Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-11-19

EfY At 40 cents a bushel the 1902 corn
ll<.CM crop of this country is worth the enor-
IAINJI nous sum Of $040000OOO.
II II the hired girl will keep fooling
10 with gasoline and kerosene to start the
kitchen fire, it may become necessary
to compel her to dress in asbestus
U cloth.
VII The annual consumption of dairy
1 klN& products per person In this country Is
1FA&2H ID pounds ounces Of butter, pounds
qB ounces of cheese pound ounces
IL of cream, 237 pounds ounces Of milk.
lMM' \ The latest corn story Is that a man
MMIM who treated his seed corn to q 500 volt
, &M current Of electricity before planting
'IhSoM succeeded in doubling the yield of the
IIhrMl crop. We simply do not believe this
'lH III yarn
dhTEDl Any man who will keep corn, hoping
1l- to get a dollar bushel for it. ought to
,,, be compelled to take a quarter for 1t
, a WIN and find that the rats had taken a
. ~. my fourth Of the crib for toll. We knew
one just such case.
IL costs from ~ 70 % Genus 10 raise
u bushel Of corn In Illinois. When Kan
LII cut sas has big crop like that Of the pres
ent season she can raise Il for 10 or IL
49,, .h,. cents bushel, or less money probably
80 hoos than can any other state.
ers will s.- 81 80 (
Christ Inc OctoDer government crop report
puts the corn crop Of 1902 as follows:
Missouri, 104; Indiana, 81; Kansas, 81;
all the Nebraska, 80; South Dakota, %; Iowa,
in the 70. The northernmost states show the
ting by eHects OF the september frost
ng 104. & y-aFs
sc. While parsnips will keep In the
ground all winter, they may, part of
station them at least be dug in the fall be
rth Just given one good freeze and then II
Is hard packed in sand in the cellar will have
more of all the sweetness which leaving them
cent Of in the ground all winter Is supposed to
aims secure
in Eng A farmer In southern Minnesota is
)arrows the owner or morse winch OF MS own
never a volition, getting loose one night In the
@ there barn, deliberately walked up the barn
he very stairs and into the hayioft twenty feet
70 birds from the barn floor. There was a great
hunt for that horse, and when found
it was no small job to get him back to
things terra nrha' 49, sF
tOfnd .4. .& x
he men nafo oeei nauiie eua~ ifon
nd low elaeA " nien was pheu ny any WY pe
finding eauSe - wouiu nave cps' 90 per Jay ios
)n stuff -, " lo'o po'H ~e.a.Aeu ~.
raises 80 SUI 40 Ivy 'na' uaiA " -
onons a spoiled for any purpose save bedding.
emit and man o"uiu hase nao VIVA. sua"
tah,a IN was wasted, he could have made 50 o
day stacking 1t properly.
l. ~ Er8
st time Aiman should strive to'be rated as an
es, both expert In some one thing. For In
prefer stance. a farmer should be known as
une for the producer Of some one farm product
ZEN the OF the very best of it's kind to be found,
wounds we care not whether II De some sort OF
quickly crop raised or some kind Of stock kept
ciduous II he produces the very best Of its
trimmed kind, 1t serves to give him name and
effects. reputation az well as to bring dollars
ould be to his pocket. ,...,...,,,..~~-. 3s9|
appear $50
Experiments at the Illinois station
have shown that corn varies very
IN with much TN the amount of protein which
becomes It contains, 1t having been already bred
Of wild up from 8 to Is per cent Of protein.
zen the Further experiments which are being
munks, made indicate that this amount of pro
. night tein can be stfll further increased by
all be- careful selection. There Is no one
It We thing being done In the line Of expert
ling his mental agriculture which Is Of more
It from Importance than this Of increasing n
on the possible the per cent Of nitrogenous
lid life matter In our corn. -
chinery srmmer min no ,o,Iowoa hy ,,,ntor
"hoae Of deep SHOWS In all the north country,
ny one and snowdrifts as high as the tops Of
who'e the fences very forcibly remind one Of
n on the need Of having both fuel and fod-
=, - ~ der under cover at the homestead. We
" 'au think that we have been as hot as 1t
be ad- | waa r,ss,h,o eo- on, -, ho ,ho,, ~,
ce' !" mercury was 20 below and blizzard
'1eeuSe on tear just trying to dig hay out Of
20 anu a Minnesota prairie haystack and get
'Jec'iVe It into the shed for the stock. While 1t
was unavoidable in those pioneer days.
we do not want to have to DO II again.
OF long
"' Whenever a farm product brings a
49, fair price and we have II ready for
Pr market we always let IL go. In the
,s W. long run II does not pay for the pro-
Queer to turn speculatox. Farm profits
are seldom extraordinary ones. We re-
call the case Of a man who had forty
80, 300 pound hogs ready for market. The
W 49, prevailing price was $3.50 to S4.90. He
NC one vowed he would not sell until he got
50, and he fed them forty cent corn
-" 49, through some very cold weather, when