Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-11-04

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done with boys.
One of the chief pleasures resulting
from wealth is the ability to hire some
one else TO do the things which one
does not like to do.
The sugar beet will not win out in
those localities where the COW, clover,
corn, hogs and the fat steer will do
well, and there is no use of attempt
ing it.
Where only one man in a neighbor-
hood uses a wide tired wagon it is
good deal like this home missionary
work ON the frontier-one saint trying
to convert hundred sinners.
There are men who will cheat in the
matter of selling milk and piling up
cord wood who are considered pretty
straight other ways. These two things
offer temptations which they are un-
able TO resist.
The roots of the cannas should be
taken up as soon as the frost comes
and be placed in the cellar on some
dry sand. In the spring they may be
separated and the individual tubers
used as stock for the plants of next
year.
An old and good friend of ours who
is close to ninety years of age does all
the blowing on his large farm with
three good horses and a riding pillow.
He can drive the team, but he could
not walk two miles. He tells us that
he likes to do the work.
Perhaps one of the most favored
fruit growing sections of America is
to be found in the Pecos valley, in
New Mexico. There elevation offsets
a low latitude. and with irrigation
conditions are obtained which are sim
ply perfect for the production of the
apple. peach, plum and grape
A neighbor criticised us for cutting
up a. lot of fodder corn when, as claim
ed, it was too green. Maybe 1t was,
but as luck would have it had we left
it standing a week longer a belated
hailstorm would have left us none to
cut 1t is a pretty good rule TO take
things in this world when you can get
them. -.
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We have succeeded in getting two
crops from the same piece of land this
year, the first crop a big one of straw
berries; then, the bed being two years
old, was plowed over in early July,
and now we are harvesting a nice crop
of turnips. We can also get crop of
corn fodder from land previously
planted to early potatoes.
Argentina and Siberia each contains
an area of fertile and tillable land
equal to that of the United States and
fitted for the production of just about
the same kind of cereals, fruits, roots
and stock and may easily become I'M
der intelligent and proper development
active competitors with this country
in furnishing the worlds supply of
food.
We call attention to what in very
many cases which have come under
our notice has proved a most valuable
cross for a milk COW, a cross between
the Jersey and Shorthorn. Two of the
very best cows we know of are of this
breeding. 1t is the only cross between
milk and beef breeds which we feel
like commencing, having in view the
milking qualities Of the animal so bred.
There are a good many advantages
in living in two crop section of the
country - those localities where two
crops may be easily raised on the same
field each year. Texas is one of these
countries, a crop of winter wheat and
another Of potatoes, kaffir corn, soy
beans or millet readily maturing after
the wheat is harvested. OF course, this
sort of farming is hard on the land and
soon wears ii out
There are all through the northwest
ptCullhS apple llCIS years
old, trees which are in every way iron
clad and which are producing fruit of
good quality, which the horticultural
societies should look up, name and get
introduced. The apple of the future
which will endure the severe tests of a
northwestern climate will be original
ed here. This is true with regard to
the few reliable varieties we now have.
We are asked as to the fuel value of
the different varieties of wood. The
shellbark hickory stands at the head;
then comes the pignut hickory, and
hard maple a close second, the jack
oak, white oak, white ash, blackberry
next, the bur and red and black oaks,
soft maple and poplar form a class OF
about equal value, with the soft woods
willow, box elder, Eastwood and 9TH
ers-bringing up the rear. Calling the
best woods worth SO per cord, the poor
est are not worth over $3.50.