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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

While skunks probably kill and eat
a good deal of vermin-slugs, grubs
and the like-they still should be killed
on sight if one wishes to successfully
raise poultry. We know man who
said these brutes were among the farm
ers best friends until one of them Wis
tied his yard of prize winning poultry
one night. Since then he has changed
his tune.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The current price of cotton is double
that of the year 1899. 1t was raised at
loss then and at an immense profit
now. The half bale per acre, which is
Just an ordinary crop, is now worth
$50, the good crop of a bale to the acre
$50. The negro felp which produces
1t costs not over so cents per day. We
have no crop in the north which quite
equals this for profit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02
ABUNDANT OPPORTUNITIES.

Surely the more a man knows about
his business the better he can conduct
1t, and this truth applies to no form Of
human employment with greater force
than to the man who lives on the
farm. While 1t cannot be expected
that the average farmer can be a sci
enlist, he still can possess some knowl-
edge of the science Of his profession
know a little about chemistry, soil
physics, veterinary science, animal hus-
bandry, plant life, insect and fungous
pests, farm economics and mechanics,
for this knowledge may now be OBJ
tanned with but little effort, either
through the correspondence schools
which some of our best agricultural
colleges have established, or by taking
advantage of the special short courses
at these colleges, by reading some Of
the best of the many agricultural jour-
mails and periodicals and by acquiring
a small library of standard works on
agriculture and the many valuable bull
letins issued by the experiment sta
tons. There is every chance nova
days for man to post himself.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

American farmers spend the enor-
nous sum of $5O,OOO,OO0 for CONNER
cial fertilizers each year. These fer
tiiizers might be termed agricultural
whisky, stimulants which leave the
land poorer than before when their
work is done and requiring little big.
ger dose next time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02
Announcement.

hereby announce my candidacy for
the republican nomination for Repre-
sentative, subject to the action of the
republican county convention.
l.. B. Whitney.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02
Announcement.

Subject to the action of the Republi-
can county convention, / will be a
candidate for the office of State Repre-
sentative from the SSth district.
NJ. A. Harmon.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The state of Iowa owns over 5000
Poland-Chi hogs which are raised
and kept at the several state institu-
tions-asylums, hospitals and peniten-
tiaries. More pork and lard are thus
produced than the 5000 inmates can
consume. 1t is probable that if there
was less whisky used and less pork
eaten there would not be so many peo-
pie in these institutions to raise hogs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

1t should be said to the further credit
of alfalfa that it makes a very fine
quality Of honey, and where it is grown
in any quantity there is almost a con-
tinuity of bee food from early in the
summer until late in the fall
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02
OLD CONDITIONS RETURNED.

Climatic conditions which prevailed
throughout the northwest forty years
ago and which many supposed had
passed away never to return are all
back. The theory that the average
rainfall had been lessened and ex.
tremes of temperature modified has
got black eye. The rivers and lakes
which had dwindled to rivulets and
ponds or dry lake beds are all bank
full and doing business as Of old. The
slough which was broken up and
cropped 10 again q slough. Following
these conditions will come the hard
winters and the deep SHOWS blizzards
and blocked trains. Many new prob
lens are thus forced to the front. The
question Of drainage Is uppermOst, for
the surface and surplus water must be
got rid Of some way or all these low
lands be allowed to revert to meadow
and pasture land This fact remains
ever true-these low black soils are the
best in the world when they are under
drained, and not drained they are
worthless for the purposes Of cultiva-
ton In wet seasons.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

Whims count for much touching
what one eats. Now, here's squirrels,
and, hunter as we have been in the old
days, we never yet would shoot squir-
rel for the purpose of eating it-just as
soon eat a rat or cat, yet some folks
say it is good.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

If one has moist and shaded location
the dewberry may often be grown sue
cessfully where the blackberry will ut
terly fail, and the dewberry is better
berry than the blackberry anyhow.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The average cost of raw sugar i'm
ported into this country the past year
has been Sill per hundredweight, or
less than ever before. There is a big
steal somewhere between this price and
the S. per hundredweight which the re-
taller has to pay the refiner.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

