Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-30
AGRICULTURAL.

1T Is now admitted that the crow de-
stroys more grasshoppers than any
other bird.
The estimated number of horses in
the United States is eight million, Hi
nos ranking first in number.
BRAzos county, Texas, has an okra
stock sixteen feet high, with one hun
dred and twenty-seven pods on it.
IT is said that lice may be kept from
poultry by placing pieces of the bark
OF sassatrass root IN their nest.
THE Pennsylvania State Dairymen's
association will hold its annual meeting
il Meadville, Feb. and 6.
THE epizootic has made its appear
ance at North Amherst, O., and has
done some great damage among horses.
THE best of all soils on which to es-
tablish a poultry yard is gravel or
sand, resting on a substratum of gravel.
THE winter meeting of the National
Agricultural congress will be held at
Nashville, Feb. % to q, inclusive.
1T is said that the cut-worm never
damages crops on land where sheep
have been pastured the year before
planting.
THE latest horticultural humbug is
the grapevine raspberry" 1t is
failure both as a grapevine and as d
raspberry.
POTATOES are being sent from Michi-
gan to New York in cars having double
walls, which are warmed by means of
stove.
THE twentieth annual meeting of the
Missouri State horticultural society
will be held in Jefferson city on the
2S!h day Of January.
IF q farmer or a business man wants
to find out now great a spendthrift he
is, let him keep an exact memorandum
of all the time idly spent.
COOKED meat chopped up and mixed
with other feed is not only relished by
fowls, but gives back the strength lost
during the moulting process.
NJ. MEEHAM, horticulturist of much
experience, says he never saw blight on
pear trees that were whitewashed. He
believes it to be an absolute remedy.
THE yield of sugar in Uvalde county,
Texas, will average from seventeen to
nineteen pounds per acre, with the
usual amount of molasses, and both
the sugar and molasses are of high
grade.
THE Illinois state board of agricul-
ture, at its session commencing Tues
day, Jan. IA, reelected S. D. Fisher
secretary, and j. w. Bum treasurer.
The last Monday in September next
was fixed as the first day of the state
fair.
JAMES JAMES, probably fhe Oldest
man IN Texas, recently died, aged Ia
years months and % days. He was
born near the Red House, Prince Will
liam county, Va, May 10, 1894. In
his 109th year he cultivated a water
melon patch and realized off the same
$125.
ACCORDING TO the statistics of 1873
there were 9,749, 1888 acres of timbered
land in Ohio. In 1877 there were but
SLY, $40 acres. If these figures are
correct they show the destruction of
over 4 100000 acres of timbered land
in Ohio in seven years. Gov. Bishop
Ctt1lS dGICIIGlOl1 W lliG IIlGJGGCI dllu
els halt.
THE number of persons who visited
the Smithfeld, England, fat cattle show
was over one hundred thousand. Most
of the members of the royal family
were present. The number of animals
present was: Cattle, one hundred and
eightytwo: sheep, one hundred and
fifty-six; pigs, sixty-three; and the
prizes distributed, $4,000 against $500
in the year 1900.
A NEW material for covering walls,
called Muralis," has been invented
by Frederic Walton, Of London. 1t is
a mixture of oxidized linseed oil and
fibre, and on this ornamentation in re-
lief is very clearly stamped by ma
chinery. 1t would be admirable for
clearinghouse and school-houses, for
so we'll does it resist knocks that if
struck with the sharp end of hammer
a slight indentation will at first be pro-
duced, but in half an hour the elastic
substance fills up the gap.
THE american Doirynaan says: at
has been suggested that call be issued
for an Ohio dairymen's convention to
discuss the milk question for 1879, and
elect delegates to the Northern Ohio
Dairymen's association, which meets in
Cleveland the latter part Of this month.
All those favoring such convention are
invited to send postal-csrd to S. 2.
Thompson, Hudson, o., "a, 4oon as
possible, when, if it is found that a suf-
ficient number favor the movement, a
mill Io oalIoI
THE owner of Smuggler is reported as
refusing to risk $1,000, or any sum, on
his horse, the loss of which would be
liable to cramp a mans family. All
speculations whatsoever may be looked
at in the same cautious way. Some
families may be cramped for the cash
spent at the gates of the horse-shows
merely-when they come to set up
business and want to pay for horse.
But there is no use crying for spent
money any more than for spilled milk,
and the knowledge got at horse-show
might prevent a body from being
cheated in a horse-trade.
THERE are now loaded daily in Bos-
ton two or three cars of potatoes which
go to Maine, New Hampshire and Con-