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

The aesthetic two meal a day indi.
vidual is seldom found among wood.
choppers, day laborers or tillers Of the
soil.
The purity of salt, sugar, baking
soda and tartaric acid may be tested
by dissolving in water. If sediment
of any kind is left impurities are
present.
Crop report statistics issued for July
indicate that the potato crop is about
$4,000 acres short of the acreage of last
year, while the tobacco crop is some
10000 acres short,
I During the year 1904, 3,O15,675 acres
of land in the United States were
planted to potatoes. The yield from
the same was 332 $50, 300 bushels, an
average of 40 bushels to the acre.
If you want to have plants for win
ter blooming or to carry over to anoth-
er year, now is the time to start your
slips. 1t seems a little early to be
thinking about next year, but that is
nice flowers.
That is most incOnsiderate and I'M
grateful employer or housewife that
compels hired help to earn money once
working for ii and earn it a second
time begging for it. When money has
been fairly earned it in no sense be-
longs to the party for Whom the service
was rendered, but should be handed to
its owner promptly.
We are this year going to get two
crops from a portion of our garden
patch-early potatoes and a nice crop
Of navy beans, which were planted be-
tween the hills in the row about June
1. The beans so planted are serving
to keep the weeds in check and will
more than furnish what we will need
for the winter.
At a recent lumber dealers conven-
ton at Memphis, Tenn. figures We're
presented which showed that the pres
ent supply of hard wood In the coun~
try, 1,475,0O0,0O0 feet, would be con-
sumed in thirty-fve years if the pres
ent rate of consumption, $4,000, 0O0,O0
feet per year, were kept up and no
means were taken to renew the sup
| ply.
A Kentucky entOmologist is said to
have propagated an insect of about the
size of horsefiy which he claims
wages relentless warfare on the po-
tato beetle. He says that a dozen
of them will keep an acre of potatoes
free from the pest. If the fellow in
question doesn't belong to the vineless
potato class he has a bright financial
future before him.
The American Farm Products com
pany is the name Of new combine
of huge proportions which has in view
control Of the dairy, poultry and egg
output Of the entire country. The aim
will be to give the farmer larger re-
turns by eliminating the middleman
and at the same time to do away with
speculation and consequent tiuctuatiOn
in the prices of the commodities han
died.
One of the most attractive of our
common American shade trees and yet
one about which one sees very little
in the way of commentator Is the
linden or Eastwood This tree is a
quick grower has a large, handsome
leaf, and, while it sheds few small
seeds, makes very slight litter when
it comes to dead twigs and branches.
We would rank it for shade purposes
well up toward the elm and hard ma
pie.
A potato grower of whom we read
the other day has solved the problem
Of the weeds which usually go to seed
in his patch after the potatoes are ripe
by sowing buckwheat just as the vines
begin to die He puts his potatoes in
to a good depth so that little killing is
necessary, cuts the buckwheat when
ripe and later digs his potatoes. This
gives him two crops from the same
piece of land and, besides, the satisfac
ton of having his field kept free from
weeds.
With a view to isolating and pre-
serving the microbes which produce
epidemic diseases among mammals in
furious to agriculture, such as prairie
dogs, rabbits, spermophiles, field mice
and rats, the department of agricul-
ture has sent out circular letter re-
questing that any information or data
relative to such epidemics, whether
present or future, be mailed to it, SO
that the disease can be investigated
by the department specialists and mi
crobes producing it preserved.
If there is a little toddler in your
home requiring constant watching and
entertainment try the plan Of build
ing q little yard or pen about ten feet