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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-06
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this sour milk in the cream goes into the
butter milk, the rest remains in the butter
and besides hurting its looks, 1t is bad for
the keeping of the butter. The only way
separator does the work perfectly but hand
skimming may also be done successfully
before the milk is clabbered. This careful
skimming entails a little extra trouble per-
haps. but the trouble Is made up for when
1t comes to churning. for such cream turns
to butter with less labor than that mixed
with milk.
The 'streaks in butter are due to i'm
perfect sailing. Salt darkens makes rich
err the hue of butter, the unsalted remaining
as when churned. II the salt is added while
the butter is still in a granulated form
uniform and pleasing appearance is the
result.
The color may be deepened il desired by
a judicious OF coloring matter but
nothing unless convinced beyond doubt that
1t contains nothing deleterious to the health
of the consumer.
Many still-use the old fashioned dasher
churn and think they must gather" the
butter before sailing. This Is not necessary.
II the churn is wooden one hole may
be bored near the bottom with a good sized
auger and a cork or wooden plug can be
used for stopping this hole
AS the granues of butter rise to the top.
buttermilk may be drawn off and water
poured in to wash the butter. This in turn
is drawn off and the operation Is repeated
until the water is clear and the butter is
then ready for sailing.
If the churn is an earthen one. then the
granulated butter and buttermilk may be
poured into a sieve which will hold the
butter and let the liquid escape, and the
water may be poured through again and
again till all traces of buttermilk are re-
moved.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-06
DAIRY WORK In WINTER
TIME
Some Sugge stions for Women on the Farm
Who Make Butter
C.. s. Carnman. Missouri.

"HE pale colored, streaked compound
sometimes specked with cheesy parti-
cles is not very pleasing to the eye.
and its taste not very agreeable to the
ton Of the odors Of the kitchen and the
taste of overripe cream or old milk.
This is especially true IL the milk is
limited in quantity and the setting in open
vessels is practiced. Where the milk from
lack OF better room must be kept in the
kitchen or pantry it should be strained and
heated so hot that the hand could COM
fortably bear the temperature and then re-
moved to cool rapidly possible.
This heating hastens the rising of the
cream and also makes the coming of the
butter an easy task. When perfectly cold
the milk should be removed to a tight cup
board from which all food is excluded. and
is in progress, there to remain until the
cream has risen.
The bitter. old taste Of butter can be
prevented by skimming before the milk
"clabbers," using a perforated skinner
that all the milk may be rejected and set
moderately warm place where it may sour
or ripen quickly.
This ripening process should be FASTENED
by the addition OF a little cream kept back
from the previous churning and much or
little-the cream should be churned twice
week atsleast.
There is often a temptation when the
quantity of cream is small. to save it till
a fair sized churning is secured, thus avoid
Is sure to sacrifice quality In the butter.
The cheesy particles which are so objec-
tionable In butter will not be present II
there Is no milk In the cream, for they are
what they look to be-particles Of hardened
cheese from the sour milk. The whey from
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-06
DUCK RAISING PAYS WELL
BY Miller Purvis.

KEPT a considerable number of ducks
at one time, but dropped them more
because of lack of room than for any
other reason, for / was under the i'm
preston that 1t paid to keep them for their
eggs alone.
Last summer / visited several of the
greatest duck farms in this country. On
were Matched for the New York market,
and sold at about ten aweeks old.
Another farm Matched and sold $4,000,
these being sold at ten weeks, largely to
summer resort hotels and in Buffalo. and
Other small cities.
was very much interested in these
farms and asked good many questions.
/ discovered that it costs about so cents
to raise, dress and market ten-weeks-old
duckling. and that about 81 is the price
received for II. This is very profitable
when ducks are Matched In large numbers.
/ also discovered that 1t costs about 10
cents a month to keep full grown ducks.
which makes the profit of keeping them for
eggs too small. Ducks do not begin to
lay regularly until spring opens. and they
sometimes lay as many as 120 eggs each.
AS these eggs are produced at a time
when eggs are declining in price there is
not much room for profit. after paying the
expense of keeping them a year before
'ns Say 0et they 20 cost s12o by the time they
begin to lay 1t will take them at least
nve months TO produce ten dozen eggs.
even IL they lay we'll This adds so cents
to the feed cost, not counting labor, and
we have paid out $40 to get eggs that
are not worth more than So
Where there Is a demand for them at
good price the growing OF young ducks Is
profitable, but for egg-production they do
not compare with hens In making money
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-06
WAY TO PLOW CORN

