Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-17

haust the potash, and this is just what
the trees require for healthy and vigor-
Gus growth. 1t is robbing Peter to pay
Paul policy to plant anything close to the
trunks OF trees. Leave the ground under
trees bare, and simply cultivate and keep
it mellow. Give tree the same cultiva-
ton you would hill of corn, and early
bearing and good fruit will reward the
effort. Stone lime is not injurious to Or
chards.
SOME one says that humps are going
out OF fashion. Don't believe it, because
Washington ladies are expected to know
what IS fashionable, and you could rest
sack OF flour on the hump you witness on
the unfortunate here. They seemed very
funny when they first appeared, and there
was an involuntary litter among those
who saw them. Now, no lady can do
without one, and they add so much to the
comellness of the human form the gentle
men would hardly know what was the
matter if a lady appeared without her
hump Washington Chronicle.
A SOLICITOR who had recently been en-
gagged by prominent life insurance firm,
returned to the office of his employers,
the other day, and complained that he
had been snubbed BIZ gentleman on
whom he had called ''Snubbed," cried
the manager, "snubbed? Why, what
did you do that he should have snubbed
you? have solicited life insurance from
the Atlantic to the Mississippi, and have
never yet been snubbed. | have been
kicked down stairs, beaten over the head
with chairs, and thrown out OF the WIN
dow, but snubbed / never have BEEN
The solicitor is driving a coai-wagon.
A JUVENILE Wright
Johnson, boy of six years, and Bertha
Sykes, girl of five years, arrived by a
train of the ST. Louis, Kansas City d
Northern Railway at the Biddle street de-
pot at 6 O'Clock last night. They were
recognized as having come from st.
Charles, and on being questioned they
said they had stepped on the train of
their own accord, and had run away to
get married. The boy is son of DR..
Johnson, of ST. Charles, Mo. The par
ents were informed by telegraph of what
had occurred, and the romantic couple
we're sent home by the 7:15 train, in
charge of the conductor st. LOUIS Demo-
crdt.
FAST WoRK.-The Northeastern Farmer
says: ga California correspondent, who
has eaten wheat bread at supper the ma
terial for which was standing in the field
at sunrise, says that when the grain is
ripe it is often cut, threshed, and put in
the sacks the same day Instead of the
reaper, the "header" is now generally
used. 1t cuts the straw midway, and lis
swath has width nearly double that Of
the reaper. With two headers and five
wagons large threshing machine iskept
running, and in this way forty acres and
1900 bushels of wheat are harvested in a
single day.
CONVENIENCE OF A DISH KETTLE
''You want nothing but dish kettle, "
said an old housewife in the backwoods,
to her daughter, who had just got mar
RED "Why, when your father and l
commenced, | had nothing but dish
kettle used to boil my coffee in it, and
pour it into a pitcher; then boiled my
potatoes in it, and set them on warm
plate, while | stewed up the meat in it;
used TO milk in it-and always
after a meal, | fed the pigs
out of the dish kettle. Sal, if you are
only mind to, you can use it for any
thing.
PROF TYNDALL illustrates the value of
a single potato by supposing that every
potato in the world but one were destroy
ed; that one wodld contain in itself the
possibility of again stocking the world
with an invaluable article of food. If
one potato would produce, when planted,
only crop of ten potatoes, in ten years
the total product of the produce of this
one potato would be equal to ten thousand
millions, which would be sufficient to
stock the whole world with seed. The
real value of that single potato, then
would be such that it would be better that
the city of London or New York should
be totally destroyed than that tuber should
be lost to the world.
Low VERSUS HIGH FRUIT TREEs.-An
Illinois fruit-grower, who has IL, 600 ap-
pie and from 1000 to 5000 pear trees,
finds that those with low heads of the
same varieties show at least two-thirds
more fruit, as large or larger, and as
high colOred as those with high tops. :"
To test the matter, he cut off in certain
rows all the limbs from four to six feet
from the ground, and in others encourag-
ed the limbs to start close to the surface,
and in the latter case neither thinned nor
pruned. except occasionally to 1op away
a too lusty shoot, in order to preserve
| Symmetrical appearance or an evenly bal
anced head; and the above is the result.
BLAND BULLARD, young man of
Lebanon County, KY, committed suicide
three months ago, and three days before
that upon which he was to have been
married. He now makes frequent visits
to the paternal mansion, apparently for
the purpose of annoying his father, who
had opposed his marriage. He comes at
night, and brings with him light, by
which he is distinguished and recognized
He Familiarity opens the door, proceeds
to his old room, and while there employs
himself in examining his trunk. Being
spoken to he answers not, but he otempts
to modest no one. Some thinl ,e is an
impostor trying to drive the unhappy
father to dispose of his farm at a sacri-
fee, others persist that he is true
specter.
THE lady enrolling clerks who have
been copying the new code, think that if
women had had the getting up of it they
would not have any more ludlcrous blum
ders than some now found in it. For in
stance, the Code Commissioners originally
provided that among the property exempt
from execution should be fifty sheep and
the wool thereon" Some legislator, at
tending more to the spirit than the letter
of the law, moved to insert after the
words Fifty sheep" the further exemp-
ton, ''six stands of bees" The amend
ment was adopted; so, unless somebody
takes unwarranted liberty with legislative
work, the new code will come out pro-
viding for the exemption from execution
OF Fifty sheep, six stands of bees, and