Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-17

If you OWE a runaway team, take out
an accident policy. These two go to-
gcther
1t is always a good idea to tackle the
hard end of any job first and leave the
easy end until last
The best celery lands near Kalama-
zoo, Mich, which originally were just
peat swamps, rent for $50 to $40 per
acre.
If there are only one or two stalks
of corn in the hill which should have
two and three stalks, that corn crop
will be one-third short.
A truck farmer in Texas cleared 500
this year on two acres of Bermuda
onions, which makes q ten dollar crop
of wheat or corn look sick
Try redtop and alsike clover for all
those spots on the farm which are too
wet for cultivation. This makes an eX-
cellent combination of grasses for such
spots.
Not all the suckers are raised on the
farms, for the fakirs find mighty good
picking in all our small towns, where
smart Alecs flourish like dandelions on
a town lawn.
1t is but little use to NEEDLE with
purslane in the garden or field when the
weather is wet. 1t seems to rather en-
joy being pulled up so that it may turn
over and take root again.
1t is impossible to get the tenant who
rents a farm for a year to take any
interest in keeping the farm up. All he
cares for is to skin ii Of the last buShel
Of grain at the least possible expense.
Wisconsin is paying more attention
to the development Of the cranberry
than any other state. Much of the
waste bog land in that state Is specially
fitted for the culture of this delicious
fruit.
The harvest Of the sea on the Pacific
coast Is an important one. During
1903 the value of the salmon product
alone was over S3,000,00O, while the
catch of other varieties of fish runs
into large figures.
We know of no way in which farm
er can better give evidence of his pa
triotism and public spirit than by drag
ging the highway which borders his
land after every hard rain. 1t costs
but little and accomplishes so much.
The day of the big range, the COW.
boy and the cattle baron is nearly over.
Uncle Sam does not propose to fur
nish free pasturage much longer. The
homestead settler is taking up the wa
ter rights and has the baron on the
hip. ...s,sa,e~---~-.-.-sssaeae
! Differing from most other crops,
onions may be grown on the same land
year after year provided it is properly
fortified. This fact is worth knowing,
as the clean culture given to secure one
crop thereby makes 1t easier to grow
the next years crop.
1t is not generally known that millet
/ Of the broom corn varieties is largely
used as food by many nations, notably
japanese. 1t Is staple cereal food In
all the Nile country and forms one OF
the most valued crops Of that valley.
Within five years the last tow of logs
from the northern pineries will move
like a funeral procession down the
Mississippi river. The great pine for,
ests of the north country are used up
have been wrecked and slaughtered by
ak and fire till only a wilderness OF
scrub growth remains.
A recent decision from the supreme
court Of the United States sustains the
law subjecting oleomargarine colored
in imitation Of butter to tax Of 10
cents O pound. Hereafter the oleo will
have to be sold white II it would escape
this tax. 1t Is big victory for the
legitimate dairy interests Of the entire
country.
We notice that where the road taxes
are paid in money and the work done
by a competent road supervisor for the
township the public is getting nearly
twice as much work done and done
in vastly more intelligent and perma-
nent manner than under the old sys-
TEN of letting Tom, Dick and Harry
work out their road taxes.
4 We are asked why it is that even
where seed corn was most carefully
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