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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

due care in saving only the choicest of
the product for reseeding and had given
proper cultivation the standard would
have remained good enough.
In England. where the best cultivation
is necessary in order to pay the cost and
profits in raising crop, the average of
wheat is fully four times what it is with
us under our system of cultivation. With
US again the careful wheat grower will
get two or three times the average
produce that the ordinary one does 1t
is fact that, as rule, the majority of
our farmers, because the soil is virgin,
do not give their attention to the best
conditions essential to the production of
full crops.
The point we wish to make is lust
here. To insure satisfactory results in
farming as in any other business we must
use every means in our power toward
that end. Some farmers, while giving
great attention to the preparation of the
soil, often neglect to give care in saving
absolutely plump and sound seed. While
it is true that inferior seed sown on
acknowledgement soil will produce
far better crops than the best seed sown
on weedy or ill-prepared land, it is as
undeniably true that sound, selected
seed, combined with thorough and clean
culture, may mark the difference between
the really good farmer and the indiffr
ent one.
We have heretofore given directions
how to select seed by system of screen
ing out the smaller, though plump, seeds
and blowing out the larger and more
spongy ones If, now, the farmer who
has followed this plan with good results
make new departure and begins this
year to select the largest ears and heads
and give them extra culture, he will find
that this pays also. We believe this
plan, if followed, will go farther to prove
the economy Of high tillage than any
other one thing. 1t is true it is only the
reading farmers who can take full advan-
tage of the practical experience of 9TH
ers, but we are happy to say that this
small as it lamentably is com
pared to the whole, is yearly increasing.
. Western R,>2GZ
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25
Died Suddenly of Heart Disease.

How common the announcement. Thou
sands are suddenly swept into eternity by this
fatal malady. This disease generally has it's
origin in impure blood filed with irritating,
poisonous materials, which, circulating
through the heart irritate its delicate tissues.
Though the irritation may at first be only
slight, producing little palpitation or irreg-
ular action, or dull, heavy, or sharp darling
pains, yet by and by the disease becomes
firmly seated, and inflammation, or hypertro-
ply, or thickening of the lining membrane or
OF the valves, is produced. How wise to give
early attention to q case of this kind. IN
natural throbbing or pain in the region of the
heart should admonish one that all is not
right and if you would preserve it from fur
Their disease you must help it to beat rightly
by the use of such remedy as will remove
tae cause of the trouble. Use DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery before the disease
has become too seated, and it will, by its great
blood purifying and wonderful regulating
properties, effect a perfect cure. 1t contains
medical properties which act specifically upon
the tissues of the heart, bringing about a
healthy action. Sold by all tirst-class Drug
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25
The Uses and Functions of the Leaf.

The office and utility of leaves are be-
coming better understood by cultivators
than formerly; yet we find good many
still adhere to the old belief that the
suns rays shining directly on forming
fruit are what perfect it, independently
of other influences. On this subject
theory and practice have been invariably
found in perfect accordance with each
other. The principles of physiology
teach us that the sap Of tree, when it
passes in at the roots, remains nearly I'M
changed in it's upward progress through
stem and branches until it reaches the
leaves, where, being spread out in those
thin organs to light and air, 1t undergoes
a complete change and thus becomes
suited to the formation of new wood and
new fruit. Strip rapidly growing tree
of its leaves at midsummer, and from
that moment the supply of new wood
ceases and it will grow no more till new
leaves are formed; and if it has young
fruit the growth and maturity of the
latter will cease in the same way.
A few years since yellow gage
plum tree lost all it's foliage from
leaf blight when the plums were
not fully grown and while yet destitute
Of flavor. The fruit remained stationary
and unaltered until in few weeks a Sec
end crop of leaves came out. They then
swelled to full size, assumed their crimson
dots and received their honeyed sweet
ness of flavor. The object of pruning
should be, therefore, to allow the leaves
to grow to full size without being injured
from crowding. We find the following
corroborative fact stated in late num-
Der of the Nea0 England Farmer: " We
once knew an intelligent lady who
stripped her grapevines of portion Of
their leaves in order to let in the sun and
ripen the fruit; but to her surprise where
the leaves remained as nature had dis
posed them the grapes were the earliest
and every way the best. This led her to
investigate the matter, when she was de-
lighted to learn that the leaves were not
only the protectors but the caterers of
the fruit, constantly celebrating and sup
plying it with the pabulum it required to
bring it to perfection. "-The (London)
H0a5o,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25
Purifying the Blood.

