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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07
WHERE SHALL HE LOCATED

This man is Scandinavian, with q
wife and seven children, toiler in q
western city, who by dint of hard
work and economy has saved up the
sum of $400, which he wishes to invest
in q small piece of land for a home.
He presents three propositions to us,
wishing to know which Is the best one
for him to accept-one to buy forty
acres of timber land In central Missou-
ri with no improvements at $40 per
acre, another to buy unimproved prai-
rie land in northwestern Kansas at So
per acre and another to buy cutoff pine
timber lands in northern Wisconsin at
Sc per acre. We can only answer him
in very general way. for so much de-
ponds upon the specific character Of
the particular tract of land which he
might select On the face of it the Mis-
souri, proposition would seem to be the
most attractive. There he would find
a mild climate, corn country, fruit of
ter feeding season for stock. On the
other hand, it's pretty far south for
Scandinavian, and he might find the
fever and ague and some old fashioned
poky ways of doing things which he
would not like. The Kansas PROPOSE
ton we should regard as altogether too
risky for this poor man, who seeks
land for the purpose of cultivating it in
crops. Northwest Kansas is more of
stock country than anything else, and
he would be sure in his contest with
drought and hot winds to be discour-
aged in the effort to raise ordinary
crops. The cutoff pine lands of north
ern Wisconsin and Minnesota offer
many inducements for man situated
as our friend is. He will there find eli
matte conditions of a Scandinavian
type, plenty Of rain in summer and a
heap of snow and cold weather in win
ter He will find If he properly selects
his land soil which while extremely
rough and unpromising in its natural
state still one which will produce
splendid crops of grass and all cereal
grains except corn. Locating there
with his limited means, he will have
about ten years of life in the wilder
ness before he really comes into the
promised land. If we were in his place,
we would look at Missouri first, Wis
consin next and let northwest Kansas
alone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

A so called grade Angus steer won
first honors at the late Chicago stock
show. 1t is due to every raiser of pedi-
greed stock to say that the breeding Of
this animal was full blooded sire and
a seven-eighths dam. for If it gets out
that a common grade steer can win
first honors away from registered stock
there will be plenty of fools who will
Immediately want to know of what use
blooded stock is anyway.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

The writer was well acquainted with
DIR. Sheldon Jackson, home mission
airy who for years worked among the
native tribes of Alaska. 1t was largely
through his agency that the govern
ment was induced several years ago to
make an experimental shipment of rein
deer from Siberia to Alaska. This has
proved to be great success, these AMI
mails very readily adapting themselves
to and thriving well under Alaskan con-
ditions. The small herd imported has
now grown to very large one. and the
reindeer bids fair to solve the problem
of internal transportation for that coun-
try
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

rhe principal need of the apple or
ards of the west is more moisture.
irregularity of the rainfall and Of
ltimes its marked deficiencies are Sc
'us problems confronting the apple
over. Every means which will re-
1t in conserving the rainfall for the
;e of the trees should be adopted. This
Jay take the form of mulching or of
'ersistent surface cultivation during
Try time, and care should always be
ised to so cultivate the surface of the
land as to throw the water toward the
roots of the trees instead of having the
trees grow upon the apex of a ridge.
which runs the water all away from
n. Moisture is absolutely indispen-
:" the health of the apple tree and
"~~+ fruit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

In the state of Ohio the crows have
learned the bad trick from their York
state brethren of digging up the sprout-
ing corn. An Ohio farmer adopted the
novel method of stretching Irvine on
poles at intervals across his field to pro-
tect his corn from the crows, the birds
for some reason being afraid to fly I'M
der the strings.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

A lady writing from Illinois COM
plains that her hens don't lay in the
winter and wants to know what to do
for them. In the first place it is not
natural for hens to produce their eggs
during the winter season, and more or
less artificial means must be used to
induce them to do it. Warmth, sun
shine and the feeding of egg produc-
ing food to young hens will usually re-
suit in egg production, even in mid
winter Without these things no eggs
Ineed be looked for.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

The government now has 100000
acres of the public lands set aside as
forest reserves. This is all right, and
the area should be doubled. What is
all wrong is allowing the sheep herders
of the west the range of these forest
reserves, for it is net possible for young
timber to grow and develop where the
sheep are allowed to run.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

1t having been demonstrated that one
cause of the failure of alfalfa to do well
in many localities is the lack of that
bacterial life in the soil necessary to
the plants development, we incline to
the opinion that it would be good pol
icy to put the alfalfa on land which
had previously grown clover, these two
plants being relatives in the legume
family.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

