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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-01-19
January II, 1909.

JANUARY -, lJU9.
Emmons Smith is home from
Aberdeen, for a short visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Hertz and
son Leslie went TO Iowa City We'd
nesday, for visit with Mr.. Hertz's
mother.
Norman Olson visited relatives in
Austin Thursday
S. r. Robinson of Britt was a
business caller here Wednesday.
Mrs. G. Wilson of Milwaukee came
Saturday for a visit with Miss Till
Meyer.
Misses Heck and Lansing of Os-
sian were Calmar visitors Friday.
Raymond Krysan of Festina is at
tending school here.
Calmar was we'll represented at
the dance at Fort Atkinson Tuesday
night.
Miss Diana Tenold entertained the
Elites Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. Carl Spinner of DEBORAH Wis
tied Miss Wareham Wednesday
night.
Mrs. Gilmore took her Sunday
School class for sleigh ride We'd
nesday afternoon
Mr.. "Opens and daughter Ger
trude and Mabel, are visiting the
formers sister in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. G. Peterson were
Fort Atkinson visitors Tuesday.
Miss Edna Hertz was at Ridgeway
Wednesday.
Little Erwin Wesselmann was
taken by Miss Mollie Severson to
Dubuque on Wednesday for treat
ment.
Mrs. A. Lemer went to Cresco
Saturday.
Claire Limbeck of Ossian was
here Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Holiness left Satur-
day for Milwaukee, whence they will
go to Chicago, and from there to
Louisiana where they will spend the
rest of the winter.
The Fireside Club met at the
Lutz home Thursday evening.
Hans Sandager and Anton Olson
attended the meeting of the Lincoln
Telephone Company in Ridgeway
Monday.
Mrs. Hertz took her Sunday
day afternoon.
Mrs. Holiness entertained the
members of the Bay View Study
Club Friday evening.
Mr.. Luce of Bonair conducted the
services at M. E. church in the abb
sence of the regular pastor.
The Calmar H. S. Boys basket
ball team went to New Hampton
Friday, where they were defeated
by score of 80 to %.
Mr.. John Hogan went to Cresco
Friday to attend his cousins funeral.
Miss Hattie Campbell came home
Monday night for visit.
Ed.-Poposhek was an Ossian WIS.,
itor Tuesday
Romy Huber was here from Fort
Atkinson Saturday.
Mr.. J.. A. Geising, one Of Calr:ar's
eldest merchants, died at his home
Sunday morning, Jan. 8. He was
we'll known and highly respected by
all. The funeral services were held
Wednesday morning at st. Aloysius
church and was attended by many
of the members of the R. c. M. j..
Society from neighboring towns, be-
sides many neighbors and friends.
AS a mark of respect, most OF the
business houses were closed during
the services.
About forty Calmar people attend
ed the play at DEBORAH Friday night.
A crowd of boys and girls went to
Ossian for sleigh ride Tuesday
evening.
Earl McLane is at home for a
visit with his parents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-01-19

You'll feel better after taking De-
Wits Little Early Risers, the safe,
sure, pleasant, gentle little liver
pills. If you would be sure of good
results insist on DeWitt's Carbolized
Witch Hazel Salve, the original. II
is good for big cuts or little ones
small scratches or bruises or big
ones, but it is especially good for
piles. Sold by Engbertson's Phar-
macy. Jan. \
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-01-19
California Book.

An unusually handsome book on
California has Just been published
by the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE &
ST. PAU. RAILWAY. 1t will be
sent to any address for three cents
postage. F. A. Miller General Pas
senger Agent. Chicago. 3-3 CAD
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-01-19

You get the best electric mes
sage there is to be had at B. e.
Bucknell's Barber Shop. Baths and
cigars In connection. a 16tf
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-01-19
HIGHWAY NOTICE NO. 1905.