MANY respectable families take it for
granted that some kind of spring medi
cine is necessary to set the human sys-
tenn in working order as winters cold
gives way before the approach of warm
weather; whereas it is only necessary
for them to "cease to do evil and learn
to do we'll" in their daily eating, drink
ing, breathing, working and playing.
Persons who have learned and pay
heed to the laws of health find no neces-
sity for spring medicines. They are all
Of the time purifying the blood by their
simple daily habits. They aim to make
their blood of good nourishing materials,
and to " cleanse" it by pure air breathed
into the lungs.
1t seems to me more and more aston
ishing that the human body can stand so
much abuse, especially in the way of bad
air. People shut themselves into such
close rooms in winter, especially at night,
that it is no wonder that they are
driven to all sorts of stimulants to whip
up their tagging energies, and no Won
der that they are I" all run down" at the
end of winter. One of the most com
mon mistakes is the supposition that air
is pure in proportion to its GOODNESS, so
that you have only to open a door into
an unheated room, which is itself a reser-
voir of foul air, perhaps, in order to ven
tilate sufficiently the living room or
sleeping room. But the mistakes in diet
alone are enough to account for the bill
iousness that prevails in early spring. A
winter diet made largely of fat pork or
of hot pancakes saturated with butter or
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

AMERICAN WoMEN.-It is melancholy
fact that American women have degen-
Grated in point of health and physique
until they have become literally race
of invalids. How sad it is to look
around US and compare the frail and eff
Terminate looking lady of to-day with the
hale, hearty and buxom ladies of DAYS
gone by. To all such the late discovery
of DIR. WALKER, Of California, which is
known as VINEGAR BrTTERs, is price
less boon indeed. For this class of dis
ease it is certain and safe, and any lady,
old or young, can take it with entire
confidence in the result, and thus avoid
what to thousands is a stumbling block
never overcome, viz. consultation with
family physician. IT'S true there may
be cases of years standing that will
necessitate more powerful treatment, but
in nine cases out of ten this remedy will
reach the disease, and after a little time
effect a cure. The number of ladies
cured by it are numbered by thousands,
and are scattered through every State in
the Union. 26
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Deterioration i'm PIantS-Care in Selection

If it takes twenty generations of sys-
tematic crosses and careful breeding to
produce family of cattle or horses that
will breed true to the type selected, it will
take but three or four generations to so
seriously deteriorate them by neglect
and bad feeding that the originals from
which they sprung would not be recog-
nized except by the critical breeder.
So with plants and useful grains-pa-
tent and persevering cultiyators, by
careful selection and high culture, will
bring any given variety in the course of
five or six years to such state of SUI
periority that the unobservant man will
declare that it is not an old variety, but
one entirely new. So in some respects
it is, for it has gained increased vitality
under the system of cultivation, and
therefore the seed, tuber, bulb or fruit
will not only be largely increased in
size, but the plants also will have &C
quired increased power of germ forma-
ton or reproductive powers. Indeed,
some of our older cereals are not now
recognized through the wild specimens
of the same family, and of the later ones
the potato is pretty good eXemplifica-
ton of the effect of cultivation Indeed,
nearly all our garden vegetables, which
must, perforce, be given excellent cuI-
ture, and have perfectly clean soil, with
a fine filth, to produce satisfactory re-
suits, may be cited as instances.
Indian corn, which, under the modern
system of cultivation, has make the
West the granary of the world in this
cereal, would, if allowed to grow among
weeds, fail to produce ears enough per
acre to pay the cost of husking and
cribbing.
We all know that each year brings its
ever-increasing list of new varieties of
grains, vegetables and fruits. Ninety
nine out of one hundred are no better
than their predecessors have been.
Many of them are old acquaintance un-
der new name. Thus by careful selec-
ton and the best condition as to seiec-
ton variety of wheat is doubled and
trebled in its yield. 1t is widely adver-
tised and sent out and bought by farm
ers, and for short time the inherent
vitality it has acquired, and perhaps
superior cultivation, enable it to produce
crops superior to the varieties which the
farmer then has, but in the course of
two or three years it begins to degener-
ate, and finally is no better, perhaps not
so good, as the variety cultivated pre-
viously. Who is to blame-the origina-
tor who, by his careful cultivation and
as careful selection OF the best grains
from particular heads for seed, has
brought the grain to perfection, or the
farmer who has allowed it to deteriorate
on his hands? Undoubtedly those into
whose hands the seed had fallen. If
they had taken the same pains in keep
ing it so that the originator did in bring
ing the seed to perfection the produce
would have remained identical with the
samples received, or if they bad used
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

