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

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The Wealthy apple makes cider
vinegar of the very highest quality.
A windmill on a sixty or eighty foot
tower is a transient farm fixture at
best.
A rainfall of four inch es in twenty
four hours is considered quite eXtraor-
binary in this country, but Manila
had a rainfall of seventeen inches in
that time recently.
The reclamation of waste land by
irrigation projects and the building of
the Panama canal will be the two dis
tinguishing features of the coming dec
ade in this country. ~ 'Trxr-.
( Yes, you can afford to pay per cent
interest to get the money necessary to
build a silo, and if you are in the dairy
business you will find it the best in
yestment you ever made.
Late press dispatches state that tim
Der to the value of S20,000,00O has been
lately destroyed by forest fires in New
foundIand. The fire and the AK are
fast finishing up the forests of the con-
tinent.
The first crop of alfalfa, usually
ready to cut in June, is hard crop to
put into hay, as the weather will not
permit of the curing. A friend gets
over this trouble by dumping the first
crop into the silo and says it works
well.
Western Canada, the finest wheat
growing section of America, is coming
to the front this year with 100000
bushels of No. ] hard wheat. This
amount can very easily be increased to
4OO,O00,000 bushels and will be if the
price of this cereal will justify its pro-
duction.
Electrical power is now being deliv-
cred and sold in Pacific coast cities for
less money than the power could be
generated by steam, even if the fuel for
the furnaces was laid down free of
cost. The snow on the mountains is be-
ing made to do the worlds work on the
plains below.
Potatoes are and should be the poor
mans daily ration, but when they soar
around the dollar and dollar and half
mark, as they have for the past two
years, they become the rich mans lux
ury. A dollar is too much for the
tubers; rs cents is too much. Forty
cents at retail is a fair living price.
A neighbor has lately been using dy
Mantle very successfully in connec-
ton with the removal Of lot of large
stumps. A hole bored to the center of
the stump and a charge Of dynamite
inserted result in the splitting up and
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of a stump so it is
easily pulled out with stump puller.
It may be said to the credit of agri-
culture as a regular business that
strikes, lockouts, walking delegates,
dynamite and bloodshed do not and
probably never can touch the farm.
If the farm help should unionize and
strike, the farmers would just let the
men go, and the farm work would be
shaped to such an amount as the man
and his folks could attend to.
There are three noXious weeds which
are gaining an alarming foothold
among the best agricultural sections of
the west-red sorrel, quack grass and
wild barley. We know of one eighty
acre field of oats which the quack
grass fairly swamped and almost ruin
ed, of many a pasture where red sor-
rel and wild barley are surely killing
out all other types of grass life.
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1t is not just clear why it should be
so, but man who has repeatedly tried
it tells us that if the seed crop Of red
clover is plowed under, the land planted
to corn the next season and oats or
barley to follow the corn, there will be
almost invariably a fine stand of clover
among the small grain crop. This Is
rather narrow system Of rotation, but
IL it were followed up the fertility Of
the soil would be immensely increased.
We would give it a trial.
For the first time the Arkansas FL
berta peach has been a standard COM
modify in all western cities. And such
peaches No southern fruit has ever
compared with them in size, beauty or
flavor. And money in growing 'em,
too, 100 acres set with them in Van
Buren, county three years ago making
the owner almost fortune this year
on land which only cost him $1,000.
The finest peaches of California hard
~ equal these from Arkansas.
That farmer who can spend ten days