To all Whom it may Concern:
The Commissioner appointed to
vacate a highway, described as fol-
lows: Part of Highway No. 81 ly-
ing between the south line of Section
16, township 80, range and road
No. 566. All of said part of road
No. 60 being in the west half of Sec
ton 16 and the southeast quarter
of the southwest quarter of section
8, township 80, range Z west of the
9Th p. Nj.
Said vacation will affect lands
owned by samuel Wise, Jr. and VIM.
Dresselhouse: has reported in favor
of the vacation thereof, and all OBJ
ections thereto or claims for dam
ages must be filed in the Auditors
Office on or before noon of the LIST
day of March, A. ID. 1910, or such
highway will be vacated without
reference thereto.
I. LINNEVOLD,
Auditor of Winneshiek County,
Iowa. "a
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-01-19

Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure
any case of kidney or bladder trouble
that Is not beyond the reach of medi-
cine. 1t invigorates the entire sys-
tenn and strengthens the kidneys so
they eliminate the impurities from
the blood. Back-ache, rheumatism,
kidney ayd bladder troubles are all
cured by this great medicine. Eng
bertson's Pharmacy. Jan.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-01-19

Boys leather mittens reduced
to 1Sc. Ben Bear.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-01-19

Auditor of Winneshiek County
Iowa. Sd
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-01-19
Peruna Secrets s
You Should Know w.

Golden Seal, the root Of the above
plant, is very useful medicine. Many
people gather it in our rich woodlands
during the summer. Few people know
how valuab BILE it is in dyspepsia, catarrh.
and as a general tonic.
Many thousand pounds of this root are
used each year in the famous catarrh
remedy, Peruna. This fact explains why
everybody uses Peruna for catarrh.
Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna
Almanac for 1910.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-01-19

Advertise In Public Opinion.
The Florida agriculturist., 1910-03-01
CantaIoupe Culture.

The following written by Mr.. Fuller
Briers, of Fruitdale, Ala, contains some
very good advice with reference to the
cantaloupe. Unfortunately, many of our
Florida readers do not fully realize the
Importance of taking care of and using
stable manure in growing such crops as
these, and thereby constantly improve
the soil. Of course, fine crops are pro-
duced by the use of commercial fertil
1Zers alone, but when these are supple
mented by the liberal use of stable ma
nure the land is constantly becoming en-
riched and there is no danger of it be-
coming worn out" Mr.. Briers writes
In preparing the ground for these
melons, after ploying deeply and thor
oughly the fall previous, after narrowing
| take a double team and two-horst
plow and mark the field deeply in
straight rows five feet apart each way
so that at the crossing of the furrow:
there will be deep checks with a loat
of manure driven astride one row, put
two shovelfuls in each check where
hill is to be made, doing three rows al
time.
eff you have large field, skip one
row after manuring ten rows, then ma
nure twenty rows and skip one row.
and thus across the field. The object
of this is, it saves manure and the
vacant rows can be used to drive your
wagon along in distributing empty pick
ing baskets to the hands and for receiv-
ing full baskets from the pickers. By
The Florida agriculturist., 1910-03-01

for grain production, it should be plant
ed in drills three and half feet apart.
If for hay and forage, it should be sown
broadcast. The amount of seed neces-
sary for drilling is about twenty pounds.
For broadcasting, not less than thirty
five pounds per acre should be used.
In any case, either for drilling or broad
casting, the seed bed must be of the
very best; the soil we'll broken and
thoroughly pulverized, and extreme care
exercised that the fertilizer is thor
oughly incorporated with the soil. Flu
ture cultivation, where drilled, must be
constant and thorough and very shall
low, for the small roots feed somewhat
near the surface, and if deep working
is practlced a number of these shallow
feeders will be destroyed.
Seed planted in early March will give
a crop ready for harvesting in mid
June and two other cuttings can be
mad after that If the seed has been
broadcast, the hay will be ready to cut
two weeks before that time.
One of the best uses to which sor-
ghum can be put, when sown broadcast,
is hog feeding. Hogs will thrive on
young sorghum as on nothing else, more
especially the young pigs. Hog raisers
should always have a sorghum patch
into which they can turn their young
pigs. For poultry, nothing equals sor-
ghum seed, and if the seed is allowed
to mature before cutting the crop, it is
good for all kinds of live stock. But
as a general proposition, it is not ad-
vlsable to delay cutting the crop until
the seed is nearly ripe. The best time
is when the seed in the head is full
grown, before it turns brown.
Sorghum has also proved very salts
factory for silage purposes, quite num-
Der of silos being filled with it entirely
and some silos with corn and sorghum
mixed-a half of each In Florida par
ticularly, this mixture has been salts
factory to degree
The Florida agriculturist., 1910-03-01

