Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

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{ A mortgaged crop hardly ever pans
out to tit the obligations against it.
|. The early winter losses Of sheep up in
the mountain ranges of Oregon and
Washington were enormous, estimated
at 80 per cent of the focks.
We have the story from California,
{ pretty well authenticated. that man
raised 200 acres of beans this year and
harvested 5000 bushels, or forty BUSH
els per acre. which he sold for So per
bushel.
One hundredweight of clay loan soil
will hold without dripping fifty pounds
of water This fact will explain the
u condition Of our prairie soils when they
! had to take care Of foot Of water
e month last year.
Here in this month of December,
1903, If a man or a woman has hun
dred young hens of the winter laying
i. type and cares for them properly it is
. no trick to be taking in from 81 to 81
day from the henhOuse.
The 2:40 horse will bring from $3.50
to $500, according to style, and is hard
ly eligible for entry In any except scrub
: country races. The 2:07 horse brings
I from $1,000 to $4,000, one Of this sort
earning this year over $33, 900 for his
owner.
g II the boil weevil stays and spreads
!, over the entire cotton producing terri
= tory Of the country, as it bids fair to
do, the days Of cheap cotton are over
. The department of agriculture will ask
congress for half million dollars with
which to fight this pest.
o A friend Of ours has q fine team of
, Norman horses. He broke them in as
: colts, has never driven them off walk
= and has trained them to be fast walk
9 ers We doubt if there can be found n
more useful farm team in all the coun
try for all the heavy work on the farm
: The government standard for milk
n is ~ per cent Of total solds--SR of sol
, ids not fat and 3E per cent of butter
q fat Condensed milk must contain %
g per cent of solids. of which Z per cent
9 must be butter fat, and condensed
cream must have Is per cent of butter
fat
We are glad to say good word for
: the goose when we can, and here is an
:. Iowa goose this year rearing twelve
= goslings which weighed 100 pounds.
: which sold for Thanksgiving and which
:, brought II cents pound, or SIS for the
: work of one old goose for one summer
This beats pigs or sheep
@ An old friend gives us this recipe for
r catching carp. the most worthless fish
in our rivers. He says that the hook
a used must be very small and be baited
n with little wad of cotton in which is
r wrapped some limburger cheese He
!. says this will get them every time, and
n 1t is just the kind of bait which we
would expect such fish to take
Farms, and good ones, can now be
bought in Oklahoma for from 500 to
D $40 per acre which are just as sure to
u double in value inside OF ten years as
: the sun is to shine. Men who own 500
an acre land in the older states can
= many of them make an advantageous
turn on these Oklahoma lands. But
look out where you locate, if you go.
A very remarkable advertisement APP
peared recently in prominent western
newspaper. 1t was bid by eastern
banks for the surplus capital Of western
farmers to assist in carrying the paper
i OF eastern manufacturing interests.
; Not so very long ago when nearly ev-
= cry dollar with which to move and ham
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tanned from the east
AS experiments I'm the culture Of the
sugar beet proceed 1t Is found that the
q semiarid sections of the west where
irrigation is possible are best suited for
y the beet. There are reasons for this
excess Of sunshine to put the sugar
y into it, soil surprisingly rich in the
: mineral food the plant requires for it's
development and the ability to there
secure the perfect ripening Of the beet
! without fall rains.
One Of the big packing houses in Chi
cago last year bought and killed $780,
100 head of cattle, hogs and sheep. The
:. value Of these animals when slaughter
: ed and manufactured was $220,000.00
: Twenty 1.-TWO thousand six hundred per-
= sons were pmpIovpd in this work The