For some years an effort has been
made to secure corn with a small cob
and a consequently small shank where
it was attached to the stalk. thus max
ing the corn easy to husk by hand. The
introduction of the corn harvester
makes bad work with this kind Of corn,
the ears being so easily knocked off by
the operation of the machine. New
things always beget new troubles.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

Now listen to the woes of lightning
rod man. He Lit down in Nebraska
with team of good horses, a new
spring wagon, Timber tongue and a
lot of rods. He was all prepared to rod
up a lot of the unsophisticated old
grangers of that state. In just q week
he was after warrants for the arrest of
twelve of these grangers who he
claimed had beaten him out of every
thing he had in trading horses, so that
he had lost his team and his rig and
his rods and had to walk back to town.
Finding out that Nebraska law did not
prohibit men from making horse
trades. he took the first train for the
east with no money and lot Of expe-
rience.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

The claim is made that the soil OF
North Dakota is so well adapted to the
production of fax that this crop may
be grown continuously ON the same
land year after year. We are inclined
to doubt this story. for in every locality
where we have known flax to be grown
fax following flax has proved almost
invariably failure.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

We heard an Englishman the other
y roaring because we have not the
me laws here which they have in
1gland- which will send a hired man
Jail if lie throws UP his job. This
1T should go back.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

We are asked why it is that stock
with no other feed during the year
than the grasses of the range country
can maintain life and actually fatten
ON such food. The explanation is to be
found in the fact that the buffalo grass
as it cures naturally where it grows
possesses the same nutritive value as
sheaf oats.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

We came across one bright man the
other day who had attached the power
furnished by his windmill to his wife's
washing machine, and the scheme
worked so nicely that she can hardly
wait for washing day to come around.
The dirtier the clothes are the better
she likes to run them through the ma
chine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07
ard stalks of corn may more ere.

be traced to lack of fertility
-. a., soil than the inferior quality of
the seed used. Many field which will
produce growth of stalk of fair size
is still too impoverished to furnish the
food for ear and grain development. 1t
will be found upon examination that
unless the corn is planted too thickly
the bastard stalk will rarely be found
ON rich ground
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

We saw a model windbreak for the
prG irie farm homestead the other day.
t consisted of two rows of Scotch pines
lty feet apart each way. break
s in the rows These trees were
ears old, twenty feet high and
solid evergreen wall, proof
the. worst that the winter
ould do.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

About the only way to keep mice out
of the cellar is to cement the floor and
plaster the sides, and the cellar should
be thus treated for other reasons. 1t
may then be thoroughly cleaned every
spring and given a coat of whitewash,
the health of the family.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

Me butter exports of the state Of To-
{ for the year ended Sept. 80, 1902,
re 72.000,000 pounds, bringing an av-
age price of 24.1G cents per pound.
e big year was 1897, when S4,000,000
Inds were produced, which, how
+. only brought 1885 cents per
nd.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

Two men settled in two adjoining
western communities forty years ago.
Both were lovers of trees-one loved
the hard maple, the other evergreens.
We recently passed through the towns
which sprung up in these two commu
mites. The one has its cemetery and
park filled with beautiful specimens of
white and Scotch pines. and nearly ev-
cry homestead in the city possesses
more or less of these beautiful trees.
1t might very properly be called the
evergreen city. Ten miles away the
hard maple trees which were so liber-
ally planted forty years ago now make
miles of shaded avenues and streets
and present wealth of color and tint
In the fall Of the year which have not
been duplicated since the forests were
cut down. These two men have long
since passed to their reward, but have
left to posterity a magnificent legacy.
forever perpetuating their memory.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

A claim is made for newfangled
liking machine that the cows MIXED
( it have in ten days increased in
heir milk product to the extent of one
third. We had always supposed that it
was what was put into the cow and
termined her milk yield.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07
f. j. CHENEY q CO., Pr

cannot De cured by hall'S Oatarrn
Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props,
Toledo. o.
We the undersigned, have known f.
J. Cheney for the last 10 years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, o.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood anG mucous surfaces of the sys-
tenn. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by
all Druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

Here's a woman to tie to. She ana
her husband lived on South Dakota
farm, and help was hard to get so she
fixed basket on the gang pillow, put
her baby in it and drove four horses
while she plowed forty acres of land.
You don't read of this kind in the soci-
ETY. journals.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

is estimated that $4,000 American
ners have bought land in northwest
ada and will locate there as British
jects. This is the best thing that
! happened to Canada for good
ny years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

