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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-18
Raising spring Chickens.

About the most profitable part of in the
management of a poultry yard is tie rails.
ing Of spring chickens. Though the labor
is considerable more in the needed care
involved in the earliness Of the season,
yet the prices are corresponding to the
labor. The subject is important enough
to elicit on exhaustive article of some ten
columns in the Exchange and Market, by
Miss 4. Watts, from which we extract the
following:
"With regard to feeding of fowls for the
table, much depends ON circumstances
Spring chickens may be put up for feed
ing as soon as the hen ceases to regard
them, and before they lose their first con-
dition. In their Advantageous they will
have no opportunity of picking up little
pebbles their mills, therefore, will be in.
oper alive, and the diet must consequently
be pultaceous, viz bread and milk, bar
leymeal, or oatmeal and milk, the meal of
steamed potatoes mixed with barleymeal
Some recommend the occasional addition
Of few grains of cayenne pepper, or of
dried nettleseeds, which the foreign feed
ers are in The habit of giving. Where
chickens have the run of good farmyard
and plenty of food, it is work of super
erogation to pen them for fattening, they
will be ready at any time for the table, and
their flesh being in its healthy state will
Je sweet and juicy, delicately tender, and
/ sufficiently fat. Some indeed, prefer tat
ted fowl but this is matter OF taste
TO many the greasy fat of poultry is very
disgusting. 1t is always found that pull
lets Matched in March, and constantly led
upon high diet, not only lay eggs abund-
antly in the autumn, but are, when killed
in the month Of February or March fol.
lowing, as lat as any one could desire
them 10 be, opening more like Mchaelmas
geese than chickens. However all poultry
are not kept ON high Diet hence their
their iattening Is in many instances neces.
sary. For tolerably grown fowls, about
three weeks confinement and feeding will
suffice. Many breeders give suet mixed
with larinaceous food very lsrgely, a
diet upon which the fowls fatten rapidly
and indeed often become loaded with fat
which make them look well 10 the eve
but their flesh ifn disagreeable, is in.
cipid, and altogether inferior TO that Of a
fowl fed well, aud running at large abou
a plenty-stoeked banyard."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-18
Mr.. Greeley's Exactness.

Mr.. Greeley's memory was as reteutive
as Pascai's His mind was a marvellous
store-house of facts, dates and events.
lie seemed to forget nothing worth re-
membefing. lie was political cyclopedeia
of the best revised edition, and entirly
trustworthy for the last forty years. He
was every hour of the day what the Trib-
une Almanac is at the close of Decem.
Der. 1t was hard for HIM to understand
how any member of his profession could
be ignorant or oblivious of ten thousand
things which few besides himself held in
recollection. lie thought every Journal
list should have at least contemporaneous
political facts and data at immediate com.
maud. With this exaeting standard, i;
may be imagined how often the editor-in-
chief was worried by what appeared to
him lnexcusable blunders. Not long since
there were in Congress two Representa-
tiyes of the same name 0et them be called
Robiuson), one Democrat, the other a
Republican, and both resident in this
state The Democratic Representative
was from Brooklyn, and the Republican
from Buffalo; and not frequently the night
editor, confounding them, made one ap.
pear in the paper as voting against the
side he really was on, or the other favor
ing a measure to which he was earnestly
opposed. Mr.. Greeley was extremely in
noyed at this but one afternoon, seem,
the announcement of the Republican
Rohinson's death, he declared there wa
consolation in the knowledge that the boy
down at the Office could not get the two
Rohinsons mixed up any more.
Imagine bis frame Of mind when, look
ing at the Tribune the next morning., t,
find an obituary of the living Democrat il
place of the dead Republican If M
Greeley had been addicted to the exces
sive profanity wantonly charged upoI
him by some of his contemporaries, HI
might have been provoked to clothe him
self with curses. But that obituary mas
tered him, Language failed; indignation
was choked. lie was never heard fter.
ward 10 make the slightest reference t
either Robinson.-Hdrpers Magasine fol
april
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-18
Farm, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
MISUNDERSTANDING and rinering.