TTOW have you been blowing your corn?
n Throwing the dirt away from the
roots at the last blowing? Better
change your method and stop cutting off
the roots.
Maryland farmer says that blowing
corn, throwing the dirt away from the roots
is nothing short of plant murder. And he
is right. In Illinois, and in fact in all the
corn states it was the general practice
twenty years ago to pillow corn the last
time very deep. thus cutting off the roots
and Gripping the plant Many farmers still
continue this practice although it has long
been abandoned by all good farmers.
A good farmer in the South says be mas
taken out corn 25 days after planting that
was IA inches high with roots 80 inches
long. No implement other than the i'm
proved quadruple cultivator or weeder was
used on this ground from the time the corn
was put in until it was laid by
A cultivator of this kind not only destroys
weeds but keeps the ground in most ex-
cellent condition 1t does not ridge it, and
Is set so it cannot injure the roots.
Many corn growers set the pillow deep and
go ripping along between the rows and the
breaking and tearing of the corn roots can
be plainly heard Then when the corn does
not fill out and yield big a crop as their
neighbors' they wonder what is the matter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-06

in two months. Ten hogs will eat about
one-third of an acre in two months. The
heaviest yield OF rape cut from given area
was secured when the crop was cut three
times in succession about four inches from
the ground The yield was at the rate of
thirty-six tons per acre.
In sowing the rape crop the ground
should be we'll pulverized and in suitable
condition for the termination Of the small
seed. In this country fat culture is pre-
ferred to growing the crop on ridges, which
has been extensively practiced with this
crop in Europe. Sowing the crop on ridges
may have the advantage Of giving better
drainage, and this may be considered the
main object in using this culture. The
crops may be sown In drills 80 inches apart
or sown broadcast.
BY sowing 1t in drills 1t may be pastured
without destroying as much as stock natur-
ally would In having to trample over it
where II Is sown broadcast. The amount
of seed required will vary slightly accord
ing to the condition of the soil and the
method of sowing it, When sowing in
drills from two to two and one-half pounds
of seed will give the best results.
When sown broadcast three pounds of
seed is necessary. Large and plump seed
sown rich soil may be sown lighter than
where the soil is not In good condition, and
the seed is of poor quality.
Where too much seed is used and the
crop is sown broadcast, the plants will often
come up and turn a reddish yellow and
brown, which is an indication that a poor
crop must necessarily follow
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-06
KEEP PURE WATER FOR
COWS

n ROM my own tests in a dairy that was
n producing one hundred and sixteen gall
Ions day, stopping the water in the
automatic basins by the side of the cows,
reduced the amount of production eleven
gallons a day in less than one week.
This test was made on the same feed
and the cows were watered twice day from
the yard tank.
The decrease of eleven gallons per day
OF fourteen cent milk amounted to more
than forty-five dollars a month during the
winter months.
The basins at the top of the pipe are
fastened at the side of the stall or stanchion
and have covers that the COW lifts with
her nose when drinking. The water comes
In as fast as 1t is taken out.
The covers keep out all dust and litter
and the pipes are securely fastened to the
bottom Of the manger and are out of the
way.
Various makes Of automatic basins are
adapted to different sizes of pipe and all
have some good points in their favor.
Any man who has noticed cow go from
warm stable and drink a few pals of
ice water from a yard tank and return to
her stall and shake for an hour or more.
should be ready to introduce better plan
of watering in his stabe.-J. NJ Kelley.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-06
SAYS RAPE is GOOD FOR
SHEEP

