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BY the by it seems that King Lfopolu lh'l'eu
himself TO Berlin last month The Belgian papers
81 those organs OF the Partisan press In when
tri,r Ieopold is an extensive stakeholder, IN de-
scribng King Leopold's trip to Berlin lad great
stress on the fact that he had gone there on the
,,ygent and pressing invitation OF Emperor william
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understood to derive their inspiration from the
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self 10 Berlin, for the purpose Of conveying ms
personal good wishes 10 Emperor William. COM
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time TO advertise for dentist. Offering two years
contract with a salary OF 500 a month, -" d
month for rent 5000 for the purchase OF insIu-
snents and the payment OF his travelling expenses
out 20 Corea and back again dc must De AOl0 y
sneak English and French I would warn now
ever. intending applicants that they would co wen
"a hesitate before accepting his terms. For II IS
doubtful whether Corea an empire VIII De IA
e1istencs 1t the end OF the war just begun
MARQUISE DE FONTENOh-
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TrIbune Local Observation
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
A PEsTILENT BRIGADE.

We should think that Pharaoh would
have promptly let the Hebrews 60
when the bug plaques were let loose
on him. These summer days have
started the whole Internal brigade
of bugs, beetles, borers, lice aphis,
fungous and vegetable microbe and
bacteria. They are doing land Office
business right and left, stripping goose
berry and currant bushes stark naked,
sucking the life out of squash and mel
on, singing plum, peach and apricot.
putting worms in the apples and bis
tering webs in the apple tree foliage;
an army Of Shiny, crawling, Fostering,
baneful life, with powers of almost
instantaneous reproduction beyond con-
ception and queerly exempting in
their raids every form Of pestilent
vegetable life - dandelion, burdock,
purslane, Quack grass. ragweed, pigeon
grass and pigweed-only after the good
things: spiders and slugs on the roses
and aldermanic potato bugs after the
mnrphies, flies breeding by the million
in every compost heap and an army Of
mosquitoes to become the terror by
night - some type of bug, louise or
crawling vermin for every solitary
plant or flower one wants to grow.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
THE BEST FOWL.

We very frequently receive inquiries
as to which is the best breed of hens.
1t is not an easy question to answer,
for there really is no best breed in
hens any more than there is in cattle
or hogs. Some breeds of fowls - for
instance, the Silver Laced Wyandottes
and the Partridge Cochins-are espe-
cially desirable for their good looks and
handsome plumage; the Buff Cochin
and the White Brahma are valuable as
winter layers and because thirty inch
wire fence will keep them in the yard;
the Dominiques, Minorcas and Leghorns
are good as foragers and nonsitters,
but will fly over twenty foot fence
and prefer tree to house for a roost-
ing place; the HOudan is the standard
fowl of France-great layers of large,
white eggs, but a tender breed for the
north country. The Rocks, buff, white
and barred, probably come the nearest
to an all round, useful and profitable
fowl for the average man. They are
good winter layers if properly fed and
cared for and make good fowls for the
market No other thing which man
keeps on the farm depends so much on
proper care and food as the hen, and
when cared for and fed as it should be
almost any breed is good breed, and
when neglected the best breeds are I'M
profitable
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
A DISGRACE.

The country schoolhouse should GER
tainly be as attractive in appearance
as the country homes which surround
it, but it is very rarely the case. The av-
erage country schoolhouse with its sur
roundings is an utterly neglected and
repulsive thing, blur on an otherwise
beautiful rural landscape, of dog ken
mel type Of architecture, lone tree or
two trying to battle for existence in q
hard sod or recover from the mutila-
ton caused by using it for hitching
post, surrounded by dilapidated fence
and pleading for coat of paint and
an expression Of patriotism from the
men and women who send their boys
and girls there TO be educated. These
things need not be and should not be.
Local pride should make the school
house and its grounds pleasant and at
tractive. 1t costs but little to set out
a dozen good trees and care for them a
few years. 1t needs little paint and
patriotism, just one or two women to
make a kick, and it would be remedied
in short order.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
THE RoTTING STUMP.

There is much difference in the time
required for the stumps on timber land
to run. We find that the hard maple,
hickory, ironwood and red oak will rot
the soonest Of any variety Of timber
common to the north country. The
conifers are slow in decaying, owing
to the resinous properties of the wood
Black walnut and bur oak will hang
on almost indefinitely. We this spring
removed the stump Of walnut tree
which was cut forty years ago, and
aside from an inch or SO of decayed
wood on the outside it was as sound as
ever. The modern grub or stump pull
ers are great help in clearing up tim
Der land. for while they leave some
large and ugly holes where the stumps
are taken out, they make clean job
of all roots and permit the fitting of
ground for crop with a minimum of
trouble. If used to clear land the trees
could be cut off about two feet from
the ground, as it is then easier work
to fasten the cable to them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
RANGE LANDS.

We have several inquiries as to the
character of the western Nebraska
land which the government will soon
make available for homestead settlers
in $40 acre tracts. This land has been
for many years vast cattle range for
the stock barons, over the fencing up
and use of which there has been SO
much controversy between the barons
and the government 1t is included
within the limits of what was for so
long known as the Great American
desert, territory Of scant rainfall
and hot winds, of sparse vegetation,
where the range was based on giving
ten acres or more to a steer. While Of.
ten tried, it has been found that the
ordinary field crops of the country east
of it cannot be successfully there raised,
but within a few years past it has
been shown pretty conclusively that on
much of this land winter wheat, al
falfa, bronze grass. speltZ, macarOni
wheat and Kaffir corn can be success
fully raised. Where these crops can
be grown the land Is Of much value,
for with them meat can be made, and
meat always means money. We be-
lieve that any land which will produce
fair crops of alfalfa can be made very
profitable indeed. We should consider
this proposition worth looking up if we
wanted some cheap land.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
GRASSES AS FERTILIZERS.

