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

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A bad egg is really the worst product
of any farm, whether 1t is hens egg
or just a boy.
An income of 5000 year on a small
farm will enable a family to live bet
ter than could be done in a city on |
$1,000.
The hog yard of this year should be
In some sort of crop next year,
change of yards every season will do
much to insure the health of the pigs.
Suppose when you plant a tree for
shade or ornament you plant either a
fruit or a nut tree. You thus are dou-
bly, rewarded for your trouble and
work.
The largest orchard in the state of |
Virginia contains 10000 apple trees, |
largely the famous Newtown Pippin; |
10000 peach trees and 5000 pear trees. |
Ridge mountains.
America takes one-half Of all the dia- |
monds produced each year. 1t is no IN
common thing to see men here not |
worth $1,000 wearing a $3.50 gem, fell |
lows who are bound to cut a splurge
even if they never save cent.
We have a friend who has let the |
blackberry bushes take possession of
his orchard. 1t is the old story. While
he got some blackberries this year, he
got nary an apple. 1t is pretty hard to
grow two crops on the land at the
same time.
In the Wisconsin experimental or
chard the three most promising apples |
are Northwestern Greetings, Patterns
Greetings and Okabena. This orchard |
is well north and results obtained |
there will be worth much to a very |
large section of the country.
If your soil is suffering from an ex-
cess Of humus, evidenced by too rank |
growth of stalk and straw and imper- |
feet filling of grain, nothing will regu- |
late II better than crop of fax. Not |
many men are troubled with this ey-
cess Of good thing, but where IT exists |
fax will put the soil In a normal and |
productive condition.
Almost every man is bit cranky on |
something and we are cranky on the |
matter of having sharp tools to work |
with. Work at best is hard enough
without having to do it with dull or
unpublished tools. With tools kept in /
the shape they should be, much work
that is now rated as burden may be
transformed into pleasure.
If one wishes to raise roots for the
winter food of the dairy COW nothing
will be better than mangel wurzels,
the yield of which on good land may
easily be as much as thirty tons per
acre. While sugar beets and carrots
are a more nutritious ration, the man
gel can be more easily grown and will
produce much more to the acre.
An objection to trailing vines around
the house is the pesky English sparrow,
which is bound to use the vines as
nesting place. We noted large church
In the city of Washington not long
since largely covered with English ivy
which had been so appropriated by the
sparrows with their nests that the side
of the church looked almost like hay
stack.
Some idea can be formed of how
much America does to clothe and feed
the world by noting the exports of cot
ton the past year, 100000 bales of
800 pounds each, 200,OO0,0O0 bushels of
wheat, 100000 bushels of corn and
no end of meats, dairy products and
fruits The world would set but
slim table were it not for the surplus
of good things obtained from this
country.
The possibilities Of Argentina as a
meat producer are practically unlim-
tied. This country proves to be the
natural home of alfalfa. One of the
British consuls located there says that
inside of ten years Argentina will be
able to furnish the English market
with 100000 hundredweight of beef
and 100000 hundredweight of NUT
ton, or twice the amount needed to
supply that country.
We noticed the mistake made in the
management and care of two public
parks recently-parks In two thrifty
western cities of 5000 population. In
one the trees which were mostly large
elms, had been trimmed up to a point
where the natural beauty of the trees
was destroyed. In the other the trees
had been set in straight rows like cab
bages or corn and were so thickly |
nlantad that grass would not grow nm