Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-06

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The good cook will always put more
berries than crust in her strawberry
shortcake
The removal of some of the stumps
on the Pacific coast is almost as big
a job as the building of house.
The best types of corn will not be !
produced in Missouri for some time, as
there it pays almost as well to raise
cobs for pipe timber as it does to raise
corn as a cereal.
The box elder tree is greatly helped |
20 become a fine shade tree by vigor-
GUS pruning when young If let alone |
1t will almost always develop into q |
sprawling and unshapely tree.
We venture to remark, in view Of the |
peculiar climatic freaks of Kansas, that
1t is great country for rain when it
fs not needed; also for dry weather
when rain is wanted the worst way.
Now some wiseacre is out with the |
statement that strawberries beget in |
digestion. Be that as it may, they are
the best excuse for dyspepsia there is |
on the market.
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We find no crop like beans to put a
field in fine shape for a succeeding |
crop. They leave the land clean and |
free from weeds and in nice mechanical |
condition, besides doing not little in |
fertiliZing the soil.
The best cereal crops in the world |
are produced in North Dakota and |
western Canada both in yield and quail |
ity of grain. The climatic conditions |
there found are unequaled for wheat.
oats, barley and fax.
The application Of the dynamo to |
water power gives every waterfall, no |
matter where located, money value.
Wise men recognizing this fact are
picking up all available water powers,
FOR they will all be used in the near
future
! The corn crop is distinctively an
American crop. the 2,0O0,000,000 BUSH
els OF more produced each year being
nearly all consumed in this country.
Only in two years, 1897 and 1899, was
there so much as 10 per cent of the |
crop exported. This crop forms the |
basis of all our enormous meat, poultry
and stock production.
The actual conjunctions of the stars
and planets, upon which lot Of hifa-
iutin long range weather forecasts are
made, it should be remembered, took
place long before the knowledge Of
such conductive weather breeding
conditions reached our earth. 1t would
seem as though this fact ought to show
the fallacy Of such weather prophecies.
In the clearing Of timber farms in |
northeast Missouri we notice that 1t is
a common practice to leave the black
walnut trees. Just for ornament and |
as bearers Of nuts this plan is all right, |
but it is hopeless method Of trying to
grow the trees into saw logs, for, being |
scattered, they make short trunks and
enormous tops and are thus of little
value for lumber.
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A ten dollar passage rate from Euro
pean countries to America this sum-
mer is resulting in great house clean
ing Of the old world at our expense.
True, some most worthy poor of those
countries will come here and develop
into good citizens, but we have more
Arabs, Assyrians, dagoes, anarchists,
buns and beggars here now than we
know how TO assimilate.
About everything grown In the way |
OF green forage has been tried for fill
ing the slo. and the result OF all the
experiments is that no crop so well
fills the bill taking ease and economy
of handling and value as enslage, as
our common field corn cut when the
ears are well glazed This makes the
silo fit into the ordinary farm economy
all through the corn belt.
A tramp printer called the other
morning and wanted money enough
TO get a breakfast. He was forty-fve,