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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

Western farmers have been altogeth-
er too much interested in teams of
draft horses exhibited at the various
state fairs purely for advertising pur-
poses by lot of old brewers. A fine
horse never appears to greater disad-
vantage than when he is hauling beer
wagon or a man when he is carrying a
load of the stuff.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

Better butter than is now made will
probably never be made, but there are
lots of chances to make more Of 1t.
With modern facilities and knowledge
it seems strange that there is so much
poor butter still made.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

We have two or three inquiries as to
the changing of seed grain. 1t will al
ways pay to change once in three or
four years, getting the seed from the
north of you and from sandy land if
yours is clay, and vice versa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

The Hungarian bronze grass is al
most as hard to get rid Of as Quack
grass and should not be sown as ro-
tation crop where clover and timothy
will grow.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02
H.. l.. COFFEEN
REAL Estate DEALER,

Has bargains in land near DEBORAH,
also in other parts OF Wnneshiek County.
He can give you as good bargains on
Dakota or Wisconsin lands as any dealer
in the state. Office with c. S. Boice
over Reeds Hardware Store. References
those to whom he has sold land. Call on
him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

4 friend tells us that he rid large
field of cookie burs which had COM
plete possession of the land by repeat
ed moving during the late summer and
fall Another tells us that he got rid of
them by pasturing the land closely with
sheep. Another says that a summer
fallow with two or three plowings and
plenty Of disking and dragging will
finish them up.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

1t is estimated that country green
horns and suckers have dropped $780,
100000 in Chicago the past year in
connection with the various games Of
graft which thrive in that city, the
board of trade chief among them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

1t takes the first thirty bushels of
corn produced on an acre of land to
pay cost Of production. So If you have
not raised over twenty-five bushels to
the acre you can tell just what is the
matter with you.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

If corn is planted too thick, there will
be few If any ears, and in this case it
is not defective seed or seed which
lacks in vitality which is the cause Of
the barren stalks.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

Even in Ohio the farmers hardly dare
try to raise crop of wheat unless they
use about 200 pounds Of bone dust to
the acre, and the farther east one trav-
els the more they have to use.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

In Iowa, the great corn state, the in
terest taken by the farm boys In the
Improvement of the crop is one of the
most helpful agencies at work toward
this end The enthusiasm of these boys
is infectious, and many a man is learn
ing how to grow corn from his twelve
year-old boy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

\ Europe produced 2,150,OOO tons more
beet sugar last year than ever before.
When we get the Philippine Islanders
at work on sugar we will be virtually
Independent of any foreign country for
our sugar supply.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

The farmer of fifty years ago was
not supposed to be an educated man.
In fact, it was commonly thought that
the less education he had the better
farmer he would be. Today the sue
cessful farmer is almost of necessity
an educated man. The more he reads
and thinks and the more he knows the
greater his success.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

We know of one man who always
feels good at this time of the year, and
all because he makes it rule to pay all
his debts at this time and start the new
year owing not any man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

We once knew a man who could nei-
Their read nor write, yet there was not 8
man who could beat him figuring inter-
est on a note.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

A corn grower in Iowa last year had
1900 acres in practically one corn
field, which averaged him fifty BUSH
els an acre, making it really a notable
crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

The colored man has simply got to
work out his own salvation, and he will
never do it save through good hard
work and economy The easiest way
out for him is through bank account,
for the possession of money will secure
him a respect and consideration from
the white race which he can obtain in
no other way.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

Oklahoma land of good quality would
be cheap at $75 an acre if used for
cotton production at anything like pres
ent prices for the staple.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

The farm hand wanted today is not
so much seller of crude muscle as
one trained in the handling of machin-
cry and stock. More and more is the
machine being made to do the work of
the man ON the farm, and the man who
understands how to handle machinery
to the best advantage is the man who
is wanted on the farms of the country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

The falls OF the Zambezi river, in At
RIGA, known as the Victoria falls, would
if utilized for the generation of power
develop power equal to that of 3d.
600 600 horses
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

One-half bale of cotton to the acre is
to the southern farmer just about what
forty bushels of corn to the acre are to
the northern farmer. A few cotton
growers get one bale to the acre, which
corresponds to the few men in the
north who raise eighty bushels of corn
to the acre.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

1t is not difficult to relieve blind,
bleeding, itching or protruding piles
with ManZan, the great pile remedy.
1t is put in collapsable tubes with
nozzel, and may be introduced and
applied at the least of the trouble.
Stops pain instantly.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

