Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-10-15


which 1t is grown, the amount Of
moisture available for the plant dur
ing it's growing season and the size
Of the tubers.
The cow is proving to be the re-
deemer of South Dakota, the creamery
business in that state being developed
at wonderful rate. The COW, wher-
ever kept, always works an improve
ment in agricultural conditions.
Weather conditions are such this sea-
son that the corn belt is likely to
move back to the south again about
$50 miles, perhaps more. Hard June
frOsts and excessive moisture are not
favorable to corn crop grown north
of latitude 45.
The black things on the farm are
among the best to be had. There are the
black Percheron horses, the Polled An
gus and Galloway cattle the Poland
China hog, the Black Spanish and the
Langshan fowls, while the most fertile
soils are black.
The goldenrod and the daisy are two
wild flowers which appeal to the ar
tistic and aesthetic sense and inspire
the poets, but in many parts of the
country, particularly in the east, these
plants are two of the very worst weed
pests which the farmer has to fight.
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'That settles it," said an old farmer
who was just on the point of renting
his farm and moving into town when
told that rural mail route was to be
laid past his door. "Tll build tenant
house, keep my old home, have my
daily paper and die where have work
ed for forty years"
The unusual rainfall of June and
July, covering an immense area of the
Semiarid lands of the west, has in
sured wonderful crop of grain of all
kinds where men had faith enough to
sow the seed. The western parts Of the
two Dakotas, Kansas and Nebraska
will have a full crop this year.
The prospective crop Of hogs in many
sections of the country, assuming that
the price remains at IS or over during
the winter, will of itself, providing the
cholera does not make It's appearance,
bring an enormous revenue to the pro-
ducers, thousand dollars at least for
every quarter section farm.
1t is always either too hot or too cold
or too wet or too dry for some men;
never just right. Born in the wrong
stage Of the moon. these came kicking
into the world, go kicking through it
and kicking out of 1t and will be kick
ers at paradise conditions IL old Peter
let's them through the gates.
Now, what's right in this case? A
swarm of bees dropped
down on to tree on mans farm.
While he was going to the house to get
a hive for them a man passing along
the highway spied the bees and, enter
ing upon the mans farm, had them
hived before he returned. Whose bees
are they?
This is what rape will do as a sheep
food: One hundred and twenty-five
grade Shropshire lambs were fed for
seven and one half weeks on fifteen
acres Of rape and made an average
gain of three and one-half pounds per
head per week, or, In other words,
made a gain in selling value of $1S1
on the fifteen acres in that time.
We came across model farm gar
den the other day-an acre or so of
land adjacent to the farmhouse laid
out in long strip and everything
planted in long, straight rows so as to
admit of machine cultivation. Enough
small fruits and vegetables was thus
easily raised to supply four families
and at a minimum of labor and trou-
BILE.
So far the past year the grain gam
blers on the boards Of trade have
gambled in the producers interest. All
corners attempted have been of the
bull type, and while the farmer has
rarely been able to reach the fancy
figures resulting from such manipula-
ton of theS markets, still the general
effect has been to stimulate the cash
market for grain, and to this extent
the farmer has been benefited.
Americans cook their food altogether,
too much from hand to mouth, with
the result that the baking powder can
and the frying pan go hand In glove
with the patent medicine man and the
dentist. Withal, this style of cooking
lays a big burden of work on the
Bread, pastry. cakes and
meats should not be cooked every day.
A baking day once week, or at most
twice week, is enough in all reason
There will be some most desirable
agricultural opportunities developed
in the coming years In connection with
the government irrigating schemes.
Many sagebrush plain Is to be con-