4 r
BOILED CoDFIsH.-Freshen forty-eight
hours IN cold water, changing it often,
pare some potatoes, many more than you
\ wish for dinner, put them in a large ket-
tie and when they commence to boil lay
your fish over them and boil it until
the potatoes are done; make gravy
as given above for baked salt fish,
or you can use water in place OF milk,
adding more butter; in either case do not
salt your gravy if you pour it over the
fish, as the butter is usually salt enough
and the fish too. l#
NICE WAY TO Cook FIsH.-Pick it up
fine, let it stand awhile in plenty of
warm water; take quite quantity of
whitewater is good, but milk is better
and thicken it little with flour. Toast
some pieces of dry bread and lay them
upon a platter. Boil some eggs, enough
for the family; then put your fish in the
thickened milk and let it just come to a
boil. Pour this ever your toasted bread ;
cut open your eggs and take them out
Of the shells, laying the inside around
in the fish; sprinkle over them pepper,
and put bits of butter upon the eggs.
Where eggs are very plenty one is
usually beaten up and put in the milk
with the flour to thicken it. Of course
this dish may be varied by emitting the
boiled eggs, or the bread, or both.
BRIDES CAKE.-It has a right to the
name, having been used as such four
times last fall, with perfect success. It
has the appearance of snow, its only
fault being that it gets dry soon, as all
cake made with corn-starCh will. Two
cups Of pulverized sugar and one of
butter stirred to cream beat to stiff
froth the whites of seven fresh eggs.
Add eggs TO the sugar and butter; dis
solve one teaspoOnful of soda in one cup
OF milk and add the sugar and butter
and eggs. Lastly, put two teaspoonfuls
OF cream tartar into one and one-half
cups of c0rn-starch and one and one
half cups -four; stir oil well together
and bake with firm, steady heat. This
makes two loayes. If you wish season
ing use little se-water.-House10ld.
PARsNIP CHOwDER-P five slices Of
nice fat pork in the bottom of kettle;
let them fry until the fat is well fried out
clean seven large parsnips and cut them
up; pare and slice ten large potatoes lay
the parsnips upon the meat, then add
some pepper and salt, then the potatoes
and more pepper and SALT put in water
enough to just come up even with the
potatoes or perhaps little more, and let
this all boil forty minutes. Make
crust, roll it out thin and cut in slices,
lay this over the top of the potato, cover
the kettle closely and let it boil twenty
five minutes; if there is enough water to
hit the crust dip out some, as the water
is apt to make your crust heavy, and it
must only steam over the potato, and not
boil in the water. Save all the juice you
dip out, and after your crust is done re-
turn it to your choWder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

REV. DR.. PoRTEoUs is in Chicago and
they like him exceedingly. His habit OF
calling things by their right names just
suits them. The Chicagoan is nothing if
not child of nature. His soul comes
and goes as freely as the winds, and the
cry of the whangdoodle is music in his
ear. The East is still in bondage to the
tYrant custom, but out toward the setting
sun man exults in his freedom and speaks
at all times without tue dust of conven-
tionality choking his utterance.-Cinc6aa-
n0tS EnQuSrer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

THE MASON s. HAMLIN ORGAN Co. have
completed and now occupy their new
factories in Cambridgeport, Mass, in
which they have introduced machinery
to an extent never before employed in
the manufacture of organs. By the aid
of this they not only produce the best
organs, but with greatest economy.
Twice as many organs can be produced,
in proportion to the number of men en-
ployed, as would be possible with ordi-
nary facilities, and this is the reason not
only for such admirable instruments but
also for such low prices.
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HEART DISEASE CURED.
RocKpoRr, Spencer Co., Ind. Feb. 1,

