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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05
A TOUGH PROPOSITION.

The condition of Ireland agriculture
ally is steadily improving owing to the
more liberal land laws. The per cent of
Irish immigration to this country is
steadily decreasing, largely due to this
improved condition. This is Il distinct
loss to America, as Pat more than any
other man has contributed to the splen-
did system of internal improvements
of which America is so proud In place
of the son of the Emerald Isle we are
now getting beggars from Italy. for
tune tellers from Alsatia. tramps from
Turkey and scads of all degrees from
the despot ridden and bankrupt princi-
palities of the Mediterranean. America
has done marvellous things in assimi-
lating foreign types and converting
them into homogeneous citizenship;
but she is now receiving at the rate of
half million head year of raw ma
terial which bids fair to tax the assim-
ilative power of the country to the ut
most When we say that only 80 per
cent of this crowd can either read or
write. it is easy to understand what a
job we have on our hands.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05
LET sToRExEnprNG ALONE.

If you are tired of farming tired OF
milking cows. blowing, reaping and
chorng make the mistake of
renting or selling the farm and start
ing into q mercantile business in some
town. Nearly every community can
furnish some financial wreck of man
who has done this thing. 1t is the surest
way in which to get rid of the old farm
and dssipate the hard earnings and
savings of twenty-five or thirty years
that we know Of Business men have
their troubles which the man on the
farm knows but little of-deadbeats, a
savage competitive strife which is mer-
CHESS. fiuctuating markets, capricious
public to cater to, overdue drafts at
the bank and uncollectable assets. No
man can succeed in mercantile bust
ness today who has not had careful
and thorough training in the line which
he may take up. We call to mind one
case where a smooth drummer unload
ed on to a farmer who had just opened
a country store enough sal soda to last
the community for forty years. Better
by far give the farm to the county au-
thorities to care for you the rest OF
your life than buy out a store, when
the chances are that the county will
have TO take care of you at the public
expense.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05
EARTHWORMs.

We are asked some questions about
earthworms, what their method Of
propagation and several other things.
Reproduction in the case of the earth
worm is by eggs. which are produced
In great quantities. the young incubated
just as in the case of the oviparous
snakes. The worm lives on dirt; that
Is. he eats 1t and manages to extract
sufficient nutriment from 1t to enable
him to eat more dirt, in which respect
he is like some people. He is partial
to rich soils and damp places, bores
deep in the earth in dry time and as
winter comes on and often takes look
at the old world outside at night after
warm rain. He is savory food for
almost all ground animals and birds.
Is almost the sole food of the mole and
Is liked by fish Of all kinds as well as
flesh and fowl. He does wonderful
work I'm mellowing. nitrifying and en-
riching the soil and. while among the
very lowest of all Gods creation, I'M
ceasingly tolls for the good of all. II
the boys and girls who read this will
give an adult worm careful examina-
ton under good microscope. they will
get a valuable lesson In nature study.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05
STALKS AS FERTILIZERS

Where the corn is cut up for fodder
and the stalks removed is the land rob-
bed? At the present time, when the
farmers of the great corn belt are so
generally changing from the old meth
cd of feeding the stalks off in the field
to that Of harvesting the corn with a
binder. this question becomes Of con-
siderable interest. There is not much
fertility in the rotted stalks or in the
droppings of the cattle Which clean
the stalks up Where soil is stiff and
lacking in humus the decaying stalks
are helpful, but on loose and rich soils
they are Of little value. A rotation Of
clover on the cornfleld will put more
fertility into the soil than will the ac-
cumulated stalks of five years growth.
1t is further noted that the small grain
crop succeeding corn where the crop
has been cut and removed is almost in
varably better than where they are
left on the ground, this owing to the
fact that the crop can be put in in bet
ter shape when the stalks are removed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05
EVOLUTION IN THE CORNFIELD.

EVOLUTION IN THE CORNFIELD.
The evolution of the machinery and
methods used in harvesting the crops
of small grain, remarkable as it was,
was no more interesting than the evo-
luton of machinery and methods now
in progress as applied to the harvesting
of the corn crop. The same economy
and perfection Of methods which can
hardly be improved upon with refer
ence to the small grain harvest are now
corn crop. Where the writer lives thou
sands of acres of corn have the past
year been cut by machines and shock
ed, just as wheat or oats. hauled to the
homestead at the beginning of winter
and run through either a shredder or q
thrashing machine, the NOW filed up
with the finest of coarse forage and the
cribs with either shelled or husked
corn and the field thus cleaned up at
the rate of eighteen or twenty acres a
day. No more picking corn in the field
with foot of snow on the ground and
the mercury at zero, no more losing
lot of the best cattle by running in the
stalkfield, the hay supply to be here
after obtained from the cornfield and
the hay meadow broken up and plant
ed to corn. The most noted agricul-
tural progress of n decade has been
made right here.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

A friend writes us from New Jersey
that the bane Of agriculture in that
section is found in selling milk at low
prices to city consumers and the pur-
chase of western dairy rations at ruin
ously high prices. Under these condi-
tons the producers of milk ought to be
able to command better prices for their
product There is tremendous differ
ence between working the fertile soils
of the west and northwest and those of
many of the eastern states. where the
sum expended for commercial fertiliz-
ers amounts to as much in many cases
as the crop is worth. This difference
in soils and the ever decreasing freight
rates are bound to give the west almost
monopoly in the production of the
cereals of the country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05
ARTIFICIAL COMB HONEY.

