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The independent., 1905-05-04
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22
THE. rIMBERED FARM.

There are plenty of young men who
are looking for cheap land, and, for
that matter, men who are not so very
young. Good, cheap land is scarce and
becoming scarcer each year. Most Of
these seekers for land want prairie and
leaving such for Scandinavians, Poles
and Bohemians to develop. While the
prairie farm can be more readily and
quickly brought into cultivation, these
timbered farms Of northern Minnesota
and Wisconsin are not to be sneezed
at by any means. For the man with
limited means such land offers many
advantages, among which is the GER
tainty Of being able to get employ
ment all winter, either by cutting and
marketing the timber on his own land
or by working for the lumber compa-
MES. He Is also sure Of a good home
market for all the stuff he has to sell,
such as hay, poultry, eggs, vegetables
and the like. He can build his house
and outbuildings with an ak and a
saw from the material on his own
place He has an abundance Of cheap
fuel and IL anything Of sportsman
can secure much good food from the
woods, lakes and rivers. The most
thrifty farming communities Of the
west can be found in those sections
where the land was originally covered
by a dense forest. We noticed a few
days ago an advertisement offering
100 acres of heavy timber land lying
on one of those beautiful Minnesota
lakes for sale at the seemingly low
price of $1025 per acre. 1t seemed to
us that there was chance worth pick
ing up by some enterprising young fell
low, for, while 1t would take a matter
Of fifteen or twenty years to put such
q tract into q well cultivated farm, he
would be getting a steady income from
the timber on his place and would be
at a small outlay for machinery and
hired help. Minnesota has much good
land Of this character which it will
pay the man with small means to look
into.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22
BETS IN THE CORN BELT.

BEETS IN THE CORN BELT.
We do not look to see the corn belt
ever invaded to any extent by the sug-
ar beet. While the soil and climatic con-
dition are in many places favorable
for the production Of the beet, there are
some obstacles which are very difficult
to overcome. Perhaps one Of the prin-
cipal Of these is the extreme difficulty
of securing the necessary help to care
for the beets at the critical time when
they need thinning and hand wedding.
As 1t looks to us, there are two places
where beet culture will develop normal
ly-one on the irrigated lands Of the far
west where 1t is possible to control
both the sunshine and the moisture, SO
essential to the production of this crop,
the other in those few communities In
the west where the soil Is suitable.
where foreigners and their large fami-
lies can be readily drawn upon for the
needed supply Of help. AS things are
now the average farmer would find a
five acre beet field an elephant on his
hands. Then the question Of compen-
sation is not satisfactory, the net profit
on an acre Of beets, taking the aver
age price per ton and the average yield,
being really very small indeed. These
facts explain why 1t is almost impossi-
BILE to interest the farmers of the corn
belt in the production Of this crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22
Public Is Aroused,

The public is aroused to a know
ledge of the curative merits of that
great medicinal tonic, Electric Bit
tiers, for sick stomach, liver and kid
neys. Mary H. Walters, of 546 ST..
Clair Ave-, Columbus, O., writes.
For several months, / was given up
to die. had fever and ague, my nerves
were wrecked; could not sleep, and
my stomach was so weak, from useless
doctors drugs, that I could not eat.
Soon after beginning to take Electric
Bitters, 1 obtained relief, and in a
short time / was entirely cured. "
Guaranteed at Wangler Bros. s., drug
store price Soc.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22
BAD EGGS.

There is phase of moral weakness
connected with the fine farms of the
northwest which 1t seems almost i'm
possible to eradicate, and that is the
hardened indifference with which bad
eggs are worked of on the local mer-
chants. Eggs added. eggs half hatch
ed and eggs in all stages of decay and
decomposition are mixed up with fresh
hen fruit and the chances taken on the
ability Of the buyer to detect the bad
from the good. This is dirty, dishon-
est business. People who do this would,
did not the law prevent, sell the car
cass of a diseased animal to the local
butcher. There should be morality in
the egg business as well as in all 9TH
er business transactions.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22
THE LARGE BARN.