n APE is luxuriant plant and requires
Il rich soil for its best growth. 1t will
- thrive upon clayey soils. too: and does
better than mangels or turnips. Light soils
are not rich enough for 1t and the crop
is usually light when an attempt is made
to grow II on such soils.
Newly cleared land and old pastures,
plowed in the fall and worked early In the
spring by cross disking and pulverizing are
especially adapted for producing a success
full crop.
There are several varieties OF rape, some
of which are grown for fodder and others
for seed. The seed varieties are ANIMALS
and are worthless for fodder The one
variety that Is to be recommended in this
country for fodder is the Dwarf Essex,
biennial, which seems to show a great
adaptability to different soils and climatic
conditions and to yield a wonderful crop
of luxuriant leaves. valuable for use as
fodder.
The poorest rape grown at the Minnesota
station on seven-tenths of an acre of ground
maintained sixteen lambs for twenty-five
days. In another season one-half acre was
eaten by twenty-one wethers In ten weeks
with an additional one pound Of grain per
head daily.
An estimate has been made that one acre
Of rape with grain will fatten 20 wethers
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-06
WORK AMONG STRAW
BERRIES

A MoNG small fruits there is nothing
~ the equal of the strawberry as
money getter. Results in yields that
would seem to the uninitiated visionary, are
possible where conditions are all favorable.
1t is none the less true, also, that yields
from strawberry culture will vary with the
seasons in greater extremes than any or
favorable weather during the blooming pc
riod, an extremely droughty fruiting
season may play havoc with our expecta-
tions.
There is not so much money to be made
from the bush fruits as from the straw
berry; but IL given proper culture these
fruits will return satisfactory dividends
fruiting season is heightened. furnishing
profitable employment for a greater length
of time
Then, too, it is not best to have all of
ones eggs in single basket, lest failure
In one crop leaves us with but little or no
returns for our labor.
Another advantage in having several
longer term of employment for our pickers
This is of advantage 20 them and often
results in securing better help and service
1t is not every variety Of strawberry that
is equally at home on all soils and under
every condition. The variety that is best
adapted to the soil of my farm may not be
the best variety for my neighbours farm.
In this respect the strawberry Is par
ticular sort OF plant.
The bush fruits do not show the pecu-
liarity to the extent that the strawberry
plant does. Any good soil will grow bush
fruits Any good soil, too, will grow straw
berries, but we may need to experiment
with different varieties to get the best re-
suits possible from our particular SOIL
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-06
SPRING WORK WITH
CHICKENS
q. G. wainwright, Illinois.

