Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-11-04

The 200 loads of barnyard fertilizer
lying in many Il farmyard is just 5000
unclaimed, for every load of it put on
a cornfeld will make ten extra bushels
of corn inside of three years and prob
ably more.
A man who is undertaking the rails
ing and domesticatiOn of quail finds a
serious drawback in the fact that these
birds mate for life, and when the I'M
ion is broken by death neither bird
will accept a new mate
One Of our neighbors has four big
straw piles located at different places
on forty acre grain field. This fall
when blowing the field. he has had to
plow around each one of these stacks.
This sort of work looks wasteful.
The best farmers may make their
plhus and strive to do their work in
the best way, but the ever unknown
factors of flood. drought, frost and al
ways varying climatic conditions Of
ten bring to naught the best laid plans.
I. seems too bad that so little of the
hard bought experience of the man Of
sixty is really available for his son Of
twenty-five. 1t seems as though every
young man has got to buy his own,
and he never gets it at bargain coun-
ter.
II is said that only 8 per cent of the
area of the farms in Sweden is under
cultivation. 1t is this fact which makes
Ole want to own and work all the land
country and finds himself the owner Of
a nice piece of land.
The winter season should witness the
development of the social side of farm
life as much as possible. We have
great regard for the country debating
school and singing school and that sort
Of informal visiting back and forth
between neighbors which always shows
them at their best
Northern grown. second crop. straw
berries ma lie their appearance in some
of the markets during early October
and found ready market at 40 cents
a quart. y second crop of raspberries
was also reported from some localities.
These were freak products, the result
of peculiar weather conditions.
Every fact of carelessness in dairy
Ing. from the feed ana care of the COW
to the final packing and shipping of
the butter, tells against the quality Of
the product. immaculate cleanliness is
the price one has to pay for the best
butter. while not little of the butter
made is the product of immaculate
filth.
When a man has met with bad luck
1t helps him very much to bear the mis-
fortune to have kind word of SYM
pathy even if it is not coupled with
substantial financial help. About the
meanest man in the world is he who
will take advantage of his neighbours
trouble to say that he has got just
what he deserves.
Taken as whole. the native Ameri-
can hates to milk COW. and the prin-
cipal thing which operates TO keep the
dairy business within its present limi-
tations is the difficulty of employing
men to 60 this work. AS for Ameri-
can girls and women. nine out of ten
of them would never for moment
think of such thing.
If your small boy shows a natural
aptitude for any particular line of hon
orable employment you just encourage
and educate him along that line. no
matter what it may be. The attempt
of parents to make their boys take up
lines of occupation for which they
have no native liking is the primary
cause of no end of insists in business
life.
We should not go 10 law with neigh