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

One of the most successful dairymen
and farmers in Minnesota was caught
three years ago turning under very
heavy second crop of clover with the
pillow by some of his neighbors. They
made fun of him, he having only re-
Gently gone on to the farm from city
business, but his corn crops raised on
land so treated have been an object les
son for his scoffing neighbors, and now
they are doing the same thing.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

Just starved out-that's what's the
matter with that field where the corn
grows yellow and spindling. short on
humus, short on nitrogen, bones stick
ing out like an old COW wintered at a
straw pile or in cornstalk field. What
to do with it? Well. first get on TWEEN
ty-five good big loads of barnyard
manure to the acre, then get it into
clover just as soon as you can; take Off
a crop Of hay and then pillow under the
second crop and plant to corn. Yellow
corn or small grain is natures signal
that the field is hungry for clover.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

The writer of these notes is always
glad to receive letters of inquiry or
criticism from those who read them.
We are also always pleased to receive
suggestions and facts of interest i'm an
agricultural, horticultural or scientific
way. All letters of inquiry will re-
ceive personal reply when return
postage is inclosed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30
CoTToNsEED FOR CONSUMPTION.

Much interest is being aroused in the
south by the discovery that the use Of
cottonseed oil will effect cure Of con-
sumption when taken in time. A large
number of cases have been successfully
treated by this method. The discovery
came about in singular way. A COL
ored man afflicted with pulmonary con-
sumption went to work in cottonseed
oil mill. The dust irritated his lungs,
and for relief he began to drink the
cOttonseed oil. To the surprise Of all,
he began to flesh up and improve in
health and in less than year was a
we'll man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

For two years past the hog raisers
Of the country have been in clover.
They have been exempt from vista
tons of cholera and have been get
ting almost fancy prices for their pork
from SO to $3.50 per hundredweight. OF
course this very satisfactory condition
could not be expected to remain a per-
manent thing, and now the expected
change has come, and pork has come
down to four dollar basis to the pro-
Queer
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.

We frequently come across people
who work on the theory that if a little
fertilizer is good for a plant or crop
more is better and SO dope and surfeit
such plant or crop that it proves fail
ure. Stimulants or, for that matter,
food for stock is always wasted and
often worse than wasted when car
ried beyond the power of assimilation.
For instance, ii has been found that
there is well defined limit to the
amount of milk producing food which
1t will pay to feed dairy COW, and it
has been further found that seven
loads Of barnyard fertilizer scattered
over the acre with manure spreader
will produce just as good results as
twenty-five loads dumped on the land
in the old way.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

The dollars worth of sugar Is the
bait which traps more people iE the
purchase of bills of groceries than any
other one thing. They will blindly and
foolishly invest in teas, coffees, spices,
soaps, condiments and shoeblacking.
things about the value of which they
know little or nothing, if they can see
a chance to get an extra pound or two
Of sugar for dollar.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

1t is estimated that the coal roads,
those which. having direct connection
with the mines, move the fuel sup
ply of the country, are losers to the
amount of over 100000 tons of coal
each year by the petty pilfering Of the
coal while it is in transit, some cars
showing a loss of three or four tons
when they reach the consignee.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

We know that 1t Is speaking out in
meeting, but. pom honor. we are dead
opposed to having every family in the
land held up by the sugar trust and
forced to pay high prices for sugar in
order to possibly develop beet sugar
interest in few isolated sections of
the country. With Hawaii, Porto Rico.
the Philippines and Cuba. all sugar
growing territory, where 1t can be
raised for 2 cents pound. it is about
time that the American people had
cheaper sugar. Let those countries
which can most cheaply produce the
sugar needed make our sugar.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

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
OF eastern manufacturing interests.
Not so very long ago when nearly ev-
cry dollar with which to move and ham
die the crops Of the west had to be OBJ
tanned from the east
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

AS experiments in the culture of the
sugar beet proceed it Is found that the
semiarid sections of the west where
irrigation Is possible are best suited for
the beet. There are reasons for this
excess Of sunshine to put the sugar
into 1t, soil surprisingly rich in the
mineral food the plant requires for its
development and the ability to there
secure the perfect ripening OF the beet
without fall rains.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

Among the hardest Of jobs on the
farm is the lifting by main force of a
heavy hayrack on and off the wagon.
A few men are wise enough to fix
pair of pulleys for this work, when
one man can shift a rack off and on
with the greatest ease. Who would
grunt and strain when it might be so
easily avoided?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

