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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25
MONEY IN TIMBER LOTS.

With the very poorest of soft wood
boards and strips costing all the way
from $50 to $50 per thousand and with
the prospect that the next few years
will see a decided advance on these
prices, the problem of future lumber
supply should receive serious and gen.
eral attention. In this connection we
wish to emphasize the recommends
ton Of reader of these notes, whose
suggestion as to the planting Of cotton
wood trees with view to furnishing
a future lumber supply was comment
ed upon in this department not long
ago. We are led to do so by noting
the case Of central Iowa farmer who
has an acre of cottOnwOods planted
twenty-five or thirty years, the lumber
value Of which Is today estimated al
from $1,000 to $1,000. and 1t is quite
safe to say that inside OF twenty-five
years more a similar tract would be
worth a half more than the amount
named. For all rougher uses on the
farm we see no good reason why cot
tonwood lumber would not answer the
purposes served by the poorer grades
Of soft pine lumber sold today. Higher
prices of all kinds of lumber are q
dead certainty for the future, and
now Is the proper time for the exercise
of horticultural faith and the planting
of generous areas for the use OF fu-
ture generations
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

1t beats all at how small price peo-
pie sometimes value their good name
when transactions Of certain type are
being negotiated. Many's the fellow
who wouldn't sacrifice his good name
for $500 who will do so without a
terated foodstuffs, shady eggs or dis
eased hogs or cattle. In a last and
fundamental analysis, with every arti-
Gle that a body sells. is transmitted
his own estimate of his reputation and
good name, and it is quite certain that
the public is wont to adopt the stand
ard of judgment.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25
Very Low Rates Tuesdays.

Every Tuesday, balance of the year,
the Chicago Great Western Railway
will sell homeseekers tickets to Min
nesota, North Dakota and Canadian
Northwest at about half rate; to other
territory first and third Tuesdays.
Apply to any Great Western Agent OF
J. p. Elmer, G.. p. A., st. Paul,
Mimi. State number in party and
when going. 15tf
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

Not in many year has there been
such q crop Of cherries throughout the
Mississippi valley as has been market
ed this season. Only sheer Incidence
or abject poverty has prevented any
family from putting up supply for
winter wherever there was wish to
do so.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

There are many cases where the hir-
ing of outside help for extra work in
the house will prove vastly more eco
nomical than the services of physi-
clan following a spell Of overwork.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

The careless shoeing Of horses in Sax
ony is prevented by requiring every
sheer of horses to pass public exam
nation and give practical demonstra-
ton to show that he is qualified for his
work
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

That is a stale and Anticipated theo-
logical conception which views state
of true happiness as only possible be
yond the grave. We question if when
the light of the resurrection morn
breaks upon the eyes of the redeemed
of earth they will view skies bluer,
flowers more fragrant or lovely, grass
of more satisfying tint or trees more
stately than have been provided by
the Creator to cheer us in our earthly
pilgrimage. Heaven may be here and
now if we but realize that it depends
upon a condition of the human heart
in which kindness, helpfulness and love
abound.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

Because one cannot be missionary
or a refOrmer he should not for that
reason fail in the performance Of hum
bier services-the writing of letter,
the gift of flower or the bestowal of
a pleasant smile or CHEEKY word-things
that in themselves require small effort,
but which may change the color Of a
whole day for some tired heart.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

Perhaps there is no more charming
instance of gratitude than that to be
observed in the return which we re-
ceive from the flowers to which we de-
vote our care. a bed of roses in our
yard furnishes a daily thank offering
OF beauty and fragrance, and though
its messengers are mute they teach a
helpful lesson of purity and unselfish-
ness.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

The Canadian thistle, burdock and
sweet clover seem to be fool plants
that come in where blue grass fails to
get foothold. All too many suburbs
Of our large cities are becoming infest-
ed with these pests, the first two of
which are particularly troublesome,
many gardens becoming infested with
the thistle particularly. being seeding
from the vacant lots adjoining.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

There would seem to be considerable
justice in the proposal Of the granger
Of central state who holds that mas
much as owners of automobiles share
equally with the farmer in the benefit
Of good highways they should be asked
to pay a portion of the tax levied to
keep the road in repair.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

The use Of farm products in the
manufacture of denatured alcohol,
which has been made possible by the
late legislation by congress, will not
only tend to relieve the farmer from
paying tribute to the oil monopoly, but
will tend to increase the price he re-
ceives for all products which may be
used in its manufacture.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

friend of the writer who paid 50
for twenty-five newfanglcd strawberry
plants contributed SIPS toward paying
the livery bill of the agent who sold
him the plants.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

Cabbage growers along the Missis-
sippi river are concerned over the ap-
pearance of cabbage lice, which are
doing much damage and are thought
to have been imported in shipments Of
cabbage from the south.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

Every spot in the garden that Is
available may much more profitably
grow some useful vegetable than a
corresponding quantity of weeds. Each
foot of land should pay it's share of
the taxes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25
BUTTER STORAGE EXPERIMENTS.

