statistics all
our lives and we would never real
ize the true grandeur of this great
state if we had not seen it day by
day, if we had not met its enter
prising and public spirited citi-
zens.
1T is a state full of glorious
memories Of the past, full of a
potent and powerful present, full
of limitless possibilities in the
future, but above all, it is the
home of the people, the most pa
triotic, the most enterprising that
man could ever desire to look up
on. And it is for this reason,
above all, that we feel that we
have share in your glories and
in your future, that we are the
partakers of all your lofty aspira
tions.
."And here, as we are leaving
the soil of the last distinctly
southern state which we can Wis
White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09
CATTLE SANITARY BOARD LEVY.

The levy for the cattle sanitary
board is much less than last year.
Secretary J. A. LaRue's report of
the cattle sanitary board of New
Mexico for 1900 shows that dur
ing the year 13O, 126 head of most
ly steer cattle were sold and re-
moved from the territory, and
1865 stock cattle were brought
in; 1854 hides were inspected.
More than half the number aC-
counted for few years ago. The
number of strays taken possession
of by inspectors of the board and
sold for the account of their OWL
ers is becoming less every year,
the total in 1900 being only 81,
80 of which have been already
paid for. The brands on the
others not being clearly identified
will appear in the stray list in
course of publication. The special
levy for 1901 is l 70 mills on the
assessed value of cattle-one mil
less than the levy asked for 1901
White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09

Judge Mcmillan adjourned the
district court at Lincoln last Fri
day to take in the Presidential
hurrah at Ell Paso. The adjourn
ment was until Tuesday, the Sth,
when the legal machine was again
put in motion. The reception
would probably have been fail
ure had not the Lincoln County
District Court adjourned for the
occasion.
White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09
GOVERNOR GEORGE CURRY.

Lieut.. George Curry, of the
18th cavalry, formerly sheriff of
Lincoln county, and a captain in
the Rough Riders, has been ap-
pointed governor of the north and
south Camarines. a part of the
Philippine archipelago.
White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09

Through the medium of the
public schools the natives of the
Philippines will soon become an
English-speaking people. New
Mexican Miner. Hope so, but
haste has been made slowly in
New Mexico.
White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09

The oil craze is getting to be
wellnigh universal. New Mexico
is effected at various places, and
the present searching may result
in some valuable finds. Oil is said
to exist all along the main range
of the Rocky Mountains from
southern New Mexico to Wyo-
ming, and there have been many
discoveries of oil indication and
even of oil itself. Most of the
product is however of an asphal-
tum character and not very valua-
bic as an illuminant, but may be
worth something as lubricant,
and rs fuel.
White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09

A great deal has been said by
the New Mexico press concerning
the decapitation of Black Jack.
All will agree probably that it is
we'll that his punishment was no
less than capital.
White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09

Certainly Mckinley will meet
with splendid reception on his
trip through the southern states.
Courtesy to a guest is an unwrit-
ten law of the south, and the pres
ident, no matter who he is, will
be no exception.
White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09

The oil excitement has reached
fever heat at Carlsbad and a
local syndicate has been formed
to buy oil lands in the district.
The incorporators number forty
persons.
White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09

The lamb crop is reported good
from all over the territory. 1t is
thought that 90 to 100 per cent
will be saved. The wool clip will
also be large this year, and is now
estimated by those in touch with
the wool interests that about 20, =
0OO,O pounds will be produced
in New Mexico this season.
White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09

One hundred and forty-eight
blocks of the city of Jackson
vile, Florida, were destroyed by
fire last week. The loss is
thought to be $40, 900, 600.
White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09

Captain is excited over oil, and
it is sincerity to be hoped that it
will not result as did the diamond
excitement there few months
aTO.
White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09

Every editor in New Mexico
can without chagrin write "a
eulogy on Otero's successor. Only
give us a successor.
White Oaks eagle., 1901-05-09

The Carlsbad Current has evo-
luted itself into a five column
quarto.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
Food and Flavor.

Food greatly affects the flavor OF
the flesh of the animal to which it
Is fed. Thus, turkeys and hogs which
live in the woods and forage for
their rations of nuts, roots and
mast are very much better favored
than those which are wholly domes-
ticated and fed in the barnyard. The
finest favored hams produced any
where are from the Virginia noun
tain district, where the hogs run wild
In the woods the year round, and
turkeys raised in the woods are al
most as highly favored in flesh as
their wild relatives. The eggs and
flesh of the common barnyard fowl
would be much improved in flavor
could the hens be kept wholly away
from the manure piles and other
offal in which they seem to find de-
light. If onions fed to mich cows
will faint their milk, why is it not a
bad policy to let them chew away
on a pile of horse manure?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
No Hard Times in Sight.

