Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-05-14

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Where clover will grow and Short
horn cattle are kept don't expect to buy
a farm for much less than $50 per acre. |
Seed potatoes are high priced this |
spring. and so it is just as well to re-
member that one good eye is just as |
good as more when cutting the potatoes
for seed.
We know one locality which had a
streak Of good luck lately. 1t got rid Of |
q mighty mean citizen and imported a |
registered Polled Angus bull. 1t was a
good trade.
In planting apple trees this spring |
on the prairie soils set trees not less
than eight inches deeper than they |
grew in the nursery and give them
decided lean from the perpendicular
toward the southwest.
Do not try to transplant black wal
nut or hickory tree grown In the ma
tive forest, for it will be sure to be
failure. Nearly all the nut bearing
trees should have the nut planted
where the tree is to grow.
There will always be poor and i'm
perfect kernels of grain produced even
II you sow only the very best The in
ference is-we might say the fact is
that the more poor seed you SOW the
poorer will be the harvest
A whole lot of eager homeseekers
are buying farms west of the one hun
dredth degree of west longitude In the
Dakotas. Kansas and Nebraska and
are going to come to grief. That is
stock country. not farming land.
We think that where so many as Of.
teen cows are kept in the farm dairy
some arrangement should be made to
have one man do all the milking and
give him plenty of time In which TO dc
1t. 1t certainly would be better for the
cows.
A field Of corn planted thickly for
fodder was dragged until 1t got to be
six inches high. While some Of the
corn was thus destroyed. there was
still plenty left. and 1t only required
two plowings to make perfectly clean
Geld Of corn.
There is peculiar significance con-
nected with that Biblical phrase which
refers to ''the grasshopper as bur-
den" when 1t is known that 100000
out Of the 80. 100000 square miles of the
land surface of the globe are subject
to the scourge Of these insects.
The United States furnishes Eng
land with 63 per cent Of her bread
stufs and 65 per cent of her meats.
So long as England is compelled to
thus depend upon the United States for
her very living there will be no serious
ruction between the two countries.
Darwin once picked up wounded
pigeon by the wayside. Its leg had
been broken, and in its contracted
claws was little lump of earth. This
Darwin planted to see what vegetable
life it might contain. From it he pro-
duced fifteen varieties of plant life.
Right now, during the last days Of
April, is the time to set out the straw
berry bed. We have sometimes thought
that the doing Of this might almost
come under the head Of legitimate
Sunday work. for the doing of it is
certainly work Of necessity and mer-
cy.
When a sixteen-year-old boy unskill-
ed In every particular can secure as
wages on a farm $40 a month. his
board and washing as he can today,
he is alone to blame If he Is not worth
u 800 by the time he is twenty-four
years old. But not one In ten Of them
will save dollar.
The oil discoveries In Texas bid fair
TO become the big discovery of the
country's natural resources Of the new
century. Assuming that the supply Is
practically unlimited. as 1t appears to
be, the wells at Beaumont will supply
q large part of the steam making fuel
Of the whole country.
We find that there are always two
things which need doing in the spring
Of the year where there is only time to
do one. So many things must be done
right then IL done at all during the sea-
son-the sowing of seed and planting OF
trees-and then there are always SO
much cleaning up and fixing TO do. IT
Ia altogether the busiest season OF the
year for u.s.