Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-09-07

Texas produced last year 1928 car
loads of stuff to sell.
The coming of the goldenrod for US
marks the beginning of the end of
summer
italian women are in much favor as
workers in the market gardens, and
hundreds of them are wanted for this
purpose in California.
The municipal and the rural had a
round not long since when an auto
mobile ran into a load of hay, the auto
getting the worst of the encounter.
An excellent quality Of paper both
for news print and writing is now
made from cornstalks, and the bust
ness is likely to become very extern
sive one.
So serious menace to the cotton
crop has the boil weevil become that
the legislature of Texas has authorized
an offer of a reward of $4,000 for the
best means of fighting the pest.
The railways of this country use
100000 ties each year to replace
those rotted out, aside from what are
used in new construction. This is the
big draft on our forest reserves.
Racing as a pastime will never COM
mand the respect and support of hon.
est and civilized people until horse
men quit running rotten races-races
manipulated by gamblers, boOkmakers
, and jockeys.
So far as the health Of the people is
concerned it is all right that cotton.
seed oil so largely displaces lard in
their food. A good deal Of meanness
and ill health may be charged to the
excessive use of hog products.
We have lost two nice fruit trees this
year by cats. On the face of it this
statement looks queer, but these trees
were located so that they were handy
for the cats to sharpen their claws on
them, and they clawed the trees to
death.
1t is not SO very many years ago that
the tomato was known by the name of
the "love apple" and was grown simply
as a curiosity and never eaten. Today
the crop produced represents millions
Of dollars, and it is rated as one Of the
best products of the garden.
= South Dakota comes to the front
with the largest inclosed pasture in
the world-SS0,O0O acres of an Indian
reservation inclosed by q barbed wire
: fence, rented of the red men by cattle
company at 301a mills per acre per
year for period of five years.
The great disadvantage connected
with selling milk to a cheese or a milk
condensing factory lies in the fact
that too much fertility is thus sold
, from the land. Herein lies the SUI
g periority of the creamery over these
f other methods of conducting the dairy.
Chile has the only known deposit of
nitrate of soda in the world, and its
value may be better understood when
1t is known that the export duty placed
t upon the product nets the government
over $15,0O0,OOO annually, or more than
half enough to pay all the expenses Of
the government.
Big, husky colored hands are availa.
BILE in many parts of the south for farm
work at 80 or GO cents day, they find
ing themselves. 1t would seem to be a
r sensible thing to so train these men
: that they would be worth more money.
| This rate of wage will keep the negro a
! | barbarian so long as he is content to
! take 1t.
The agricultural department at
Washington has promulgated sure
cure for insomnia. 1t is to eat a full
pint of fresh roasted peanuts just be-
. fore going to bed We should think
: such dose would give man nights
! revel with all his departed ancestors
. and fix him so that he would be sub
ject for the undertaken
Say, see here-why not keep well
: bred stock just as well as poor stuff?
Costs no more to keep and care for well
bred poultry swine. cattle, sheep and
horses than 1t does scrubs, and the
profit in keeping such kind Of stock is
, always greater, aside from the greater
, ! Dlpa SIRE IN no had in having them
, around. Costs more to start, of course,
but start with less and start right.
The plague Of a crop Of early pota-
toes which for any reason have to re-
main in the ground until fall is the
crOn of weeds which Is sure to take