Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-23

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The farm work of 1904 should be we'll
planned out this winter.
Labor unions have in many cases so
wound up the handspring of commerce
that they have broken the spring and
the clock has stopped.
We are now coming to the time when
the man who Is out of debt can take
solid comfort. Small matter to him if
banks do break and Wall street has
financial fits.
The corn crop of 1903 is valued by
the department of agriculture at $780,
100000, the wheat crop at $422, 000, 900,
the oat crop at 1903, 100000 the hay
crop at $542, 900, 600 and the cotton crop
at $5OO,O00,000.
Ten years ago the United States pro-
duced only 100000 pounds of rice.
This year the crop will total 100000
600 pounds, and from now on we shall
be exporters of rice just as we are of
other cereal crops.
If the butter in your creamery only
grades 80 or Whereabouts, the cause
may very likely be found in the fact
that too many hired men are squirting
milk on their hands when they milk
the cows-just a case of cause and eff
feet, that's all.
A farmer noticed his hogs eating dry
cornstalks and wondered why they
did So. 1t should be noticed to him
that If he would put some Of his corn
into a silo he would have very valu-
able winter hog feed. Both the brood
sows and the shotes are very fond Of
silage.
A buttermaker must needs be ma
gician to make a fine grade Of butter
out of some of the cream and milk
furnished him by some pretty respect
able patrons. 1t is terrible thing to
charge nice people with being dirty, but
If the buttermaker has any regard for
his reputation he must do it not infre-
quently.
When some whippersnapper of
clerk is promoted to $500 position in
some government department, it is con-
sidered of sufficient Importance to be-
come part of an Associated Press re-
port and be published in all the daily
papers, but when bricklayer or stone
cutter or carpenter cleans up as much
or more in a year nothing is thought
Of it.
1t matters not what vocation young
man may follow he will always find
that the better his education the more
successful will he be. A college educa-
ton will make him a better farmer,
better miller, a better auctioneer. a
more successful manufacturer, as we'll
as q better lawyer, doctor or parSon.
The ignorant fellows are hereafter al
ways to be found at the tail end of the
procession.
There is one pitiful side Of what is
termed the unparalleled sport the hunt
ers have enjoyed this fall on the lakes
and marshes of the west and in the big
woods of the north country. Thousands
of men have been engaged for weeks
in the killing of wild fowl and deer,
but for all the game which was secur-
ed there was almost as much more
which was lost and left to perish from
wounds, a slaughter pitiful to contem-
plate.
The most useful, the most reliable
and the most profitable of all domestic
things are the COW and the hen, whose
products are always salable and al
ways disable by the family. You show
us a man who takes good care of
dairy or one who gives his poultry in
telligent care, and we will show you
a man who runs no store bill and keeps
square with the world. This is only
a text, but it really contains the whole
sermon.
1t never pays to make scavenger
out of the milk cow. She should be
treated as the lady boarder who pays
a fancy price for her board. If farm
scavengers are wanted let the hogs and
the sheep do the work. Give the colts
and the steers the lee side Of the straw
stack and the rummaging over the
stalk field and the dairy COW the warm
barn, the well balanced and abundant
ration. The better her board the more
she is willing to pay for it,
With the advent of winter in the
northern latitude where the writer lives
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