WHY do you eat beef at 80 cents per
wv pound. when you can eat ducks
turkeys and chickens which can be
than the above?
The spring time is here: the little chicks
are a chipping; look for the lice. as much
trouble is had with them.
The pure breeds always pay best and
only cost few dollars to begin with, but
the results will pay a percentage Of so
cents on each dollar invested.
When cleaning your heneries, be sure to
on the floor.
am often surprised at the space taken
up in some poultry journals for cats, mice
and rats. Nothing should appear in a
poultry journal but poultry lectures, goose
culture. turkey. quail and Belgian hare
Cats and rats should fight their way in
this country as the poultry industry did.
1t is best not to feed fowl too much Al
Lime should never be fed to fowls. They
can secure sufficient amount of such
gravel Many breeders say that their
Der of eggs, but one side of the eggs is
The cause Of this trouble is that the
organs that help form the shells are out
OF order or the hen is too fat reduce the
grains and the trouble will stop.
On many farms there can be found
large number of birds that have been prize
winners in AN early period of life, but why
cant market be found for them among
the various fanciers~ today? The answer
Is, they are too old.
few years ago had Barred Ply
mouth Rock hen that carried first prize in
show held at New York in 1894 She
was kept on my plant as a breeder until
1903. when l entered her at show held at
Philadelphia, where she came in second
What about this? Is she too old also
II the blood is there it will stay until
death comes.
One of the main reasons for which all
poultry men engage in the business is, the
egg production. The egg market is the
only object for the eastern fanciers say
eggs are used when the cash can't be Sc
cured.
The worlds egg record layers were fed
the following for one year Do not know
the amount, but it was mixed as follows
Five parts wheat. five parts oatmeal, three
parts milet seed, one part beef scraps,
three. parts cracked corn. Try your fowls
on the above and see II your egg basket
This. is very well but the cost is very
high at the present prices Of such feed II
they VIII feed about one-fourth grain and
the other roots. the expenses will be re-
duced and more eggs will be had
1t will always be found impossible to
nave nock In good laying condition,
being fed on grain. The following roots.
are highly recommended as an egg prod
ucer: Cooked and mashed turnips, carrots
and potatoes.
April is the first month of the beginning
OF lice and vermin. withdrawing is a
very good thing to do at this season or
should have been done before now, but it
is never too late to have II done for It
business, to have the houses clean and
sweet at all times. small amount of
carbolic acid should be put into the pail
of white-wash used.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-06
BUY BEST BREEDS OF SHEEP

n n UGH is often said about the quality
Nu OF the mutton that sells best In the
~ market. The demand seems to be
for certain qualities that are not usually
at a premium.
Breeders often ponder on the matter to
determine what they shall do II is with
them just TO breed and then to feed. When
sheep of low grade are placed upon the
market, the buyers scold because they are
not furnished with something better. When
something better Is sent them, they scold
because II is too good
A butcher in London. England declared
he dared not sell prime Southdown mutton
for fear he could not always supply ii,
and then he would be practically ruined.
The starting point In obtaining quality.
is the sheep itself The idea that sheep
is a sheep has long prevailed. and some
breeders falling to get any farther than
this idea, have failed a schoolboy fails
in following his copy In his copy book.
The copy set him seems almost perfect
He attempts to copy as best he can. but
misses 1t. The next line is little worse
than the first. and when he reaches the
bottom of the page. he has produced some
thing that bears little or no resemblance
to the original copy.
No breeder should be content with the
last effort as standard He should aim
high, and always keep In mind his ideal.
or copy, and not some subsequent. but dis
tant approach to It. In securing quality
the first step is the breed. and then the
feed. and these two 60 hand In hand In
producing good mutton.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-06
LITTLE NUBBINS OF FARM
NEWS

At the Iowa Experiment farm 10 BUSH
els of corn per acre was produced on ten
plots, not less than 85 bushels per acre
was harvested.
at Cane Fisher. Okla. About 200 Indians
on horse back and in wagons came from
all parts of the country from within a dis
lance of 200 miles.
!. There are 100000 Irish emigrants in
the United States, to say nothing of their
children. One fourth of these are in the
II principle agricultural states and one
half Of them are farmers.
The immense corn crop has made lively
demand for huskers. There is no doubt that
inventive genius to produce a machine to
take the place Of man in this work.
Many farmers in Ohio who cut their
corn too green find that much of 1t is
mouldy and UNIT for use.
Peach blight has gained stronghold in
Zion has taken hold OF the matter. Elk
perts will aid the farmer in combating
this disease.
Michigan celery growers have formed a
trust and small group of capitalists
neapolis. Mimi, in competition.
The friends of william Osborne, a farm
er OF keota, Iowa, who was stricken with
paralysis swooped down upon his farm one
morning and before two o'clock in the
bushels OF corn. 1t Is the greatest husk-
Ing bee the West has ever seen. The
Davenport Democrat is responsible for this
story.
One hundred million pounds Of prunes
are grown in the United States every year
and they are nearly all eaten In this coun-
One Of the best decorative and at the Same
time useful plants is the Trellis Tomato. Sec
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-06

