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

- II i...t 81 - -: l. :. MS given you
t,,asSJ two crops it is bette. piJwcd UP.
eNSM If the wash OF the barnyard is going
XII into the creek, if it cannot be di-
"A y verified on to the garden or at least on
~ to the pasture. If it goes to the creek,
T every summer rain means a money
loss.
.EaI Any lawn decoration which leaves
~ out the common ederberry and its
y freak relative, the golden leaved vari-
Il ETY., is mistake. For all the north
n section nothing finer can be selected
< than a clump each of these hardy
Il shrubs.
\ The government crop report for June
- 4 was favorable for a good crop.
-.-l4S Spring wheat was reported $50, win
+iny oil ter wheat S5.5, oats 92.9, barley 937.
80 h So far as crop production affects bust
ness, it bids fair to be very prosper
Gus year ahead.
try the c. %
re- No Sone VI o'l oiu' ne'' 'eiy ia,e IL
found the ground ark's nest with
in M. young birds almost 1edged when the
urning eno" p'nAs W. sun p.ieu on INC
it will. io'usues WINE 'ne eeu"i oiiu anu 'iie
cuckoo or raincrow were found breed
- chic ing as late as middle October.
III help
in the we were taking recently with
prominent citizen of Sydney, Austria
ia who is in this country for visit.
t corn He tells us that the rabbit is still one
n from or the greatest OF pests In that country
when and that every means 50 far tried
to exterminate it has utterly failed.
Tight fencing, with the fence sunk a
II haul foot or more in the ground, is the only
D serve means of protecting crops.
coming
1t is all we'll enough to talk and
write about the simple life, but what
hanged is one to do when trains run seventy
prairie miles an hour and Sunday papers run
5 have up to hundred pages, every little
these town with a Chautauqua, the society
machine carrying 30 pounds of steam
and athletics knocking the classics out
ftably at our colleges? The simple life means
borers getting very far away from our mod
many ern civilization. ~---,~ee
fruit
T. - The shrinkage of hay after being in
the NOW for six months has been de-
'e yet termined to be about 90 per cent.
there Tboroforo ,,bon yo,, CON coll nou, boy
10 end g., a.. al, =. g. 80 o.. .. q, ,rst
:. Why os vo,I cold 40 II would no IN the win.
PRIV ter from the barn at So, and you are
nan? oboad tho intoreSt on tho vaIue of the
hay and the labor of hauling it to the
lrs the harm This Is for well cured hay. II
ed this is oftener much more than this.
of his
cents u,.,, -. ,,,ou,, ..
measly =. 90, ,eoss;,,, hoi,, q ona ,or ,his
lie him o.a.., g., o.;.,oa 81 ~ o,a or syrno
Is way 49,. ...,n.o,,n. e. = oaros,t. ,,,ro
and simple. Society does itself a
:. wrong when it allows sympathy and
as charity to be extended in any manner
~ - =. to him. The old doctrine that if
- ~ man will not work neither shall he eat
NO tho should be made to apply in the most
over it "'e'"' SUN - wy " 'A.' 'oN'"' ps'''
rays In
We lately passed through twenty
mile strip Of country, prairie valley
i've the with 200 foot bluffs hemmng it in on
nv ono either side, as charming bit of scenery
ocaity as we nave come across IN many gay.
,erfect Still 1t was hard proposition from an
,itions agricultural standpoint The crops had
in i'm. been badly washed out by the floods in
many the valley, while the hills were at best
r sor- very poor pasture ground beautIui
landscapes and profitable farming
don't mix very well.
is any
a COW There is not less than 90 per cent in
q your favor OF keeping high grade stock on
, local the farm over having a scrub herd. We
o have do not mean by this pedigreed animals,
incipal but those well bred. This applies to
Sc you all kinds of domestic animals, horses,
CHI hnuc obi rall Inn
the farm manufacturing plant, 20
per cent loss, or extra cost of produc-
grove ton, is something well worth investi-
e fruit eating. Ii would be quickly done IN
stock any otner Manufacturing estaphsn-
RIM of ment.
charge
horers We once broke in team of very
,s Won heavy draft horses to handle big stone
killed III q quarry, ana IL was surprising now
3 stock soon these lnteihgent anmais learned
how to pull to the limit Of their
strength and do it without fret or jerk,
ovance and it was interesting to watch them
out OF and note how they seemed to under
a IL nj. stand each other and work together to
md to get the best results. Nine teams out of
ement, ten IL requireu 10 tackie very heaVy
ul and ioau VIII rush anu JERK wnen they
md its inignt just DIS wen pe ralheu other-
maka wise.
] sorry
it'll the one trouble ~ 'iiat wheh man mus
n himself the owner of a specially fine
brood mare or SOW he is quite likely
60 an to be tempted to sell ii at the extra
better pNe o.ne's aie "nnns " pay "nei,
n men II" oeS' n'eieS's "ouu NC 'o"'e 'eu
q work by refusing to put price on such an
ir road Animal we recah 'ne eaSe Vi n"i
large "no ieaiiAeu an ihcoihe VI Sioo u !ear
'ork is ioi ni'eeh years from d proou ihaie
: a., = which he owned Inasmuch as the