BUTTER STORAGE EXPERIMENTS.
A bulletin recently issued by the
dairy division of the bureau of animal
industry at Washington gives some in
teresting data relative to the expert
ments which have been conducted dur
ing the past year in the making and
storage of butter. Last summer 5000
pounds Of butter made in Kansas and
Iowa We're placed in cold storage in
Chicago. Some Of the questions as to
which these experiments were expected
to give results were a. the effect of
pasteurization, (2) the amount of salt
to be used, 90 temperature Of the stor-
age rooms, "a the use of cans hermeti-
cally sealed for storing butter, 90 the
keeping qualities of good compared
with poor butter, and Co. the action Of
air in contact with butter In storage
The butter was made from five lots of
received at the creamery and two
sweet. From each lot of cream two lots
of butter were made, one pasteuriZed
and the other not, and part Of each lot
Of butter was lightly sailed and part
heavily sailed. The butter was packed
in tubs and cans, some Of the cans be-
ing only partly filed. so as to test the
effect of air. A part of each lot of
butter was stored at different tempera-
lures, and the whole lot remained in
storage eight months. The results
showed that the butter containing a
low percentage of salt kept better than
that heavily sailed, that butter in full
cans kept better than in cans only
partly full, and, lastly. that butter
made from cream received sweet kept
better both in storage and after re-
moval than butter made from the sour
cream.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

The granger who went to considera-
BILE pains last winter to put up a supply
of ice on his own place is reaping a
large measure of satisfaction and re-
ward these hot July days.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

In 1890 the leather and leather manu-
features Of the United States were
valued at $12,275,470; in 1905 the total
for the same items was $3S,946,422
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

With fine large strawberries retailing
at $1.50 per crate it is a question
whether the berry bed. as ordinarily
managed, is paying proposition.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

The man who has a wife and fam
lily and who refuses to take the home
paper during the busy season because
he hasn't time to read it has an ex-
tremely warped and selfish disposition
and needs making over badly.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

Experiments which have been made
show that the runts in drove of hogs
do vastly better when kept in a sepa-
rate pen, where they can have better
chance at the trough. When kept with
larger and more vigorous pigs they are
chased from pillar to post and have
little chance to get the food they need.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

There are portions of Colorado in
which the ravages of the potato worm
amount to as high as per cent Of the
entire crop raised.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

While there is no trait that should
be more generously exercised or whose
tary than charity, it is badly prostitut-
ed when it's exercise affords a cloak
or shield for preventable rascality.
There is the charity which uplifts and
yet another which may tend to de-
Grade.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

A friend of the writer reports excel
lent results in Kidding his fields of
weed pests by blowing them in Au-
gust. In case of most Of the ANIMALS
this means the turning of the weeds
under before the crop of seed is ma
tured, while the batch that usually
sprout from the plowed surface are
in fine shape to get nabbed by the
frost. Our friend further says that he
gets even better results from what
manure he may have to haul out by
putting it on the land after it is plow-
ed with q manure spreader and disking
1t in in the spring than by putting il
on the stubble and blowing under later
in the fall or the next spring.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25
AcRICULTURE AS A PROFESSION.