1t is very remarkable how many pedi-
greed cattle get killed by the cars.
Scrubs rarely ever stray on to the
tracks.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

There are three or four promising
wheat propositions in sight today-one
the winter wheat possibilities of the
southwest, in Oklahoma and the Indian
Territory; another, winter wheat on the
dry lands Of western Kansas and Ne
braska, macaroni wheat on the semi
arid portions of North and South Da-
kota, winter wheat in the Alberta coun-
try and spring wheat all the way from
Winnipeg, 1000 miles northwest. Not
the least promising of the lot is the
macaroni wheat proposition.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

The south is fast becoming vast
hotbed and winter garden for the north
country. AS result we are getting
both vegetables and fruits in season
and out of season.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

The temptation with the average meat
seller is so great to make his sausage
meat up of all sorts of scraps and odds
and ends in our larger towns it is prac-
tically impossible to buy a pound of
good sausage meat for love or money.
1t seems strange that this should be SO
when there is an almost unlimited de-
mand for fine article Of sausage at
big prices.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

Some of the Colorado apple orchards
have returned their owners as much as
$500 per acre the past season.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

4 reader wishes to know why he
cannot raise as good crops now as he
did forty years ago, when his section
was first settled. That's easy to an
swer. He would not expect to get as
much work out of an old and broken
down horse as he would from a young
and vigorous one, and 1t is that way
with the land. The soil has been work
ed out, is deficient In plant food and,
like the old horse, will soon lie down
in the harness and refuse to work any
more. 1t need not have come to this
had ordinary sense been used In the
cultivation Of the soil, but as 1t stands
today the biggest problem which con-
fronts the largest number of American
farmers is how best to restore fertility
to wornout land,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

An interesting fact in natural history
is related by an observer-th of col
ony of bank swallows which found
large horned owl hidden in hole in
large tree and the united work of the
little birds to destroy common enemy
by closing up the entrance to the hole
with small sticks, mud and the gluti-
nous matter used in the building Of their
nests, making the old pirate prisoner
to starve to death. 1t would be inter-
esting to know just how this deep laid
scheme was born and by what sort of
bird telepathy all the birds of the large
flock became inspired with the one pur-
pose, which was accomplished between
daylight and dark of one day.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

1t is said that 100000 of the people
of England are out of employment, all
on the ragged edge of poverty and
many of them half starved. Could they
only be sent to the United States there
would be work and food in plenty for
all. The women are wanted as domes-
tic help, the men as laborers on farm
and in factory and mine. Rich men
with money to throw to the dogs might
better turn their philanthropy in this
direction than to the establishment of
Libraries and colleges
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

We think that one reason why ex-
perimental plats of alfalfa in the states
east Of the Missouri river so often fail.
turning yellow and dying out. is that
the soil where sown Is deficient in nj
trogen and the plant, being a gross
user of nitrogen, perishes for lack of
it, while, like calf, If 1t can be prop
erly and adequately fed until 1t can
take care of itself by getting its own
nitrogen appropriating machinery into
operation, it would become an easy
matter to secure field of this valua-
BILE legume. Assuming this to be
fact. as we believe it to be, it logically
follows that an ample supply Of nitro
gen should be furnished the plant
when young, which can best be done
by thoroughly enriching the soil with
liberal supply of barnyard manure.
1t will pay any man who contemplates
sowing alfalfa to heed this suggestion.
Through MUCH of the west the feed
ing of beef for market has been at
tempted quite generally the past four
years. Taking the four years, it may
be said that as proposition it has not
been success. Only the very few
have been able to feed cattle with a
satisfactory profit. The many have got
nothing to show but mortgage and a
lot of valuable experience. For this
reason we feel like commencing the
COW as very much safer and more re-
liable proposition for the average farm
er than the beef steer. With the cow
the market for her product is practical
ly assured at profitable figure. The
market for butter and cheese varies
but little from year to year. while the
making of beef is a speculation pure
and simple, the price Of the product be-
Ing practically fixed at the caprice of
one Of the most arbitrary trusts in the
country. For this reason we think 1t
is safer for the man who wishes to
feed cattle to feed cows rather than
steers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

