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

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PUBLIC OPINION BY
Rockford, Iowa y Q
e The Georgia peach is at that stage Of
? development which will make any fur
ther lying about the condition of the
Delaware crop entirely unnecessary.
1t is always safe to take up land and
make home and farm where alfalfa
will grow, for with this crop alone a
e right smart lot of money can be made
; from the land.
A granger friend of ours thought he
would take in cheap railroad excur-
sion because he could have a ride of
400 miles for 1925. AS he was robbed
of his watch and $40 by pickpocket
!, he is of the opinion he will pay full
fare next time.
We note q marked difference In the
. bearing age of some Fameuse apples
!. top worked ON Hibernal stocks and
some top worked on the Brier Sweet
crab, the latter bearing heavily in six
years, while the former have not yet
produced an apple.
: The board of supervisors of q west
ern county which pays a bounty Of
S. for an adult wolf and one of 50 for
lem Of just when a wolf ceases to be
q puppy, having to pay bounty on
some half grown wolves.
, The man who can draw a straight
furrow with his pillow is quite apt to be
good plowman. Why pillow with
crooked rows or set out a crooked row
Of trees or build crooked fence? 1t
is just as easy to do work on straight
lines. and it is every way more salts
factory.
: 1t is probably true that the dragging
of the corntield just as the corn is
coming up and after it is up does some
damage to the stand; but, on the other
hand, II thereby receives a sort of cul-
tivation which no other tool save the
weeder can give it. If the ground is
cloddy or filled with old cornstalks we
would not use the drag.
A kind hearted philanthropis&, refer
ring to the value of the quail as a
friend Of the agrcultutist in the eat
ing Of weed seeds and pestiferous in
sect life, advises people to order some
other bird put on their toast This is
almost unnecessary, for they usually
get squads, sparrows or spring chicken
when quail is ordered anyway.
Some nicely engraved letter heads,
some fake references and quotations
Of farm produce above market figures,
enabled New York sharper to lately
transfer some $4,000 of hard earned
money from gullible country shippers
to his own jeans. If all other crops
were only as sure as the sucker crop
what a country this would be!
The red fox increases In number
with settlement and civilization. The
eastern states are overrun with them.
They were entirely unknown in Iowa
and Minnesota forty years ago, the
prairie wolf occupying their field.
Now the wolves are about extermi-
mated, and the fox is becoming plenti-
full, one county In Iowa having paid
bounties on hundred killed last win
ter.
Many wonders In wood are to be
seen at the great ST. Louis fair. There
are hollow sections of the big frs Of
Washington, ten feet in diameter; saw
ed plank three inches thick, twelve
feet long and eight feet wide; a saw
log which, lying on the ground, Is
eighteen inches above a tall mans
head, and tree trunk cut into four
teen foot saw logs placed end to end,
nine logs Of it three feet in diameter at
the butt and thirty inches at the top.
The agricultural department is out
with story detailing how Methodist
parson keeps twenty-five cows which
bring him in 81, 400 year on fourteen
acres Of what was awhile ago one Of
the poorest little farms in Pennsylva-
MIA. These cows are soiled and kept in
the barn the year round, and all their
food is produced on the farm. When
| al, al tl,n afy..ia ttlt ttp a1 Nopf
ment go into partnership just ornery
farmers may prepare to open their
eyes.
A western railway has undertaken
to solve the nuisance Of snow block
AIDES in the winter by planting ever
green trees alongside the cuts on its
right Of way. From what we have no
ticed Of the work Of trees In connection
with drifting snow we should think