AGRICULTURE AS PlSOtESSION.
With so many of the so called busi-
ness professions full to overlooking
and with hundreds of graduates of the
various schools Of the country entering
them annually, it is well to emphasize
the inviting field which is thrown open
to young men of today along agricultur-
al and horticultural lines. 1t is ques-
tionable if there is an occupation in
the whole list of business pursuits that
is today being given more careful study
and along which more striking results
are being attained than that Of intelli-
gent and scientific agriculture. We
know of no vocation which today offers
a larger return for effort put forth nor
enc in which the young man will enjoy
a larger measure of independence than
the one here mentioned. While success
can only be attained by the application
of brains, industry and perseverance,
it is at the same time true Of success
to be had in any other field. Modern
machinery familiar to all, coupled with
the conveniences to be had in the line
Of daily mail delivery, telephone serv-
ice and the extension Of electric car
lines, has resulted in practical meta
morphosis of the conditions Of country
life which existed thirty years ago,
while general education advantages, to-
gether with opportunities to follow sci
entific study at the various state agri-
cultural schools, enable those who have
the mind and will to secure adequate
preparation for agricultural and hOrti-
cultural pursuits. We have In mind an
illustration to the point. On completion
Of high school course and not having
well defined preference for any par
ticular vocation, young man We
know, after a thorough conference on
the matter with his father, who was
abundantly able to give him any kind
of professional preparation, decided to
prepare himself for a position in the
forestry service of the federal govern
ment. In view of the scarcity Of well
equipped men in this line of work there
is little doubt that there will be half
q dozen places waiting for our friend
when he completes his course at the
state agricultural school. And this is
but one Of dozen special lines in
which there is urgent demand for well
equipped students. For those who have
not the necessary educational equip
ment to take up the advanced work,
there are special short courses which
have in view fitting the student for a
more intelligent pursuit Of the ordinary
agricultural operations having to do
with the care and judging Of stock. the
study and handling of soils, drainage.
study of seed corn, grains and grass
es and allied subjects. Looking the
field over as whole and taking into
account the hundreds Of young men
who are fitting themselves for the pro-
LESSONS, as well as the increasing val
ue Of land, which makes almost i'm
perative the application Of the greatest
possible measure Of intelligence and
practiced skill, it is safe to say that
there is no occupation which offers
more inducements than agriculture and
its kindred fields.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25
Under the Turquoise Sky in Colorado

Is the title of valuable booklet on
Colorado just published by Rock
island Lines. Colorado as a Vacation
Land is most interestingly described.
The booklet contains eighty pages.
handsomely illustrated. 1t is printed
on specially prepared and dellcately
tinted paper, with cover in three
colors. Contains complete list of all
hotels and boarding houses in Colorado
and is filled with useful information
for the tourist. If you are contem-
plating a vacation trip this summer
you, should have copy by all manse.
Sent for three 2-cent stamps. Adj
dress L. M. ALLEN, Genreal Pas
senger Agent Rock Island Lines,
Chicago. 24l3
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

A section farm within a few miles
OF the writer's home has an amount of
Quack grass growing on it that would
cover forty acres If it were collected
on one patch. The passerby does not
need to be told that this deplorable
growth of long years of neglect and
slipshod farming encouraged by year
10 year system of renting. Under this
tie landlord squeeZes the renter, the
renter skins the landlord, with the re-
suit that there is very real agricul-
tural devil to pay in the shape of be-
fouled land and depleted soil fertility.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

Every form of distressing ailment
known as piles originates internally.
The real cause of the trouble is in
side. Manzan is put up in collapsible
tubes with nozzle. so the medicine can
be applied where it will do the most
good, and do it quickly. If you are
suffering with piles you owe yourself
the duty of trying Man Fan. Sold by
Brunt e Parman
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

Cement, which is today coming into
so general use for variety of pur-
poses, is known to have been used by
the Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks and
Romans, its most ancient form being
simply burned limestone used much as
lime is used today. The Romans were
the first to add clay to lime for the
purpose of making cement that
would harden under water. The most
important discovery I'm the manufac-
ture of cement during a period of
twenty centuries was made early in
the eighteenth century, when 1t was
discovered that the quality Of hydraul-
y cement depends upon the amount of
clay in the limestone. The Portland
cement Of today was given its name
by an Englishman who patented a
process Of burning lime and clay and
gave the name because of the resem-
blance Of the product to the Portland
limestone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

There Is probably no other agricul-
tural or pastoral occupation that ap-
proaches in point Of mOnOtOny and a
dead level of WEAKNESS that of sheep
herding. There are instances where
these men who have charge of big
herds of sheep in the western states
have gone crazy or committed suicide.
driven to do so by sheer desperation
of lonesOmeness. All kinds Of devices
are tried to vary the monOtony of the
herder's life-anything that will tend
to make him forget the herd in his
charge and give him change. 1t is
under such circumstances that one
comes to prize human companionship,
and even the presence of an intelligent
dog is highly valued.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

When once the start has been made
il is just as easy to raise thoroughbred
SIS dunghill or scrub fowls, while the
satisfaction which comes from the rails
ing of a flock of uniform color and size
is no mean consideration. The thor
oughbred fowls will usually lay as well
as the scrubs and as rule bring a
better price when put on the market,
both on account of size and appearance.
We know of nearby farm which it
is a pleasure to pass by, simply because
there are raised there each year from
100 to $50 full blooded light Brahmas.
The statement made would be as true
Of any other variety of chickens.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-07-25