A friend wants to know when hard
times for the farmer are likely to
come again, he assuming that the
present prosperous condition of agS-
culture cannot continue. While
lower prices for farm products are
almost sure to come in the natural
order Of supply and demand, we still
think that the greatly expanded
markets for the products of the
American farm and factory and the
continuance of common-sense bust
ness principles in the policies of gov
eminent, will absolutely prevent q
recurrence of what may be termed
"hard times" for the American farm
err for many years to come. The
whole world is becoming dependent
to q greater or less degree upon
America. The actual foreign demand
for food stuffs, coupled with the
home demand from non-consumers
engaged in manufaitur commo-
dities for foreign countries, is sure
to make an active demand at good
prices for all that the farmer has
to sell. 1t is this fact which does
much to explain the marked adj
vance in the price of good farm lane
all over the country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
Pioneer Hospitality.

Pioneer days were essentially the
days of most generous and unpre-
tentious hospitality among all the
country folk. Complaint is now
made that with better homes, more
wealth, more independence and more
style, this old-fashioned hospitality
has mostly disappeared. We recall
with pleasure the social customs OF
forty years ago on the frontier. The
visit to the neighbours lasted two or
three days; bedding was taken along
and good supply of good things
to eat, so that the burden of enter
tainment should be lightened. There
was a good fellowship and kindly
neighborly feeling in those days
which we think is mostly gone, and
its decadence was marked by the get
ting of horse team and an old
buggy by one of the neighbors where
we all used nothing but oxen for
work on the farm and for travel.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
The Family Pig.

If one wants some choice pork for
the family to eat the pig should not
know very much about corn at any
period of his career, and most GER
tainly should not be allowed to fol
low a bunch of fatting steers. The
family pig. while a scavenger by
nature, still responds to decent ra-
tions of food and should be the
product of skim milk, barley mea
and roots, with chance to run in
a wood lot and pick up acorns and
nuts, TO be finished off with little
corn at the last end. Such pork will
be the typical streak of fat and
streak of lean, tender, firm in tex
ture and of the finest flavor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
FEEDING the Corn Fodder.

/ The question of paramount inter-
est to hundreds of men all through
the country just now is how to most
economically and profitably feed the
large amount of corn fodder which
has been secured. The best way
TO use corn fodder is in the silo, but
that method will not fit this case. The
next best method, having in mind
the economy of handling, is to haul
the fodder and scatter it on clean
blue grass pasture. letting the fatting
steers have the first feed from it,,
and then let the stock cattle and
horses finish up. The next way is TO
haul from the field and stack it in
narrow stacks, shredding later on
when the weather is cold and dry.
While 1t is true that most of the
ears can be removed by hand from
bundle without untying or breaking
it. this is an awful tedious job where
one has forty or fifty acres of corn.
AS we note it, there is no method
outside of the silo to avoid a waste
of from 25 to so per cent in feeding
corn fosder of the average field corn
sort. This waste Is present where
the fodder Is shredded just the same
as where II Is not, though in perhaps
a lesser degree. Where corn is
planted thickly especially for fod-
der it is best fed right from the
bundle.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
Wire Grass and Wealth.

The largest manufacturing sindus-
try in the state of Minnesota is en-
gagged in the conversion of the COM
mon wire grass of the Minnesota
sloughs into the various manufac-
tured products for which it seems so
well fitted-binding Irvine, cordage
mating, basket work, bagging, etc
More than 10000 persons are being
supported and doing well as a result
of the development of this industry
And we well recall the time when the
wire grass slough was considered the
most worthless of any of Mime
sofas broad acres and the owner OF
it an object of pity.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
Hints on House Plants.

Dry heat, red spiders and plant lice
are the three principal causes Of
failure in the raising of house plants.
Plants will always thrive better in
kitchen than in furnace-heated
parlor, for the simple reason that
the air in the kitchen is moistened
by the continually boiling and stew
ing. Violets, freezias, hyacynths, car
nations, chrysanthemums and narcis-
sus will all do better with north
window light and temperature of
go or 65 degrees than they will in a
south window with sunlight, at a
temperature of rs or so. AS fine
flowers of these varieties as we have
ever raised never saw the sunlight
after they were ported.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
Scare These THINGS.

1t is patriotic duty to preserve
the last fragments of wild lire left
in the settled portion of the coun-
try-the flock of quail chirruping un-
der the sumach bushes by the road
side, the fox squirrel barking in the
top of the big maple in the timber
lot. the remnant of prairie hens
which boom away in the spring on
their Hill trysting ground, the black
bass swirling the surface OF the ed
dying pool as he chases minnow,
Ii is i'm no sense sport 10 wipe out
the last vestige of this charming
wild life, and still there are to be
found men in every community who
will murder the pc, red squirrels in
your dooryard if they have any sort
of a chance. This sort are poachers
and economic pests.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
The Town Cows Stall.

