Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-09-06

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A lightning rod will not prevent
barn from burning up if the NOW Is
filed with half cured clover hay.
There is q good deal of lamb served
at our hotels and restaurants which
reminds one of the old maid of forty
who passed herself off as a sweet
young thing of nineteen.
The heavy draft horse is Just as
much in demand today as though there
was not a steam engine or an auto
mobile in use. We do not believe the
horse will ever be displaced by any
machine.
AS a general thing the trolley roads
are showing up we'll so far as return
ing a fair interest on the money in
vested. These roads create lots of
new business. The cheaper the fare
the more people ride.
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If business men would collect what
Is due them with the same degree of
promptness which marks the boy who
mows your lawn, there would be fewer
business failures. The boy is always
Johnny on the spot for his pay.
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Wherever sheep and hogs are kept
rape is one of the most valuable for
age plants which can be raised on the
farm, and yet not one man in ten
raises it, The very best use to make
of last seasons hog yard is to sow 1T
to rape, - s~,
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A lawyer whose mind became unset
tied took the queer notion of going out
into the country and hired out as a
farmland. If this thing should spread
1t might help solve the problem of help
on the farm and would not hurt the
clteS any, elluer.
If a pasture is to be kept in good
heart and free from weed growth
there should always seem to be room
for more stock in it, surplus of grass.
Just as soon as pasture is fed bare
the grass roots are weakened and
every chance is given for the weeds to
get a good start.
If you have a farm and wish to keep
it as an investment and not work it
yourself the worst possible way in
which to handle it is to rent it out
from year to year to Tom, Dick and
Harry to skin. A good farm deserves
better treatment than this Make a
long lease with a good man.
We are asked how large silo should
be built to meet the needs of an aver
age eighty acre farm. We would try
one about twenty feet high and sixteen
feet in diameter to start with. This
will hold the product Of about ten
acres of corn, which converted into
silage will make an immense amount
of most valuable and palatable food.
A scientific writer, referring to zinc,
makes the assertion that milk set in
zinc vessels will produce II per cent
more cream than it will set in tin YES
sells. While we cannot say that this
is not so, we can say that we do not
believe it. Unless some chemical
action was set up between the zinc
and the milk the kind Of metal used
could make no difference, and If there
was such action it would surely be to
the injury of the milk.
1t is said that buff colored eggs will
keep longer than white eggs, the rea-
son given being that they have
thicker shell. The Brahmas, Cochins
and their kind lay the dark eggs, while
the Leghorn, Houdan and Spanish
fowls lay the white ones. The flavor of
an egg is almost wholly dependent
upon the food of the fowls The finest
lot of eggs we ever saw, and the
largest as well, were the product of
lot Of Buff Cochin hens.
The west has come to what may be
called a three and four horse type Of
agriculture-the doing Of all the farm
work just as far as possible with a
large type Of machinery, which re-
quires three or four horses to operate.
The gang plow, the twenty-four foot
harrow, the six foot mower, the three
row cultivator, the potato digger and
many other appliances represent how
the machine has displaced the hired
man, the horse being more dependable
than the man.
Fly time Is here and with 1t almost
untold misery for the dairy cow unless
some steps are taken to protect her.
Some dairymen are following the plan
Of keeping their cows in a darkened
basement barn from about $3.50 a. m.
until shutdown and then giving them
the run Of the pasture during the night
and early morning. While in the barn
they are fed literally with some green
soilirg crop, such as clover, silage,