Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-03-05

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The good citizen will clear the snow
from his sidewalk and from bis neigh
boris, too, If she be widow.
10 na
The first cheese factory was started
In Canada in 1854, and in 1900 the ex-
ports Of Canadian cheese were 10000.
60 pounds.
y Make II as warm as possible for all
the sparrows which seek a home on
your premises and you will have more
sther birds. Sparrows are pirates.
There bids fair to be an unusual de-
nand for good seed corn the coming
season. Many sections Of the corn belt
had no corn last year fit for seed.
y The bushel box for the marketing of
apples is rapidly coming into favor.
The box is easier to handle and in size
much more nearly meets the wants of
the average consumer. -
Few men will take any chances in
holding over any of the old corn crop,
for the chances are that it will be. more
than ten years old before corn will be
worth as much as it will during the
'frst half Of 1902.
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There Is lots of rag chewing over the
sugar tariff matter. but the consumer
can depend upon the agitation finally
resulting in bringing him nearer to the
time when he will get twenty-six
pounds Of sugar for dollar.
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y Along the last Of March we get few
small boxes. fill them with earth and
cow some celery, cabbage. peppers. to-
matoes, pansies and other desirable
things. Then In May we have a nice lot
Of strong plants to set out in the gar
den without having to buy or beg them
from the neighbors.
7 Nothing makes a prettier lawn deco
ration than circular bed, say twelve
feet in diameter, with dozen cannas
In the center and these banked with
khe different varieties of the coleus. A
fringe of dwarf nasturtiums may be
set on the extreme outer edge Of the
bed with good effect.
The potato crop of Colorado proved
q regular bonanza to the producers the
past year. The crop was large. as irri-
cation made the growers independent
pf drought, the quality was very supe-
ffor and the prices out of sight. Hun
dreds of men made fortunes out of po-
tatoes this year in that state.
The ignite coal deposits of North
Dakota and Montana are rapidly being
developed and are destined to prove a
source of immense wealth to those
states. The only drawback to its more
general introduction is that it seems to
require stoves and furnaces Of spe-
t1al construction In order to secure per-
xect combustion.
b. $50
II oIeo is "the poor mans butter"
che said poor man should see to 1t that
he gets 1t at poor mans price. This
will be when he buys it for just exact
" what II Is and not disguised under
the name Of butter. Buying it as but
ter. be pays just about twice as much
for 1t as he would IL sold under its
own name. The poor man has really
more cause to kick than the dairyman
at the fraud as now carried on.
Ten South Dakota farmers organized
last year little experiment station of
their own. There was not professor
or scientist among the lot. They lived
where the seeding and planting season
is apt to be very dry. Each planted
small patch of corn in May at varying
depths, from one TO ten inches deep.
The results were that the corn plant
ed ten inches deep made the best crop,
though how it ever managed to get out
and do business at all we cannot I'M
derstand, while the shallow planted
patches proved total failures. Dakota
readers can study this item over, for
there may be something in it for them.
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We are asked about the probable
price of seed potatoes this spring. Will
the seed be scarce and the price out OF
sight? The high prices for stock last
fall operated as an incentive to hoard
much for the supposed higher prices
for seed in the spring, and we have IT
upon good authority that there are
very large stocks of tubers being so
held. and as they must be sold we IN
cline to the opinion that seed potatoes
will be obtainable in abundance ana
at reasonable rates. We would not
wish to plant more two dollar seed po-
tatoes than would be needed for our
own use because twenty-five cent stock
is easily in sight after Aug. 10 next.
AN AGRICULTURAL REVIVAL.
The writer of these notes Is attend