A friend from Michigan writes us
for directions how to fix cows
stall in the barn so that she may be
kept clean. The following is the way
in which we have fixed our own COW
stall: Stall is 4 feet wide, box
manager width of stall and 2 feet
high, common stanchion to hold COW,
floor elevated inches above the
level of the stable floor, and o.
such length as will just permit the
cow to stand upon it when she is
fastened in stanchion. The width of
the stall and the length of the floor
will have to be varied to suit the
size of the COW kept. Kept in such
stall, the cow can be kept per-
fectly clean without any trouble.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
Would Marry the Hired Man.

An eastern paper says that this
country needs several shiploads of
stalwart and industrious girls from
Ireland and Scandinavia to meet the
demand for domestic help. We co
not think that such an importation
would help the situation materially
for the girls would not be in this
country year until they woui"
marry the hired men and then the
farmer would be left without help
on the farm and in the house too.
Not until this country becomes more
densely populated, and its opportuni-
ties for bright and ambitious young
men and women greatly lessen
are we ever going to have plenti-
full and reliable class of domestic SER
wants.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
Natures Conversations.

We like to note the generous way
in which nature compensates for
losses inflicted by any of her whims
and climatic caprices. Through all
the great central west the past sum-
mer q drouth of unusual intensity
and duration prevailed, and the with
cred gardens, burned up pastures and
suspended growth of vegetation,
gave ample testimony that things
were badly out of joint, but the early
August rains came and since, most
luxuriant growth has been made
with killing frosts holding off far
beyond the usual time. The August
planted gardens have returned rich
reward, while the pastures are rank
as in June, betered for their enforced
rest during the dry period. If one
will only look on the bright side of
things he will have no kick coming
on climatic conditions, as a general
thing.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
Hired Help on the Farm.

A big and most serious problem
for all farmers today is the question
of help to do the farm work. The
demand for labor by the mines, rail-
WAYS and manufacturing industries
is so urgent, and has SO forced up
the price of unskillcd labor in this
country, that farm labor is not only
hard TO get but demands such a
rate of compensation that many a
man hesitates TO employ 1t. AS a
result. farmers are casting about for
methods whereby they may be ena-
hled to operate their farms with the
smallest amount of hired help possi-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
Notice in Probate.
WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

To WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:
You and each of you are hereby notified to
appear at The Court House In Winnesheik
County. Iowa, on the 18th day of November.
A. ID. 1901. at 2 O'Clock, p. m, to attend the
probate of an Instrument purporting To he
the last will and testament OF George w,
Hall, late OF Glenwood Township, In Win
nesheik County, Iowa, q, ceased, at which
time and place you win appear and show
cause, II any, why said will should be admit
ted TO probate.
In testimony whereof / have
rs., hereunto subscribed my name and
lshAhl affixed the seal of said Office, this
7th day OF October, 1901.
A. l., HAAKENsoN,
DAYTON d DAYTON, Clerk OF District Court
Attorneys. 4l-iw
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
Some Names for Homesteads.

We are asked to suggest Few
names for farm homesteads outside
those in common use. Well, mere
are few that occur to us: Doddle
Hill, Vine Mound, Dorking Hall, Glen
Jersey, Wheat Mound, Brook Run,
Hillhouse, Bluff Haven, Clovercorn,
Norman Heights, Cherry Slope, Elm
hurst, Bluff Burn, Boulder Brow,
Saints Rest, Cragside, names sugges-
tive of the special location or bust
ness pertaining to each place.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
Notice of Appointment

Notice Of Appointment of Executrix of the
Estate Of William Gaul Deceased.
NOTICE Is HERE9Y GIVEN, that the sub
scriber has been duly appointed Executor To
the estate OF William Gaul late OF Burr Oak
Township, In the County of Winnesheik,
State of iowa. deceased, testate, and has taken
upon himself that trust by giving bonds as
the law directs. All persons having de- ma nds
upon the estate of the said deceased are re-
quired TO exhibit the same; and persons in.
debted TO the said estate are called upon TO
make payment to MARY GAUL,
I3-i EXecutfiN.
DAN SHEA, Atty.
Dated atrecorah Iowa, Oct 18th, 1901.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
Highest Butter Records.