While the large barn will give the
most room and conveniences for the
money invested, 1t is still an open ques-
ton whether throughout the northwest
it is good policy to build such barns.
The risk from fire. lightning and cy-
clones is so great and the loss of such
barns from these causes usually so
complete as to building and its contents
that we should hesitate long before
building this sort. Smaller buildings.
isolated from each other, would seem
to be the better and safer way to pro-
vide barn accommodation for the farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the Mothers
Fayorite.

The soothing and healing properties
of this remedy, its pleasant taste and
prompt and permanent cures have made
it favorite with people everywhere.
1t is especially priced by mothers of
small children, for colds, Group and
whooping cough, as it always affords
quick relief, and as it contains no
opium or other harmful drug, it may
be given as confidently to a boy as to
an adult. For sale by Engbertson's
Pharmacy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22
Fieudish Suffering

is often caused by sores, Ulcers and
cancers, that eat away your skin. VIM.
Bedell, of Flat Rock, Mich, says: Il
have used Bucklen's Arnica Salve, for
Ulcers, Sores and Cancers. 1t is the
best healing dressing ever found. +"
Soothes and heals cuts, burns and
scalds. Csc at Wangler Bros. IS. drug
store guaranteed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22
A Splendid Clubbing Arrangement.

By special arrangement with the
publishers. we are enabled to give our
subscribers the weekly Iowa State
Register and Public Opinion. both
one year for only $l.75. The Register
is the old established paper of the
state. and with 10. TrIgg as it's new
editor will be better than ever. The
Public Opinion you can't keep house
without. II you want both of these
this Is a bargain. 37tf
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

TRAINS LEAVE DEBORAH AS FOLLOWS
No. 504 Passenger, except Sunday .. las p. m.
No. 542 Freight, except Sunday. -. 5: 0 a. m.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT DECORATE:
No. 5N Passenger, except Sunday.l rs p. m.
No. Sal Freight, except sunday. =. .5:l5 p. m.
Sunday stock train leaves at geo a. m
For sleeping car reservations, tickets, time
tables, etc., apply to any Rock Island ticket
agent. U. G. GRUVER,
Local Agent
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

In planting q grove of native timber
it is we'll to remember that some vari-
cites of trees may be planted much
closer together than others. The soft
maple will bear thick planting, as will
the larch, catalpa and many Of the
conifers. The cottonwoods, on the con-
trary, will not stand thick planting, but
will nearly all die by the time they are
twenty years old.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

A New Jersey market gardener has
100 rods Of fence around his garden.
On this fence line and growing right
under it he has planted pieplant, and
from this 120 rods Of pieplant he sells
every year enough to bring him from
$3.50 to $500, his returns last year being
S2O2.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

We know of farm whose productive
power has been fully doubled inside Of
fifteen years by keeping on it as much
stock as it would carry and consum-
ing all the products Of the farm upon
the farm. The same thing may be done
with thousands of other farms, and it
matters little whether 1t is stocked
with sheep. dairy of cows or devoted
to the production Of beef. 1t cannot be
done so well with hogs, as the hog is a
very poor distributor Of fertility.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

In Denmark the farmers have a
large cooperative egg marketing con-
Germ, and every member working of a
bad egg is fined SIPS. If such rule
was in vogue in this country it would
bankrupt the farmers paying the fines.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

Some wise man notes that high priced
corn and healthy hogs almost always
60 together, the inference being that II
the hogs were fed less corn they would
not be so subject to disease. There
may be something in this.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

The blue joint grass which was so
abundant on the western prairies when
they were first settled has disappeared
as a result of settlement and cultiva-
ton. All efforts to propagate it have
failed. for, with the wild game and the
Indian, it resents civilization. This is a
fact to be regretted, as no better hay
for the horse can be found than that
made from the blue joint grass. There
is but little of it left save as 1t may be
found along the rights of way of the
railway companies.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

Soil fertility, like money, should be
kept at home. Raising grain and sell
ing it off the farm is just like patroniz-
ing the city department stores-both
fertility and money leave the communi-
ty for good
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

