Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-07-10
AGRICULTURAL.

question which is beginning to confront
many of US is the restoration of worn
out wheat lands Clover has been gen.
orally recommended as the best iertll-
izer, yet the difficulty often of getting a
good catch especially in dry season
and in weedy land, has led many to
try that surer drop uckwheat. We
have been interested in the CORE
spondence of gentleman in Illinois,
as published in the Country Gentleman,
on this point In the course of his re-
marks ne says: & settled IN the
spring of 1854 on piece of land that
had on it about thirty acres of land
that | called worn out. 1t had been In
corn fourteen years and the neighbors
said it was useless to try corn any more.
[ plowed it up, sowed it to buckwheai,
plowed that In while in bloom ,sowed
rye, plowed the rye in the next spring
and planted to corn, and better crop
no reasonable man could expect. About
three years ago [ sowed one-third of
the wheat ground to buckwheat the last
of July or early August, and plowed II
in the Goth Of September and sowed to
wheat. The result was l obtained
thirty-three bushels of wheat to the
acre, and only fifteen were no buck
wheat was sowed. [ think buckwheat
is better than rye to kill weeds; but of
course, if a crop is intended to be
plowed in for corn, it must be sowed in
the fall, and then we must use rye;
but for wheat or stubble, buckwheat is
Just what we need. Plow up the land
Immediately after harvest and SOW
buckwheat; then pillow again in Sep
TENDER, using rolling-cutter and
chain" This advice, it will be seen,
applies to those who SOW winter wheat.
The interval between harvest and frost
| is so short that his rule would hardly
apply in Minnesota.
The HOG CHoLERA.-Reports from
Iowa indicate that the hog cholera still
RACES there, that the ravages already
made have reduced the crop much
below its general average, and the end
1 is not yet. 1t is now claimed that the
disease is caused by a fungus which
attaches itself to the cOrn-especlally
when it is cultivated on a large scale.
1t has been demonstrated that 1t Is the
cause of q frlghtful malady which
prevails among the cOrn-eatlng pOpu-
lation of upper Italy and in Hungary
and the southeast of France. 1t makes
it's first appearance In a form resembling
leprosy, which attacks the face, neck,
hands, and all parts of the body exposed
to the sun. Then follow dizziness, con-
vulsions, and death. Those who have
not been out of our state into Iowa
since it appeared there have no idea of
the destruction it has made. 1t Is fast
as deadly and as destructive as the
1 pleuro-pheumonia has been in Europe
among cattle, and, unless some sure
remedy is discovered, will ruin the hog
trade IN that section.
HINTS TO SUGAR-GRoWERs.-- your
permission [ will say a. few words
through your columns to those who are
interested in the cultivation of the early
amber came. Many are carefully Guilt
waiting their cane-felds, in high antici-
patton of good crops, which they
expect to sell at good remunerative
prices next fall and winter. Some will
succeed, and more, [ fear, will make
sad failure. Success, especially i'll
this business, does not come by
chance, or spring up out Of the
/
year, | remember, some new operators
actually thought because they had got
the kind of machinery which l recon-
mended, that they would certainly
make sugar. | have reason to believe
now, that there are hundreds Of men
in our own state of Minnesota who are
laboring under an illusion in this mat
ter, from which they will only awake
too late. There are some facts con-
nected with this matter which must be
known, and if not known and acted
upon, success will never, never perch
upon their banner, and they will not be
able to produce even a good article of
syrup, to say nothing Of sugar. [ have
said, and here say again, that sugar
making, by our ordinary mode or ope--
rating, is an uncertain business, and
cannot be depended upon as a sure
thing, and never will pay until we use
some other process by which we can
refine our juices by chemical agences,
and operate our business with other fix
lures than open pans and kettles. Pro-
| fessOr Stewart claims to have discovered
the true thing which will hold the sugar
from inversion until the process of
| Indu tlidCGuI6 Cdi1 NC SOui plSlSo.
have, ever since learning of his pro-
cess, had more faith in his discovery,
and can now say from actual expert
ments, and from consulting with others
who also have experimental in the
same dsrection and by various other
evidence, that my faith has increased.
Now have already part of the fix
lures made; with which [ intend this
fall to thoroughly prove whether or not
my faith has a foundation. If that
fails, we then will have recourse
to the vacuum pan, and the other
kinds of apparatus used in connection
with it, which will make success certain.
now only wished to give a few hints
to those who are about to buy cane ma
chinery for fall operations. Since our
people are turning their attention TO
cultivating cane, there is another class
of men who are laying plans to "raise
cain" with them, by selling them every,
and any kind of machinery which they
may chance to have, and my earnest
advice to all is to be cautious how you
buy and of whom you buy your mills.
Some may have good mills to sell you,
but know nothing how to give you
suitabl instructions how to run them,
and much less how to instruct you in
the way to make good article which
will sell, upon the evaporators which
they will sell you. And again, there is
a legion Of mills which, like g Hodges
razor - was ss poa5o to cell ~ opd To MANY