Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-07


of all the legumes, both as forage
plant and a soil renovator.
While d calf can be taught to drink
eour and lobbered skimmilk just as a
monkey can be taught to chew tobacco,
it is still not natural food for the calf.
It is hardly neighborly in its best
sense when all you see of your neigh
boris home is the visit you feel called
upon to make when sickness and death
visit him.
If we lived two miles from the
creamery and thought anything of our
calves, no milk would be sent to the
creamery, but farm separator would
do the work at home.
plete remedy in the summer silo-ensi-
lage made the previous year and held
over. Wherever ten or twelve cows are
kept this is worth looking into.
The English sparrow is now being
generally used as substitute for the
pigeon in shooting tournaments. The
birds. are trapped and sold to the sport
ing clubs at 5 cents each. This thing
should be encouraged.
It will hardly pay to carry any old
corn over at the present high prices;
still there will be some men do this be-
cause they will always want cents q
bushel more than the corn is worth, no
matter how high the price.
"A successful attempt at finishing beef
cattle has been made the past winter in
North Dakota by the use Of ground mil
let as the substitute for corn. This is a
fact Of Importance to those ATTITUDES
where millet will do well and corn will
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Foreigners have for some years past
been actively engaged in investigating
American improved methods in the line
Of manufacturing, and now experts are
coming over to investigate the agricul-
tural methods which enable America
to feed the world.
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"A lady reader in Illinois writes MS
that the rural mail service now reaches
them on the farm with the daily paper,
and the telephone is being put in in
their neighborhood, and she adds that
It II going to be nice living ON the old
farm when this is all done, which ts
true,
The kind Of neighbors you have de-
ponds very largely upon yourself. The
carrying into all the business Of life of
the principles of the Golden Rule will
In nine cases out of ten secure q man
good neighbors. The per cent Of those
who are wholly selfish, unregenerate
and unmanageable as neighbors is very
small indeed.
A drainage ditch 90 miles in length,
a. feet wide and II feet in depth which
disposed of the accumulated surface
water of a large section Of a western
community is now to be enlarged to
width OF "a feet and depth Of II feet
to permit all the tributary territory to
be tile drained into II, thus converting
the meadow land into choice agricul-
tural lands. -,..Sss, ,.s.--..rs
A two hundred and fifty thousand
dollar sugar mill with outfit is being
built by the state Of Texas to be oper-
ated in connection with several thou
sand acres of sugar land by the con-
Nicts at the penitentiary. When well
under way the men thus employed will
be able to realize that sweet are the
uses OF adversely"
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The man who knows nothing at all
about the fitting up and training of the
horse can still make good money rats
ing the heavy draft horse. which he
will only have to keep clear of the
barbed wire fence and feed like steer.
This sort Of uncouth. unbroken twelve
hundred pound two-year-old colt read
lily brings 500 and costs less to raise