Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-22

of the common red clover. Drink of it
freely; say as much as pint day.
DO this, and your cancer will soon dis
appear. | have known of its curing
IN four cases, one which the doctors had
failed to give any relief whatever.
To CURE BUNIoNs. a fine linen
band tightly around the foot and over
the bunion, sew it on if necessary, and
wear it day and night bathe the feet
frequently in strong borax water. using
a teaspoonful of pulverized borax to a
basin of water
Picked APpLEs.-Three pounds of
sugar, seven pounds of apples quartered
and cored, one pint of vinegar ; steam
the apples till a fork viii go through
them readily; then make syrup of the
sugar and vinegar and pour over them
while hot, and stick Glove or two into
each quarter.
GLOSS FOR SHIRT BOSoNIs.-A laun-
dress gives the following recipe for doing
up shirt bOsoms Take two ounces of
fine white gum arabic powder, put it
into a pitcher, and pour on a pint or
more of water, and then, having covered
1t, let it stand all night. In the morning
pour it carefully from the dregs into
clean bottle, cork it, and keep it for
use. y teaspoonful in a pint of starch
made in the usual manner will also give
to lawns, either white or pink a look of
neWness, when nothing else can restore
them, after they have been washed.
PLANT TREEs.-The subject of. tree
1o1 oc
life and death in some parts of the
country. Wherever a country has been
stripped of its primitive forest clothing
the effects have been disastrous. Some
parts of this country, once renowned
for its fertility, are now sterile and I'M
productive Timber also has become
scarce and dear. In view of these facts,
the Massachusetts Agricultural society
has offered a series of prizes for the en-
enlargement of tree planting in that
state, the awards to be made ten years
from the LIST of March next for the best
results Produced in the interval 1t is
estimated that over a million of trees
will be planted in Massachusetts, this
year.
CoLORING BUTTER.-So long as Gus
toners are willing to give from five to
ten cents per pound more for the prop
erly colored article, it will be useless to
lecture dairymen upon the improperly
of the practice of coloring butter either
from a hygienic or moral point of view.
The article most generally used is an
nettO, which is the product of Brazil
ian berry and is there much used as a
ann6Il11 ont for oTo1
pure state it forms the best article for
coloring, and is harmless. A churning
of fifty pounds of butter does not need
piece larger than a bean, and hence
even if injurious, would be so diluted as
to be comparatively harmless.
CULTIvATING ORCHARDs.-As an in
stance of the good effects of cultivation
upon the productiveness of orchards,
the Vermont Mirror and Farmer notes
the following w d. Williams, of Temp
kins county, n. Y. has an apple orchard
of three acres and q half, which gave
him in 1875 5000 for the fruit, and this
year he expects about $4G0 worth of
Baldwin and Tompkins County King.
His trees are twenty years old, one-halt
bearing one year, and the other the
next except the King, which bears
every year. He had no success with
his crop until he commenced cultivat-
ing the ground twelve years ago. 1t is
plowed, and one-half sowed to corn
fodder, and the other half planted with
potatoes. The trees are pruned slightly
every year, and manure at the rate of
about twenty-five loads to the acre is
applied every alternate year.
BLIND STAGGERs IN SWINE. = Hogs,
t like horses, are subject to the blind
staggers. They are suddenly taken
blind and staggering, and in short
time go into spasms, especially if it be
a severe case of the disease. These
spasms OF fits last but short time only,
but recur at short intervals, and in one
Of these fits the sufferer usually dies.
This disease makes sure havoc among
swine where it prevails, and no farmer
should be ignorant of remedy to APP
ply when needed. Cold water frequent
ly dashed ON the head, the administra-
ton of cathartics and injections of tulr-
pentine and oil is one kind of treatment
recommended, and we know of no bet
ter. But in treating the disease partic-
ular attention must be given to the diet
ing of the animals mild, laxative
diet being required for some time after
the subject begins to recover, and re-
gain an appetite for food.
THE EFFECTS OF CRossING.-A report
which appears III a recent copy of the
Gazette (Eng) descriptive of the farm
stock in the Gowran farm. contains the
following statements in regard to the
plan for improvement by crossing: The
following, briefly, is the principle adopt
ed in the herd Heifers are bought, the
best that can be procured, and these
are then placed to Short-horn bull of
the first-class. The calves are allowed
to run with their dams and then fatted
off the following spring. The heifer
calves are reserved, and the bullocks
kept till two years old then fatted Off
The effect of good Short-horn bull is
wonderful, and the Gowran young stock
are simply models as paying farmers
cattle. The crops this year, it is al
lowed, are nowhere very good, but great
credit is due the steward for the ex-
traordinary cleanliness of the farm.
Though the turnips and mangels are
nothing remarkable, there was not
among them weed to be seen.
Sow GOOD SEED.-A seed in the pro-
cess of termination, under the action
of moisture and heat, has its starch
converted into a saccharine fluid, which
with the gluten furnishes the first nutri-
ment for the young plant. As the plant
grows, the roots begin to absorb nour-
ishment from the eartn, but while this
Is taking rAlacn ahSnrratinrn Is alSn rni1nnr