Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-09-11

1t is just fun alive to observe how
suddenly our democratic friends are be-
come farmers, and most intensely in
terested in husbandry. They, since
the Granger movement has been inaug-
urated are intent upon capturing the
Lodges en- toto. They are all, lawyers
and editors and bankers, very sudden
ly horny-fsted chaps with callouses on
their palms as big as hickroy nuts !;
and if you watch them, it is easy to
catch them on the sly standing in the
sun bareheaded, and counting the IA
yor the Sun God that bronzes the fair
and beautiful. You will find them
with their pants tucked in their boots,
and they use hay seed for hair oil, and
they wear pins representing threshing
machines or perhaps Durham bull, or
a scyth snath, and they make their
boys wear blue nankeen overalls and
they have suddenly grown wise in the
rotation of crops, and the application
Of manures.
For all this wonderful interest mani
tested the Changers thank them and
just lay back and laugh Good old
Brother Pease of the Montello Erpres.
has suddenly become a horny fstet
farmer, and wears clay on the upper:
of his boots, while the soles are a
clean as hounds tooth The othe
day, an honest old farmer met brothe,
Pease, and knowing how he had be
come an honest horny handed farmer
thought it would be very pleasant tt
hold sweet communion with him, and
discuss farm matters. SO he asked
brother Pease what he thought of Short
Horns. Bro. Pease had the ruling
passion strong in death bad, and not
being well up in the stock vocabulary
blundcred '.Short Horns [ don't
60 cent on short horns. The boys
don't want to take any short horns this
fall. This fall its business" The
good honest farmer was nonplussed
but he rallied and explained lit
tie.
Our good brother Pease now thought
he saw the point, and very wisely fel
in with the old man, that short horns
were good thing-"a good deal bet
ter than the old fashioned long horns
for the boys could hear them just
as far down in the field, and they
wer mt SO hard TO blow" Thi:
rather took the cid farmer ':down The
banks as the boys say. so he just
told brother Fease what he did NEAR
he meant real live cattle with short
horns. and Farmer pease did see tbs
point and most unquaiifedly expressed
himself in favor gof short horns be
cause they were less dangerous thar
long horns Oh the farm where the milk.
maids and farmer boys were 50 Gable
to be hooked. Eyes Short Horns are
what IRE want, nothing ike shor
horns" and then the Doctor asked the
farmer in TO see his new invention
a-doubled-and-twisted-- fourteen-horsc
power-thrible-veneeredmn1t,m en- pr
sne-lishtning-hister. for pulling beets
The farmer couldn't sec it.
FROM the Wood County Reporter
we learn that j. Q. Emery, who Is
we'll and fayerabiv known II many 0
our readers, is about to leave Crane
Rapids Ter :. new field of labor. Mr.
Emery has had charge Of the educa
tionai Interests Of Wood Co. for sew.
eral years past, and has wch for him
self an enyiabte reputation as teach
err and school superintendent. His de-
parture is much regretted.--S toHyhtos
Reporter.
Coon Crops. Our farmers were
never blessed with the promise Ct a
more excellent yield Of all kinds Of
cyons than this wear. Wheat, rye and