Illustrating the extreme butter
producing capacity of the mich COW
we give the following; The largest
reported yield for seven days is 48s4
pounds by a Jersey COW; the best
record for one year is 1,153A pounds
by a Holstein COW, and where COM
petitive tests of different breeds have
been made the blue ribbon was car
ried off by a Brown Swiss cow, which
made 9.s2 pounds Of butter in three
days.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
II will be recalled that Longfellov

It will be recalled that Longfellow
in his delightful roman, IT the
Courtship of Miles Standlsh. his Pris-
celia rode a snow white bull in the
bridal procession when she is mar
ried to John Alden. and it is worthy
of remark that the poet very wisely
puts ring in that white bulls nose
by which he is led, proving that
bulls. whether snow white or coal
black, have not changed in DISPOSE
tion very much in two or three hum
dred years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

In olden times the husking bee was
a much priced farm frolic. When the
boys found red ear they were given
the privilege of kissing the girls. and
SO it came about that the boys were
more particular than they now are
about fixing the seed corn in the
spring of the year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
Notice of Appointment

ofExecutor of the Estate'of Rande Tboison
Deceased
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That the
subscriber has been duly appointed Executor
to the estate of Rande Thorson late of Pleas
ant townsi ip. in the County OF Wlnnesheik
state OF Iowa. deceased, testate, and has tas en-
upon himself that trust by giving bonds rs
the law directs. All persons having demands
upon the estate are called upon TO make pay
ment to KNuDT THOMPSON, Executor
i0-4 Dated tt DEBORAH. Iowa, Sept. 30, 1901.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

There has been so much corn cut
up for fodder this year and there
will be so much shredding done that
local surgeons should be prepared
to treat an unusual number of man
gled arms and hands. Or, we viii
put it in this way, the careless, reck-
less hand should not, under any cir
cumstances, be allowed to feed the
shredder.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

Stock feeders in the beet sugar
districts of Germany are finding a
valuable stock food in the molasses
by-products of the factories mixed
with meal from the heterogeneous
cereals. In Louisiana the molasses
has been used for road making and
fuel
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

Here is another Minnesota item
well worth mention. At the late state
fair there was on exhibition in the
fruit department 1884 plates of APP
pies, SIS plates of plums, and 454
plates of grapes, representing over
200 varieties of apples and 100 OF
plums. and all this in state far
north, outside the supposed fruit
belt. and in a season when fruit pro-
duction has been very light.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

Minnesota is claiming the right to
be called the dread and butter
state. and not without good reason,
for it's wheat fields and wonderfully
developing dairy interests are at
tracing the attention of the whole
country. When to these two inter,
ests is added those of her mines and
forests the North Star state becomes
no small part of the union.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

We find that the purple branching
aster is much better able to resist
the effect of frost than are the other
varieties of this flower, the purple
asters October 18th carrying lot
of handsome bloom and apparently
uninjured by the frost which killed
all the others.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

If you will put root of English
or California violets in a five-inch
pot-half a dozen such-and set them
in the window of the north parlor,
and dip them once week IN water
of temperature of 40 degrees, sub
merging the whole plant, you may
pick these lovely flowers in abund-
ance all winter. We know that this
NAV be done, for we do it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

BILE. Some are giving up their dairy.
ing, others are seeding their land 10
grass, many leasing their land in
excess of what they can attend to
themselves, others selling off part
of their farms.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06
There is something strangely neon

There is something strangely neon
sistent about the universal prejudice
against the flesh of the horse for
food. the horse being the most clean
ly of animals and eating only the
most clearly of food, and the greedi-
ness with which the hog is eaten,
a common product of unspeakable
offal and filth. This is something
which we have never seen explained.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

The Wealthy apple, fall fruit in
the latitude of Iowa, when grown in
northern Minnesota becomes very
good winter apple with just little
care, illustrating the truth that the
farther north an apple is grown the
better the quality and the longer it
will keep.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

Since 1871 the number of blind per
sons in Germany has decreased from
s5 to ST per cent per 100000 inhabi-
tants. and the famous Breslau oculist
Or. Fl. Cohn, Is convinced, that witt
proper care that number can be stil'
further reduced by 40 per cent.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

The Gamma roots can be removed
at any time before the ground freezes
up with good ball of earth, and
placed on the cellar floor and covered
with sand, which should be kept
moist
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

George w. Bowman. mine owner
ms given to the Peoples church of
Chicago $1,000, 900. earnings from tive
gold mines In Arizona and New Meg
leo. He has told DR.. Hiram W
Thomas that several more nilhonf
are ready when they are wantsd
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

1t is claimed that cut flowers if
placed in salt water will keep fresh
a much longer time than if the water
is fresh and that faded bouquets can
be restored by placing them in brine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

Taking the prevailing price of farm
produce in the central west today
and the quality of the soil and the
average yield of crop, every acre of
good farm land is worth 500.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-11-06

We note that a farmer in Missouri
lately sold two car loads of hogs
fatted by him for as much as his
farm was worth.