The regulations enforced by the con-
densed milk factories as to the purity
of the milk furnished are ironclad. If
the same regulations could be enforced
in the creameries of the country. there
would be wonderful improvement in
the grade of the butter produced. Dirt
and carelessness are the bane Of all
creamerieS.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

The state of Missouri has farmers
40 are out in the papers with Aida
Is to the effect that their crop of corn
year is yielding as high as 40
Is per acre. 1t is entirely proper
1e this sort of story backed up
affidavit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

,e are 6oO,0oo,0OO acres of public
subject to homestead entry, near
al of it mountain and desert. Irri-
on will reclaim when put in opera
from 3 to A per cent of this area.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

Better than to give your boy $1,000
when he is twenty-one years old is it
for you to give him but $500 and use
the other $500 to give him two years
at some agricultural college when he
is seventeen. He will then be in shape
to earn that other $500 and good deal
more besides. There is nothing surer
today than the fact that the man who
knows Is the man who can make mon
ey. And this Is not all. That two years
at college will so broaden and widen
him that he will not only be able tn
make more money, but will In every
way be a bigger. better type Of man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

The possibilities in connection with
the production of cereal crops in the
Canadian northwest are immense. AS
Stunning that when forty-three acres out
OF every quarter section are so en-
ployed there will be produced in that
territory 350,O00O00 bushels of wheat.
250,000,000 bushels of oats and 10000
900 bushels of barley, should the entire
area ever be utilized which is suitable
for cultivation there will be produced
1000, 100000 bushels of wheat. 100000
900 bushels of oats and 15O,O00.OOO
bushels of barley. II is claimed that in
any event ten years hence there will be
available for export 300,000,00e bushels
:" wheat and 100.000,00O bushels Of
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

The new Siberian railroad has
adopted a novelty in refrigerator cars,
a train of ten cars having a central car
fitted up with an ammonia refrigerat-
ing plant which maintains the re-
quired low temperature in all Of the
rest of the cars.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

During a recent trip away from home
we tried to eat a dish of oatmeal at
four different well conducted hotels.
At not one of these places was this oat-
meal so cooked as to be fit for food.
We wish we could in some way impress
upon the minds of cooks everywhere
the fact that all starchy foods must be
cooked for a long time in order to be
palatable and digestible. If intended
for the morning meal, oatmeal. rice,
hominy. grits. prepared wheat-in fact,
any of the uncooked cereal foods =
should be cooked in double boiler for
at least three or four hours the previ-
GUS day and then warmed up for break
fast.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

re are more or less men fa $50
unity who cannot be hired TO DO
/ days work who will still work
Ill day long for two rabbits and q
uirrel.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

A large portion of the central west
had rainfall during 1902 approximate
ing forty inches, this coming mostly
during the summer months. Should
there be a snowfall during the winter
months equivalent to this summer
rainfall in amount of moisture precipi-
tated we should have to take care Of
over forty feet of snow.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

The agricultural conditions in Aus
tralia are becoming very discOuraging,
a drought of unprecedented severity
and of five years duration having pal
sled the farms and ranches. Instead of
being an exporter of cereals the cOun-
try has become heavy importer, and
the end is not yet
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

The use of bloodhounds for the pur-
pose of tracking criminals is generally
failure. Many western communities
have invested couple of hundred dol
lars in pair Of the brutes, which can
now be bought for what they are
worth as rabbit dogs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

We note recentl,' t.:n est" ..shmer.
Of a crea taery in southern Texas and
also one in north British Canada al
most within the arctic circle.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

The Scandinavians make the best
butter in Europe and take all prizes
for the best butter made in this cOun-
try. 1t is of little use to compete for
premium unless ones name ends in
''son" or ''Sen,"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

There is nothing rabbits are more
fond of in winter than the limbs Of the
poplar tree, and the cutting down of
such a tree during the winter will
draw all the rabbits in the neighbor-
hood for grand feast.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

Various gold dredging schemes are
being presented in very attractive form
for the purpose of separating the gran
ger from a portion of his bank depOs-
its. To tell the truth and make long
story short. the wise man will let every
one of these schemes very much alone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

1t is generally known that the largest
and finest flowers of the chrysanthe-
NUNS are produced on plants which
are only allowed to mature a single
blossom. Asking florist recently why
more such flowers were not grown. he
told us that it did not pay; that such
flowers could not be grown and sold
for less than so cents apiece. and the
flower loving public would not pay
this price.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

