Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21

FOWLS FERTILITY OF THE ''sOUDAN'
SOME BIG WOOL CLIPs-THE CON
SUMPTION OF CHEESE MEAT
TRADE SOME BEES NOT TO BE DISPIsED
AND A GREAT MANY OTHER INDUSTRIAL
NOTES THAT ARE EXCELLENT READING.
In most portions of northern IlIin>
ois the charge for pasturing cattle is
so cents per month and for horses
from 81 to 81, so.
There is demand for horses to use
IN the suppression of the rebellion in
western Canada, and it is difficult to
supply it, as the ANIMALS are all want
ed on farms at this season or the year.
The legislature of Texas has passed
law requiring all the railway com
panies in that state to provide double
decked cars for persons desiring to
transport Sheep and hogs.
A Massachusetts, farmer during two
years planted seed d-corA from the seed
end and stem end separately. Both
years the seed-end gave him crop
from twelve to fourteen days earlier
than that from the stem-end.
In several counties in this state ten
ants are ready to give half of all they
raise on q place for the use OF it. In
some places land owners can obtain
almost any rent they choose to ask,
as the number Of tenants is very large.
All fowls that feather slowly are
usually hardy. For instance, the
Brahmas. 1t is owing to the fact that
the drain upon the system occasioned
by the quick feathering does not
weaken them. Slow feathering while
growing is indicative of hardness.
An officer in the English army IN
the Soudan writes: There are hun
dreds of thousands of acres that will
grow anything in the world-sugar,
maize, cotton. There is no limit to
the produce that may be taken from
the soil without any manuring or
costly cultivation.
4 little charcoal fed two or three
times a week to the pigs is beneficial
in correcting acidity of the stomach,
to which hogs are liable when fed
upon corn and confined in a pen.
They will eat it greedily and fatten
much more readily with charcoal
than without.
Statistics show that the people of
this country consume about four and
one half pounds of cheese per capita,
while the people of England consume
about fourteen pounds per capita an>
nually. The argument that cheese
is not wholesome article of food, it
would seem, would not hold good in
the light of this fact, as the agricul-
tural classes of England, who are
large consumers of cheese, are among
the most robust and healthy people of
the world.
At the annual sheep shearing fes-
t1val of the Vermont Merino Sheep
Shearing Association. held in Middle
bury, Mr. J. L Buttolph's ram,
Burr" sheared thirty eight pounds
and thirteen ounces, two ounces more
than there is any authentic record of
any previous shearing. The heaviest
eve fleece taken weighed twenty-one
pounds and nine ounces, and was
sheared from eve owned by Mr.. H.
~ DNA "CAAs VI 1IANPO
To place tin-foil on Japan tin with
a mucilege or cement SO that it Will
dry and cleave to the Japan SO firmly
that water and weather will not re-
move it, make a dilute solution of
white gelatine or isinglass; ne proper
proportions are one to twenty: add a
little potassium bichromate,, and ap~
ply it by means of pencil or sponge.
1t does not adhere at once, but will do
so in a short while.
J. M. Smith. of Green Bay, Wis, is
reported to have raised some years
ago 3,741 quarts of Wilson's straw
berries on fourth of an acre, Or at
the rate of 446 bushels per acre. He
cultivated in matted rows two feet
wide, with d space of two feet between.
The plants were mulched for winter
and early spring. A good covering Of
well rotted manure-15 or 30 bushels
an acre or Is bushels of unleached
ashes applied early IN the sea
son. All weeds were destroyed at
whatever cost. As for watering when
dry, one thorough wetting was found
better than three sprinklings.
a correspondent of an Indiana pa
per writes: There is an apple tree on
the farm Of William Critics, ia Greene
county, some two miles east of the
town of Worthington, which meas
ures eleven feet in circumference and
has top Of sixty feet across. This
tree is a Seeding. 1t was planted
about the year 1919 by Isaac Stalcup,
and has borne fruit every year since
1926. The tree is healthy and -four
ishlng. We have the largest syca-
more in the stately ieet inckes In
circumference. So far as [ am in
formed, it is the largest in the United
States.
The frozen meat trade to Eagland
has acquired enormous proportions in
the last few years. According to the
medical officer of health of the port of
London, the imports of frozen meat
into that port, during 1884. amounted
to 619, 324 sheep and 1887 quarters
of beef. Most of these supplies arriv-
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