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wheat-Winter-KilIing and Tillcring.
On the above subjects the New York
Tribune says:
| Winter-killing is constantly complained
of by farmers without causes being accu.
rately known. When sown deep, whe II
produces but few roots. When the ground
freezes and thaws many times, these roots
are broken, thus depriving the plant of nee.
essary nourishment and support, when it
either dies or only maintains u poor, sickly
growth. Sometimes wheat is thrown en-.
tirely ont Of the ground, whenit is sure to
perish. The natural remedy is good
covering of snow but seasons occur when
no snowy blanket falls. The artificial
remedy is understanding and il we'll
done it may be pronounced eiiectual
against winter.killipg.
One of the marvels of the wheat plant
is that known as tillering. 1t is the Sc
cret of its great productiveness. Many
experiments have been made to ascertain
the limits of this faculty, and the results
have been truely wonderful. An Eng.
lish gentleman sowed few grains of red
wheat June >, one Of the plants Of which
had filtered so much by the 9Th of August
that he then divided it into eighteen
others, all of which were planted separ.
ately. In a few weeks so many of these
had again multiplied their stalk, that he
had set out sixty-seven altogether to 60
through the winter. With the spring
growth all these began tillering, SO that in
March and April new division was
made and the plants increased to 500. 1t
was believed that another division might
have been made and that it would have
increased the number to 5000. The 500
grew most vigorously, exceeding plants as
ordinarily cultivated. When harvested
a single plant yielded over 100 ears, and
the whole number of ears produced was
2l,l0O, or more than forty to each divided
plant; the grain measured three and one
fourth pecks, weighing forty. seven and one
half pounds. All this was said to be the
product of a single grain of wheat.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-18

house on the Back Bay that we all went
to look at yesterday; and that's your
fairy palacew And Bright-eyes losses
her head in great disdain at such a com.
monplace story.
But l think that it is the prettiest lit.
tie fairy palace in the world, and I'm sure
1t all came out OF a rag bag for what is
Jansen & Co.'s Paper-Mill but great
rag-bag, Miss Bessie Bright-eyes, where
your humble servant gets his bag of money
to buy his fairy palace2"
And Mrs. McNeely, did she get q fairy
palace saucily asks Miss Bess.
Yes, in Pomp Court.-what she calls
an Elegant house.'D
"And your iather,-tell that over again:
/ like the sorry part hest, for that is Ger.
tam true, and you only make fun with the
fairies" says Bess, with great dignity.
And so Ted, or mir. Theodore Shaffer, OF
the firm OF Jansen & Coz as people say
now, told how bis father, Captain Shaifer,
came home from long shipwreckiug
voyage to find his wife dead, and his littl Q
son, report said, drowned,--for such was
the fate that was thought to have befallen
he child when his cap was found on
tllannergan's Wharf, where he was la.
seen. And here it was that Mrs. Me
Neeley's quick Irish heart was touched at
the little wanderers story of belonging to
nobody and nobody caring for him. And
one day, when Captain Shaffer came into
the paper-mill, and Mr.. Jansen called
Teddy "to show the gentleman about,n
Captain Shaffer. who could never forget
that name, began to ask questions and
the whole story came out, switch ends
my story" winds up Mr.. Ted.
80, but just wait minute did did
=" But here the door opens and Bessie
cries out, go Captain Shaffer, dear Cap.
tain Shaffer, you tell me the rest of the
story. Did you kiss Teddy when you
found he was your Teddy, in the paper
MILF
AS kiss you, little Bess," answers
Captain Shaifer, lifting Bess from Ted's
knee to his own shoulder. Which kiss
ends my story, dear reader.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-18
10 Cure a shern-KiIling Doc.

