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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26
NEW ENGLAND FARMS.

We have recently received an Illus
trated catalogue descriptive of a large
number of New England farms which
are for sale. The surprising thing
about them all Is the extremely low
price at which they can be bought.
Half tone pictures Of the buildings and
improvements on these farms show
them to be first class, far better than
are found upon the average well kept
western farm. There are usually good
orchard, spring water piped to both
house and barns, rural mail, tele-
phones, good roads and the very best
of markets close by, and yet these
farms are offered for sale at prices as
low as from $40 to $40 per acre. The
explanation of this strange state of
things is found in the statement en-
bodied in some of the descriptions,
Zone hundred and fifty-five acres will
keep eight head of stock" This means
that the soil is very, very poor-poorer
than the sagebrush deserts of the west,
where steer to ten acres is the rule.
Still we cannot help believing that
there must be chance for the man
with little capital on these places after
all. Grant that the land is woeful-
ly impoverished, science and patience
can restore a part Of it anyway. Then
there are poultry, fruit and garden
truck. which can be made profitable,
and, il nothing else, there is the goat,
which would soon clean up the brush
and weeds and assist in securing
stand Of grass. Through much of the
west there is the soil and but little
else. There in the east there is every
thing else but SOIL
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26
Original Notice.

In the District Court of Iowa, in and for Win
neshiek County, September Term, A. d., '05
Rosa E. Tyler, Plaintiff, VS..
George w. Tyler, Mary A. J. Tyler. Richard
+; Tyler, Hattie NJ. Brown; Albert L. Tyler,
Clementne Tyler and Harry q. Tyler,
Defendants.
To each of the above named defendants:
You and each of you are hereby notified that
there is row on file in the office of the Clerk
of the district court of Winneshiek County
Iowa, the application of Rosa +. Tyler, widow
of George Tyler, deceased, asking for the APP
pointment of referees to set off to her in fee
simple her distributive share in the following
"a of Section 35, and lot number 3, of <
"a of Z d of Section IS, and w Il of w a
of Section SO. all in township number ninety
nine north of Range Eight west from the 9Th
p. NJ. also u of the w a of n w "a of
Section 2 and EL of the \ w 4 of Section
and n w "a of n + a of Section and lot
number one of 5 w a of n + 4 of section
and y of y + "a of Section 2. and lot
number one of n w of S w "a of Section 2
all in township number ninety eight, north of
Range Eight west from the fifth principal
meridian.
You are further notified that said court has
made an Older fixing the time for the appoint
ment of said referees at O'Clock +. M. on the
18th day of September, 1905, the same being
the first day of the regular September term
1908. 70 be held at the court house in the city
of DEBORAH in said county and that unless you
appear thereto and defend at said time and be-
fore said court referees will be appointed as
prayed in said application.
G. S. BOICE,
27-6 Atty for Petitioner
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26
IL
A WALNUT GROVE.

A friend who has planted large
grove Of black walnuts, starting the
trees from the nuts, wishes to know IL
1t would be better to cultivate the lit
tie trees or let them have the shade Of
the weeds and grass. 1t would GER
tainly be best to keep these trees well
cultivated and free from weeds. As
bis trees are planted twelve feet apart
each way, it would have been well to
have planted two rows Of corn be-
tween each row Of trees. In the plant
ing and starting of all kinds of tree
life on prairie soils it is absolutely nee
essary to give them the best of cultiva-
ton for a few years. Even the hardy
willow will not do well in sod. In this
connection another friend wants to
know how many years it takes from
the planting Of the nut of the black
walnut until the tree begins to bear
This will depend upon the soil, mois-
ture available and cultivation. If con-
ditions are all favorable it will require
about fifteen years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26
CROP ROTATION.

Most men know that some sort Of
rotation is good for the land and the
crops, and only the few will follow
wheat with wheat, corn with corn and
the like, but this is not the sort Of ro-
tation which insures the best results. A
sensible rotation will cover four or Ave
years, during which time the land will
have the rest and renovation connected
with the use of clover crop and as
pasture for one year. 1t does not help
the land any to have corn, oats, barley,
follow each other year after year. Such
crops all take fertility from the soil
and put nothing back. Thirty years Of
soil wears it out, and the available
plant food used by these crops be-
comes exhausted. Here is good rota-
ton for all the good prairie soils of the
northwest, and ii will apply on the
poorer lands of the east as well: First,
corn, then wheat, barley or oats, this
crop seeded down with clover; next
year, clover hay and the blowing I'M
der Of the second crop; then corn
again. This system of rotation will
make the land better every year. Tim
othy may be sown with the clover and
an extra year Of pasture got in on the
foregoing rotation with much advan-
tage. putting the available manure on
this pasture. Good crops, we might
say big ones, follow this sort Of land
treatment. - q. '---~rAr,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.

