Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-06-29

1t is better to get along without q
smoking hired man than lose a good
barn.
dian are very much alike in one partic-
ular at least-they both raise big fami-
lies.
The incest time to hoe the garden or
cultivate the cornfield is when there
them just the same.
Four days of 80 degree temperature
In June will do more for the corn crop
than four weeks of IS degree tempera-
ture in May. Corn develops wonderful
ly quick when given heat and moisture
and warm nights.
The Argentine Republic Is coming to
the front as an important exporter Of
cereals. From January to May Of this
year there were 24,596, 900 bushels Of
fax and 5o,592, 900 bushels Of wheat
sent from that country to other coun-
tries.
The best thing which can be said for
the skunk is that he is a great lover Of
cutworms, but he also likes young
chickens. Our experience with this
odorous brute is that on the whole he
is an agricultural pest and should be
exterminated.
Perhaps the simplest and most easily
remembered of any recipe for saving
seed corn is this: Pick it before frost in
the fall and keep it where 1t cannot
freeze during the winter. Cut this out
and paste it up where you can read 1t
until you know it by heart
There is little satisfaction or profit
In trying to crop the apple orchard
after 1t Is six years old The roots Of
the trees by that time so fully occupy
the ground that no crop will do we'll
The best thing Is cultivation, with
some cover crop for winter or the seed
ing down with clover.
A mistake is always made and bad
one, too, when timothy seed is mixed
with the grass seed sown on the lawn.
1t always makes patchy and uneven
lawn and is very difficult to extermi-
nate. 1t grows in tussocks, Is coarse
and outgrows the blue grass. Keep
timothy and red clover off the lawn.
One Of the very best peas for garden
use is the Champion Of England, but
as it requires to be supported 1t is a
good deal of bother to care for. We
have a picket fence bordering our gar
den, and this year we have planted
this pea close to the fence, expecting to
see it climb the fence and support It.
self.
We set out a new strawberry bed
the other day, bed six rods long and
one rod wide. 1t took just about half
day to do the work after the land was
prepared. No work which we will do
this year will pay 80 large return.
What variety did we plant? The Dun
lap, which is making fine record In
this part of the west.
Your neighbor will always be found
to have some peculiarities-will look
at things and do things differently
from you. 1t will do much to promote
good neighbOrly feeling between you
and him if you look with kindness and
charity upon his peculiarities and give
him credit for good intentions and hon.
est purposes until compelled to think
otherwise.
The windmill on the farm should be
made to do far more useful work than
1t usually does. 1t should do the
churning, the separating, turn the
grindstone, the corn shelter and the
feed grinder, and specially should be
made to furnish the farm home with
supply Of water under pressure. AS 1t
is, nine out of ten mills do nothing but
pump the water for the stock.
Our respect for the hen hawk was
increased when we saw one drop down
by the edge Of a creek recently and
hook on to a four foot bull snake. The
snake was a big load for the hawk,
and some Of the antics which the bird
and the reptile cut up when up In the
air were very amusing. The hawk
won out however, and lugged the
snake off to its nest In the top of big
tree.
We had rather be hired man than
a monk, for the monk has to wear a
cowl and a gown, work hard his life
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