Under the heading, How to Do Dogs"
the New ! ork Times gives this suggestion,
which it credits to the Rural Sun: If
you have good dog that kills or runs
sheep, and don't want to shoot him, build
a pen fifteen feet square and run pole
across the top, and then pick the largest
and Oldest buck of the flock, put him in
the pen, get your dog with a collar
around his neck, and rope to draw up over
the pole, SO that the dog will have his
fore feet swinging ofTof the ground few
inches. Get Of the pen, aud let the buck
give him several good butts, and then
turn him loose. This is sure cure. 1
tried it on my fathers dogs when was
boy; never knew them to even cross a
field where the sheep were grazing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-18
Sugar Beets.

The successful manufacture CT sugar
from beets has proved, IN Freeport, H., an
operation necessarily involving large
capital. In the Freeport factory, the
capital represented is about $250,oOO.
Tho machinery consist, Of fourteen en-
giEes and puups. sixteen boilers Of so.
horse power each, over twenty miles of
piping, grinder machine for washing,
separating pans, filters, and other appll-
ances too numerous TO meution il vas
necessary to import from Europe an the
machinery employed, with the exception
of the engines, boilers, aud piping. From
forty 10 fifty tons Of beets are worked up
every twenty-lour hours. Profitable en-
ployment is given TO about 27O men. The
pulp Of the beet il employed in fattening
from 400 10 500 head Of cattle.
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ped will get more than his due proper
tom
Having used it on other animals, and
also on poultry in the extinction Of lice,
he condenses some recipes as follows:
For lice on pigs good plan is to rub
the pigs all over with soft soap, and then
wash them with carbolic acid water, as
strong or little stronger than above re-
commended for sheep.
For lice on cattle, the same method may
be adopted with or without the soap. We
should apply the carbolic acid water with
a sponge, and see that every hair and
every part OF the skin was wet.
For lice on dogs, the dog may be either
dipped all over, except his nose, eyes and
ears, or washed first with soap and then
with carbolic acid water.
If our hens were afflicted with lice, we
should be inclined to dip them also.
though we have never done so, owing to
he tact that we use carbolic acid freely
in our hen house, sprinklmg strong So
luton of it about the floors, nests. etc,
and washing the roosts with the strong
crude acid applied with paint brush, and
have never, since we adopted this practice,
been troHbled with lice.D
He recommends it rs dsir fectant, but
cautions the use Of it IN milk cellars, as it
acts upon the cream. As "a disinfcctant it
prevents fermentation, decomposition, and
putrefacton, thus neutralizing the forma-
ton Of deleterious gases and rendering
them innoxious.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-18
A New German Coinage.

The Prussian government proposes 10
do away with the perplexing variety of
independent coinages that prevail among
the petty states of the empire, by making
them all conform to new and improved
standard. The gold currency is TO be
based upon the valuation of the mark,
which IS about equivalent TO our silver
quarter; and the silver coinage will be in
five mark, one-mark, and hallmark rieces.
Smaller coins will be either of copper or
nickel, the issue beng limited to the maxi.
um Of 2 marks per head Of the popula.
ton, while the maximum amount Of silver
is fixed at ten marks per head. The strik.
ing Of the new coins will be open TO COM
potitive bids from the different state mints,
and the expense Of the manufacture
charged to the whole empire.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-18
From the New. York Evening Mai
In Fifty Years.

In lift, years from this bright hour,
Should you be dead, and l still living,
The iessamne win be in dover,
Its odors to the soft air giving,
Old songs will thrill the summer night,
Through moving clouds the stars Will glim-
mer,
But all, the world, now warm and light,
VIII have grown strangely cold and DINNER.
An old, old man. with weary feet,
Should that time come, will wander SLOWLY
Along this dear, familiar street,
This sacred ground, grown yet more holy
And think, dear love so kind so true
As grief returns with each dull mOrrsw,
That Heaven would be, wanting you,
Measureless pain, immortal sorrow.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-18

SpfNAcH.-This is a vegetable that can
be sown just as early as the ground will
bear working. 1t requires good soil.
Sow the round seed in drills foot apart
and cover one inch.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-04-19
A Deiuded Shark.

