Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-12-10

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Sheep are selling at from 10 to 20
cents head In parts of Australia on
account of the drought.
California will ship large amount
of celery to eastern markets this win
ter. 1t is one of the growing indus
tries of the coast.
The Devon cattle are hardly known
in the west. With the passing Of the
OK as beast of burden the special use
for the Devon ceased. Other breeds
better fill the needs of the dairy and
the feedyard.
The Argentine Republic produced
this year S6,000,0O0 bushels of corn, or
Just about one-third of the crop of the
state of Kansas, and the Argentine Re-
public is the only competitor America
has in the corn business.
1t is much easier to put fat on an
animal when it is warm than when it
Is cold easier to feed with the sun
than without it. For all practical pur-
poses sunshine and warmth mean fat
and the want of them curtailed IA
ton.
Cows are fond of turnips and rape,
but it is poor stuff for their ration, as
it is almost impossible to feed them so
that they will not faint the milk. If a
root ration is desired for the COW in
winter, there is nothing better than
sugar beets or carrots.
If you want twenty-five cent eggs to
sell in winter, make the hens scratch
for living, feed corn only once day,
wheat once and oats once and see that
they have a feed of ensilage or its
equivalent in some sort of green food
ence day. No ROSTERS are wanted for
winter egg production.
1t has been too cold the past summer
for the tea roses to do well out of
doors. 1t was with the greatest reluc.
lance that they bloomed at all. and
many of the blossoms were imperfect
because of the cool and damp weather,
but it just suited the cabbages, which
grew and grew until they bursted
wide open.
The most pitiful fate of any dumb
creature is that of the horse. He
graduates down from the carriage to
the lumber wagon, then into the hands
peddler's cart. his last remaining atom
of strength whaled out of him till he
falls dead in the harness. If he were
only recognized as fit for food, this
would not be so.
The syndicate system of farming is
bane to any country. 1t is death to
schools, society and almost bars the
natural development Of any section
where it is practiced. 1t is the worst
Kind of land skinning in it's operations
and blights everything desirable in our
American rural life. 1t is comfort to
know that it so seldom pays that only
here and there has it got n foothold.
A stranger coming to this country
would of course be Informed of the
fact of our big things-Our millionaires.
great corporations and manufacturing
interests-and just as like as not he
would not be told about the best thing
which the country can boast of, and
that is the way up from poverty to the
ownership of ideal American homes
and comfortable competency for old
age
Think Of 1t! Three crops, or six tons in
ell, of alfalfa in one year and a crop of
seed to taper off on, the hay worth $42
and the seed $24; no blowing or seed
ing; just harvesting, that's all. Is not
that dandy crop for you? They do
this in Kansas. and if you live farther
north and have the right sort of soil
you can get the two crops of hay and
the seed. Most valuable plant grown
In America If you can only grow 1t.
Try.
Speaking Of agricultural swindles,
there is the steel range trap. We know
of dozens of men who paid SGS for a
range to some travelling agent who
could have got precisely the same thing
for $40 of their local merchant, but the
trouble was that the local merchant did
not go out in the country and illustrate
the nonbreakable qualities of malleable
steel by taking a stove lid and mauling
it with ten pound sledge, as did the
travelling agent.
He got his herd of fine stock this
way: He paid 500 for registered Red
Polled heifer in calf The calf was u
heifer. and from these two. with the
addition of male calf costing $50.
he has built up as nice herd of these
fine cattle In eight years as one would
wish to own, and he now has de-
mand for all his young animals at