1Ity-1OOt space to deliver his iull basket
to the wagon and receive an empty
basket.
when your field is all manured, take 8
two-horse plow and cover the manure
checks with two burrows each way,
forming square hills, then plow between
the hills with a one-horse cultivator. I
always prefer to do this work the fall
before. [ have more time then to do
the work carefully and properly, and
should the spring prove wet one, or
dry, the hills already prepared the fall
before, will be in a good condition for
planting.
"When I am ready to plant, I take a
louble team and fve-tooth cultivator
md drive astride the rows of hills 1
weight the cultivator so that it will go
leep and tear down the hills. When
.'eady to plant in the hills I take the cul-
ivator and drive the other way on as
many rows as intend to plant that day.
swatch closely for the little striped
beetles as soon as your plants are we'll
lp, and when you first see them at once
lust the plants with wood ashes or air
,laked lime thoroughly. The danger
rom insects is practically over when
he plants have formed two leaves in
,ize about that of half-dollar coin.
"After the plants are up do not on
my account disturb or injure the roots
n any way, nor allow any grass or
weeds to grow in the hills When the
vines begin running, carefully turn them
lside, drawing fine dirt up around the
ill to smother any young grass that
nay be starting. 1t is my custom to
Keep the cultivators and float drag go
ng over the field twice week until the
vines are running too much to make
uch work safe. have never found that
[ have worked melon field too much.
"A melon is exactly in the proper con-
lition for shipment when the stem
slightly parts from the melon, leaving
10 traces of stem tissue. thereon, nor
my portion of the melon left on the
stem, this will always happen when the
melon is pulled too green. At the proper
picking stage, too, peculiar gray ap-
pearance is on both skin and netting.
This feature is readily recognized when
one becomes accustomed to picking for
market In dry, hot weather it is al
ways best to make two pickings, one
early in the morning and again late in
the afternoon. The shipping season usu-
lily lasts about forty days, and the aver
lge yield is about 400 bushels per acre
with 1,742 hills to the acre when planted
five feet apart. Some growers prefer
The one-half bushel climax basket, and
in many Of the melon growing sections
his is the package in common use. but
| prefer the one-third bushel handle Gil
max with slat cover intend, however,
o make up melon crate of my own in
vention to use in future, having tried
his on small scale and found it car
led the melons BETTER made much
more attractive display in market,
packed in the car more satisfactorily
md cost less than the BASKETS for I
make them up myself during rainy win
ter davs instead of cussino and discuss
ing ''the political situation at Uncle
Jisha's shop The melons should be
very carefully assorted before packing,
The Florida agriculturist., 1910-03-01
SORGHUM CULTURE.
Preparation of Soil and Directions for
Growing This Forage Crop.
By G.. K. McQuarrie.

and is IN great demand where the ra1S-
ing of live stock is part of the farmers
operations
There are several varieties of sor-
ghum, and some of these are better
adapted to certain localities and cer-
tain soils than others. The saccharin
sorghums, in which are the varieties
best known, generally give best salts
faction when used either as silage, cut
ting and curing for hay, or when grazed
by live stock. These varieties are dis
tinguished by their tall stalks and pro-
fuse foliage and their general sweetness.
The names of those most in use are the
Orange" and the Early Amber"
either Of which does we'll on the sandy
soils of the South.
In preparing for sorghum crop, the
land must be thoroughly plowed to
depth Of ten or twelve inches and the
soil made mellow and thoroughly pull
verized so as to maintain the necessary
soil moisture and take care Of the fer
tilizer applied before planting the seed
In the general rotation, sorghum
should follow velvet beans or COW peas,
because being a gross feeder and re-
quiring an excess of moisture in the
soil to do we'll, these crops being le-
gumes, add both humus and fertility in
the shape of nitrogen, so that the SOIL
which had legu1nes growing on it for
a previous crop, is best adapted to a
sorghum crop.
If the land has been broken in early
winter by deep blowing and all decayed
vegetation turned under, it will be ready
f@~s ~~10 M
A heavy application of high grade
fertilizer, say 800 pounds per acre,
should be applied broadcast week or
so before planting. Before applying this
fertilizer, however, the soil should be
worked over with a fne-tooth culti-
vator, then the fertilizer applied and
harrow or weeder run cross-wise of
this cultivation so as to mix the fertil-
izer thoroughly with the soil, then the
seed planted not later than a week af-
forwards.
The quality of the fertilizer cuts quite
figure in the productiveness and quail
ity of the crop. Every crop on the
farm should have the perfectly bal
anced plant ration that it calls for A
fifteen-ton crop of sorghum will remove
from the soil seventy-two pounds of
ammonia, one hundred and forty-one of
potash, and ffty-eight pounds of phos-
phoric acid, and it is along these lines
Of the crops demands for plant food
that we must be guided when getting
the necessary fertilizer.
A fertilizer suitable for sorghum
should therefore, have an ANALYSIS of
not less than four per cent of am
monia, five per cent phosphoric acid
and eight to ten per cent, potash.
If legumes have been the previous
crop, considerable ammonia will be-
available in the soil, to make up for
this we would better have a little ex-
cess of potash in Our fertilizer so as to
even up the analysis and give chance
OF an extra good yield.
In planting the seed, if the crop IS
The Florida agriculturist., 1910-03-01