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 $220,000 900.
Twenty-Five thousand six hundred per-
sons were employed in this work. The
product was sent to the ends Of the
earth, and nearly every table in Amer
lea was patron. The utilization of
the offal of this vast number Of ami
mails constituted most Of the profits of
the concern.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

A mans view of hard times Is infiu-
enced very much by the use he has
made of his credit. If he happens to
have balance in the bank upon which
he is drawing per cent interest he
takes a more clipper view of things
than if he has a note due in thirty days
and has to ask an extension.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

The government standard for milk
is IL per cent Of total solids--SR of sol
ids not fat and 49, per cent of butter
fat Condensed milk must contain %
per cent of solids. of which per cent
must be butter fat, and condensed
cream must have Is per cent of butter
fat
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

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
from $1,000 to $4,000, one of this sort
earning this year over $4,000 for his
owner.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

The last report of the secretary Of
agriculture. just issued. is the most ex-
penSive book ever issued by the gov
ernmcnt. the edition costing $220,O00.
Still it is money well expended.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

Farms, and good ones. can now be
bought i'm Oklahoma for from 500 to
$40 per acre which are just as sure to
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.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

In the line Of cooperative effort
among the farmers nothing better has
been accomplished than the co-opera-
tive creamery. 1t is seldom so large
as to be unwieldy or difficult to man.
age. There is little or no financial
risk invited. as the dividends are based
upon actual sales Of butter. Another
good feature has been the bringing Of
the farmers Of community into init
mate business relations with each 9TH
err. and we regard as little short of a
calamity the efforts now being made to
break these cooperative creameries up
by the organization Of the big CEN
tralized concerns covering a radius of
a hundred miles or more. While tenn
porarily the big concern in order to
build up its business and break down
the home concern may offer trifle
better prices for butter fat than the
home creamery can pay, is it not very
reasonable to suppose that when local
competition has been thus killed off
they will fix prices to suit themselves?
Is it not this way with all trusts?
Have little horse sense and stick by
the home creamery.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

If 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 a half million dollars with
which to fight this pest.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

We are glad to say a 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.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

An old friend gives us this recipe for
catching carp. the most worthless fish
in our rivers. He says that the hook
used must be very small and be baited
with little wad of cotton in which is
wrapped some limburger cheese. He
says this will get them every time, and
1t is just the kind of bait which we
would expect such fish to take
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

Until Russia can be rid Of its igno-
rance, its vodka or whisky. its super
stitions and accompanying poverty it
can never be a great nation, no matter
how grand its natural resources.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

A friend Of ours has fine team of
Norman horses. He broke them in as
colts, has never driven them off "A walk
ers. We doubt if there can be found
more useful farm team in all the coun-
try for all the heavy work on the farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

Here in this month Of December.
1903, If a man or a woman has hun
dred young hens Of the winter laying
type and cares for them properly it is
no trick to be taking in from 81 to 81
a day from the henhouse.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

One hundredweight of clay loan soil
will hold without dripping fifty pounds
of water This fact will explain the
condition Of our prairie soils when they
had to take care Of foot Of water
month last year
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

Nine novels published during 1908
required the sacrifice Of 1000 spruce
trees to furnish the paper upon which
the books were printed. and not book
of the lot will be heard Of or known
twenty years from now. Our forests
might be used in better cause.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

The magnificent balance of trade
which each year shows to the credit Of
this country is directly to be credited
to the farmers Of the nation. The hun
CRY maws of foreign people must be
filled, no matter what the balance Of
trade is
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

Nebraska produces this year 200.000,-
600 bushels of corn. 100000 bushels
of wheat and live stock worth $780,
100000, and the people there do not
care a cent whether stocks go up or
down on Wall street.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

The Indians the lumber jacks and
northern hunters. as well as the wealth
er prophets, who know the least of the
lot. unite in predicting very mild
winter
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

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

A mortgaged crop hardly ever pans
out to tit the obligations against it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

1t is worth remembering that tile
drained land is not only made dry in a
wet time. but better holds moisture in
q dry time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

The early winter losses Of sheep up in
the mountain ranges Of Oregon and
Washington were enormous. estimated
at 80 per cent Of the docks.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

During hard times it is much easier
for man to get living in the country
than it is in the city. 1t seems almost
impossible to make some people under
stand this.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30
WANT
COLUMN

Rates-One cent per word nothing
less than ten cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30
THE MAN AND THE SOIL,