1t is not often that the three factors
Of a big crop, good weather to secure 1t
and big prices for it are in conjunction.
The last time when this occurred In
the writer's experience was in the year
1877, when wheat yielded up to forty
bushels an acre, with a California har-
vest season to care for 1t and 80 cents
a bushel for 1t as soon as thrashed
Money was plentiful that fall, and the
price Of land went killing. 1t was the
last good crop Of wheat ever raised In
that section. Next year and the year
after thousands Of acres of wheat were
burned up in the fields, not being
worth harvesting. The farmers all
stuck to wheat until they became
bankrupt and then turned to the COW
and the hog and have now made them
selves wealthy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

1t is all well enough to talk and
write about the simple life. but what
is one to do when trains run seventy
miles an hour and Sunday papers run
up to hundred pages, every little
town with a Chautauqua, the society
machine carrying 30 pounds Of steam
and athletics knocking the classics out
at our colleges? The simple life means
getting very far away from our mod
ern civilization. ..-..--.,~se,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

We were talking recently with q
prominent citizen Of Sydney, Austria
liza, who is in this country for visit.
He tells us that the rabbit is still one
Of the greatest of pests in that country
and that every means so far tried
to exterminate it has utterly failed.
Tight fencing, with the fence sunk a
foot or more in the ground, is the only
means of protecting crops.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

The agitation over the question Of
seed corn last spring, which took the
form of special seed corn trains sent
through much of. the corn belt, the OBJ
ject of which was to show the corn
growers how better stand Of corn
might be secured, was productive Of
great good, as 1t particularly empha-
sized the need of a good stand Of corn
II good crop was to be secured. The
absolute necessity of securing the seed
corn In the fall before the frost has
chance to injure the germ Is thing
which is now pretty well understood
by all and of itself Is the best thing
which grew out Of the corn campaign.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26
H. l.. COFFEEN
REAL ESTATE DEALER.

Has bargains in land near DEBORAH,
also in other parts of Winneshiek County.
He can give you as good bargains on
Dakota or Wisconsin lands as any dealer
in the state. Office with c. S. Boice
over Reeds Hardware Store. References
those to whom he has SCOTLAND. Call on
him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

There is developing an unusual in
terest all over the country in nature
study as valuable feature in the pub
lie schools. This is study which in
variably greatly interests the young
people, for they are eager to learn all
about the common, everyday things of
life The study Of bird. animal and
plant life illustrated, as 1t may so very
easily be. with object lessons, will en-
thuse the dullest set of scholars to be
found anywhere. and good thing
about 1t Ia that where tried 1t results
In awakening greater interest in 9TH
er less inviting studies.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

1t beats all how much annoyance
and vexation can be worked up out of
the everyday work of life If one is al
ways looking for trouble and bound to
find 1t. And, inverting this statement,
1t also beats all how a cheerful and
hopeful way Of looking at life and its
work will checkmate trouble and make
life worth living. We always feel sorry
for that person who is born with the
corners of his mouth turned down.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

Through all the country there is an
awakening interest in securing better
roads. The time has come when men
no longer figure to see how little work
they can give in payment of their road
taxes, and in many places large
amount Of purely voluntary work is
being done on the roads. This is
good sign, for in common with the care
given the cemetery and the position
accorded to woman the good road indi-
Gates the progressive civilization of
community
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

The shrinkage of hay after being in
the NOW for six months has been de-
termined to be about 20 per cent.
Therefore, when you can sell new hay
from the field at "a per ton 1t is just
as well sold as it would be in the win
ter from the barn at So, and you are
ahead the interest on the value Of the
hay and the labor of hauling it to the
barn. This is for well cured hay. 1t
is oftener much more than this.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

Any lawn decoration which leaves
out the common elderberry and its
freak relative, the golden leaved vari-
ETY., is a mistake. For all the north
section nothing finer can be selected
than clump each of these hardy
shrubs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

himself the owner of specially fine
brood mare or sow he is quite likely
to be tempted to sell it at the extra
price others are willing to pay, when
his best interests would be conserved
by refusing to put price on such an
animal We recall the case of man
who realized an income Of $3.50 year
for fifteen years from brood mare
which he owned. Inasmuch as the
work done by this mare far more than
paid for her keep, it is easy to see that
1t was difficult to place high enough
value upon her.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