A short time ago we incidentally re-
! ferred to the manufacture Of bogus
comb honey, and, judging from the
many letters received, we made mis-
take in assuming that any such honey
is made or could possibly be made,
and so our readers will please under
stand that there is no such fraud prac-
tlced and that we never said there
was The bee men unite in saying that
it is a mechanical impossibility to
make an artificial comb, fill it with an
adulterated sweet and so seal the cells
up that such fraud could not be readi-
ly detected. At the same time we have
before us statement of an expert OF
the agricultural department at Wash
ington, Mr. Charles Saylor of Des
Moines, Ia, in which he refers to this
matter as though such bogus product
was actually being made. The bee
men can now go for him and convince
him, as they have us, that he is in error.
The item which drew forth the criti-
cism was prompted not so much by
what we had heard and read of this
assumed fraud as by the character and
quality Of lot Of honey which we
bought about that time. Assuming that
this lot of honey was the pure quill
product of the bees, we wonder what
the moral condition of the members of
the hive must have been to have pro-
duced such an abomination when it
looked so very tempting. They must
surely have been foragers on strange
grounds and eaters of forbidden fruits,
jewellers among the bloom of skunk
cabbage, henbane and ragweed, dis
tillers of nectar from malignant and
deathly types of the vegetable king
dom. Maybe their queen was dead or
the regular workers on strike and
the drones tried their hand. Anyhow,
now knowing that the bees made that
honey, the poetic sentiment with
which we have always invested the
bee is knocked into smithereens, and
hereafter it, like the OK or the pig, is of
the earth earthly. J
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05
THE MISSION OF CLOVER.

No plant for all the north country
agriculture can preach so good SER
mon as clover. 1t is the almost perfect
dairy ration. tames the lumpy, sour
and contrary soil. subsoils the hardpan.
renovates and fertilizes the poor soil,
works days and nights during the two
years of its existence not only to pro-
duce the best food grown upon the
farm, but to enrich and nitrify the
earth and increase the yield Of all fol-
lowing crops for not less than five
years. We can offer nothing better for
the average farmer than to advise him
to make serious business of studying
this valuable plant and its benelcent
mission.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

We are asked whether 1t is better to
cultivate a strawberry bed in the
spring or rake the mulching in be-
tween the row and not cultivate 1t. For
the purpose Of securing the moisture
necessary to carry the berries safely
through the drought during the fruit
ing season. assuming that the space
between the rows was thoroughly cul-
tivated the previous season, we should
much prefer the mulching to spring
cultivation. We would further advise
the leaving of just as much of the COW
ering on the plants themselves as could
be done without injury to them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

A country boy asks us why the tele-
phone wires sing so loudly in cold
weather. 1t is caused by the contrac
ton of the wire by the cold. He can
readily demonstrate the truth of this
by striking a slack wire. which he will
find will have no resonant quality
whatever, but when frightened up will
have. The wintry winds striking these
taut wires produce the singing effect
noted in an aolian harp.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05
HIGH PRICED FODDER.

We noted thirty head Of cattle work
ing over the dry stalks in cornfield
the other day. The owner started in
with forty head, but lost ten head dur
ing the first four days after they were
turned in by the smut disease. These
ten head We're worth about $500. for
there were included a hundred dollar
Shorthorn bull and a cow worth $50.
The fodder in that field was never
worth over $50, If worth that. No need
to point moral to this story.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

illustrating what the rural mail route
accomplisEes, we note that on certain
route III Il western county upon which
about 100 families are served. of which
but two were taking daily paper
prior to the rural service, there are
now ninety-one daily papers taken. and
the figures show that the correspond
ence OF these families has more than
doubled in tie same time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

If we had a timothy meadow which
we wished to plant to corn the coming
season and feared the ravages of the
cutworm, as there would be good rea-
son to do. we would not pillow it until
the 10th Of May, would keep the disk
and harrow at work on it up to the Goth
and then plant. While this may seem
a little late for planting. we had far
rather take the chances thus than to
plOw and plant earlier.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