When the cows teats become chapDed
and sore use a little vaseline after milk
ing and the trouble will soon disap-
pear.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-25
n LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. II

ly continue the light feeding for a
few days longer and give twice a
day one dram each of dry sulphate
OF iron and powdered nux vomica:
continue this for ten days or two
weeks.
To obtain the best results, a horse
should probably be fed almost all he
will eat up clean three times a day.
II he Is fed all he will eat up and
still want just little more, the
best condition is obtained. This, of
course, is only to be done after he
has been gradually brought up to a
full ration. To get horse on full
feed should take two or three weeks.
We are not told what feeds are
available, but II the hay ration can
be half pea vines and half corn fod-
der or grass hay, this should be sat
isfactory. II no greater variety can
be furnished, we suggest parts of
corn to one Of cottonseed meal as the
concentrate feed.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-25

Editorial Answer.-The habit Of
eating dirt indicates a disordered di-
gestion, or that the animal is not
getting what it needs in the feed.
We suppose corn and hay" means
some sort of grass hay. II this be
the case. the ration is entirely out
of balance. Some legume hay, or
some such feed as cottonseed meal
or oats should be substituted.
We would suggest equal quantities
of grass and legume hays. and one
part OF cottonseed meal to 3 parts
each of corn and oats. Or II oats are
too high-priced. l part of cottonseed
meal to parts of corn. Care must
be taken not to over-feed.
Give two or three times a day, for
ten days or two weeks, the following:
| ounce OF hyposulphite Of soda, l
dram dry sulphate OF iron, l dram
powdered nux vomica.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-25
Give the Hog What He Wants.

We believe it would be good
thing II in every hog yard there was
a supply of charcoal or slaked lime,
salt and wood ashes, preferably mix
ed, soft coal or soft coal cinders, and
bone meal lying around, whether in
a self-feeder or some other way al
lowing them free access to 1t. In
that case each hog can be trusted to
take what he wants. His natural in
stincts are good deal safer guide
than the judgment of the owner or
of any one else.
corncob charcoal will answer as
well as wood charcoal, and perhaps
little better; and the yard will look
all the better IL you rake up the cobs,
char them, put them in a box, and
let the hogs have all they want of
them. There should be no difficulty
about having a box Of air-slaked lime
anywhere.
We never knew a hog to root just
for the fun of the thing, or with
purely malicious or mischievous in
tent. 1t was finding something that
ii needed, whether worms for variety
or some mineral ingredient. The
best way to keep them from roofing
is to satisfy what is apparently an
abnormal but really normal appel
tite.-Wallace's Farmer.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-25
WHY WE NEED MORE LIVE
STOCK.
The One Way to Permanently Main
tain Soil Fertility.

