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

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! No class of men are so thoroughly
, enthusiastic In their speciality as are
the bee men.
The pork, mutton and beef which are
| made out of grass are the most cheap
ly made meat.
When a select ring gets hold of
county fair association, it is soon all
day with the county fair.
: 1t is usually the homely cow which
fills the pail and makes the butter rec
ord The handsome COW stands for
beef, not butter.
, The liquid fertilizer which may be
! easily gathered up in a barnyard after
: a heavy rain makes one of the best Of
/ stimulants for the rose garden.
4 When a fat hog will bring as much
! In the market as a good COW, 1t Is
! rather discouraging to the cow.
Count not that time lost which is
4 devoted to an old fashioned family
: picnic even if you could make 81 or
So blowing corn.
1t is a great comfort to be well
) enough fixed financially so as to be
: able at sixty to enjoy the rheumatism
; without a vision of the poorhouse
: ahead.
e The May receipts Of beef cattle at
Chicago were S3.509, 995 pounds short.
which does more to explain the high
cost of beef than all the talk about
meat trusts.
The southern hooking bird Is this
season noted in many places far north
, of its usual habitat This bird would
prove one of the most welcome things
that the south could send the north,
for no bird in America sings like this
one.
, One Of the worst combinations of
1 which we know Is that of friend who
l dearly loves strawberries, but who is
prevented from eating them because
' they produce skin eruption some
1 thing akin to the itch. Here surely Is
! subject for pity.
A pair Of wrens with a nestful of
e ten little wrens are the busiest indi-
e viduals about our home grounds. About
= one fat grub or worm a minute from
!, daylight until dark seems to be needed
) for that crowd, and 1t keeps the old
birds on the fly all the time to provide
r thed1
5 The sympathy which exists in bird
life is confined almost wholly to those
of their own kind. We notice that
when cat or hawk or snake menaces
brood of young robins none save
robins comes In response to the call for
help; 1t Is the same way with catbirds,
> bluejays. crows and sparrows.
The very best thing In the world to
: do with town boy as soon as the
long summer vacation begins is to get
him out ON some farm. 1t will be
good for his health, his manners and
morals. He will get a lot of valuable
experience and be removed from much
temptation. Get him out in the coun-
try and let him work and play-any-
; how, work.
Many men have made the mistake
!. this season in trying rape crop, SOW
, ing the seed with oats, wheat and bar
ley. Of sowing too many acres. They
cannot possibly use all the feed which
will be produced. This fact should be
remembered about rape-it needs to be
fed down close, then the young and
new growth Is always tender and APP
petizing. II not fed down, it soon be-
comes too coarse and rank for palata-
BILE ration.
Abundant moisture during the sea-
son when the crops are growing and
maturing brings trouble for the farmer
just as does lack of it, cyclonic
wind, cloudbursts, so called, hail and
interference with the work of cultiva-
: tion-this just when the corn needs
constant work and the clover needs
cutting for hay. Then during such
times the weeds have things~about
their own way and war upon them
f becomes impossible.
Now complaint is coming to us that
fields Of barley and oats sown In the
spring on which pound or two of
rape seed were sown with the grain are
likely to be crop failures for the rea-
4 son that favorable conditions OF wealth.
er have induced too rank growth of
the rape and it will be impossible to
| cnf hind and save the crnn of prnin