People have craving for green's in
the spring and are sometimes careless
in what they gather to put in the pot,
as was one woman out west who tried
the broad leaves of the pieplant, which
contained enough poison to kill her.
Men have not the native instinct Of ami
mails in the selection of green foods.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

When a crop of growing grain on
the hillsides looks yellow it shows
lack of nitrogen in the soil. When the
crop on low and wet lands looks yellow
it may be charged to imperfect subsoil
drainage.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

In the long run it is best to plant
that apple tree which will live and
bear good crops of fruit even if the
fruit is not of the highest quality. So
many of the choicest varieties are Ell
fher too tender or are shy bearers. The
Ben Davis Is one of the very poorest
apples known, but because 1T bears
good crops Of poor fruit 1t has become
the greatest money maker among all
the apple list.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

Argentina is the only country which
raises any amount of corn outside of
the United States, and this year the
crop has been good, but help is so
scarce for the husking of the crop that
I'm many sections the cattle have been
turned into the fields to get what they
could.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

An i'll bred scrub Of two-year-old
steer in Missouri worth maybe $50 has
got two wealthy farmers by the ears,
and the costs in the suits up to this
time amount to $4,000 and lots more in
sight. 1t is very easy for two old farm
ers to be two old fools in case like
this
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

AS an ornamental and hardy climber
too much cannot be said in favor of the
Crimson Rambler rose. 1t is hundred
times more attractive than the old
Prairie Queen. In the north it needs
protection during the winter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

In those seasons when extra good
crops are produced under ordinary
methods of tillage the excess over av-
erage yield may usually be credited to
favorable climatic conditions. A single
frost, hailstorm or a few days of ex-
cessive drought or moisture at critical
time very often will greatly reduce
the yield Of any crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

Every farmer who possibly can
should take in the state fair of his
state. He can learn more there in two
days than he can at home in three
months and will learn something there
which he can learn nowhere else.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The lazy man is sure Of one crop no
matter how late he may lie abed in
the morning. and that is crop of
weeds. There are lots of men who keep
their gardens clean with a scythe.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

One farmer in the state Of Iowa will
breed 500 Poland China sows next fall
and expects to raise 1000 pigs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

A Nebraska man set out to raise a
big crop of corn-see what he could do
by specially preparing and fertilizing
an acre of rich Nebraska soil. He put
$50 into the mechanical preparation Of
the soil and in fertilizers, raised 220
bushels of kiln dried shelled corn, sold
the crop for 5000 and won a prize Of
$500 offered by farm paper and an
other 5000 offered by the makers Of the
fertilizers used. The acre also pro-
duced $50 bushels of corn the following
season without any special work being
put on the land.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The feeding of 100000.OOO hungry
people in this country is going to be
one Of the biggest problems Of the COM
ing years. The population increases as
the land wears out Irrigation will do
something. Improved methods Of agri-
culture and smaller farms will do more
to Offset the impaired fertility of the
older sections. The coming years will
see the soil treated better and its per-
sistent robbery in a measure stopped.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

Kaffir corn as a crop has only been
grown about fifteen years, but its val
ue in the state of Kansas alone is
placed at 100000 each year. 1t is a
most valuable crop for Oklahoma and
Texas also.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

We passed the other day row Of
black walnut trees set thirty-fve years
ago alongside Of a public highway.
The trees were most graceful in con-
tour, were loaded with a crop Of deli
cious nuts and are fast growing to the
point where they will be worth $25
each for the lumber they will make.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The introduction of Mansury barley
by the Wisconsin experiment station
has been worth millions of dollars to
the barley growing sections of the
country
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

Chicago milk dealers object to the
publication of their names in the city
tested show them to be adulterated.
Men never like to see their names in
the papers when they have done a
mean thing.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The southerner fries his chicken and
fish in hot lard just as the northern
woman does her fried cakes, and it is
a very nice way to do it-way ahead
of the frying pan.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The government is spending dollar
in promoting the interests of agricul-
ture for each $4,000 of agricultural
products grown each year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