While it occupies relatively a very
humble place in the economy of nature,
there is probably no one of her crea-
lures that fulfills more useful mis-
sion or in a greater measure earns his
away than the common toad. That he
performs q great service for the farm
er and gardener Is shown from the fol-
lowing daily bill of fare: Caterpillars,
cutworms, beetles, sow bugs, snails,
grasshoppers, moths, wireworms and
potato bugs, all of which damage the
farmers crops to a serious degree.
One who has made n close study of the
matter found I'm the stomach of one
toad seventy seven thousand legged
worms, I'm another thirty-seven tent
caterpillars, In third sixty-five gypsy
moths and in a fourth fifty-five army
worms. According to this same OBJ
server, In ninety days single toad
may destroy 1,100 cutworms, 1850
thousand-legs, 2,100 sow bugs and 800
weevils. The toad Is thus seen to be
u benefactor which should be protect
ed and befriended in every way posi-
BILE.
New-York tribune., 1906-03-23
ADAY'S DOINGS IN NEW JERSEY,
BILL PASSED
NAIL TITI4TING CLAUSE.
Committee amendment Stricken ont
after Vote on 1t.

trenton March p CspeciaD.-The Limited Fran
chise act was reported this morning to the House
by the Railroad and Canals Committee. of which
heed, OF Monmouth, is chairman It was re-
ported with an amendment to the effect that
the act should not apply to a mere crossing of
any highway The report was agreed to. Soon
after Martin caught on to the effect Of the
amendment. He asked that this bill be put back
on second reading for amendment. in the mean
time posting Perkins as to the meaning. Per-
kins' after the bill was back on second reading,
called attention to the fact that the whole act
might be vitated by what looked like a harmless
insertion
highways would doubtless be crossed by a
number Of the traction companies, he pointed
out and there was resemblance to an Ethiopian
IN the woodpile somewhere. Martin moved to
strike out the committee amendment Perkins
seconded it. Chairman Reed had nothing to say
ana the amendment was eliminated unanimously.
It appears that the amendment was given to
Reed by the railroad representatives. There is
nothing in the Limited Franchise act to show
that 1t applies only to traction roads, although
that is the undoubted intention. In the desire
to make sure that steam roads were not included
a railroad attorney hastily drew the amendment
this morning Martin discOvered-what the rail-
road men apparently overlooked-that their move
would have left trolley lines also Of Of the
most important provisions of the,aCt.
nan an nOuf later Perkins arose and moved
that the Limited Franchise bill be put on third
reading and final passage at once. Martin said
his attention had been drawn to a feature that
mlght make an amendment necessary. He would
like to have the bill lie over for a few moments.
There would be no delay, he said. Perkins agreed
TO this. The two had talk right after.
Perkins then renewed his motion to put the
bill on final passage. Martin seconded the mo-
uon. Perkins simply urged that the measure
was one the people demanded and the party had
promised to enact, and the Limited Franchise
bill passed by a vote Of As to o. 1t will now
go TO the Governor. The record Of the week
improved. for both the Trolley Freight and the
Limited Franchise bills are through both houses.
The Perkins Equal Taxation measure has passed
Senate.
New-York tribune., 1906-03-23
FOUR WRECKS IN SOUTH.
Sailing VesseIs Beacbed off Virginia
and Carolina Coasts.

Norfolk Va March 22.-Four sailing vessels
lie wrecked on the Virginia and North Carolina
coasts. They are the three-masted schooner
Raymond T. Maull, Captain Higbie from
Georgia TO Philadelphia which lies beached on
Gull Shoals south Of Hatteras; the three
Tnasted schooner Harland W. Huston, Captain
GasIdns from New York TO Beaufort. y. c.,
which lies water logged at Hatteras Iuiet; the
British ship Clyde. Captain Evans, from the
South for New York and Calcutta, which is
stranded south of Cape Hatteras, and the four
nasted schooner Harry T. Hayward. Captain
Colcord from Punta Gorda, Fla. 20 Baltimore,
which was beached inside Of Cape Henry fol
lowing her collision last night with the German
steamer San Miguel. Efforts are being made 70
save all Of these vessels. but no favorable re-
ports have been received from any but the Clyde.
This number of wrecks at one time is unprece-
denied in the marine history OF this coast.
The steamer san Miguel. which was in collision
with the schooner Harry T. Hayward last night,
proceeded 10 Baltimore this morning. Her main
mast was carried awav and deck trimmings and
stack were dismantled. large hole appears on
the water line, port side, aft amidships.