Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-08-15

-: -: -: 3 ;EE4Bt:||
CORRESPONDENCE n X A
SOLICITED w ~ n
Good water means good health. If
you are looking for a place to locate
bear this in mind.
Precaution both in the matter of dis
ease epidemics and weed pests is vastly
cheaper than the process of eradica-
ton after either gets foothold.
At the close of the Spanish Ameri-
can war over 5000 Americans bought
farms in Cuba. The entire value of
the land purchased aggregated over
$5,OOO,OOO.
The average boy is a good deal more
satisfactory proposition in the onion
patch July 2 than he is July 6, fact
that we have received most convincing
proof Of this summer
The difference between 1000 and
$4,000 germs to the cubic inch is the
scientific way of expressing the differ
ence between clean and dirty milk.
HI nd
boon companions.
The man who owns valuable piece
of property and rents 1t to farm ten
ants year after year without giving 1t
his personal supervision occasionally
will find in time that his property is
depreciating in value and in the end
that it will have to be sold at a sac
rifice.
&. -
The stalk worm, to use common
term, is no respecter. of plants and
shows no Partially, attacking the pig
weed with the same destructiyeness
that it does the potato vine, saliva or
aster. The worm is a hard PROPOSE
ton, because there is no method of
placing a poison in the places where
it feeds.
There is a stage of bodily WEAKNESS
to which nothing contributes so large
measure of comfort and refresh
ment as lying at full length on the
solid ground with arms and feet out
fol IN,
this solid couch gives sense of Sc
curity and restfulness that is found
in no other.
France has taken pains to perpetuate
her forest reserves by the adoption of
law which compels the planting of
a tree in the place of every one that is
cut down. In view Of the well nigh
wholesale and ruthless destruction of
the magnificent forest reserves in this
country plan similar to that followed
in France might well be adopted.
A man in the neighborhOod has been
filling in and grading his lawn. After
the rich, fertile top dressing had been
cred with blue grass clippings which
had already gone to seed. He said that
lie got better results in this way than
could be obtained by sowing the seed
in the ordinary manner
1t is noticeable fact that the
farmers wives and daughters do most
a., .; 81, 10 I'm,
Saturday it was observed that the
streets of a thriving western town
were almost lined with light buggies
and vehicles, whereas, as rule, those
same streets were banked up with
heavy farm wagons. The farmers all
over the country are getting in their
heavy work these days.
A western New York friend writes
that no flowers which he had the past
cpring were a source of greater pleasure
10 him than a bed of English violets
@cveral rods square in his orchard,
which were planted years ago by pre-
Sious tenant Of the place. In addition
10 floral fragrance and beauty in the
spring they will also be a source of
delight during October and November.
Start bed, for they are hardy, easily
cared for and pay for their keep.
YS
There's a world of agricultural pros
perity and happiness involved in the
decision of the man who is satisfied
with the careful and competent work.
ing of eighty acres Of land and for
whom the tax receipts and help bill In
volved in skinning over 600 acres have
no attraction. This matter of content
ment, of being satisfied with reason
able worldly possession, is more i'm
portant factor in contributing to the
dignity and real worth of living than
any other material consideration Of
which we know.
Whenever ii is possible for the young
woman to do so she should supplement
her general or cultural education with
Il course In domestic science. While
there are In many such courses good
many culinary tufts and frills and nom
essentials, yet she will acquire there In
six months a larger fund Of informa'
ton touching the science and funda
mental facts of cooking than she could
stumble on to by herself in the course