Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-07-25
CORN RREAn.-

One good egg that you would beat,
~ Half cup OF molasses too, n ~ .'..
Hall cup sugar add thereto; -vr
With one spoonful of butter new ~ -s
Salt and soda each spoon;
La. Mix up quickly and bake it soon: 80
Then you II have corn bread complete
Best of all corn bread YOU meet ~ 81
1t Will make your boys eyes shine.
h. If he's like that boy Of mine: -.-p
If you have dozen boys,
r, To increase your household jays,s.ss g,...-.-
Double then. this-rUIc, l should,
And you'll have two corn cakes good, 57-.-
When you've nothing nice for tea:
:Ihls the very thing will be; 81 1T
AHthe men that l have seen i 'Al' -
Say 1t Is of cakes the queen;Ea .-r-- con
Good enough for any king ''' E''"
Inat husband and home can bring: b
Warming up the human stove,
I. Cheering up the hearts you love: ~
And only 1yndall can explain
=. the links between corn bread and BRAIN
! 70 Get a husband what he likes. ~ s-@f'
And save hundred household strikes
Lydia II. NHfdFd.
IHE American agricultural zimple-
ments at the Paris Exposition are pro
nounced by French journals unrivaled
III Europe. Oregon and California
wheat attracts great attention, also the
mineral products from the Pacific coast.
The number of articles sent for exhi-
bition is double that sent to Paris in
1867, or to Vienna in 1878.
If farmers think they have any rights.
and deem them. worthy of preservation,
they must devise some plan for acting
in concert, for individually they are
helpless against organized bodies whose
! interests conflict. Farmers clubs are
excellent institutions, so far as they 90:
but these are. necessarily limited In
! their action, as there is no bond of union
to cement them into a formidable or
efficient working body Exchange.
HINTS ON WORKING BUTTER.-Do not
work too much nor too fast. Work
slowly until all is thoroughly and even
/ ly absorbed, otherwise the butterwill not
be of uniform color. Working it. too
fast will destroy the grain, and the but
ter becomes salvy and lard-like in its
texture. Let it stand or put it away on
the tray for tWenty-fOur hours. Then
work 1t enough to remove all the but
termilk or surplus brine, so that the
butter may become dry or like Il piece
of cheese. Mold into rolls and set these
away for, twenty-four hours, or until
they become hard and firm. The cloth
should now be put on, so as to cover
one end, while the other is left open for
the stamp. The cloth should be cut in
pieces of exact size and dipped in brine,
and the butter rolled when the cloth is
dripping wet. Butter should never
come in contact with the bare hand.
When in bulk it can be easily handled
with a ladle and flat paddIe.-Jouraaal
Of Chemistry.
WEEDs.-Weeds are like BanQuos
ghost. They will not "dowriat YOUR
bidding" No matter how much you
mutiIate TIL EN-, and disturb the soil I'M
der them, if you leave them on the sur
face in rainy day they will persist in
growing, They cling to life like cats
and some other animals, which, strange
as it may seem, prefer to live rather than
die. But no tender hearted sentimental
ism mustbe alloWedto come in andwean-
en- the efforts of the agricultural army in
its war of determination against the
weeds. No looping off here and there
leaf Or Il sprout will amount to anything.
No halfway work will answer the pur-
pose; the evil must be removed root
and branch, prohibited, suppressed OBJ
liberated. If you adopt the false theory
that mild measures are best, and mere
ly cut off the tops while the roots are
left IN the ground, you will soon
find them springing up with more vigor
and power for mischief than before.
Radical mearures and no other are in
order among June weeds 1t is not
necessary for the legislature to proclaim
a prohibitory law against them. The
law of nature and self preservation
demands that they be exercised, BAN
ished put down, and this law must be
enforced, or they will get the advantage
of the corn and potatoes. and when
harvest time comes there will be moth
ing but weeds to harvest Vermont Re
cord and Farmer.
How TO TELL A HORSES AGE-A horse
has forty teeth, composed of twelve in
cisors, four tushes and twenty-four mo-
lars; the mare has corresponding teeth,
except the tushes, which are in the fe-
male almost invariably absent, hence
bshe has only thirty-six. All teeth are
composed essentially of enamel, den
tine and crusto petrOsa. A curious but
remarkable fact presents itself respect
ing the growth of horses teeth, which is
not common to other animals, namely;
that the teeth are growing continually
from their development to the animals
death. They are forced up from their
sockets to supply the material removed
by attrition. Tushes are never shed;
they make their appearance between
the animals four and a half and fifth
year, hence if they are just protruding
we know, without any confirmatory ev-
idence, the ho1ses age. Either at birth
or from one to four days afterward. the
colt has four milk teeth, called the cen
trails. The lateral teeth appear between
four and six weeks after birth, the cor
ner teeth about the eight month. The
centrals, or those which first make their
appearance, are shed between two and
a half and three years; the laterals are
shed between three and q half ard four
years; the corner teeth between four
and a half and FIVE About this time
or little before the tushes are full
grown, the animal is said, in horse
mans phraseology, to have full mouth.
We come now to the important part OF
the subject, where an animals age is
determined by the appearance of the
black spots, or more correctly, the in
fundibulum. The infundibulum or
black marks are worn out of the supe-
rior or smooth surface of the lower jaw
at years old, and that of the lateral
are commencing to disappear, and is
completed at the 9TH year, thus at this
age we find the wearing surface of both
central and lateral inferior teeth smooth;
the black marks having been worn
away by attritIon, and the marks of the
corner teeth begin to disappe ar. and