Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-04-15


were landed.
Happiness consists largely in want.
ing something real bad and standing
good show of getting it. The actual
getting of it often spoils all the fun.
Nearly all Of our choice. fruits will
stand a temperature Of zero. 1t Is
what lies between zero and 40 below
which limits the list which can be
grown.
II you want to experiment with some
new crop this year. try small patch
of alfalfa. If it will grow with you, it
will make you the finest hog pasture to
be had.
Thirty years ago the aged OK was
counted as the best grade of beef. To
day 1t is rare to find a four-year-old
steer in any of the stockyards of the
country.
The Nebraska experiment station has
Tic ldCl ludI u COW
reaches her highest production of but
ter fat before she does her greatest
flow Of milk.
The markings on few feathers en-
abled her owner to sell four-year-old
hen at late poultry show at Kansas
City for SOL. This is almost as bad
as Belgian hares at $3.50.
The English apple eaters will pay
more for Ben Davis than they will for
Northern Spy. This looks like queer
taste, but most anything with q red
face goes in that country.
The collie or shepherd dog Is one Of
the most intelligent Of animals and
may be trained easily to do the most
remarkable things in connection with
the care Of stock, especially with sheep.
Iowa. with resources almost purely
agricultural is still represented by
eleven lawyers in congress, which Is
what we would call an agricultural
joke. There ought to be at least one
farmer in the lot.
The sum of 5000 invested in barbless
wire fences would inclose pretty good
sized pasture. but we know Of more
than one man whose losses in horse
flesh during the past ten years would
have built two such fences.
Farmers do not as class avail them
selves of the benefits to be derived
from advertising in the papers. This
is one of the most practical and easy
methods of bringing buyer and seller
together and covers large line Of COM
mon wants on the farm.
We know of one or two very liberal
landlords who treat their farm tenants
more as partners in business than as
employees, and we notice that in each
case the landlord makes more money
from his farm than the old skinhints
do. If you want your tenant to do
we'll by you and the farm. you do well
by the tenant.
At nearly all the farm institutes
held the past winter through the re-
gion of the corn belt the question Of
how to improve the yield and quality
Of the corn crop has been uppermost
For the first time the farmers of that
section are becoming alive to the fact
that it is entirely possible to accom-
plish great Improvement along this
line.
A laboring man whom we know rent
ed two acres of land last season and
planted the field to Burbank potatoes.
He worked out by the day most of the
time. but managed to care for this
crop at odd times. He harvested 400
bushels Of fine potatoes. which he sold
in the field for 500, which was as
much or more than he earned at other
work all summer long.
Nature Is often fantastic in the ex-
IRENE in some of her wOrk-in the
growth of a tree. the building Of
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pictures in a storm or at sunset. In
mountain crag and gorge. In treeless
canyon. in the rioting of the ocean
but in all her fantasies she Is always
truly artistic. never makes any color
blunders or violates the law Of bar
mony or art.
II you have two or three boys In the
farm home and any one Of them more
than the others shows a liking for and
native enthusiasm in farm interests,
keep an eye on him and try to help him
along on these lines. for by the time
you begin to get stiff in the joints he
will be just the man to take the old
farm off your hands. Some men get
rid of their boys. never thinking about
this time, which is sure to come.
AT late farmers institute which we
attended we heard read by a quiet. un-
assuming common farmer one Of the
best of papers on the geological forma-