Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-01-03

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We have a friend whose share of the have trees WI
p-onehalf-during 1904 paid ms is the Oh
him $13 per for the of his the Ben Davis
land
The time is
Mexico has short crop of cereals Try when eith
this year and proposes to remove the Jap VIII pe G
tariff duties on grain imported There domestc drud
is nothing like hunger to give a people work IN Anne
CONTEMPT for the tariff girls are too hi
or too lazy to
Fifty bushels of good corn from the
acre of 500 land is very good propo- IL apiepouieu
sition when it sells for so cents bush themselves .ou
ell for it leaves net profit of over $15 70 e'
per acre, and this is good rate of in paee VI w Nv
80. - GOO ,ond not recall a tin
labor mo
It costs about $40 to grow a ton of pau ~ SAL
broom corn brush, and it now sells rr -. ~,
for about 500 per ton it is one Of the 80. $1,000 .
paying crops. The great trouble con- =. -, 49, 80,
nected with the growing of this crop -
is the difficulty Of securing the help at - :. &C. eli
w ISL ~ " ~ son. The far
whether the pr
Just as a man is placed in
country where it is summer all the Rrome grass
year round, where little clothing is vorv closely
needed and food supply is easy to taxing connie
get just he becomes lazy and and hainu axtr
no count has always been this way ~ whom once
and always will be. 1t is always and bronze GRASS :
work. and hard work, which makes apy 6ad wbic
the Mar course of
the permanent
Where breechy bull breaks down
lawful fence along the right of way 1t ia worth
of railway company and is caught more blue
by train and killed, is the company around with
liable for the value of the animal? In early sprng Ii
law it is not, but most companies be- MANY SUI
in such cases would rather pay than and dragged il
bother lawsuit to recover dam worth twice a
ages In all such the bull nearly such treatmen
always brings than he would at scatter lit
any well advertised sale Of pedigreed over it just
stock. with the drag
The crow is largely scavenger, an A raw story
unclean bird. dead animal never the press to Il
gets too dead for its appetite and poultryman is
nest full Of eggs partly incubaed is Of ducks and
titbt for this black canniba All birds creamery with
fight and make the crows, and are doing fine
with good reason. Wherever crows are milk ration
plentiful there all other birds few dark coored
1t only insectivorous in its habits by as that or Gu
compulsion and belongs to the carniv IL would De
in pathological way. Crows, our coored br'
rabbits and sparrows pests of our ilgnten up ID
modern civilization and should be de- men are great
stroyed on sight
poor man
The crop losses of the west and soou eaie' VI =
northwest this have been al . VIZ 'l,ins ~
most entirely from water and not from - "ol'n 'noi
frost or drought The great need of ah - y " -
this section is to get rid of just such ns ~ 'aaii
an excess of rainfall have had nlan mus ne'
this year. Millions of of corn pay eaen' III
ruined by having wet feet during prces mni.n
June and July, preventing proper cult ~ p ?
walton and retarding development at eAua .nais sc
a critical time; another million creui' NC very
Of small grain drowned out. The piices LUZ 'ne
truth is that hardly farm be
anywhere found where less We no'i.eu
undertakings would not pay hun SIS u ~, ae',
dredfold The profits of the year could uay ne! :"
well be invested in this sort of work. 10. -.
years old Th
We always like to have the winter SoI,orvs with
come on gently anu easy the hignts like the old
growing bit colder each week the voke of them
sun sinks little farther and farther which would
SOURI, the nrst snow just sprihkie boy good ma
melt away the gradually OF beef has ain
shifting from their summer green to from the mar
their winter browns ana grays, nave steer being abb
the wild fowl work slowly south and OF age
tarry awhile and have nature leisurely
go about preparing for the long cold That ''other
winter and not have an ideal Indian proved poor
day wind up with a roaring ern farmer
north wind and Dig SHOWS, catching ordinate lust f
everybody unprepared and sending the old farm paid
wild fowl at a hundred mile an hour mortgaged To
cup toward tne souh country tue mer works badly
CHESS cold finding every crack in house probable that
anu Darn. nishes all the
can prohtably
We are asked what grasses Will best long q me
renoyate wornout SOIL All grasses are farm just
good for this purpose, but some are Of pinching
much better than others. Any grass terest and pay
which mas 10 be pastured on ana when only tell
cannot be well removed from the soil Of the farm
by pasturing it will always help nected in all u
the SOIL. Conspicuous In this class is the farm home
lima Thar.y horo tho n1nx