Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-05-10

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A Kentucky man made 500 from
one acre Of red peppers last season.
America furnishes England with it's
best apples, better in quality and high
er in price than those from Canada.
The cement road culvert is coming
into general use. 1t is better than
large tile or stone and costs about the
same.
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A Rambo apple tree in Indiana last
year produced forty-fve barrels Of
fruit. Four such trees to the acre
would return pretty good income.
Grass in the orchard Is bad thing
in two ways-it robs the trees Of need
ed moisture during dry time and be-
comes constant temptation to turn
stock in the orchard to eat it.
OF course IT is important to have three
good stalks of corn in each hill, but il
the land is so poor that 1t can only pro-
duce one ear to the hill there will be
two barren stalks, which are just as
injurious as weeds.
Public spirit has given the American
people an unrivaled public school sys-
tenn and compels credtable care and
regard for the cemeteries. If once de-
veloped in that line it will do the same
good work for the public highways.
We saw over $500 going to waste
around farmers homestead the other
day, good cash lying around wasting
1t was 300 loads of good barnyard
manure, every load of which would
bring him in a dollar if he would only
get it on his worn and starved acres.
II you will pillow up ten acres Of that
old timothy meadow and plant it to
corn and build silo and put the corn
in next September, you will say some
spring it was the smartest piece Of
farm work you ever did. In fact, you
can never realize how much 1t means
until you try it.
One single discovery made by the
experts of the agricultural department
at Washington now in general use con-
nected with the making of turpentine
is worth in the saving effected annual
~ in this business an amount equal to
the cost of maintaining the forestry
department of the government for q
period Of six years.
II you have to buy seed corn this
spring get 1t near home. Acclimated
corn will always yield more than i'm
ported corn. Anyway, get no seed from
a latitude south of you, and never buy
1t shelled. Pay more and get II In the
ear. When one buys seed corn shelled
he has placed altogether too much
temptation in the way Of the seller.
If it is a mans duty to work hard to
provide the food for his family it is
equally the wife's duty to study how
to prepare and serve such food in the
best possible manner II nine women
out Of ten would devote the time and
money now spent on music in learning
how to be expert cooks, the world would
be happier and there would be fewer d.
vorces and smaller doctors bills.
Some efforts are being made in the
west to try to utilize the large deposits
of peat as a fuel. The process being
tried is the pressing Of the peat into
briquettes and then drying them.
There is an inexhaustible supply Of
peat in northern Iowa and Minnesota,
and 1t would seem as though In this
day Of economies some method would
be found whereby 1t could be satisfac-
torily used.
Nucu sOu bltCt youhe ICiiOW iiCSh
shaved, wearing a red tie, his horses
decorated with good many strings, a
high colored lap robe over his knees
and a cigar in his mouth. 1t is safe to
bet he is ON the way to get his best girl
and have a buggy ride, and 1t is also
safe to bet that his team will be going
much slower when he is on the way
home than they were when you saw
him. We have all been there, and II is
all right.
The country department store is rap
idly coming to the front as a solution
Of the problem Of the loss of country
trade through the city catalogue
houses. The owner of such store told
us recently it was the only solution of
the matter, such business to be sup
plemented with persistent and liberal
advertising. The city store has got the
farmers patronage by getting close to
him. The country merchant must get
IL back by the same method.
The efforts made by the English to
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