Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-08-01

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The lad that is welded to cob pipe
at fifteen seldom If ever afterward con
tracts any other alliances that are
worth q continental
1t Is as true Of people as of animal;
that the disadvantages of poor heredi
ty are usually coupled with an unfa
vorable environment.
The fourth and last spraying of the
orchard was made this year on Aug.
and was for the purpose Of heading
of the work of the second brood OF
codling moths.
Hereafter a federal meat inspection
label will not only be conclusive evi
dence that canned chicken Is not can
ned veal, but that it was At for food
when put under cover
Drawn poultry, game and fish may
not keep in cold storage as long as
those undrawn, but at the same time
they constitute a much more whole
some and safer food product.
sian fly and chinch bug together d.
over $1OO,0O0,OO0 damage to the wheat
crop annually, two pests that the de
partment of agriculture has been al
great expense In Its attempts to Grad
icate.
The putting Of an extensive side hill
we know Of into permanent meadow Il
doing much to prevent the wash which
has annually occurred when the same
has been planted to corn. The crown
Of the hill as well as the fat is still
kept In corn.
Of fodder which Is otherwise largely
wasted, sheep turned into the stubblt
field destroy a vast number Of weeds
and weed seeds which usually come t.
a hasty maturity after the grain is cut
1t would be worth while borrowing
your neighbours flock in order to have
this job done.
A little leaflet recently prepared I'M
der the direction of the department OF
agriculture and issued from the public
roads division states that Of 15,11t
miles of public road in the state OF
New Hampshire 1,175 are surfaced
with gravel and 118 miles with stone
making total Of 1923 miles Of i'm.
proved roads, or about per cent OF
the total.
The 1900 tons of Chicago sewage
which Is daily turned into the Missis
sippi was held by the court which re
Gently tried the case brought by the
city of st. Louis for damages to bt
more than Offset by the 100000 fee
of pure water from Lake Michigan
with which it was mixed-in Other
words, that this mixture was purel
than the run of Mississippi river water
Among the annual weeds that ART
giving many farmers In the corn bel
trouble this year are the smartweeds
which got the upper hand as a result
Of wet spell which hindered cultiva
ton at critical stage. Once rooted
the ordinary corn pillow fails to dis
lodge them, while they are usually tot
tough to be cut by the surface or knife
cultivator. They are best cleaned GU
by hand where the area covered is mo-
too large.
Congress has lately appropriated
100000 to import bugs which will de
stroy the gypsy moths, which were
brought to this country some years age
IN an experiment to determine whether
they would produce silk. They didn't
pan out for the purpose mentioned
worth a cent, but rather began to de
YOUR the trees Of Boston. Later they
spread through Massachusetts and the
other New England states. The dam
age which has been done by them is es
timated at millions of dollars.
The growing scarcity of lumber and
the substitution Of steel and cemen,
for very many Of its uses direct at
tention to the supply Of coal, which Is
largely used in the production Of both
commodities. Germany's deposits are
estimated at 2s,O00,OO0,OO0 tons, those
of Great Britain and Ireland at 1893,
100000 tons, those Of France at 10,
O00,OOO,000 tons and Russia's at 10000,
100000 tons. North America Is credit
ed with eS1 600, 100000 tons, but this
supply is generally supposed to be faI
less than the deposits found In botf
Siberia and China.
Bulletin No. 100 issued by the Ken
lucky experiment station Is devoted
TO description and some account OF
the SO called cabbage snakes, panic
oyor which did the On bba ge growers OF