Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1904-08-31

New potatoes are on the market. but
~ kuA%S4 there is blush on their cheeks at the
N+XI prices ask I'd for them
~ ri The steel barn is coming into vogue.
" IL y claimed To cost less than the wooden
NJ barn and be lightning proof.
1heeeNsh al The outlook for prices of all farm
products for 1904 is good. Nothing
s5 SSsSsaa n will have to be sold at price below
sTlSss3Tds~H the cost of production.
SIHEN The bean crop of Michigan, one OF
lEI the great bean growing states
~ aged los bushels per acre last year,
M~M | not very paying crop, but then we
Xs1 must have beans.
N The sheep Shearers of Montana have
---43~ a formidable union and have forced
y soon be- the price of shearing up to u cents
men per head, equivalent to about oneifth
of the value of the fleece for the tax.
Mt and SCI ing it off
% fruit cul-
The famous Burmuda onion is
being grown with great success in Tex
the Wyant as and is proving very profitable
of our ma CROP returns per obtained by
growers on choice fields running as
high 5000.
he stock on
Intended for Farmers were in great luck in the
crop spring in some parts Of the west April
eggs brought Is cents, and two dozen
entail vaue California oranges sold for cents,
lie drained while if they had any potatoes to sell
Illinois and they could about their price.
Rape not only is good thing for
often the hog pasture, but it is one of the best
for nursery of smother crops-a crop to sow on
double that foul land to rid it of quack grass, net
they solicit ties thstes for if not pastured it will
allow no other plant to grow where it
does
De the best
and nototo A New York poultry breeder shipped
of II when nineteen fowls to Germany in March
ii the crop last for which he received the large
rticaI,v set sum of $1,000. The fowls rose
season cOmbed Mnorcas, a breed originated
by himself. One of the cOckerels
nches deem brought 81 900, or Sill per pound.
rsery when
,ard 1t is There is supposed to be a rigid in
if possible spection made of all veal carcasses Of
lis plan as fered for sale on the Chicago market
desired end but this inspection has been lax
of late that it is surmised some calves
On Cuba are which will make fine canned chicken
lives at II for plcnics never drew one live breath
we used to in this world.
This is one
n intorven Texas farmers are astonished to find
pays TO do out that they can grow something be-
es sides cotton; that the same lands
which will one year with another pro-
mo is unite duce them SO worth of cotton they
refinement can grow cabbage, cantaloupes and
10 live in If ions, which will bring them from 5000
ONE homes to $500 per acre
red by the
lean I'D in Good, well cured alfalfa hay ground
I'D the back up into a fine meal has been the
winter
a good demand, especially from poul-
emf has re. trymen. There is question: that
uJletip CIV this is a good ration, but the price
riments of asked for it suggests soft snap for
this yalua- the men who do the grinding
conditions -
of interior statement appeared in prominent
photographs western paper q few days ago to the
O be grow effect that analysis showed that skim
g. milk possessed but little if any, nutri-
tive value This was bad error, for
old as the skim milk is really the most valuable
eating over thing produced any farm. The
mandments trouble is that there is not half enough
.pendence- of it.
commission
es for your The marvellous development of the
an the gen. trolley system is greatly extending the
nd ship to range of suburban dwelling. 1t is not
when you easy to conceive of more inviting loca-
you do not tons for home than may be found
My an old out in the country such lines of
IS evidence road. In such locations are possible the
lsiness keeping of and poultry and the
good garden. while pure air, abundant
most ex- room and country environment make
S last year such home the best in the world
on the top wherein to bring up family OF chill
them with dren.
t or more.
almost PUBIC meetings OF cotton manufac-
otatoes 100 turers being held in England and
raised by large sums of money being sub
there was scribed to further the scheme of ex-
crop Just plotting new cotton growing territory,
This Is an the ruling high prices for this staple
orth trying having brought much distress and
We intend trouble to English manufacturers and
patch this operatives Experiments are being
conducted in several parts Of Africa,
but it is found that the securing Of
Of domestic the right kind OF help to care for and
Improbable pick the crop is more of prob
ial as with lem than finding the soil upon which
the inferior to grow IL.
nd. With
progressive farmers Of