The average tramp will not work II
he can possibly help it and for this
reason Is entitled to no aid or sympa-
thy whatever. He is parasite pure
and simple. Society does itself
wrong when it allows sympathy and
charity to be extended in any manner
to him. The old doctrine that if a
man will not work neither shall he eat
should be made to apply in the most
literal sort of way to this social pest.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

The government crop report for June
was favorable for good crop.
Spring wheat was reported $50, win
ter wheat $50, oats 92.9, barley 93.7.
SO far as crop production affects bust
ness, it bids fair to be very prosper
Gus year ahead.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

Now that the old farm mortgage is
no longer hanging over your head and
there is besides nice little balance at
the bank there is no better thing to be
done than to commence improving the
old place. AS you will look it over it
will be easy to find score Of ways in
which 1t may be done.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

Some of our birds nest very late in
the season, some very early. We have
found the ground lark's nest with
young birds almost f1edged when the
snow banks were still piled on the
roadsides, while the cedar bird and the
cuckoo or raincrow were found breed
ing as late as middle October.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

We always value the strawberry the
most just as it takes its departure. No
other berry quite takes its place.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

1t Is pretty well settled that corn
planted on fall blowing will ripen from
a week to ten days earlier than when
planted ON spring blowing
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

A farm automobile which will haul
the pillow and the harrow and also serve
as farm power Is one of the coming
possibilities in the near future.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

We lately passed through twenty
mile strip Of country, a prairie valley
with 200 foot bluffs hemming it in on
either side, as charming bit Of scenery
as we have come across in many day.
Still it was hard proposition from an
agricultural standpoint. The crops had
been badly washed out by the floods in
the valley, while the hills were at best
very poor pasture ground. Beautiful
landscapes and profitable farming
don't mix very well.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

We hardly know whether it is any
worse to sell your neighbor COW
which does not pay her way in your
dairy herd or sell her to the local
butcher for all your neighbors to have
a hand in eating her up. The principal
difference is that in the first case you
get the cussing, while in the last the
butcher gets it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

For the first time in forty years the
writer Of these notes is so situated this
summer that he has no garden of his
own, and the having to pay 10 cents
for quart Of stale peas or measly
little bunch of beets has made him
vow he will never be caught this way
again
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

The type Of corn which will give the
best crops is in all probability one
which has been raised in your locality
for many years, one which has perfect
~ adapted itself to local conditions.
There are many mistakes made in i'm
porting seed corn, as only too many
farmers have found out to their sor-
row
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

There is not less than 20 per cent in
favor Of keeping high grade stock on
the farm over having scrub herd. We
do not mean by this pedigreed animals,
but those well bred. This applies to
all kinds of domestic animals, horses,
sheep, cattle, hogs, chickens. Calling
the farm a manufacturing plant, 20
per cent loss, or extra cost of prOduc-
ton, is something well worth investi-
eating. 1t would be quickly done in
any other manufacturing establish
ment.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

The use of salt on the hay will not
prevent the green clover from burning
up your barn Some folk think it will.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

We once broke In team of very
heavy draft horses to handle big stone
in quarry, and it was surprising how
soon these intelligent animals learned
how to pull to the limit of their
strength and do it without fret or jerk,
and it was interesting to watch them
and note how they seemed to under
stand each other and work together to
get the best results. Nine teams out of
ten if required to tackle a very heavy
load will rush and jerk when they
might just as well be trained other
wise.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

If the wash OF the barnyard is going
into the creek, see if it cannot be di-
verified on to the garden or at least on
to the pasture. If it goes to the creek,
every summer rain means a money
loss.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

Queer condition of things in this
countrywide soil, but not enough help
to harvest the crops, especially in the
fruit growing sections.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

Some way we can never quite get
used to woman smoking, still there
are lots of old ladies who get no end
Of comfort out of an old cob pipe. Why
should they not have the same privi-
leges cheerfully granted the old man?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

A few years have entirely changed
the appearance of all the vast prairie
regions of the west. The groves have
destroyed the ocean-lke look of these
vast plains.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

II you wish to destroy the grove
around your homestead and the fruit
trees in your orchard, turn the stock
loose and let them have the run of
grove and orchard. You may charge
the death Of the trees up to borers,
drought or Providence, just as you
please, but the truth is that you killed
the trees the day you turned the stock
in
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

