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

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1t is bettWc to have to drain a swamp
than to have to keep hill slope from
washing away.
The nine staple farm crops for the
year 1901 were worth $7OO.OOO,O 900
more than they were in 1896.
Cold and wet weather is bad for the
blooming season Of all orchard fruits.
The bees will not work in such wealth
er, and. as we note 1t, no bees, little
fruit.
Every small boy should have the fun
and sport connected with sharing and
shooting gophers. 1t will be good
thing for the gopher and for the boy
also.
A lady friend Of ours has married of
three hired girls inside Of nine months.
This housewife has no trouble in get
ting hired girls. even If they don't stay
long with her.
We have never noted that western
crows pull the newly planted corn, as
they do in the east. Perhaps they have
more food, or possibly they have not
yet learned how. W
Now let the oleomargarine factories
make a cheap and uncolored substi-
tute for butter and sell it to the poor
man at a low price-something they
never have yet done.
Working in her own wild way, ma
ture in her effort to turn out some
thing pretty in floral way seldom
does anything nicer than giving us the
wild crabapple in bloom.
One Of the very worst garden and
berry thieves we have is the catbird.
We believe that one Of these birds will
get away with fun quart Of cherries
or berries every twenty-four hours.
If a poor man cannot start in with
a quarter section of land, let him take
eighty or forty or even ten acres. We
know of fifteen thousand dollar farm
which grew out of tax title, ten acres
and good grit.
During the present era Of high prices
for foodstuffs it is fortunate that
wheat and wheat products have not
followed after other commodities, the
price of wheat having so far remained
at very reasonable figure.
The very richest man in America not
only is forced to chop wood and dig
dirt to get up little appetite for skim
milk and graham mush, but he now
has lost all his hair and not only feels
bad, but looks that way too.
Both the crows and the hen hawks
are nesting in a piece Of timber owned
by the writer on his farm. and, while
the hawks never modest the crows, no
sooner does one Of the hawks take
wing than the crows are right after |
him.
The man who feeds steers In the corn |
belt can do some thinking over the |
fact that Idaho and Montana purely |
grass fed steers have sold this spring
In Chicago at almost SO, while the corn
fed animal has brought only 81 or
$3.50.
The great cereal producing section Of |
the west and northwest. while suffer |
Ing from droughty condition in the |
seeding time, was most generously wa
tered during early May. removing all |
fears Of short crop as result of |
lack of moisture.
We note in an English paper that the
consumers of meat in that country are
suffering from high prices. just as they
are here. Does the meat trust Of this
country control the English market |
also? Late London quotations for
dressed quarters of beef were Is cents.
One Of the biggest mistakes made by
1airymen Is that Of working ON the
theory that cow can make milk out
IF anything. provided she only has
enough Of II. The man who stufYs his
lows with corn fodder with the ears
IN is one Of the biggest sinners in this
particular.
The very poetry of graceful. tireless
notion we noted the other day In a
lock Of bank swallows. wheeling. cir
ling and sweeping over sheet Of wa
er as they pursued the small insect
life which constitutes their food. |
these birds. it was easy to
zee why man finds 1t so hard a job to
navigate the air