Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-08-23


One need never expect satisfactory
growth Of black walnut trees or, for
that matter, of any other kind Of trees
when the ground under them gets mat
ted with blue grass.
One of the most reliable signs of dry
weather which we have noted is when
after heated term the clouds gather
and mass reluctantly, finally dispers-
ing, with only light fall Of rain.
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A woman had much better tie her.
self to five acres of land, three cows,
200 hens and a strawberry bed than to
an old stick of man, for in the first
case she knows where her investment
is nights, and in the other she doesn't.
With the probable early termination
OF the eastern war the commercial in
fiuence Of Japan becomes factor Of
the greatest importance in the far east.
1t is evident that that nation aims to
do for the east what England has done
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i A haycock cover costing 80 cents
will last five years at least If properly
cared for and will save 80 cents worth
Of hay every year 1t is used-yes,
more than this-for hay is never so
well cured as In the cock, and with
the cover caps 1t may be cooked up
quite green and will thus cure In the
best possible shape, s,+..,.
n - 1870 d.
' Some Of the most valuable Of our
horticultural products have come from
sports or freaks The valuable ma.
vel orange Ia a notable instance,
and more recently growing In q
field of black Mexican sweet corn
the sweetest sweet corn which grows
was found freak white ear possess
Ing all the desirable qualities of tts
black ancestry combined with white
color, making q most valuable find. 49,,
There are but few cases where q
country 30 completely monopolizes the
production Of great staple commod-
ity of worldwide use as In the case Of
the United States and the cotton crop.
While q small measure Of success has
been attained in the effort to grow
cotton in India, the West Indies and
Africa, there il no prospect that there
will ever be any serious competition
with this country in the growing of
this great staple. 1t Is simply impossl-
BILE to grow cotton probably without
the colored man and the mule.
The waste lands Of the state Of Iowa
the unused strips Of good soil or
roadside and on the rights Of way OF
the many railroads, the thousands OF
acres Of land too, wet for ordinary cul
tivation without proper drainage which
are plowed and planted each year and
which never produce anything save
weeds-wouh II cultivated, as they
might be and viii be some day, support
an immense population. Agricultural
progress in the west lies more along th<
line Of eliminating these wastes thar
In almost any other line. Up to tht
present time the effort has been alone
the line Of getting more land rather
than In making the most Of that al
ready owned. -
There are a good many Ifs between
April and September for the farmer
so far as his crops are concerned. i
IL probable that no line Of bushes,
runs more chances. There are the lat,
spring frosts, the possible midsumme,
droughts and foods, the innumerabl,
horde Of insect pests all wanting /,
share and sometimes all OF the crop
there are the low price for farm prod
ucts incident to large crop and th,
unfair manipulation Of the market b!
spectators or empty cribs and BIN
when the price is high. II II were no
for the fact that some sort Of Twin!
Is obtained from the farm regardless
OF whether the crops are poor or good
there would be vastly more failure
on the farm than there are.
1t was yesterday morning, you re
membeF-gone the bot south wind, th
clammy, sticky, ltfeless air-an Assem-
bling Of thunder heads in the west a
the sun went down, a lot Of electrica
pyrotechnics and the roar Of beav,
aerial artillery, the healing caress o
the rain and the obeisance Of the tree
TO the ftfuI breezes, then the shift 0
the wind to the northwest, bracin
tonic for fiabby and exhausted human
ity, then the eastward retreatin
storm, its tumult dying away like th
roar of fast mail train, then the star
and the blue overhead, with sleep an
rest; then the morning. with an al
mosphere as clear and pure as that o
the mountains or OF paradise, trees an
grass rain kissed and sun blest, wit