cit is probable says the Pail Mall
Gazette, ''that many valuable records
OF naval disasters and other incidents
of sea voyages are carefully slowed
away IN sharks stomachs. Within the
last thIee weeks no fewer than three of
these voracious fishes have been CAP
tured off the Scotch coast by fishermen.
The first caught was eleven feet in
length, and after being exhibited with
no small profit by its captors, has been
presented to the Dundee Museum. In
the presence of numerous body of
spectators, 1T was made the subject of
post mortem examination, when
among other articles found in it were a
mans bonnet and a soda water bottle
corked and sealed with red wax, and
containing note. The bottle was i'm
mediately broken, the note taken
out and read aloud to deeply
attentive audience. 1t was as fol.
lows: 'On board the Beauti
full Star, Sunday, September l, 1872.
We have crossed the Lne, and all's
well. Last night the captains lady
had pretty little boy, Annette Cor
dom A postscript to the note consist
ed OF some verses composed by the
writer, aud doing honor to her head
and heart. Some persons are skepti-
cal enough to imagine that the bottle
and the note were swallowed by the
shark after death, but what can be
more likely than that large fish. tax
ing violent exercise in salt water,
should in his delight at seeing what he
conceived to be bottle of soda water
gobble it up at once without taking the
trouble to uncork it. The disappoint-
ment of the fish when he discovered
that he had swallowed nothing more
exhilerating than a letter and poem.
must have been as painful as though
he had snapped off an artificial leg in
mistake for real one.''
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Death OF the Inventor Ct Spool Thread.

The English papers by the late
steamer announce the death at ripe
old age of Mr. Andrew Clark, the ceie-
brated manufacturer, whose name has
been associated both in the New World
and the Old with the famous thread
which IS In Universal use. He was
virtually born to the business of thread
manufacture, his father having been
engaged In that line in Paisley, Scot
land. But the young inventor soon
effected improvements which revolu-
tlonlzed the trade. He brought the
process OF manufacture to its present
perfection, and was the inventor of
the process OF winding it on spools
for consumers. Like all inventors Mr..
Clark was a self-made man. He
commenced business IA a small room.
but his improvements were so valua
bic that his business seemed only lin
tied by the capacity to supply the de-
mands OF consumers, and for years
before his death he was at the head Of
the largest and most celebrated factory
IN the world. He was the means of
converting his native village of Pals
ley into a great and prosperous manu-
featuring center Mr.. Clark few
years ago associated his son in the
business, which is now continued IN
der the name of Clark & Co., and it's
agencies are established all over the
world-in Russia, Germany, France
and other parts of Europe, and in
South America and the United States.
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Exchange of NickeIS.

Instructions for the exchange and
redemption, after April 1st, 1873, in
sums OF not less than twenty dollars
or its multiple, of all old copper-bronze
and copper nickel coins heretofore
authorized by law have been issued bv
the Treasury Department.. They pro
VIDE for the exchange, at par, at the
mint in Philadelphia, of ali such coins
authorized by the sixteenth section of
the coinage act of 1873, and for their
redemption III lawful money in similar
sums at the mint, and by all assistant
treasures and designated repositories
OF the United States. The expense of
the transportation of old coin and the
currency paid therefor is to be borne
by the party sending it, and that on
new coin by the United States.
Evans, the dentist, is reputed the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-04-19
Published March 81, 1878.
CHAPTER 295.