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1rs MnnIFc 1H II rca known the Victoria falls would
ID TIgNESAI - M Z power
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/
oolC"to il ~ - The is fast becoming a
a country AS result we are getting
pewre and find them use
adjunct to their business and
We know of one man who always
figuring all be makes rule TO all
on a note his debts this time and the
corn grower n year had -
1t takes the first thirty bushels
averaged corn produced on an acre land to
making really notable
op not raised twenty-five bushels to
o., r, h - ,s a, the can tell just what is the
hard rid of quack '
and should not be Europe produced
where clover and timothy
IL grow When get the Philippine islanders
). - :, $1,000 a.. .. ., min will virtually
e ~ aars ora IN tn;s Independent of foreign country for
lev asa t s.aa - saaS uhoh our supply
vitality ob bale Of cotton to the acre is
barren s'ahS southern farmer about what
g., :, ,,, ~, e ,. a forty the
ven IA ONO ne farmers nas @ the northern cotton
raise crop of wheat unless they growers
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the they have to to the acre - " : -
Better butter than is made will
ooaoV never oe Out
chances make of it. Of the crop one
most benfn agencies at work toward
this end The these bows
or Dutter SUN made infectious
~ -, -. - -, - =. ing how to grow corn from his twelve
we nave two or three INQUIRIES as 10 yearold boy.
changing of seed grain 1t will al
change in three
III years m s a is er too much interested teams of
nth OF you ana from sandy lana exhibited the
rs is clay and vice versa
poses by lot of old brewers. A fine
dropped $780,
oooo ccago the past year wagon when he carrying
, with the various tnn games gam e of load of the stuff
ard of trade chief among them
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simply got one trained in the handling of machn
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through good hard
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-06

a speed Of sixty miles an hour. 1t
would assuredly be blessed thing if
all the railroads in the country could
substitute electricity for steam. Think
Of the joy of travelling over the coun-
try without fear of smoke and dirt and
dust and cinders; think of moving
smoothly from one point to another
without disagreeable noise! Think, too.
of being able to go through tunnel
without either closing all the windows
or being nearly suffocated by smoke.
There are those who believe the day
of these blessings is coming, though 1t
is admitted to be as yet far distant.
Still, electricity has abundantly demon
strated its power to draw heavy loads
and at great speed. 1t can also be
transmitted for great distances. The
drawback heretofore has been the item
of cost AS soon as the railroad man
ayers have been shown that they can
run trains by electricity as cheaply
and as reliably as by steam power, the
change will be made in Jig time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-06
RICH MEN IN COLLEGES.
Yale's President Says They Are Not
to Be Regarded as Harmful.
CDR T. A Hadley in Harper's Mag
zine

CDR. T. A. Hadley in Harper's Maya
zine)
When a graduate Of fifty years ago
contrasts his grandchildren's college
life with his own, says President Had
ley, he sees so many changes that he
is apt TO feel quite pessimistic. In his
day. the undergraduate had no choice
of studies. no intercollegiate athletics,
and no money. Today all these things
are very much In evidence. They have
greatly changed the external character
of our colleges; and the old graduate
is apt to believe that this is something
more than an external change and goes
down into the roots of things. He fears
that the spirit of hard work and Of
democratic equality which prevailed
in his time is hopelessly gone. He dis
trusts the elective system; he is preju
diced against the more violent forms
of athletics, and he deplores above all
else the increasing number of rich stu
dents as a source of weakness to our
institutions.
Nor are these fears wholly confined
to our older graduates. Many a pa
rent feels these same aDpTehensions IN
more acute and personal form. The
rich father, who sees the temptation
which the possession of money brings.
Is afraid tfldt all THESE ttliipAaAiOlto wiz
be greatly aggravated in place where
there is a large number Of boys with
plenty of spending money. the poorer
father. who feels the deDrivations re-
sulting from want of money, is afraid
that In such place the sense of depri-
walton and inequality Will be most
acute. The question as TO the effect OF
wealth on college spirit is one which
is constantly asked with great deal
of anxiety by all those who are Inter
ested in our colleges. rich or poor
graduate and non-g graduate.
Fortunately, those of us who have
looked squarely at the facts are able
to give a reassuring answer TO this
question. The increasing number OF
rich mems sons in our colleges does not
under existing circumstances constitute
a serious danger either to those boys
themselves or to the general spirit of
the place. There is enough vitality IN
our college democracy and enough
virtue i'm our college education TO take
care OF rich and poor boys side by side
and make both classes into useful citi-
zenS,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-06
GAZING THE BABIES.