II ia..t 81. ~ ~. /. :. MS given you
two crops it is het;e. pi1wcd UP.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

This country could very proftably
use 10000 Cinnamon as farm labOrers
and nobody be hurt. Almost that many
could be used in the dairy and fruit
business alone. ~,."r--.r;4s T.. -
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

The man who persists in planting all
small potatoes will get just what he
plants.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-07-26

In the District Court of Iowa, in and for Win
neshiek County. September Term, A. D., '05
Rosa E. Tyler, Plaintiff, VS..
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-14
PROBE GOING DEEPER.
Insurance Investigation is Proceed
 ins Carefully.

New York. Sept 14-When the in- surance investigation was opened to- day Assemblyman Wemple presided, and the first witness was Frederic Cromwell treasurer of the Mutual Life Insurace company. MT Cr0m- well was being questioned by Chief Counsel Hughes when the committee adjourned yesterday, and to-day he continued his explanations of syndi- cate operations in which the Mutual Life participated.
 Balances of from $7,O00.000 to $10,- O0O. 900 maintained in the National Bank of Commerce of New York in 1904 were explained by Mir Cromwell, who said the reason for keeping such large sums at that bank was that the bank paid the company two per cent interest while the insurance company could not have loaned the money on call at that date. Mir Cromwell de nied that these balances were kept there to help the National Bank of Commerce make money. The Mutual Life. being a large stockholder In the bank, he said, was naturally favor ably disposed toward maintaining a large balance there, especially when the money was not needed. Mir Crom- we'll said that later when the market rate for money on call was 3la per cent. the Mutual Life Insurance com pany's deposits were still kept in the National Bank of Commerce at per | oapf
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-14
FIERCE STRUGGLE
Battle With a Giant Who Was Attempting
 Suicide.

Boston, Sept. 14-After desperate struggle with a giant blacksmith who in temporary attack of insanity had hurled lighted oil stove across the room and had slashed his throat with a long shoeknife, two fellow lodgers last night overpowered the man and extinguished the fire he had caused. The man, Henry Stromberg. 30 years old and six feet four inches in height, became insane in his room in a lOdg- ing house at Corning street in the south end. John Nash found Strom- berg in his room in the same house last night. Strombery told him he was tired of his own room and want ed q change. Nash made no objec- tions and started to heat some wHter on an oil stove. Suddenly Strombefs seized the stove and threw it to the floor setting fire to lace curtain and to the carpet. In response to Naslrs cry for help another lodger, John Il Hurley rushed into the room and the two put out the flames. Looking up they saw Stromberg pull out a big knife and before they could prevent him he had cut his throat Later he was taken to hospital where 1t was stated that he would recover.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-09-14
EARTH's GREATEST CITIES
Probability That New York Will Be- fore Long Be the Great
 est of All.

There are now in the world nine cities of more than one million in. habitants each. Three of these-anme- ly, New York. Chicago and Philadel. phia-are cities of that new world which was only dreamed of 800 years ago and was undreamed of when Thebes, Babylon and Nineveh vaunted themselves as important centers of civilization. No other nation than the United States has more than one of these big towns, says the Independent, the others being London, Paris. Der lin, Vienna, Canton and Tokio.
 The new state census will probably show a population in New York city of close upon 100000 inhabitants. The unrevised figure is 3,ss7 .696. This is a gain of ever 100000 year since 1900, when the first enumeration after the consolidation of New York and Brooklyn showed a population in Greater New York of 3,437 900. Lon don has a population at present of 4,536,641. New York is thus a close second and in all probability will over take and pass London within another generation. The contention that this is improbable because the metropolitan area of London includes 6.5s1,3T2 in habitants Is unfounded. because we have to remember that the actual urban district of New York city in. cludes Jersey City. Hoboken, Newark, Elizabeth. Paterson and Yonkers, which are not comprehended in the municipal corporation of New York city.
 For ten years past the opinion has been gaining ground that the rapid growth of great cities In the nine teenth century will not continue throughout the twentieth. The new developments already achieved and to be expected in the utilization of cleo. frfcity are undoubtedly 10 make life relatively comfortable in the country and in the suburban villages. The trolley car and the telephone wonder fully extend the area within which the man whose business is in the city may choose his residence. Electricity is increasing also the possibility of con ducting manufacturing operations in relatively isolated spots.