Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-03-19
Farm, Orchard and
Garden ~ Edited for 80
00A 0OAA - PUBLIC OPINION BY
VI. S. Trigg, Rockford, Iowa%


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Denmark has 1882 cooperative
creameries. making $35,000.0O0 worth
Of butter each year.
II you plant juneberries, you may be
sure that the birds will get every berry
unless you cover them up.
For all practical purposes it may be
said that genius is just another name
for hard, persistent work.
The good hired girl is dead sure to
family which employs her thinks it is
fixed just right. 1t is way hired
girls have.
The skunk Is one Of the nuisances Of
settlement and civilization. There are
hundred of these beasts now where
there was one when the country was
first settled.
A piece of land in the city Of New
York sold recently at price which if
you could realize the same figure for
your quarter section farm would bring
you In the sum of $685., $4,000.
The Danish Baldhead cabbage is rec
commended to us as one of the best
cabbages grown for winter use. 1t is
not large variety, but wonderfully
solid and may be kept well until spring.
We shall try it this year.
The last large body of white pine left
in the state of Wisconsin was sold re-
Gently. 1t was estimated to contain
300,0O0.OO0 feet Of lumber and brought
100000. Northern pine forests are
almost thing of the past.
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The most expensive system Of farm
home water supply is where the wife
is made to lug in all the water from
the well. We know of case where
this system Of waterworks cost $500 in
doctors bills to make repairs.
The lovers Of bullfghting in Spain
tried recently to get up fight be-
tween a bull and an automobile. 1t
was total failure, as the machine
scared the bull out of his wits. and he
would only run, tail in the air. and
below as loud as he could.
There are hundreds Of stacks of good
straw all through northwestern Iowa
and southwestern Minnesota, which the
owners would not sell last fall save at
an exorbitant figure, which will have to
be burned inside of thirty days to clear
the ground for another crop.
The farm hand is feeling quite cocky
this spring and talks about $25 per
month, his board and washing and no
cows to milk. And he has not got to
the end of his string either. for he ia
studying the government eight hour
plan with good deal Of interest
We do a great many foolish things in
our ignorance. Years ago, not knowing
the sexual differences in different va
rieties of the strawberry plant, we
planted a bed of the wrong sort-old
maid plants-and. while they grew fine
ly and blossomed profusely. not ber-
ry did we get for all our trouble.
A a cots In n
of paupers and has to support as large
standing army as do the nations of
Europe. then we may expect to secure
as fine class of macadamized high
ways as may be found in those coun-
tries. Military necessity and the pau
perization Of the masses have made the
good roads Of Europe.
There are many evergreen groves
now growing through the west, and in
many cases these groves have been pre-
empted by the crows as roosting and
nesting places, to the great annoyance
Of the owners and the detriment of the
groves. In one case a lot Of city sports
were invited out to grove so tenanted,
and the crows were slaughtered by the
hundred, but when the guns left the
birds returned.
We are asked whether alfalfa can be
made to grow successfully on soil
where there are coarse gravel subsoil
and permanent water to be reached
within ten feet Of the surface. We
should say that these were just the
conditions where alfalfa would thrive
and do it's best At any rate. any man
having such soil should give this most
valuable forage plant thorough trial.
Even the cody minded man never
seems to get much good out of Sunday
even when he has been to- kirk and
Sunday school when he finds at chore
time that the hired man has gone of to
see his girl and left all the cows for
the good man to milk. He will do the
milking because he has to. but all the
time he will be thinking things which
II spoken right out would not harmo-