Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-07-16

Marked as has been the advance In N
the price of beef, the advance in the emit
prices of the foodstuffs which pro- the
duced it have been still greater.
The advance in the prices Of all mat
building material is operating to pre- ly q
vent many substantial improvements
in both the cities and on the farms. "
The south is just beginning to wake day
up and realize what a splendid market
the north offers for the early vegeta- 1t
bles and fruits which the south can fills
produce In such abundance. ord
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A California cherry grower whose
trees were irregular in bearing two L
years ago placed several hundred cas-
stands Of bees in his orchard, and for a h
two years past his crops have been stin
very heavy.
Notwithstanding the great boom in W
pork prices there is very little boom in In
the highly bred breeding stock. When ratt
that forty-five hundred dollar'hog was
found after his sale to have a tainted CT
pedigree a few years ago it put a dew
damper on fancy prices for Poland pier
Chinas S. |
A man whom we know has about II
ruined his small fruit business by his ono
miserable tricKs III packlnS anu mar able
ketihg MS irult-short measure urly' wit
rotten berries and all that sort Of fool abe
ishness and dishonesty The consum-
er soon sizes up producer in these II
matters. Chi
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the southern states, we note that one
Florida gardener sold 951 crates Of to- IT,
hatoes from TWO acre patch anu that seas
they averaged him $3.50 per crate net, of I
OF s'l3 per acre. Ihis Is as much as prov
iots Oh men make from an eighty acre that
farm in the northwest. for
one.
We noted a skeleton barn for the
storing of hay lately. 1t was just o.
well braced frame covered with viii
board roof, the boards to be removed dea
when the hay was used up. 1t afforded pre-
perfect shelter for eighty tons of hay the.
and did not cost over 500. Where a thin
man cannot afford a well built barn a 81
this method is worth trying.
The Poles and Bohemians have ten
learned how to make money on the vidl
sandy, timbered tracts in central Wis one
consin They coax a growth of clover, day
pillow the clover under, plant potatoes for
and raise the finest potato in the osun bird
try; then SOW to fall rye and clover the(
the land again. They are getting rich
off land which in an early day was r.
thought to be worthless for agricul life
tural purposes of
whe
Inc country owes much TO the I'M a
ceaslng restlesshess ana dlscontent or robi
the American larlher' the man VINO is helI
always migrating 10 some new section blue
the uneasy fellow who is always will
ing to sell out no matter how well he IT,
may be situated. Still in the long run ao
this migratory habit has been bad for lone
him, thousands of men having at fifty him
years of age little or nothing to show COO,
for life spent in hard pioneer work. NOR
exp
All through the section oi the couh TEN
.ry WHERE the writer h'es there are try
tnousahus vi acres Oh oats at thls uate how
the last of June. so rank and heavy
that en- ordinary summer wind and NJ
rain storm would lay them out fiat. this
If this occurs, and it is quite likely to- ing
there will be a great waste. After lev.
heading out if so blown down, such can
crop can be made of more value made will
into oat hay than to let the crop half rem
rot on the ground waiting for the har fed
vester. new
peti
While the system of cold storage cor,
now so generally coming into use gives bla
the big corporations controlling such
plants the opportunity to corner and A
fix the price TO the consumer or the son
commodities so stored and held. there mat
is no disputing the fact that the proc ius,
ess has been of inestmable benefit TO win
the producer, as it has not only equal int
lied but advanced prices, which often, ton
because of the very periShable nature com
of eggs butter meats and fruits, were cutt
so low as to entail serious losses on tim
the producer. thei
We note that many of the towns of
the west have at some place on th' ~
outskirts of the municipality dump 81,
I ground whereon is thrown all the ref -,
\ use of the community, mostly manure Sp-
\ 1t seems stronno - 49, thoro 10 like
not one man In the place shrewd sou
enough TO have all this valuable fer :.
inner put on TO his land near town. -.
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