Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-07-30

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A man must be real lover of birds
not to want to shoot Mr.. Robin when
he is getting every cherry on the tree.
The English sparrow will shell out
pod of green peas just about as quick
as a grosbeak, for we have seen him
do it.
One objection to climbing vines over
the porch and home is that the spar
rows will seize upon the hooks behind
the vines for nesting places.
The day in June when the finest ex-
port beeyes sold in Toronto, Canada,
for cents pound they brought $3.50
to $40 per hundred in Chicago.
1t seems like cruel thing to rout out
a hired man at 4:30 in the morning
when he was up with his best girl till
midnight, but it has to be done just the
same.
In a summer like the present, with
almost triweekly rains, there is not
much danger of overstocking the pas
lures. In fact the closer they are fed
the better the grass will be.
II toEpS tho TriShm ucp1 RI xyOrly
ing ON a big farm of six acres in the
old country about year to get adjust
ed to the larger farms and wholesale
methods of agriculture in this coun-
try.
Great meat country this; S000,O0O,-
600 pounds of pork and S,G00,000,000
pounds of beef and mutton killed and
disposed of last year and at the high
est average price known for twenty
years.
If man of good standing and offer
ing good security wanted $1,000 on
would have dozen men after him to
lend him the money. This is a good
way to have it.
After paying S1.50 bushel for Col
orado and North Dakota potatoes all
winter there is solid comfort in taking
a basket and digging from ten to fif-
teen fine Early Ohio murphies from
your own garden.
The high prices of beef and pork are
likely to induce the keeping of more
sheep and the eating of more mutton,
which meat can be produced more
cheaply on the average farm than Ell
ther beef or pork.
Two thousand dollars will build a
good residence for the average farm,
modern in architecture and equipment.
When a man puts more than that into
house, he is doing it for looks and
style and not for utility.
1t is claimed that 1900 men are
thrown out of employment by the OPP
Grafton of the new oleomargarine bill.
No need to weep over this, for every
one of them is wanted In the legitimate
dairy interests of the country.
A friend paid 500 for a Shorthorn
cow last fall and was laughed at by
his neighbors for throwing his money
away in that manner. In May he sold
her -months-old calf for $50, and
then they did not laugh any more.
The crop developing power of two
inches of rain and three days of 80 in
the shade is simply marvellous. Ma
ture will do more business under such
condition in three days than she will
in month with a mean temperature
of GO.
There are greater possibilities locked
up with the alfalfa plant than any 9TH
er known to modern agriculture.
Enough has been already demonstrate
ed to prove that 1t may be made to
bring wealth to millions of acres of
what is now almost unproductive land.
The natural stupidity of one hired
man was well illustrated by his tying
his team to valuable hard maple
shade tree for few moments. during
which the horses peeled the tree and
ruined it. Being one Of a row which
had taken seven years to perfect, il
became a subject for remarks by the
owner.
The land for an onion crop should be
prepared the year previously by thor
oughly exterminating all weeds. Not
weed of any sort should be allowed to
go to seed upon it, and it should be
well fortified and got into good tilth
A big crop of onions can then be pro-
duced with a minimum of labor and
bother.
Old maids are all right to help take
care of the children, but they don't
know how to bring them up. They try
to do it by theory when the truth is
that one has first got to find out what
kind of a little animal he has to rear
before any plan can be formulated for
its training. No two kids want the