Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-06-20

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Not the least of ones assets in the
bookkeeping of life are good name and
the cordial esteem of ones fellows
The clover meadow, the manure
spreader and the King road drag con-
stitute an up to date and winning agri-
cultural trinity.
Tobacco dust is one of the best pre-
ventives of damage by the striped
beetles which attack the cucumber,
Squash anu InelOn vines.
We have known of cases where line
fence was the occasion for ill feeling
between neighbors on the best of terms
in every other particular.
1t is a wise man who can profit by
the mistakes of his neighbors and
hay IN oh, eli
experience to learn the lessons which
they teach.
Fruits, such as apples, bananas and
oranges, are tiptop flesh reducers which
have this to be said in their favor
that they will not ruin ones complex
ion, digestion or disposition.
A country school we know has been
greatly improved in appearance by the
making of beds for wild and tame
fowers-the result of putting into prac-
tice some nature study suggestions of
an enthusiastic teacher.
That agricultural system which will
result in the heaviest production of
barnyard manure will be found to
bring the largest returns for effort in
vested and will not only decrease, but
rather increase, the fertility and value
Of the farm.
1t is now claimed that the striped or
ground squirrel Is of benefit rather
than injury to a field Of corn, as it is
not the corn he is after, but webworms,
cutwOrms and other worm and insect
pests, and that the damage he may do
the corn is more than offset by the In.
sects he destroys.
Some 300 Fameuse trees in the writ
er's orchard belong to the ''lily" class
OF the Scripture, (which neither toll nor
spin" They have not the redeeming
feature of the lily Of which it was said
that Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these" They are
an unfruitful, scraggly and unprofta-
BILE proposition, and the ak is already
laid at their root
A lady reader of these notes gives
Us the following recipe for preserving
sweet corn, which produces an article
superior to both the canned and dried
product: Boil corn on ear till milk
sets, cut from cob and mix thoroughly
with salt at the rate of one pint of salt
to four of corn; pack in jar and cover
with cloth and plate. Salt should be
soaked out before cooking. Corn pre-
served in this way keeps It's flavor re-
markably well and is also tender.
A Pulaski county Qnd) syndicate
will this year devote 1900 acre farm
to the culture of mint. This product
demands peculiar sOil-black and
mucky-a drained swamp makes
good location. The company In ques-
ton is capitalized at $4,000, the rela-
lively large amount of money being
necessitated by laboratory and refin-
cry which are needed in the prepare
ton Of the product. The returns are
estimated at 5000 per acre when in full
filth.
4 factory employee residing in or
near an eastern city who bought all the
feel for his COW and flock of twenty
FIVE hens presents the following figures
showing the cost of keeping and
amount realized from each: The feed
bill Of the COW amounted to $92.S0,
with receipts from her milk and butter
product of STA, while it cost $2440 to
keep the hens, which In eggs and
poultry sold showed return Of
S102.01. The hens are thus seen to
have been much the better proposition.
Experiments conducted at the Mich
igan experiment stations show that a
succotash crop consisting of corn, peas.
oats, rape and clover insures a most
excellent and satisfactory forage and
soilng crop during the months Of July
and August, when the grass Is short.
The land on which the experiment was
tried was well MANFRED and put In
good condition, the rape and clover be-
ing sown broadcast and the corn, peas
and oats being drilled In, the entire
mixture being sOwn at the rate of two