RoCKPoRT, Spencer Co., Ind, Feb. l. 1874.
DR.. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, n. Y:
About two years ago l was afflicted with a
disease of the heart, which at times created a
pressure around it, almost causing suffoca-
ton. | saw an advertisement of your Golden
Medical Discovery, recommending the same
as a cure for disease of the heart [ then
bought half a dozen bottles of it, and after
using three bottles [ was entirely relieved
and am now enjoying good health.
Gratefully yours, VIRUS KILLIAN.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

ELECTRICITY IS LIFE.-An nervous disor-
ders, chronic diseases of the chest, head, liver
stomach, kidneys and blood, aches and pains,
nervous and general debility, etc, quickly
cured after drugs fail by wearing Volta's Elec-
tro Belts and Bands. Valuable book free, by
Volta Belt Co., Cincinnati, Ohio
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

WE have seen it stated in various papers
sale of She15dan'S CavazYy Condition POWDERS
We're authorized to refund the money to any
person who should use them and not be salts
fed with the result. We doubted this at first,
but the proprietors authorize Us to say that
it is true
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

AsTHMA.-This disease causes great Difficult
ty of breathing and tightness across the chest,
and sometimes attended with great deal of
suffocation. The paroxysm generally comes
on at night, while lying down; sometimes it
is attended with great violence Aliens Lung
Balsam will always give immediate relief, and
in many cases, if persevered in, it will cure
the disease altogether.
For sale by all Druggists
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

JoHNsoN's Aaody'ee Li1aineent is, without
has ever been invented for internal and ex-
ternal use. 1t is applicable to great variety
of complaints and is equally beneficial for man
or beast
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25
Reed 81 Sons, Organs.

If you wish to buy a first-class organ with
the latest improvements, the sweetest quality
of tone and the newest style of case, send to
Reeds Temple of Music, Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

PRUssING's wel-known White Wine Vine
gar received the Worlds Fair premium.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

GLEN FLORA MINERAL Water cures Kid
ney Complaints and Dyspepsia. Circulars
free. Address r. II. Parks, Waukegan, III.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

The NORTHWESTERN HORsE-NArL Co.'s
Finished" Nail is the best in the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

BURNETT's COCAINE is the best and cheaI
est hair dressing in The world
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1NheOtIlor " Orld.''
p. O. Box 5O55.

The Great Seusation of the Age Investigation of the
wonderful Spirit Manifestations at the Eddy
Homestead, We, by the New York Graphic Com
missioner. Most astounding results The whole coun-
try astonished. SO fulpage EagrGUings taken from
fe. Send for circular for territory terms ETC.. to
AMERICAN PUBLIsH'G Co.. 11S RandolphSt Chicago
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

To Make Derby Cakes.-Rub one
pound of butter into two pounds and a
half of flour; make a hole, and put in one
pound of powdered loaf sugar; beat two
eggs with three tablespoonful of honey
water, and as much milk as will make
half pint; add half a pound of currants,
mix all up together, make them of what
size you please, and bake them in a
steady oven ----- -------
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

fat VII. pretty surely bring some sort of
sickness in it's wake.-Faith Rochester, IA,
american Agr5cizturist.
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4 @ r KANE & CO. IG1 Dearborn ST., Chicago
FOR sale By a. n. KELLOGG. "a Jackson ST., Chicago
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A GENTS. Chang Chang sells at sight Necessary as
Asoap. Goods free. Chang Chang Mtg Co.. Boston
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q oaN month to gents everywhere Addre
. GVSEXCELSIORM MFG co, Buchanan, Micl
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srsf; o.; Painless ODium Cure 4 5ss

It'll 4 AGENTS WANTED EVERY WHERE-The
Nh choicest in the world-Importers' prices-larg-
LID est Company in America staple article pleases
eyerybody-trade increasing-best inducements
don't waste tine-send for Circular to ROBERT
WELLS, 43 Vesey St., New York. P o. Box 1857.
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DIRECTORY FOR ADVERTISERS.
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