Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-20

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corn, cotton Keep the steer calf fat all the time
osng show at and the hefer just thrifty and grow
ing but not fat.
bed than In the Tyrolese Alps the men knit
the previous stockings when they have a spare
any crop hour; here they spin yarns.
the milk in The crate of twenty-f four boxes of
omach Of the strawberries costs about 80 cents to
! through the pick and crate ready for market.
You sell good deal of water when
ciah peuuier you sell hay from the wndrow mat
heep I'm vi ter how well it may seem to be cured
II paid well to hold over both pota-
.o..o 80 ~, toes and onions the past year. The 40
On g. s,Is cent crop last fall brought $1.30 in
-. huorht March.
When the weather is right and the
fish bite the best thing to do is to
ns " nav have day off and take the boys for
which they
Boiled down, it may be said that the
amount of meat. butter and eggs which
PASS prNneee farm will produce very largely deter
country 10 mines its value
and TO this
business. The water which collects in a barn
yard after a heavy rain makes most
hie vi any excellent fertilizer for all flowers, espe
VI own in'ei cally so for roses.
ch animal
nelsnoois "n ton of cotton seed will produce 40
gallons of oil and 700 pounds of oil
,oino ,onoro, meal This was thrown aside as worth
Graders ond less twenty years ago
ne does vast
no done With When man cuts down twenty acres
Of clover timothy on Saturday he
puts himself where il is very easy to
works for his break the fourth commandment.
lie is of age is
ore than the Argentina takes more American made
me good adj farm machinery than any other coun-
r himself try. The soil, crops and climate are al
most duplicates of these in this coun-
for year to try.
any worse on
ST impossible If pocket gopher shows up in your
I'VE the farm orchard you will do well to drop all
hen he went other business and get him. He likes
the roots of the apple trees and makes
the worst sort of havoc
cheap piece
unit up some The color of the shell of the egg in
itch could be manner determines its edible or nutri-
expense. We tive value. but the color of the yok
y enough to does, the dark colored yolk being much
richer than is the light colored
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res or cotton The bee is always the fitting compile
ties TINS year ment and adjunct of the orchard. 1t
III pale 10 there finds food and in finding it per-
tue crop Vi forms great and valued service to the
OF 1913 Oy fruit grower in the fertilization of his
,.. trees
Id have two Where is the sense of paying a trav-
r OF heavy cling peddler IS cents for the
raise pair apple tree which you may buy of your
The other home nurservman for IL to 20 cents?
l,2OO pound Yet hundreds of are doing this all
oad ana the the time
Lots of men could not do a better
thought the thing than to convert a mortgaged
so quickly, quarter section farm into an unincum-
he small sum bered eighty. They would thus have
he ST Louis more money in their pockets and sleep
aiglan mares, better o nights.
+ rufous
D. There is no question that alcohol is
great power in this country, but its
on our dairy power is wrongly applied. 1t should
import more be used as motive power for machn-
We killed our cry instead of being used to fire men
ars ago and TO do their very worst
working the
we put In The testing and wedding out of
dairy herd in Tennessee resulted in in
creasing the income from $500 to
o.. S 30 ~. 10 $4,000. On smaller scale this same
80 - =. result may be obtained in half the
=, dairy herds in the country.
interests of
r ~ Perhaps il is just well that the
- - 49, losses sustained by the farmers of the
' w" ny country because of the use of barbed
wire fences should not be known. 1t
Is feeding "ouiu .ota al immense suin iion inc
,ot 90 .ho | horses killed and MANNED and the stock
,tter 70 ctoclr killed by lightning, than any
IS soon fit 'nlnAs ioi'
- 80 80 A country drive recently showed us
lgust thrash isnt iaiii Honie' WIZ MY ~
better quail lawn auo4 heu INC loiee'e"u ~ e"en
ASKING is far Ease "heie 'ieee M" "eie " NC s.e
the rows were straight, the hog
lot located back out of sight and SMELL
which were Wlhumll iurnlsheu supply Vi
, nile 1vere spring water and the house and barns
,erv one CAR were neatly painted.
oppose. We
these birds An interesting and compromising
,rashers and feature connected with the very disas
bare cherry trous Hoods OF last year IN portions or
not digest Kansas and Missouri the almost
innate bird complete humiliation of all gophers