Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-01-15

1t takes rot less than twelve years
to produce a serviceable red cedar post
from the time of planting the tree.
The Poland China hog has not only
been a mortgage eXtinguisher, but a
lusty builder of bank accounts for the
men who raise him these late years.
Floricuturists work hard in vain to
originate either yellow aster or blue
chrysanthemum. Nature is cranky on
her color schemes, and there are some
things which she will not let man do
We have friend who owns a ten
acre orange orchard in California. He
tells us that one year with another this
orchard pays him a net dividend q II
per cent per annum upon a valuation
of $1,000 per acre.
1t will always be that the man who
has herd of healthy hogs when all
his neighbors are losing theirs with the
cholera will enjoy a carnal satisfaction
which would be denied him if his
More care should be used in the mat
ter of giving the hogs a change of food.
Many of the losses in the herds are
caused by using no sense in changing
rations. Especially is this true when
the pigs are taken from the grass and
first fed corn.
The Murphy seems to be at home in
Alaska, $4,000 bushels having been
raised in that far north territory the
past season by just two men. They
were good ones, too for the farther
north a potato can be grown the bet
ter will be it's quality
A friend of ours who has been and
Is still an extensive raiser of hogs tells
us that the average price which he has
received for the past five years for his
hogs has been S4 20 per hundredweight.
This makes an average price of ~
cents per bushel for all the corn fed
these hogs.
The doing of the farm chores should
not be piled on to the top of hard
days work in the case of the hired
man. Ten hours work in the field and
then ten cows to milk is calculated to
take the feather edge off the youth
who aspires to a knowledge of practi
cal agriculture
The most bengnant climate of this
country is TO be found in those parts of
the Pacific slope where normal climatic
conditions are modified and tempered
by the influence of the Japan current.
a country where all that is best In
grain, fruit or flower attains its high
est degree of perfection.
The commission men of Minneapolis
met with a committee of the Minneso-
ia State Horticultural society during
its last meeting to discuss the matter
of fruit packages 1t developed during
the interview that there never had yet
been enough Wealthy apples grown to
begin to supply the demand when they
were packed in neat boxes holding less
than a bushel each.
We have a friend who always keeps |
his seed corn in the field over winter.
letting it remain in the husk until
spring, when he gathers it, He tells
us that corn so kept never fails to ger
inmate Such seed corn is pretty well
cared for when one looks at it, 1t
ripens and becomes thoroughly dried,
and the husk affords an almost perfect
protection. Anyhow, be this way right
or wrong. II is natures way and she
does not often err.
Only the very hardest in man. vege-
table and animal can survive in these
intercontinental ATTITUDES where the
mercury has range of 100 degrees.
The small, underfed rice eater of
Filipino II planted down in central
Minnesota and clad In fur coat and
sent to the timber after load of wood
when the mercury was 10 degrees be-
low would only make about one trip
before he would turn up his toes and
migrate to the heather heaven,
We were at country home not long
since and just as soon as the evening
meal was finished grandpa, an old
man Of elghty-two. immediately pro-
ceeded to clear up the table. gathering
all the dishes up and removing them
to the kitchen, then sweeping up the
crumbs from table and floor as nicely
and neatly as any woman could have
done the work. Asking why he did