Messrs. Editors: 1t Is a well-es-
tabllshed principle of good farming
that there should be at least one head
of stock, including cattle, cows
horses and mules, for each acre OF
feed stuffs, and one hog for each of
such animals. This in the West and
North where for at least one-half the
and fed.
While our principal crop. cotton,
might ordinarily make some differ
ence in this rule, yet our longer sea-
sons OF growth. enabling us TO raise
two or three crops in one year, more
than Offsets any difference that tna
raising OF cotton might make. Then.
too. when we raise cotton, we raise
for each bale at least 400 pounds of
the most valuable feedstuff. cotton
seed meal. containing nearly as much
protein as Is to be found in an acre
of corn yielding twenty bushels. II
anything then. this proportion of live
stock on our Southern farms should
this many.
The importance OF more and bet
ter live stock upon the farm is all
the more impressed upon us when
we remember that these live stock.
instead of taking fertility therefrom,
will actually add thereto. We all ap-
preciate the fact that more humus
means better soils. We also know
that. than through live stock, there
Is no more economical way of getting
humus. The old adage OF raising
more live stock to get more manure
TO improve our land to raise more
feed TO feed more live stock to make
more manure. etc, is not far from
true. Within certain limits. this cir
Gle can 20 on almost indefinitely. The
kind OF live stock to get depends
largely upon the individual taste OF
the man. The kind that 1t is easiest
TO get and that will probably pay bet
ter than any other is "His Hogship.
As DR.. Knapp so happily puts 1t.
THE hog Is the greatest fellow to run
his snout under mortgage. root 1t
up, and bite of the tap root that you
ever saw" and he doesn't get con-
ceited over his ability or tired OF do
in IL. either.
Then II is about time that, II we
must work mules. we were at least
raising them ourselves. One or two
good mares to be used for light work
and for driving, will return hand
some profit In mule colt apiece each
year and needn't say what this colt
would be worth. Those who bought
mules this year have n pretty definite
idea. ID. n. BAhRoW'
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-25
Depraved Appetite.

have mule that eats dirt,
and | think eats his excrement,
too. Will you please tell me
what to do to break him from
the habit? | keep rock salt in
his box all the while. l feed on
corn and hay. Would it be best
for me to mix some oats with
the corn? A. e. G..
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-25

IL gain only an average Of $1.OO
a head for the cattle and hogs which
| feed and sell, it pays me.-D.
Rankin.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-25
Treatment for WorImy Horse.

have bought very poor
horse, and he is awfully wormy.
Please give me a remedy for
the worms. They are small white
worms-also how to feed him
To fatten him up. |. l.. S.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-25
Editorial Answer.-T

Editorial Answer.-There Is no
one remedy that Is best for all sorts
OF worms which infest the intestines
Of the horse; but the following Is
perhaps as good and safe as any Tor
use by the average horse owner
Reduce the feed or withhold 1t en-
tirely for "a or SO hours, and then
feed very sparingly for several days
longer. Give one quart OF raw I'M
seed oil and tablespoonfuls or tur-
pentine after the horse has TASTED
"a hours, and "a hours later give
one pint OF raw linseed oil and z
tablespoonfuls OF turpentine. Repeat
this smaller dose once day until the
bowels move freely.
After the bowels have. moved free
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-06-25
De LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS

1907 and 5000
for several before, least
II 1t possible to these $4,000
Junk pile they have in fact
would make veritabe experience
impressive Pixies Peak
acquired though
silver
These $4,000 near"
aside to be replaced years.
OF them within
three and onehaf millions of dollars the
ably wasted three times that much
duct excessive repairs and time
through them while they
millions OF dollars and likely twenty-five millions.
What has happened in America this
been doubled throughout the of
gregates twice much perhaps millions
STILL this
who have do unfortunately
yet embarkng this
These figures a problem Of
Importance
MILK which the better this col
lective than
means exactly the same thing the other
These facts all capable
pense TO this and everncreang Junk pile mountain
OF separator experience
been doing and thinks it about time STOP
To such would that
continue its trade allowances"
cause OF the opportunity educational
for the practical
tween good and separatos and thus putting the
sale or others like them in the neighborhood
Any desired trade allowance
of the nearest De Laval local directly
The DEGLAvAL SEPARAT0R'C0MPANY
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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-10-13

More trouble brewing for Legislative
candidates in the 45th district A
committee representing the county
optionists has endorsed William A.
Rice Of ST.. Francis for senator and
Rufus P. Morton of Brickton for
representative. Messrs. Rice and
Morton had been nominated by the
prohibitionists at the primary cleo.
ton. Two years ago Mr.. Morton re.
ceived 1920 votes for representative
and he made no canvass whatever.
This year he proposes to make ar
aggressive fight for the place. Mr..
Morton is an affable and exceedingly
we'll informed gentleman and creates
q favorable impression wherever hi
goes. There is some talk of The
democrats putting a ticket in the fieli
butit will endsin talk. From presen
indications the probabilities are. tina
the entire republican legislative 'ticke
will be elected. :,