While blindfolding balky horse will
sometimes cure him Of his balky
at, it will not always do so. We once
owned a balky horse. and the only
thing which would start ham was to
tie a piece of plug tobacco around his
bit This would make him so sick at
the stomach that he forgot all his
meanness.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The loss by flood on the potato crop
In Kansas and Missouri is very great
In the Kaw valley in Kansas the esti-
mated loss is 1000 car loads.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

Seven sows and twenty-one pigs
weighed and turned in on two acres Of
alfalfa and fed a light corn and slop
ration were again weighed at the end
of thirty days and showed gain in
value at the current price Of pork Of
S1S.O1. This was in Nebraska.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

Southern pine forests have one
scourge to face which the north never
had, and that is the turpentine maker
the methods used to secure the sap Of
the pines for this purpose being waste
full and destructive in the largest de-
Crpa
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

II the strawberry bed has been fruit
ed two seasons the best thing to do is
to pillow it up. While it might be reno
waited by the expenditure Of good
deal Of work, it will be found every
way better to rely on the new bed
which you, of course, set out last
spring. Then, the strawberry likes a
change of soil about every two years
anyway.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The limit in strawberry culture
would seem to have been reached when
the berries grow so large that they
have to be served sliced, as tomatoes.
We note that flavor is deprecated in
all these large berries, and save for
purely show purposes we count them
of but little value. No strawberry pos
sesses the exquisite flavor of the little
wild berry.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The enormous crop of hay secured
through the west as a result Of the ex-
cessive moisture will be found to be
below the standard in nutritive value.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

A FAMILIAR SCENE at our yards.
The people of this section are realiz-
ing that when it comes to real good,
dry lumber of the best qualltvland at
the lowest prices no concern in this
part of the country can excel us.
With the best facilities for buying,
with large and commodiousl newly
built lumber warehouse. with a vast
assortment of everything in the line
of lumber. and with competent force
of courteous employees, we are in
position to fill your wants with the
best of satisfaction. Let us figure with
you.
Wilbur Lumber Co.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

man 500 to dock his horses tail, which
is about right.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

Somebody tell US why the men who
Eve down among those Virginia hills
and try in such toilsome and pa
thetic way to hew and dig out little
bit Of land on the mountain slopes for
a farm do not go to work and plant the
steep and stony hillsides to choice ap-
pie trees, the one thing more than all
try under existing conditions. Eng
land would take every Newtown Pip
pin they could raise at prices which
would make the growers wealthy in a
few years. But now they ali persist
in trying to raise a little wheat and
corn and do much hunting for coons
and possums and fishing.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The four months during which the
great bulk of the vast agricultural
wealth Of the country is produced are
nearly over. This is all original wealth
created by mans labor and skill from
the earth; nobody robbed or cheated,
no watered stock. In no other field Of
mans effort is so much original wealth
created in so brief time-the sowing
and planting in May, the cultivation In
June, the full harvest in July and Au-
gust.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

Eleven rows of strawberries seven
rods long gave us this year a bushel of
berries day for three+weeks. The bed
cost but trifie to plant and care for
and is good for another crop next year.
As soon as the fruiting season was over
the bed was mown close with scythe
and the rubbish raked of and burned.
Then it was thoroughly worked with a
horse cultivator. all except strip one
foot wide in each row, which was left
to furnish new growth of plants. The
cultivator will 60 through the bed two
or three times more before fall.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

1t is the year of jubilee in the state
of South Dakota this year. Situated
on the dividing line between the
droughts which have burned up the
crops to the northwest of her and the
floods which have deluged the country
TO the southeast of her she has had
just the right proportion of sunshine
and rainfall which have given the state
the greatest burden of crops she has
ever produced. Lucky South Dakota!
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

