Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-03-26

AN~~~A
One eye on the seed potato is better
than more. You will get a more thrifty
plant.
A New Jersey farmer has by process
Of law made the county pay for some
Of his own sheep killed by his own dog.
This is good one.
Sweet separated milk is worth 80
cents per 100 pounds at South Da-
kota factory which has lately under
taken the manufacture of powdered
milk--milk evaporated, dried and pow
dered.
In general way it may be said that
If your poultry range is limited in ex-
tent it is better to keep the Asiatic
fowls. If the range is ample, then.
fowls of the Leghorn type will pay
best.
The eastern markets are being large
ly supplied with potatoes from Germa-
ny, Ireland and Scotland this season,
the high prices justifying the importa-
ton of the tubers even with the burden
of twenty-five cent tariff tax on each
bushel.
We know of sheep raiser in the
central west who finds it very profita-
BILE to have his lambs come in January
and have plenty of spring lamb to sell
at high prices to the visitors at popu-
lar summer resort located near him.
He keeps the twin bearing breeds and
sits up nights good deal in January.
One extensive railway system of the
middle west has decided to plant catal-
pa trees upon every available portion
Of its right of way for the purpose Of
thus growing the ties which it will
need in the coming years. If this work
is done intelligently and properly, an
immense amount of valuable timber
may thus be grown.
Sooner or later the beet sugar raisers
Of this country will have to meet the
competition of the cane produced in
our new island possessions. This time
may be STAYED off for awhile by the
manipulation of tariffs and bounties,
but in the end the country which can
most cheaply produce the sugar Of
America will grow it.
AS a general rule all over the north
country where it has been used the
large tile for the culvert in the high
way is almost a total failure, and its
use for this purpose is being abandon
ed. The trouble is that water is allow
ed to settle on the bottom; then the
frost comes and cracks the tile and
renders it worthless.
the following recipe, but give it as
friend gives it to us. He says that If
-four Of sulphur is literally mixed in
the box of the planter with the seed
corn the cutworms will never touch
the corn so treated. 1t is so easy and
simple thing to try that it is worth
experimenting with.
If you are likely to want to sell the
farm inside of five years, it is probable
that now is as good time to let 60 as
you will strike. Buyers are plenty, CON-
petition sharp on the part Of buyers
and prices at high water mark. A re-
nfin TO- In hAf nd
we do not look to see land materially
decline from present values, it may be
hard to find buyer later on.
The patrons of separator creamery
in western Iowa who are able to dis
pose of all their skimmilk at 30 cents
per hundredweight to a process butter
factory located close by the creamery
have about the best snap in dairying
that we know Of, realizing about $1.50
per hundredweight for their milk, and
these same men did a whole lot Of
kicking when the butter factory locat-
ed there. fearing 1t would injure their
creamery business.
In Idaho an acre or irrigated blue
grass pasture will furnish sufficient
food for four cows, while on the blue
grass pastures of Iowa it is not safe
to put more shan one COW on each acre
for the summer range. This illustrates
why it is that one acre of good land
which can be irrigated in sunshiny
region is worth about three times as
much as an acre of equally fertile land
where the weather clerk attends to the
hydraulic business.
A LAND SEEKERS COMPASS.
If you are a land seeker and want
to know in n general way where and
where not to locate, do this: Take Il
map of the United States and a ruler
and pencil. Locate the one hunGredth
degree Of west longitude at the top and
bottom of the map and then draw a
straight line north and south with your
pencil from point to point. No matter
what state it passes through 1t will
generally hold good that west Of that
line 1t is unsafe to buy land expecting
to be able to cultivate the soil and