There will be better litter Of pigs
and more Of them raised to the period
of weaving If the old SOW has nothing
to do with the corncrib before and aft
er the pigs are born.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

Lucky is the man who is SO situated
that he can look upon his big corn
crop as simply so much raw material
to be, every bushel Of ii, converted in
to some form of finished meat or dairy
product. The man who sells the corn
will get 35 cents bushel, and the man
who feeds 1t will get so or 90 cents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

There is much benefit to be derived
from frequent changes Of seed-wheat,
oats, barley, corn. 1t always pays for
a man on q sandy farm to get his seed
from grain grown on a clay farm, and
vice versa. With potatoes, wheat and
oats and barley it will always pay to
get seed from those more northerly
sections where these things attain their
best development.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

Japan raised the largest crop of rice
last year which she has had for many
years, Providence thus smiling on her
effort to protect her liberty.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

A cow that will make 300 pounds Of
butter in year is better worth $75
than one that will only make $50
pounds is $40, for the reason that the
last named cow will hardly pay for the
food she eats, while the first named
will give her owner handsome profit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

The boy on the farm today must not
ne satisfied to simply know as much
about agriculture as his father. He
has got to know more and will.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

The state Of Minnesota owns vast
tracts Of worthless swamp land in the
northern part Of the state and is very
sensibly appropriating large sums Of
money for the purpose Of draining and
retaining these lands.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

1t is always risky business to try
to make a grain field out Of meadow
tract unless it is properly drained.
While such land is all right in dry
years, it is terrible aggravation In a
wet one. Lots Of men know this only
too we'll
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

Fish, more than any other Of our
meat foods. lose flavor and are injured
by being placed in cold storage. To
freeze a fish is to spoil it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

We do not think that the average
farmer needs to know how to make
more money so much as he does to
know how to make it easier and in a
more profitable way-make fewer acres
do the work Of the many now run over.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

A pair Of sparrows we saw nest
building In December found themselves
when the blizzard struck them few
days later like pair Of young fools
who got married on $8.75 and inside Of
a week found no fuel, -four or meat in
the house and no money to get any
with
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

We are getting class Of people in
this country who want the milk lamb.
dollhouse tomatoes and green stuff in
January, frogs legs, fresh eggs in win
ter, and such stuff, and, while it pays
to feed them, they don't, as rule.
amount to very much.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22
THESE MEN MADE A SUCCESS.

THESE MEN MADE A SUCCESS.
We know Of two men, just ordinary
farmers, who eight years ago decided
to improve the quality Of the stock kept
upon their farms. Each selected the
Polled Angus as the type of animal he
wished to keep. An investment Of about
$500 in each case secured enough ami
mails for start on pedigreed lines. We
passed their places recently and were
much pleased to note that in each yard
there was to be seen drove Of thirty
or forty slick and handsome cattle of
this breed. The fact is that an invest
ment Of $500 to start with and subse-
quent infusion of some fresh blood will
enable any man who knows how to
take care Of stock to substitute well
bred and choice animals in place Of the
scrub stock. This is one Of the most
sensible and practical things which a
man can do in the way Of farm i'm
provements.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

The very novel method Of spreading
agricultural information among the
farmers by sending out special trains
carrying instructors and stopping in
each town on the line for half an hour
and holding a meeting in the car is
being taken up by many Of the western
roads with great success and profit to
the farmer. All the trunk lines In
Iowa will run these special trains this
winter, while Missouri, South Dakota
and Nebraska are following the fash
ion.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

The crop Of cotton for 1904 is found
to be IL, 162. 700 bales, produced on 80
055, 700 acres, or considerably less than
an average yield Of one-half bale per
acre. This amount Of cotton is more
than is needed, and the result is that
the price has fallen to low point. The
south, where this cotton is raised, will
find 1t greatly to its best interest to de-
vote less attention to cotton and more
to the many diversified farm products
which the soil and climate Of the south
are so well fitted to produce. Cotton Is
soil robber of the first rank, and any
southern farm will rapidly deteriorate
where 1t is made a leading staple Of
production.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