We know some men who keep them
selves poor just moving around. an I'M
easy, discontinued. dissatisfied lot, al
ways thinking they can find some place
where a living can be made easier,
where they will find better neighbors
and enjoy life better. Where the move
involves the disposal OF farm and It's
belongings and the usual loss Of crop
year it will cost 81 900 or more to move.
1t often happens that this much money
put into Improvements and betterments
at the old place would make it just the
place they want. 1t Is a good thing
that things are so fixed that a man can
make just about as much money In one
place as another.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

Cheap milk can only be produced
from good COWS and good ,feed. II 1t
costs more to get a quart Of milk from
q cow than it is worth, what is the use
of keeping the COW? When lady takes
boarders she takes them not for their
Christian example or for their society,
but to try and make a little profit from
feeding them. When a man keeps a
COW he is supposed to try to do the
same thing, but 1t is only too true that
many of his boarders do not pay their
way and afford him no profit. The man
who is delinquent in his board bia gets
fired, and the cow should likewise.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

We tackled the remains of one Of the
grand old forest trees of fifty years ago
the other day, the remnant of black
walnut stump over four feet in diane
ter The tSA was probably cut and
split up into rails forty or fifty years
ngo, as was the wont Of the early set
Aler Had it been spared 1t would have
brought 500 today. A fact worth not
ing was that much Of this old stump
was sound wood today.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

The wise men tell us that the trust
and combine idea in business Is an in
evitable outgrowth of the progressive
age in which we live. Granted that
these combinations are In the line Of
economic production and that the con-
summer is thereby in a sense benefited,
we still are old fogyish enough to wish
that every last trust In the country
could be smashed and all the evils of
the old competitive system returned.
If combination Is civilixa ton, we had
rather chance dealing with barbarians
than trusts.
What with the difficulty of securing
suitable hired help and the incident
fret and worry Of trying to carry on a
large farm, many man In the west is
seriously studying the question of
whether he has not more land than he
can profitably use. A general reduc-
ZION of the size of the farms of the
country would be n good thing. II
would result in a better type OF farm
ing, would insure better country
schools, relieve many good woman
from life of semislavery and make
room for many more nice people.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02

A cow is manufacturing no large
amount of milk when she stands up to
her middle in a dirty pond on a hot
August day. lighting flies. She would
do ever SO much better shut up in a
basement barn, darkened, and fed a
good ration of sweet corn. Yet half or
more of the cows Of the country are
doing the pond hole act, and their own
ers do not seem to realize that 1t Is one
of the reasons why their cows dry up.
1t is an important thing to procure
seed OF any crop suited to your latitude,
and this is especially true of corn.
This Is large country, and the vary.
Ing lines of latitude mark the bound.
aries OF zones which define the limits
OF successful cultivation of nearly all
our farm products as well as fruits. 1t
is well to study out those things which
are best suited to given ATTITUDES and
confine ourselves to their production.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-02


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In the District Court, State OF Iowa, in and
for Winnesheik County; September Term
A. ID. 1893.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-09
DIR. WHITES "REMINISCENCES.

The Century company announces the publication in the near future of Rem iniscences" of his diplomatic life by Dr. Andrew D. White. The first install- ment of his manuscript covers his re- collections of Beaconsfield, the Empe- TOTS William First and Frederick, Bis marck, Browning and other famous Eu- ropean statesmen and writers. Further papers will contain recollections of his recent embassy to Berlin. The papers will begin to appear in an early num- Der of the Century. Dr. Whites diplo- matic experiences have been very ex- tensive, beginning with an attacheship of the United States legation in St. Pe- tersburg, when he was a very young man. He was special commissioner to Santa Domingo in 1871; commissioner to the Paris exposition in 1878; minister to Germany in 1879 to 1881, which was his first mission to that country; minister to Russia in 1892 to 1894; member of the Venezuelan commission of 1896 to 1897; member of the peace commission at the Hague, and ambassador to Ger many, his second mission there, from 1907 to his recent resignation and re- tirement.