Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-19

There is one farm animal at least
which bids fair to hold his own in the
matter OF price and profit, and that Is
the well bred draft horse. No matter
to how great an extent the automobile
may be utilized for heavy hauling, the
machine can never displace the horse,
for 1t Is only under certain fixed condi-
lions that the machine is available.
while the horse is adaptable to any and
all conditions. There is today no easier
way to make $3.50 on the average farm
than to have pair Of we'll bred three
year-old draft colts to sell each year.
They cost but little IL any more to
raise than steer and will be grown
on very much more of the roughness Of
the farm than the steer
A more general utilization of the
wind as motive power on the farms
Of all the prairie region would seem to
be possibility In the near future. Up
to date two or three horsepower
seems to be about the limit, the mill to
do the pumping and the grinding. while
every farm homestead has a hundred
horsepower going to waste on the half
acre inclosing the farm buildings. Sure
~, II men can fmpound the big rivers,
reclaim the deserts, build oceanic ca
mails and tunnel the mountains with
railway bores, some way can be discov-
cred whereby the wasted power Of the
winds can be captured and harnessed
for practical work. An unlimited source
Of both light and heat, as well as Of mo-
tive power. is Gagged in the fugitive and
fitful winds which. with but slight in
PERMISSION, forever sweep the vast prai-
RE plains Of the west. There Is great
field open here for inventive genius.
The Bible is the greatest agricultural
and horticultural year book ever pub
lished. From Genesis to Revelation,
interviewer with all its wealth of his
tory, prophecy and revelation, with all
its wisdom, poetry, logic and morals,
we find farm, field, wayside, orchard
and garden ever present as historical
fact or forceful metaphor. We are first
introduced to the perfect man in the
perfect garden and then to the keepers
Of the fiocks and the herds, the ram
caught in the bushes, the evening meal
at Abraham's tent, then the long code
governing the agricultural and pastoral
relations Of the Hebrews, the report of
the spies, Araunah's thrashing door,
the delightful romance of Boaz and
Ruth in the wheatfields, the grain deal
in Egypt by the sons Of Jacob and the
first recorded successful corner In the
grain market, then the withholding and
bringing Of the rain by the old proph-
cts, followed by all the exquisite i'm
agery Of the Master as he sought to
impress a moral lesson touching the
flowers Of the field. the barren fig tree,
the sower In the field, the wheat and
the tares, the man who would tear
down his barns and build greater ones,
the termination Of seeds, Gethsemane
with Its olive trees, the sheep and the
goats. the lamb the worlds emblem of
innocence and purity, the ears Of corn
picked on the Sabbath. winding up with
the apocalyptic vision on Patmos, where
the faraway country and the beautiful
city were graced by tree which bore
twelve manner Of fruits. All of its
history, morals and ethics are closely
allied and Incorporated with the earth
and its products.