AN ACT for the better prot ection of cranberrv
marshes, pine and farm lands from fire
The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. If any person shall set on fire. or cause
TO be set on fire, any woods, prairie, or meadow
(elther upland OF marsh). cranberry marsh on
lands not belonging to himself during the months of
August, September, October, and November in any
year, every person offending shall ON CONVICTION
thereof for every such offense be fined in sum no.
exceeding five hundred dollars less than twenty
dollars, be imprisoned in the county Jail not ev
ceedng ninety days less than thirty days or both
hne and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court
And 1t is hereby made the duty of the county board
OF supervisors, when the circumstances may require
1t, to cause this law to unpublished in a newspaper
published in the county, requiring the same at
least once during the month of August in each year
Sec 2 This act shall in force from and aft er its
passage and publication.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-04-19

A HARTFORD photographer claims to
have discovered a new method of ton
ing photographs, which does away
with the use of gold, produces a finer
finish and will reVolutionize the bust
ness
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LAWS OF WISCONSIN.
Passed ri the Session OF 1873
Published March "a, 1881


CHAPTER oil.
AN ACT to encourage the artificial propagation
and the introduction into this state of the better
kinds of fish.
The people of the state of wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section /. There is hereby appropriated out of
any money ip the state treasury not otherwise APP
propriated the sum of five Mtndred dollars, to be
expended under the direction of Professor Spencer
f. Baird, United States commissioner OF fishes, in
promoting the artificial propagation and the intro
duction into this state of the better kinds of fish.
Sec ,. This act shall take effect and De in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March II, 1873.
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patent, they shall be- and hereby authorized and
empowered, upon the application and request in
writing of the patentee, his heirs assigns, which
application shall be filed in the Office of the secreta-
ry of state to revoke and annul the same And shall
thereupon refund he amount paid for the lands de-
scrbed in such patent, with the interest on the
same from the time of such payment, to such pat
entee, his heirs assigns
Sec. g. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage.
Approved March 12 1873.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-04-19

GERALD MASSEY, the poet, has been
lecturing on Spiritualisra in England.
He sails for the United States Septem-
Der l.
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CHAPTER 2Is.

AN AL 10 amend sections five and eight of chanter
one hundred and three of the general laws of 1879
emitted 'ah act authorizing the formation OF town
insurance companies"
Inc people OF the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate ana assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. Section i've of charter on. ba,dr.a
ana three OF the general laws of 1872 is hereby
amended so Is to read as follows: Section s. Fverv
person so insured shall give his unde rtaking bear
ing even date with the policy SO issued to him
binding himself, his heirs and assigns to nav his
pro rata share 20 the company Of al losses or dam
ages by ire CO Lightning which may be sustained bv
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Published March 25, 1871
TIIA D1vL'D 100
Published March 25, 1871
CHAPTER 205.

CHAH1Eh GU0.
AN ACT relating to statistics of property exempt
from taxation.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly. do enact as follows
Section l. 1t is hereby made the duty of all as
SCISSORS throughout tue state, when making out the
next assessment roll as provided by law to en-
ter in books or on blanks, to be procured and fur
nshed to them hereinafter stated, in regular or
der, in the name of the owner if known, from the
best information they can obtain, correct and per-
tnent description of all real and personal property
excepting such as is exempted from taxation by
subdivisions six, eight, nine, ten eleven and twelve
of section two of chapter hundred and thirty of
the general laws of 1863 in their towns or
wards not liable to taxation, and omitted from the
assessment roll, together with statement of its
value, for what purpose used, and the reason why
exempt, if ascertainabe, conforming as near as
practicable to all provisions of the law existing
relating to assessment of property. When entering
on such Lists the right of way track of any rail-
road plankroad company it shall be sufficient to
state its length In miles, without any further de-
tails,
Sec. 2. The lists so prepared shall be corrected
revised and returnd at the same time and substan-
tally in the same manner as provided by law for
the correction, review and return of assessment
rolls generally, and when completed shall be deliv
cred TO and deposited with the county clerk, who,
on or before the first day of October next, shall
make out and transmit to the secretary of state
duplicate thereof.
sec. 3. The secretary of state shall compile in
suitable form the information SO by him received,
and include condensed statement thereof in his
next annual report.
Sec. A.. 1t is hereby made the duty of the secre-
ary of state to procure and to be distributed
on or before the first day of May next, suitable
books or blanks for said purpose.
Sec. y This act shall take effect from and after
its passage and publication
Approved March II, 1873.