No man In any profession or business
is. SO safe as he who owns, and tills
piece. large or small. of old Mother
Earth. So much Of the living for him
self and family may be thus obtained
that he is in large measure made in
dependent. so far as his living is con-
cerned. of panics. hard times. salary
reductions and lay-offs. We look for
the time to come when the knowledge
of how to use a piece Of land to the
best advantage in producing those
things which sustain life will be count
ed as the most valuable knowledge q
man can possess. This present rush
for the cities. the expressed contempt
in which agriculture has been held in
the past as business, the fierce strug
gle between employer and employee
and every so often the closing of fac
tory. shop and mine, with all the at
tendant suffering, are. we believe. going
to give way in a measure to the more
sensible plan of men seeking their liv-
ing direct from the soil, greatly to their
own benefit and that of the. country at
large. There is no more prosperous
country today than agricultural France,
where the land is owned in small tracts
and worked by the owners. Ten acres
is small farm. it is true. but when in
telligence and skill are applied to ten
acres it beats any $1,000 salaried place
on earth We feel that no better advice
can be given to thousands Of men than
this-to get piece of land and learn
how to intelligently work it,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

Are you going to send that boy Of
yours to take a special course at the
agricultural college this winter? If
not, why not? Suppose it does cost $50
or SIS, what Of that? There are lots
of things connected with your farm
that you don't know and that the boy
will find out if you give him a chance.
Just as well raise smart boy as a
RUDE. Have mother get his clothes
ready, give him some money and send
him off. Our word for it, he will come
home with bigger and broader ideas In
his noddle-ideas which you can turn
into good hard cash.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

Everybody is cutting down trees, ans
but very few are planting them. This
will make America treeless country
before long.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-12-30

The grape fruit Is to us disappoint.
ment-the poorest of the citrus fruits.
The evening world., 1903-12-04
KISSED BEFORE,
|WELL, WHY NOT?
Hiss Margaret Sullivan Is Con,
fident that Her Past Expert
ences Had Nothing'to Do with
Deputy Sheriff Cook.

~ I y WIN
Because Miss Margaret Sullivan, the
Joung woman for kissing whom Deputy
t5herjf Louis l.. Cook, OF Woodmere. l..
III. begins a three months term of i'm
prisonment in the new line Jail to-
day. admits that she has been Kissed
{ before. popular opinion has swung
around. and there is talk of a movement
10 have the portly county o3sciol freed.
- Miss Sullivan Is not disposed to
leniency herself. She thinks she IL a
very much outraged young woman and
Ehe can see no reason for mercy in the
bare fact that she has been kissed be-
4 Tore.
Miss Sullivan is tweuty-eight years old
isaa pretty brunette. She was a
school teacher in Ireland before she
came here as companion TO Mrs. Glenn
ent Lloyd. OF Woodmere. A year ago
left Mrs. Lloyd. and has since been
c~onhpanion to Mrs. Newman Petit.
90 ceaarhurst.
1T was on election night that It all
happened" said Miss Sullivan to-day.
. Helen Seymour n / rode our bicy-
Giles over to Baldwins In order to get
othe election returns. While on our way
vlpver, there we met Mr.. Lloyd and had
Ia couple OF glasses OF sherry wine with
+ fhim.
3s1t was II. 30 o'clock when we started
4 for home and, Of course. at a time like
4 that my bicycle had to go and break
down. $50
~ Then Cook Appeared.
3 Helen rel or to get help and while
vi sat by the roadside weeping along
n rame Air. Cook In q closed carriage. He
asked me what was the matter n
when I told him he offered to take me
90 Cedarhurst in the carriage. OF
/. course 1 accepted the offer,
"well. the minute we got In thai car
Rage he began to snugzls up to me and
. to whisper little compliments IL; my
! q tried to keep away from him.
1qbut. mercy! he weighs 80 pounds and
NJ couldn't push him to h other side
.sWeii. finally he kissed me. Yes. he
actually kissed me. He had his arm
Eround me or he Gould have done
his weight in such a position?
IA She Screamed, He Fled.
81 and he let rue. get out OF
the carriage. Then he threw my bicycle
sftort the first tirae I discovered. that n.
had been driving around Baldwins all
she time and vas sul! eight mics 'Ion
Cedarhl-st."
Miss sullivan walked the eight miles
Ehome. and the next day had Cook ar
ne Is a six-footer and Is a well-known
Dllghter. A short time, ago he shot two
Italians with whom he got IN q row. He
has a wife and three children.
II never said forty words to her." he
ffAld fhis morning In the Mfneola jail:
@T9eHmagined II all. That man Lloyd
18 me arrested; and when 1 get out
NJ all right"
The evening world., 1903-12-04
TUG CUT DOWN,
SINKS IN BAY
D. F. Arnot CoIIides with the
New Jersey Central Tug Jesse
Russell OF Bedloe's Island
All the Crew Saved.

