Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1902-09-17

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Big summer rains are quite apt to be
the forerunners Of deep winter SHOWS.
The prospective fine crop of corn Is
stimulating the demand for young cat
tie for feeders.
The Gamma roots should be taken up
Just before the first frost and set on
the floor of dry cellar.
One can Judge pretty well what sort
of people live in house by noting
where they throw their Stops.
Don't try a new set of store teeth on
the baked heart Of an old farrow cow,
for you'll get into trouble If you do.
One of the finest looking apple trees
we have among our top grated trees
is a Fameuse top on Brier Sweet
trunk
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska will
each compete with Iowa this year for
the honor of raising the biggest crop
of corn.
A low temperature and great humid
fly Of the air have this season done
great things for the cabbage and caul-
flower crops.
Two old stag hogs weighing over
600 pounds each were sold by a farm
er for $S4. The navy department prob
ably got them.
A sparrow pie is quite toothsome
delicacy, and if it was not for the
trouble of getting the birds ready it
would become a very popular dish.
1t has been a great year for the
growers of alfalfa, three big crops at
least, equivalent to four or five tons
of the best dry fodder to be had any
where.
Too many farmers understand the
term cooperation to mean profit and
not sacrifice, when it really means
fully as much of the latter as the for
mer aft times
A neighbor of ours sold in August
100 head of hogs which averaged him
$25 per head. If this is not roofing
cash out of black soil. we would like
to know what is.
We found while clearing up brush
patch Aug II the nest of a song spar
row containing young birds just hatch
ed. But few of our birds nest so late
In the season as this.
Thrashing from the shock is all right
IL you are well up at the head Of the
list Of names which compose the cir
cult. If at the tail end, one is quite
likely to wish he had stacked his
grain.
1t is about an even thing between
the wind when it won't blow and the
gasoline engine when it won't go. The
wind quits from purely natural causes.
while the engine quits because Of pure
cussedness.
Tho haayy dra ~ horsa capnot md
hard work on a hot day nearly so well
as the medium weight horse. 1t is
very easy job to kill a sixteen hundred
pound Norman when the mercury
stands at 100.
Hailstorms prove the best natural
method Of limiting the sparrow pest,
these birds being killed by the thou.
sand in all communities where the
leaves of the corn get shredded into
ribbons by the hail.
It seems pity that the southern col
ored girls and women could not be bet
ter educated as housekeepers and
cooks, for there is almost an unlimited
demand for this class of help all
through the country.
A friend writes asking why his cell
cry Plants set out in July are going to
seed the first year. We cannot answer
this question. We have raised celery
for many years and never recollect
noting such a phenomenon.
1t is said that the presence OF goats
will ward off animal diseases on the
farm, but as between vigorous billy
and blackleg give us the latter Even
microbes. If the statement be true. are
thus proved to have Il little self respect.
One South Dakota creamery paid to
its patrons for June milk the large
sum of Sl2.123. Six of these patrons
received over 500 each and seventy of
them between $50 and $50 each. The
cow is revolutionizing the agriculture
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