One Of the best decorative and at the Same
time useful plants is the Trellis Tomato. Sec
advertisement. page 10.
Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1907-02-02
Are You Looking for A Place to Locate?
Are You a Business Man Or Perhaps a Farmer2

Every better his condition and is his duty do whenever chance is offered.
 There place where the crops irrigated country. In the Imperial Valley rain depended upon the least and there is always plenty of water To farmer this Is interesting bedause crop failure Is to be koned upon all.
 To the business the FL CENTRO presents promising field being surrounded by prosperous farms tributary its trade Most of the farming of diversified crop raising cattle tenng and dyng being among dusieswh tend ready money farmer the year round.
 No place California today offers the inducements natural develop ment does FL CENTRO and its tributary counly
 The chances here all that needed the disposition take hold of them Others have done this and making money There lots of and the possibilities for the future better than they have been the past,
 Write the Chamber of Commerce and they will put you the track of what you Address,
 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
 Fl Centro Cal J. Stanley Brown, Pres. F. C. Ravens, Sec.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
SAYS KILL The KIDS.
Back Bay Doctor Advocates Slaughter
of the Weddings.

Boston, June 1.-THE theory of the
survival of the fittest has a new
champion in DR.. Andrew Christian, a
successful Back Bay physician, Dig
athletic and thirty years old
IF mothers would be willing to have
their children quietly put to sleep for
ever when they are very young and
show signs of deformity or degeneracy,
the world would be better ne salo 70
day. "Of course that could not be
unless the women could be educated
up to the fact that it would be the
kindest way to end life which will be
of no use to itself or anyone else
eff l. myself, had a little child born
and If was deformed or showed that 1t
would be mentally weak, then would
be willing that it should be put to
death with no suffering, and it would
he the prudent thing to do because it
would saye-it from untold suffering la
ter This may seem harsh, but it real
ly isn't"
"A board of overseers of marriages
is what we want" he continued. THE
race is degenerating and some radical
change must be made soon or we VIII
in time have only idiots and imbeciles-
Just take for example what Luther
Burbank has accomplished with the
flowers Even more can be done with
human beings and greater results OBJ
tanned.
"Oniy the fit should marry only
those who are mentally and physically
normal and sane, those whose ances-
tors were clean or lire anu well pal
anced mentally.
'+To be born under right conditions
with as nearly perfect mother and
father. mentally and physically as pos
sible, is the heritage of every child.
and the man or woman who cheats -
child of that heritage is committing a
double crime. one against the child
and one against society.
1.-THE board of overseers I suggest
ology, psychology and sociology I
should think doctors, appointed by the
state. would be best These could have
lists of people in that state and so far
as possible CT their ancestry. They
could then decide certain period of
time to look the individuals up before
deciding whether a couple were fit to
marry"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
CAR SHORTAGE SITUATION.
Will Be Relieved by Increase in Car.
load Minimum Weight

Railroads generally have taken steps
to relieve the car shortage situation by
a substantial increase in the minimum
carload weight. This is one of the most
reasonable and sensible methods they
could have adopted for improving the
situation. 1t seems absurd, in times
when it is absolutely impossible to
provide enough equipment to transport
the commerce of the country, that that
which is available should be kept NOV
ing here and there with much less than
maximum carrying capacity in use.
In raising the minimum carload from
1000 to 1900 pounds the roads have
erred on the side of conservatism rath-
er than in the opposite direction, and
complaints heard loudly from those
who have been reaping some little bene-
fit from former leniency in this matter
are in reality attacks on the best in
terests of shoppers as a whole
OF late years the carrying capacity
of the standard freight car has been
increased three, four and five fold and
it seems absurd that with this change
in the carrying capacity of the car
there should be any objection to a
corresponding increase in the minimum
load. Shippers who cannot make up
the full ear have no claim reasona bly,
to full carload rates