Many Of the most successful and up
to date farmers of the country now
SOW clover with every acre Of small
grain sown on their farms. They find
that it pays. even If the whole business
Is turned under In the fall for crop
the next year, just for the fertilking
value Of the clover. This is, however,
not the best plan. Better to carry over
till the following season, take crop Of
hay and then plow under in September.
The clover needs to attain maturity In
order to do its best work as fer
tilizer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

We are told by prominent cattle
man from the range that no attempt is
ever made to furnish the stock Of that
country with supply Of salt. This
seems quite strange in view of the
trouble which is taken to furnish cat
tie a supply of salt in all other sections
of the country. 1t is barely possible
that the alkali nature of the soil in that
country furnishes through the water
and the growing vegetation sufficient
supply of salt to meet the needs Of the
animal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

Many women like to drive a spirited
horse, but man never does a more
foolish thing than when he lets his
wife take the chances on managing q
runaway or high strung animal. The
average woman's nerve and physical
strength are not usually equal to the
risks Of such a proceeding.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

A bad winter storm always drives
the animals into their holes and the
liars out
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

A grove Of soft maple trees planted
twenty-five years ago was cut of last
winter. and fifty-flve cords Of four foot
wood per acre was secured from 1t. As
the land was worth an average Of $50
per acre during that time and the wood
Melted the owner So per cord, it Is easy
to see that he at least lost no money In
planting the grove and in addition had
enjoyed its protection and beauty.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

A friend who had planted a bed Of
strawberries in what had been for
years a feed yard for cattle and hogs
complains that he does not get any
fruit. The trouble is not because he
failed to plant the staminate and pis-
tilate varieties so as to secure perfect
fertilization, but probably because the
soil is too rich. We know from expert
ence that 1t is entirely possible to get
land too rich for Strawberries. A soil
which is fertile enough to produce six
ty bushels of corn to the acre is plenty
rich enough for the strawberry.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

Many men have hobby in the mat
ter of the color Of their corn. some
claiming that white corn is the best
and some yellow, while not few will
swear by their calico corn. The fact is
there is practically no difference at all
in the feeding value Of the different
colored corn. assuming that 1t Is alike
matured. There Is, however. a very
marked difference In the types Of corn
of any given color In the matter of pro-
ddctiveness, and this thing Is wen
worth studying. The biggest ear u
not by any means the best ear.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

The pocket gopher and sweet clover
seem to like to work together. The
rights of way Of the railroad through
the west are quite largely occupied by
this queer combination, and a curious
thing about it is that, while the gopher
will honeycomb the entire strip be-
tween the track and the fence and the
clover grow there most luxuriantly,
neither Of them ever crosses the fence
line into the cultivated field to any ex-
tent.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-02-22

We have it from the Iowa expert
mental station that II alfalfa is given
the benefit Of a good supply Of horse
manure when sown it will do much to
insure the success Of the plant. This
fertilizer furnishes an available sup
ply Of nitrogen for the young plant
until it can develop the bacteria which
will furnish it supply from the at
mosphere. This is a good point made.
The Bourbon news., 1905-12-05
Child Burned to Death. I

A fifteen-year-old crippled girl was
left in the burning house, adjoining
Hinton's lower livery stable, yester-
day afternoon, and was burned to
death. The house was used as ne
gro tenement house, several families
living in it. Some woman cried out
that child was in the building, but
several told her that the child had
been carried out and taken to house
on another street. This was true, but
proved to be smaller child and not
the poor crippled girl, whose charred
remains were afterwards found in the
ruins of the house. James Corbin,
the colored undertaken, took charge
of the body. She was daughter of
George and Lou Anderson.
The two houses burned belonged to
Mrs. E. Gregory and were considered
old land marks. One of them was
formerly the old Sim Shy blacksmith
shop, which had been convertd into
residence, and the one next to the
stable had been occupied by promi-
nent citizens in the days before the
war. They had been looked on as
fire traps for many years.