Equal parts in weight Of cornmeal
and bran make a very good dairy ra.
ton for the cow. If to this can be add
ed good clover hay or twenty five
pounds of ensilage and two or three
pounds of gluten meal, she ought to do
her best.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

This reads well: Two years ago only
cannon, muskets and mules were being
shipped to South Africa. Lately fac
tory in Pennsylvania received an order
for 10000 eight horse breaking plows
to be sent to that country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

Ten acres of good land under irriga-
ton can be made very much more pro-
supply is under the control of the
weather clerk. While ii is true that the
rain falls on the just and on the I'M
just and that the average rainfall of
given territory may seem to be am
pie, it nearly always happens either
that the water does not come at the
right time or is too literally or too
scantily supplied.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07

The success Of any cooperative
scheme among the farmers depends
very largely upon few smart business
men being willing to work without
compensation. We know of one case
where services which would command
a salary of $1,000 year in private
business of like kind are given without
compensation to direct the affairs Of
one of the most successful cooperative
schemes to be found in the country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-01-07
HOW's This.

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1903-09-25
THE DEFENSE 0VERRULED.
Commissioner Hitchcock Overrules
Motion of the Defense In the Case
of George w. Beavers.

New York, Sept. 19.-At the exam
fnatiOn of Geo. w. Beavers, the indict-
ed postal Official charged with con-
spiracy with the fraudulent Manu-
featuring Co., to defraud the govern
ment, which was resumed Friday,
Commissioner Hitchcock announced
that he had decided to overrule the mo-
ton made by the defense at the pre-
vious hearing to dismiss the proceed
ings because of the invalidity of the in
dictment. The defense contended that
the indictment charged three separate
and distinct offenses under one sec
ton of the federal statutes instead of
one as provided by law He also re-
peated his ruling that the properly
certified copy of the indictment re-
turned in Brooklyn was sufficient evil
dence to make out a case of probable
cause, and to warrant the return of the
accused, properly identified, to the dis
trict wherein the indictment was re-
turned.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1903-09-25
CANAL TREATY WILL FAIL.
Such Is the Opinion of Prominent
COlOmbfans Who Have Arrived
From BoEOta.

New York, Sept. 19.-Gen. George
Roa and DR.. Rufino Gutierrez, both for
many years prominent in the politics
of Colombia, who arrived in this city
Friday from Bogota. Gen. Roa occu-
pied for several years the Office of sub
secretary of war, while DR.. Gutierrez,
was formerly governor of Bogota. De-
spite decided reaction at the time
they left the capital in favor Of the
canal treaty. it is not likely to be ap-
proved, they say. Gen. Roa said that
there were at least five candidates for
the presidency-Gen. Rafael Reyes,
who, it has been believed here, can
have the Office whenever he cares for
it; Lorenzo Marroquin, son of Pres
ident Marroquin; Gen. Joaquin Velez,
Gen. Pedro Mel Ospino and Gen. Con
Zales Valencia.
AS to reports that in the event of the
treaty not being ratified, the depart
ment of Panama will secede from the
republic and organize its own national
government. DR.. Gutierrez said: Il
think the people of Panama will abide
by the decision of the majority. They
are too patriotic to sever themselves
from the mother government"
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1903-09-25
FARMERS TRUST ORGANIZED
The Name Of the New Company is
"The Farmers Marketing Co."
Sell Grain, Agricultural and
Dairy Products.

Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 19.--Five mill
lion dollars Is the capitalization of
what appears to be a gigantic farmers
combine just incorporated under the
laws of Arizona. The principal place
OF business is Phoenix, Ariz., with
branch Offices at Seneca, N. Y. Liza
bilities are to be limited to 81, 900, 900,
and the life of the corporation is to be
rs years.
The objects of the corporation are to
buy and sell grain, agricultural, horti-
cultural and dairy products, breed and
barter live stock, manufacture food
products, manufacture and deal in ma
chinery and implements. acquire real
estate and mills, elevators, storehouses,
factories, decks, vessels, cars, ETC., and
to own shares Of stock of other cor
porations. The style OF the new con-
Germ is 1.-THE Farmers Marketing Co."
1t is believed to be an amalgamation
of the consumers and producers union
OF Tennessee and New York, the Amer
lean Society Of Equity of North Amer
lea and the Farmers National Coop
erative Exchange Co., which have a
combined membership of 10000 farm
ers.
1t is proposed to combine the farm
ers to the end that agricultural prod
ucts may be sold at living prices, and
that the necessaries of life and farm
implements be secured to farmers at
the lowest possible prices.