AS truly as the boy is father to the
man the world of tomorrow depends
for it's salvation on the babies of today.
1t is good to see that more interest is
being taken in the saving of the babies.
Utah has always regarded babies as her
criticized In this respect as much as
other places. But even here the NOR
tally among infants is greater than 1t
should be, greater than it would be If
they were given proper attention.
In a speech delivered before a con-
ference called on the subject of in
FAINT mortality in England, John Burns
made the startling statement that more
than 100000 babies died annually in
Great Britain because of ignorance,
neglect, restitution and the evils of
herding large numbers of families into
small quarters. The city of Rochester
is a shining example of what can be
done to save the babies. A thousand
saved in nine years is a record that is
by no means bad.
Rochester lost 1858 babies in the
months of July and August during the
years from 1886 to 1885, Then the peo-
pie awoke to the seriousness of the
situation. Preventive measures were
inaugurated, with the result that from
1897 to 1905 only 761 babies died. II
should be said. too, that the population
increased by more than $4,000 during
the years last named. 1t may interest
YOU TO know how Rochester accom-
plished this great work.
In the first place an active and in
telligent board of health was appointed.
This board established pure milk sta
tions; every dairy that supplied milk
to any part of the city was carefully
inspected, cleaned if necessary, and
kept clean; circulars were sent out
broadcast instructing mothers in the
care of milk and nursing bottles, and
in their sterilization. Rules governing
pure air, sleep, cleanliness and cloth
circulars. The results have exceeded
the most sanguine hopes of Rochester
people.
Statistics from the city of New York
show that babies die there three times
as rapidly as outside of the city. OF
all the babies under years of age who
die i'm the state, three-fourths die in
the city Of New York. They are neg
lected, they are improperly fed and
cared for, and they are crowded TO
such an extent that it is almost impos-
sible for them TO secure a sufficient
supply of fresh air. The mortality is
higher among children OF native-born
Americans, and among the Italians and
Hungarians than among the children of
the Irish Germans and Jews. And the
American babies die mostly because
they are given artificial foods Their
mothers either cannot or will not nurse
them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-06
ELECTRICITY REPLACES STEAM

Announcement is made that the New
serk Central railway is to substitute
electric for steam locomotives on its
tracks from New York TO a point thir-
ty-five miles distant from that city. 1t
is expected that the change will have
been completed by Oct. Is. The asser-
ton is made, though not by any one
protesting TO speak for the Central
management, that this is the first step
toward the electrification of the entire
system. Tests have already been made
of electric locomotives for hauling
trains through the city. and they have
proved entirely satisfactory to all con-
oerned.
1t is said that there was an entire
absence of noise. odor and smoke and
that the new locomotives showed their
capacity for hauling heavy trains at
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-06
CHEAPER BY WHOLESALE.
CROSton Herald.)

When the late Charles Pease was
landlord at the Pease hotel at Hart
ford, VT, an old gentleman dropped III
one morning and asked for drink OF
brandy saying that he was not feel
ing very well. Mr.. Pease produced the
brandy with water and sugar and told
the old gentleman 10 help himself
handing him an ordinary drinking
glass The old gentleman poured out
an ordinary drink and, fixing it to his
taste, drank it. Smacking his lips, he
said, "That is pretty good; l guess l
will have some more" Filling the glass
well I'm this time, he drank the con-
tents and handed Mr.. Pease a quarter.
The latter gave him back Il cents. The
old gentleman counted the change and
said: You have made mistake, Mr..
Pease; you have given me back TOO
much change. I usually pay 10 cents
and YOU have only taken g."
well" said Mr.. Pease, 1t is
cheaper at wholesale.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-06
REMEDIES FOR LITTLE ACCl-
DENTS.
(Home Magazine.

For the little accidents that seem more
prevalent during warm weather, 1t Is well
10 have simple remedies at hand:
For bee and wasp stings, carbohc acid
soda or ammonia.
For poison ivy a solution OF baking SODA
or a weak solution of sugar of lead
Mackerel brine from the kit in the farm
cellar, or a tomato from the vines, VII
also be found effectual
For burns a dressing of saturated SODA
or equal parts of linseed oil and lime
water, Vaseline, sweet oil, butter-any
bland oil-but on no account glycerln
which is irritating.
For sunburn, cloths wet in saturated
soda and soft powders. like flour Laundry
starch or cOrnstarch. busted on.
For sivers, a fine needle, il too deeI
in the flesh to be reached by ordinary
means. fill a rather wide-mouthed bottle
two-thirds full of boiling water and hold
the injured spot close over the opening
The suction draws the flesh down, and q
little additional pressure will take out
the splinter.
For a bruise the best treatment is an
immediate application of hot tomenta-
lions. After that, witch hazel, vinegar
and hot water, or alcohol and water, put
on with a bandage and often moistened.
MOUNTS Ketchup is the spice OF the
Summer Luncheon. So says the Gro
ceFy Man,