The tug D.. F. Arnot ran Into and sunk
the tug Jesse Russell, of the Central
Railroad OF New Jersey ferry. in Com
munipaw this morning.
The Russell was struck amidships and
out almost in two She sank imme-
diately. The Russeil's crew was saved
by the Arnot.
George A. Sheldon. seventeen years
old. OF No. 327 Grand street, Jersey City.
a deckhand on tho Russell. was knocked
into the water when the collision oc-
CURED. but was picked up by the Arnot
and was not injured.
Both tugs are sale to be owned In New
York.
The evening world., 1903-12-04
ADDER SAFE TN PORT AND
MOCCASIN NOT INJURED
of the Submarine Torpedo Boats That
Went Adrift in Big Gale Still Fast Aground,
ass qt but Found in Good Trim.

n of the two cl%gar-shaped naval Won
ders.
1t vas about i.3o o'clock this morning
when the llfe-savers boarded the Mecca
sin. She was found tight and. as far
as could be ascertaincd, in good condi-
ton. The life-savers could not tell
from the first examination just what
the Internal conditions were.
Later they boarded her again m,
found the vessel tight and in good con-
dillon. There was nobody aboard. Tho
Moccasin Us high n dry on Currituck
Peach.
Admiral Harrington. commanding the
Navy-Yard Mt Portsmouth. Va. reports
the arrival Of the Peoria with the Adder
in tow. He adds that the Yankton and
Vixen have gone after the Moccasln in
another attempt to rescue her.
The evening world., 1903-12-04

CAPE HENRY. Va. Dec. 1.-The crew
tf Tho Currituck Life-Saving stntion to-
bay succeeded in getting aboard the
branded Moccasin. the submarine tor
bcdo-boat. 1t was a long night vigil for
.khe I~ife-savers. waiting for the heavy
beas to subside sufficiently TO give them
\ fighting chance at doing something
Dor the Disabled boat.
The Moccasin grounded four miles be-
I3w the station. Raging seas and a ter
fihc wind made impossible help from
2teashore. The convoy Peoria. the Gov
fnnfsnt tug. was kept busy trying to
BIT the Adder n tow and at. least save
The evening world., 1903-12-04
GAS PRosTRATEs CLERKS.

P1TTSBURG. Dec. 4.-Ff'teen clerks
In Mays's drug store. In Market street.
were rendered unconscious to-day by es-
Gaping sewer gas. All soon revived.
but tho physicians say they will re-
cover. The fnintlng of the clerks caused
considerable excitement and II was
necessary TO close he store for a short
time.
The evening world., 1903-12-04
ACTORS MOTHER FOUND DEAD.

Mrs, NJ. A. Cooke. sixty years old.
mother of VIII ]. Cooke. one of the
vaudeville team OF Cook and Hayes.
idiow playing In New England cities, was
ffouhd dead to-day in her, home at No.
$50 East Twenty-irst street. Death was
probably due to heart failuee. said the
The evening world., 1903-12-04

The place TO advertise or seek Bus
iness Opportunities % In the Sunday
World Want sheet. The three and
reycn time rates are paying protest.
tonA.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-06

nv said companies or corporations during year ending
December 3st next preceding this Territory pay
the Territory through the Insurance
missioner per the net profits income
above the operating and business
paid policy holders; which when paid
all of license
every conducting said business of insurance
Territory excepting the set forth in Section
Said shall be due and payable before the 18th
November succeeding the fling of the statement provided
Any organization failing refusing render
pay the required tax above
sixty after the time specified
liable of twenty-five dollars for each additional day
delinquency may be collected by distrnt
the by action to be instituted by the
Commissioners Territory in any Court
authority of delinquent
ganzation until fine should any be imposed
fully paid.
SECTION company corporation licensed
do business in this Territory shall accept application
insurance. shall it write, issue, deliver any policy
of insurance covering located within Territoy ex
cept through duly appointed of such insurance
paI corporation, who is bona fde resident
poration Territory herein licensed
agent such company corporation by
missioner write solicit insurance
company, corporation of any
this Section shall be revoked by the Commissioner
organization shall be again licensed do business this
Territory until it shall have paid into the Treasury the
Territory Dollars a license
This Section apply the acceptance of eecng
of reinsurance.
SECTION % laws herewith hereby
pealed.
26. This Act shall into effect on the first day OF
October A. d. 1908.
Approved this 2sth day of April, A. D. 1908.
SANFORD B. DOLE,
Governor of Territory of Hawaii