Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-07-01

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II you let your wife raise the heifer
calf she vii! be sure TO get 1t too Eat.
Glover always takes more kindly 10
clay soil than il does to loan or sandy
soils.
The spring wheat belt extends 1000
miles northwest from Winnipeg. Man.
The corn belt is all settled and fenced
mp.
Drought in the east. foods in the
west and strikes everywhere are three
agencies working 10 limit the sum of
prosperity for the year 1903. Man can
not prevent the first two and is fool
enough to permit the third.
Varieties Of apples which are late in
coming into bearing will fruit much
sooner if top worked on stocks of some
kinds which bear young.
We pass to the credit of the English
sparrow the fact that during the few
days after its young are hatched it is
almost exclusively insectivorous in it's
diet. and II is the only time during
which 1t is.
The small boy who persists In rob-
bling the nests Of our song birds and In
killing the old birds needs looking aft
Or. If his dad won't do 1t the officials
should.
A man who was out hunting quail
during June In western state was
killed by the accidental discharge Of
his gun He was killed in season while
trying to Kill quail out Of season.
Every man we saw blowing in Penn
sylvania, Virginia and West Virginia
lately was using left handed pillow. a
pillow which threw the dirt to the left
instead Of the right. We did not find
out why this was.
Washington is the only city in Amer
Tea which has no back yard. Every
street is paved the most beautiful Of
shade trees everywhere; the mean and
disagreeable. the uncouth and often
sive, are all covered and hidden: even
the poorest negro cabin is white
washed.
II seems as II there Is no end to the
number of men who want to know how
to get rid of morning glories. quack
grass, pocket gophers and Canada this
Ties. Men are always more active and
interested in trying to get rid of their
miseries than they are in hustling to
secure their blessings.
right sort of grit The early floods de-
stroyed his field Of oats. He then disk
ed it over and planted to corn, which
the June foods wiped out, and now he
Is preparing the field again and will
grow a crop Of fax. Calamity can't
beat this type Of man.
II must have been an awful squeeze
in the far back world building era
which formed the Allegheny noun
tains, for all the rock strata were push
ed up at an inclination of forty-fiv de-
grees. In crossing these mountains 1t
10 rare to find any deposit of rock with
q horizontal qualification.
A storm cave is like an insurance
policy-good thing to have even though
you may never want to use ii. One
can be made to be entered from the
cellar for a small sum, and Ii will seem
worth about $4,000 If some day you
see the funHel and hear the unearthly
roar of the demon Of the air.
The pine ridge country in Nebraska
grows forests with a rainfall Of only
16 inches year. Millions OF acres In
western Kansas upon which q tree has
never grown get from 16 to 20 inches
Of rainfall year which would indi-
cate that forests may yet be grown in
that treeless region when the right
kind OF trees are planted and the right
treatment 10 given them.
II is the age Of economies. Here is
the discovery made that the worthless
and unreliable old pine stump OF the
north lumber regions can be 80 treated
chemically as to make each cord Of
such stumps produce value Of 1880
In wood extracts-oil. alcohol rosin,
tar, ETC. The old stump by this proc
ess becomes more valuable than the
tree which grew upon II In the old
days.
There is q gross Inconsistency here:
The robin. which Ia we'll protected by
law In nearly all the northern states
where he breeds, becomes a common
game bird when he migrates to the
southern states 10 the fall. and these
birds are slaughtered by the thousand
by professional dago and negro pot
hunters all winter long and may be
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