There are some very erroneous no.
tons as TO the value of grasses as fer
tilizers. All the clovers are fertilizers
Of the first quality. Timothy is in no
sense fertilizer, but as much of a
soil robber as any of our cereal crops.
In fact, when it is allowed to produce
a crop of seed it is worse than any Of
them. Blue grass is not soil fer
tilizer, but the growing of it involves
pasturing the field and the turf when
turned over and decayed furnishes a
valuable supply of humus for the SOIL
All the grasses are weed killers and in
this way benefit the land, but the clo-
vers alone really degenerate the soil.
The great cry Of the farms both east
and west Is for more clover
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
WHEN HE COMES WEST.

When a man from the east comes
west and goes to working farm he
has some queer experiences. Trained
all his life on the eastern farm to hab-
its of the most rigid economy and saw
ing, he is appalled, at the seeming
wastes on every hand connected with
western agriculture. He quickly finds
out that his western farm is too large
and too productive to permit Of the
eastern ways. From the sheer force
Of circumstances he is forced to see
lots of weeds grow in his corntield,
more or less waste of crops in the
harvesting owing to the methods EN-.
ployed, little losses and wastes here
and there all the time, just because
there is so much stuff and SO little
help to care for 1t all. He does not
like it at all at first, but finally comes
to the sensible conclusion that IL a
thing costs more to save than 1t is
worth when saved ii is best to let 1t
alone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
MAY BETTER HIS CONDITION

1t has come to this-that If a farmer
and his family are discontinued and
feel isolated and lonesome it Is largely
their own fault With the telephone to
put the family in close touch with all
the neighbors, with daily mail serv-
ice at his door. with all the modern
equipment for farm and farm home so
easily available, a man is fool to do
without the telephone. take no good
list Of papers and periodicals, which
were never SO cheap, or get along with
the old fashioned tools and farm equip
ment Of thirty years ago. Instead Of
wanting to sell out and try some other
business or move to some other coun-
try, the sensible man will go intelli-
gently to work to see how he may i'm
prove the old place and the old home
1t is entirely possible to so do this that
when done the owner would simply re-
fuse to put sale price on his farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
THE SUGAR BEET.

A government bulletin gives some in
teresting facts relative to the growing
Of sugar beets In this country. The
average yield per acre for 1903 was
eight and one-half tons per acre, the
average price received by the grower
was IS per ton, the average cost to pro-
duce the crop was $35 per acre and the
average net profit per acre was $3.50.
AS opposed to this really discouraglng
showing, possible crop, which was
produced in Colorado, was thirty-three
tons per acre, costing $3S to produce
and selling for $15S, giving net profit
Of 500 per acre. 1t Is very evident
that sugar beet culture will find its
best show in the lands Of perennial
sunshine and irrigation. The beet crop
cannot compete with the corn crop in
the corn belt
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-07-13
THE DAT CROP.

The oat crop of the country is yearly
increasing in Importance. 1t is one of
the most valuable heterogeneous foods
produced on American farms, and its
use in various forms as cereal foods
for a man is increasing by leaps and
bounds year by year, fact which
speaks volumes for the good sense Of
the American people from a dietetlc
standpoint. The sturdy physique and
morality of the Scotch people have
long been properly credited to a happy
combination Of oatmeal and the Short
er Catechism. The production of this
crop is not keeping pace with the in
creasing demand, and the lack Of in
crease in acreage is further aggravated
by quite general deterioration of the
product in all the latitude south Of
AZ degrees, largely owing to the use Of
run out seed grain and the attempt
to grow the crop in a forced and I'M
congenial course OF rotation. The oat
belt is commonly supposed to be synon-
omOus with the corn belt, save that
oats may be raised, giving larger yields
and better quality, far to the north
Of such corn belt. While the increase
in acreage from 1880 to 1890 was IS
per cent, or from 16144,000 acres to
2S,320,000 acres during the decade,
from 1890 to 1900 the increase in area
given to oats was barely 100000
acres, the corn crop crowding the oat
crop out. The export demand, because
Of the higher prices which have pre-
vailed during the past four years, has
dropped from 100000 bushels in 1898
to 100000 in 1908, while the average
price for contract oats on the Chicago
market has been % cents for 1900, SO
ceots for 1901, 81 cents for 1902 and
SO cents for 1903. The seed oats this
spring through all the territory south
of the latitude named, or covering
what is known as the best Of the corn
belt, will be the poorest we have ever
known sown, and unless nature by
some sort of miracle reverses the
natural law providing that man shall
reap as he sows the prospect for the
1904 crop is anything but encouraging.
We have previously urged the import
ance of changing seed, of getting seed
grain from the more nOrtherly sections
the northern half of Minnesota,
North Dakota and Manitoba-and BE-
lieve that therein lies the secret of
vastly improving the yield and quality
Of the crop all through the corn belt.
Oats grown south Of latitude AZ are
just like potatOes-bound to run out
and deteriorate. What with the smut
which may be so easily prevented by
soaking the seed in a formalin solu-
tion-the use of deteriorated seed and
the sowing Of the crop on rich land
previously in corn, resulting in too
much straw and imperfect development
of the grain, has brought about the
poor and protitless crop of thirty bush
els of oats to the acre, weighing
twenty-eig pounds to the bushel.