A buffalo bull recently slaughtered
In Iowa brought its owner nearly 81.
600. The head sold for 5000. the hide
for $500 and the meat for 80 cents a
pound. In the year 1877 a drove OF
buffalo estimated at 100000 head
crossed the North Platte river in Ne
braska and were worth dollar apiece
to the poachers who exterminated them
for their hides.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

When clover will do so much to reno
vate and redeem the farm, why don't
more men SOW it? It's hard to tell. The
many don't know and won't learn;
some get discouraged and quit because
their seeding fails; the few stick to it.
build their soils up and make money.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

The mounted head of an old fashion
ed long horned Texan steer will inside
of ten years be almost as difficult to
obtain as the head of buffalo bull. The
white faces and the doddies are driv-
ing the Texas steer out of existence
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

We saw stack of clover hay lately
so feet in length, 10 feet wide at the
base and s feet in height from the
ground to the apex of the roof. Glover
hay in that locality was worth 81 per
ton in the stack. How much did that
man lose by building his stack in this
manner?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

Some wise man notes that high pric-
ed corn and healthy hogs almost al
ways go together. the inference being
that if the hogs were fed less corn they
would not be so subject to disease.
There may be something in this.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

Several men whom we know are try
ing these freaks, the mule footed hogs,
hogs which have a solid instead of a
split hoof The claim is made for this
breed that it is cholera proof. 1t is best
10 wait awhile and see. the chances be-
ing If the brute is hog and not a
mule that it will go the way of all the
rest of its kind when the epidemic
cnmas
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

Milk dried and powdered is a new
product which is attracting some atten-
ton. 1t is claimed for it that it will
keep indefinitely in any climate, is cas-
lily handled and contains all the nutri-
tious properties of liquid milk.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

A car containing 1,200 bushels Of
wheat was unloaded at a western -four
mill a short time ago. We can all re-
call the time when 500 bushels Of
wheat was considered big carload.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

A friend tells US that he successfully
fruits his strawberry bed for five years
in succession. This may be done possi-
bly, with a small bed, but where the
bed is large it is every way better to
fruit two years and then pillow up. We
find it less trouble to set out a new bed
than renovate an old one.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

Sheep averaged 60 cents lower in the
Chicago market for 1901 than they did
for 1000.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

A farm boy made openings in the
loft of q barn so that the sparrows
could find a sheltered place to roost in
cold weather. They quickly tumbled
to the snap, and after they were once
wonted it was an easy matter to close
the openings after they had gone to
roost and catch them with dip net
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

A grass fed Texas steer of the new
Kind sold in Chicago in December for 81
per hundredweight. 1t weighed LOGO
pounds. brought SIP and wouldn't
have known what to do with an ear of
corn had one been given it. Only the
very best of the corn fed steers of
Iowa and Illinois brought as much
money the same day.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

A western farmer suggests the re-
moval of the barb used on wire fencing
and the use of mild current of cleo
tricity generated by dry battery as a
substitute therefor, claiming that the
light shock produced by contact with
the wire would soon educate all kinds
Of stock to keep away from the wire
fence.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

We hardly know whether it is any
worse to sell your neighbor COW
which does not pay her way in your
dairy herd or sell her to the local
butcher for all your neighbors to have
a hand in eating her up. The principal
difference is that i'm the first case you
get the cussing. while In the last the
butcher gets it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-02-05

The aged farrow4 cow is a Gamer by
predestination, but sometimes fails to
work out her destiny, and lot of kind
ly disposed persons in the community
are innocently compelled to eat her up
as prime steer fed beef. 1t does not
seem so bad when Chicago picnic
party works her up with beer and pref
gels.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-28
WANTS TO GIVE CARNIVAL.
H. L. Leavitt Conferred With Mont.
 gomery Business Men.

H. L. Leavit, representative of the Gas kill Mundy Carnival Company of Detroit, Mich. was in Montgomery yesterday look ing over the prospects for a fall carnival in this city. No conclusion was reached, but the Elks will have an attraction early in January
 The company which MT. Leavtt repre- sents supplied many of the attractions for the first Street Fair held in Montgomery in 1899.
 MT. Leavitt visited the rooms of the Commercial and Industrial Association yesterday to ascertain the prospects for a carnival in Montgomery this fall, but Secretary l.. l.. Gilbert was out of the city and no information could be secured. He then visited the business men of Montgomery but received little encour- agement from them in reference to the carnival.
 Street Railway officials were seen by MT. Leavtt and they spoke hopefully of having a weeks continuous performance at Bloem Fontaine Park or in some lot in the vicinity of the business portion of the city. However, no definite arrange ment was made.
 Mir. Leavitt said last night that while he was unable to bring any attractions here this fall, he would come here in January with an attraction for the benefit of the Elks He left last night for Mo bile.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-28

