Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-04-15

& ~. S. Trigg. Rocl
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1t is hard to make any money by sell pal
ing good farm. often
by n
1t is worth money to have any kind him.
of live stock well bred, and the state
ment is equally true as TO children. Ma
bush
If the destructive floods of the lower bush
Mississippi valley could only be divert els OF
ed on to the desert areas of this coun
try, what an empire could be opened In
up in the west! Of la
year
The town of Columbia Mo-, is almost for S
destitute of cats, caused by the demand
for the animals by the students for dis TIL,
secting purposes at the college. There is on
should be more colleges. crop
seed
South Carolina is producing 5000
worth of tobacco per acre on land The
which is worth only $50 per acre. One ance
thousand pounds of commercial fer Dako
tilizer are used to obtain this result. it will
The man with a brush farm which Al
he wishes to clear up and convert Ell consi
Their into grass or tillable land should I fin
certainly look up the Angora goat prop ment
osition, for there is money in it for tail
him
In the black gumbo road sections OF poun
the country much success has followed lar II
the application of clear sand to the sur prett
face of the hiphwaVS thp cOmbina tiOn xyact.
greatly improving the condition Of the
roads in wet time. The
last
His name was -, and just because ity Q
he had it stamped upon each barrel of the
apples which he sent to market it add have
ed half a dollar to the selling value of
each barrel. Honest packer-honest in WI
the middle of the barrel. this
being
A Kansas man, poor politician in land
financial way, quit politics and went know
to raising early potatoes for the north
ern market down in Oklahoma seven An,
years ago. He is now worth 100000, from
and every dollar came from that pota- moss
to patch. that
the +
Always something new-here are nice groul
easy chairs, sofas, settees, baby cabs
Delng made out or the much desplsed a lar
wire grass or the northwestern sloughs, the s
IL being USED In all lines or FURNITURE very
work where rattan is employed. TWEEN
repor
series of experiments made under
western conditions where corn, clover Gle
and alfalfa could be produced on the rotat
farm shows that 1t costs So.16 to pro- for {
duce hundred pounds of beef, $3.50 in t,
for hundred pounds of mutton and right
$500 for hundred pounds of pork. any
if it
Any man who owns and works 160
acres of land and buys two boxes of Al
sandy strawberries for quarter when fashi
he might raise them-plenty of big, tell t
fine luscious berries-and doesn't is liv- if tn
ing away behind his privileges and op- they
portunites. Try more berries and one do 4
less hog this
is no
During a somewhat extended trip
through northern Illinois recently we TIL
noted not single new young apple or cons
chard, and this. too, in section of thort
the country where apples should do of pr
well There were many remnants of tied
OLD orchards evidently very poorly er Il
cared for strik
the
We passed through a section of the
west lately where the land for farming DIR
purposes was worth 500 per acre. prea
Down zoo reef was VEN atter VEN OF land
good coal. Along the banks of an adj foo
jacent river were endless deposits of in Of
sand for glassmaking, clay for brick ed f.
anu stone TOT lime ana cement Rlch Coo
country that. case,
AS boy we have gone to town from w.
TUG farm anu oousht WHISKY at 10 well
Se'' soiioi " iuiniSh inc men Wno by c
were doing the moving and grading thor,
Everybody did so in those days To tho
uay hot one iarnier III 'oo wouiu tliiih eggs
Of doing such thing. Public send- farm
.nent mas cnahseu "onuerluiiy Oh tnis for l
line in half century. wife
Everything finds market in the big PA
cltles. few days ago. while passing SAINT
down South Water street, in Chicago, IS wi
we saw a commission man loading on kercl
the cart of a Russian peddler Jersey child
red boar, with tusks on him like crow paint
bars, weighing close to 700 pounds, of RI
butchered by some farmer and covered name
WIN art ana Drlsties. Inc SUPPOSE they
ton is that good many poor people more
got fry or a roast out of this beast.
Referring to the intimate relation be- Ing q
tween rainfall and soil productiveness, Wise
the interesting fact is proved in Aus land
tralia that where there is less than q $S pc