Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-06-04

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The local merchant who trusts yor
when you have no money is certainly
entitled in all fairness to a chance al
least to bid for your cash trade.
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We know of very tender hearted
woman who still thinks 1t all right to
pluck live goose.
When the house cats get to killing
the little chicks, it is Of no use to try
moral suasion as remedy.
Weeds and washing are doing more
to remove the fertility of many a farm
than all the cropping ever given it.
A general drop in prices of farm
products will put an end to much of the
land craze which is abroad in the land.
Prosperity for a large section of the
country may be said to have begun
when the creamery check began to
get into circulation.
The branching and comet asters gave
us great satisfaction last season. The
stems are long and the blossoms al
most as fine as some Of the incest chrys-
anthemums.
The prune growers complain that
while they have to sell their crop of
prunes for about or cents pound
the consumer has to pay from 10 to 20
cents for them.
scientific agriculture with an incu-
bator he is quite likely to want to con-
sign science the college and professors
to the bottomless pit.
The wise man will get ready for the
reaction in the farm land business
which is sure to come. He should at
least have no mortgage on his land
bought as an Investment.
We read an article lately on rose
culture in Oregon. and then when we
thought how hard it is to raise the
nice roses in north Iowa we wanted to
move right out to Oregon.
The short potato crop of 1901 made
the growers more money than they
have ever received from the crop be-
fore-that is. those who were able to
grow any crop Of the tubers.l
If man could find out how to control
sex, he would have the universe all
out of whack inside of few genera
tons. The claims made that it can be
done invariably fall to the ground
when tested.
II you are guest at some home and
want to make friends with your hos
tess, praise her bread, her butter or
her baby. Where you do this you can
have two pieces Of pie and no Ques-
lions asked. We know, for we've tried
It.
A few years ago all the prunes in this
country were imported Now the Pa
cific coast states produce three pounds
of prunes for each one of our 80, OOO. 900
people. and the fruit is 100 per cent
better than that which we used to i'm
port
The enormous profits of the great
packing houses are derived almost
wholly from the offal of the animals
which they slaughter. and 1t is this
fact which makes 1t so difficult for the
concern with limited means to compete
with them.
Rooty. stumpy ground can be most
easily worked and best fitted for a
/. crop by using one of the heavy, narrow
orchard and vineyard disks. There is
no. catching In roots. and the land is
put in fine shape for a first crop with
out blowing.
We find that the influence Of a black
walnut tree is absolutely fatal to the
growth Of apple trees within radius
of about 100 feet. and SO. having to
choose between a handsome walnut
and the orchard trees. the walnut had
to come down.
We think 1t pays to ill out the miss
ing trees In an orchard mp to the time
the trees are about six years old. but
not after that. After that time the
older trees have so monopolized the
ground that 1t Is very difficult thing
to Liake young tree do well.
Just as the millions Of acres Of corn
land were ready for the planter this
year down came the foods. beating
and packing hard the mellow soil and
compelling an extra disking before the
planting could be done. which will
prove to be splendid thing for the
land and the crop.
A forty sore tract of river bottom
land, once producing blue Joint grass
four feet high and always moved and
never pasturcd. has, after a contest of
forty years, tinally succumbed to the
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