consciences and whom Alabama could not afford to leave in ignorance. If the true story of this class could be faithfully portrayed, 1t would be more bloodcurdling than any gruesome fiction, and we would see in its truth the most perilous men, ace to our commonwealth. Every rich man and woman in Alabama who read 1t, would know that his best investment Jay in giving the children of these people in- dustrial education, and the philanthro- pists whose money is being spent in Ala bama would see in this class the neediest and the worthiest.
 Every woman expecta< Alabama to do her duty. We expect the Alabama Leg islaturA to make laws for the proteetion and the industrial education of the little children whom we seemed to be forget ting till the mill men found and called them. We expect Alabama property holders to back the State action with in dividual aid.
 Not to know our enemies is danger ous: to alienate our friends Is equally perilous; to neglect our children would be the greatest mistake, the worst crime of all. There must be no misconception as to who are the friends and who are the enemies of the children. There must be no blunder in the laws which would shield them from the unkindness of one or mistaken kindness of the other.
 The children are asking for bread. Who will give it to them? The States of the Union are recognizing and meeting the need of that knowledge which is power. Shall Alabama be needless and let es- cape her chance to hold the power of an industrially educated white population?
 Kate H. Morrissette.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-28
Funeral of MT. Cadden.

The remains of MT. E. I. Cadden, who died at his residence, 6S7 South Court, Monday evening, was inferred in Oak wod Cemetery at 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning.
 MT. Cadden was a prominent Montgom- cry merchant and a member of many secret organizations Several of the organizations attended the funeral in a body, and large number of Montgom- cry business men were present.
 The funeral was one of the largest ever witnessed in Montgomery, and the great crowd attested the magnanmity and greatheartedness of the deceased
 The floral offerings were numerous and beautiful. Several were very large and showed artistic handiwork in prepara- tion large star of white roses sent by one of the secret organizations was especially noticeable
 A number of persons came from ben ton, the old home of MT. Cadden, to pay their last tribute to their dead friend.
 Rabbi A. J. Messing of Temple Beth Or was out of the city at the time of the death of MT. Cadden and was unable to return in time to officiate at the funeral. Rabbi Newfield of Birmingham performed the funeral rites.
 The following were the pail bearers: Messrs Leo Klein, Frank P. Chaffee, B. Wolff. Judah Moses, John Barry, Edgar Winter, R. T. Williams and Dave Cohen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-28
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 PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. and Mrs Lucian V. LaTaste left on Tuesday morning for Dallas, Texas, where they go to make their nome Tn the future. MT. and Mrs. LaTaste and their family have become so identihed with Montgomery in all social and busi- ness affairs. that it is with deep re- gret their friends give them up.
 Mrs. Brown, after a pleasant weeks visit, left for her home in Savannah this morning, accompanied by her daugh- ter, Mrs c. H. Bradley, and Miss Eliza beth Williams, 414 Madison Avenue Be- fore returning they will also visit Ty- bee and Thomasville.
 MT. and Mrs Sam Sable and Mrs. Nose Sable arrived home on Tuesday. They were called home on account of the ex- treme illness of their mother. Mrs. Sable who her friends will he glad to know, was reported much better yesterday.
 Judge and Mrs. Jonathan Haralson. Miss Carolyn Haralson and Miss Willie Browning Haralson, who have been spending some time at Tate Spring, have gone to Sapphire, North Carolina.
 Miss Kathleen Lahey and Miss Mary Siebels Ball, returned home yesterday from Mountain NIech, Whcio thSS A'NS been the guests of Miss Annie Lou Chil- ton.
 Mir. Edwin Joseph, MT. Lawrence An derson and MT. Robert Bartlette, have returned home from a weeks visit to friends at Mountain Creek.
 Misses Jennie and Mary Moulton Sis trunk have returned from Havana, where they have been visiting their sis ter, Mrs. Buhl.
 Mrs. Hawthorn of Camden returned to her home yesterday after spending a month with friends and relativec in Mont gomery.
 Miss Lula Kirtland of Mobile reached Montgomery last night to visit Mrs. James c. Haygood at 15 South Lawrence Street
 Mrs. w. C. Jemison will leave this morning for a visit of several days to the family of Mir. and Mrs. Mims Jemi- son.
 Miss Annie Lou Chiffon will come from Mountain Creek on Saturday to spend some time with Miss Mary Siebels Ba.!.
 Miss Mary Marshall Nass left yesterday to spend the month of September with relatives in Wheeling, W. Va.
 Mrs. Virgil Griffin who has been for the past two months summering in Min nesota has returned home.
 Misses Lizzie Fitzpatrick, Roberta Rob- erts. Mabel Higgins. Gwenn Mennefee, Jean Rousseau and Evelyn Bibb returned yesterday afternoon from Tallassee where