Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-11-13
Fertilizers.

BlltSDlldtCS VI tllC llld ihCl ut Vic pltStllI
time reminds me Of a little experience /
had a few years ago. | never had much
faith in patent fertilizers, but seeing a par
ticular make advertised, l bought a barrel
and put it to a severe test. Having a
three acre lot of underbrush that the tim
Der had been cut off the year before, I tool
fifty pounds and sowedi it broadcastover the
lot, and in one week | had as fine a piece of
timber as any man could wish to look at.
Wanting to draw some of the timber to
market, and having no cattle except a
pair of four weeks old calves, / took a
tablespoonful and plastered it between
their horns, and the next morning I had
as fine a yoke of six-year-olds as you ever
saw at any county fair. | had three hens
setting on thirteen eggs each. | took a
thlmbletul and scattered it over each nest,
and in fifteen minutes had fOrty-twO half
grown chickens just right for broilers.
l had a brother that was a railroad con-
tractor. Having a job on hand with about
two miles of track built when his men
struck, he could not get any help, so |
sent him ten pounds. He applied it to
the end of the road, and in ten days, seven
hours and f%ifty-three minutes the road had
grown to be 10S miles long. Help was
very scarce, and wanting a man to help me
do a job of work, could get lone. | had
a boy three and a halfyears old; | rubbed
on his head one t~easpoonful of the patent,
and in two hours he was a man grown.
After trying all the experiments, | had
some left, which | intended to keep for
another year, but, in reaching up to find
it on the shelf, | split some on my own
head. In ten minutes | had grown from
a man t~hirty-tive years to a gray-headed
man of eighty-seven. The balance | sent
to a friend that was an editor. He had
just started a paper with a circulation Of
three thousand copies daily. He applied
it to the thirty-seventh number, and at the
fortieth number the circulation had in
creased seventeen thousand daily. l think
it surpasses anything l ever saw in the
shape of fertilizers.-Agracultural Cor.
Danbury Nea1s.
A fANKEE named Pease has taken pos
session of the largest of the BONN Islands,
a group lying some five hundred miles off
the coast of Japan, and has raised the
American flag over his dominions. The
San Francisco Bulletin SAYS they would
make a desirable station for our navy in
Eastern waters. They were ~uninhabited
till 1926, when a settlement was made by
some sailors. In 1853 Commodore Perry
recommended them as an available depot
for the steamers which he thought some
day would ply between Japan and Cali
fornia. Subsequently Pease visited the
islands and took possession of the largest,
called Peel Island. He commenced rails
ing sheep, and has become prosperous by
trading them off in Japan. Mr.. Pease,
h is flying the Stars and Stripes, is
roa6u To ~, la n fNr~,al c1,rrarIor rf hio
right, title and interest to the people of
the United States for a suitable considera-
tion-amount not stated. Its not known
whether Japan assumed any sovereignty
over the BONN Islands, but it is intimated
that if the United States desire them no
objection would be raised by that Govern
ment.
A LEADING editorial article, embracing
comments on the politics of the day, is
said to have been invented by the late
John Walter, of the London Times, Be
fore he took that paper in hand, the daily
Journals did not seem to guide the public,
Or to exercise political influence. 1t was
a neos paper, little more. To the dismay
of his father, young Walter struck out on
an entirely new course. He boldly stated
his views on public affairs, bringing his
strong and independent judgment to bear
on political and other questions, and his
example has been followed TIL now.
THE Jerusalem pilgrimage, under the
protection of the Archbishop of Paris,
will leave Marseilles about the middle OF
this month, and OF the way to Jeausalem
they will visit Alexandria and the 18th.
mus. From Jerumsalem excursions viii
be made to Bethlehem, Jerico, the Jordan,
the Dead Sea, Mount Carmel, and other
places. The party will be absent about
two months and a half, and will return
home by Smyrna and Athens.
Two PERSONS who have chosen each
other out of all the species, with the de-
sign to be each others mutual comfort
and entertainment, have, in that action,
bound themselves to be good-humored,
affable, discreet, forgiving, patient and
joyful, with respect to each others Trail
ties and perfections, to the end Of their
! lives.-AddSson.