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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05

hum of industry prevailed, and not that
peculiar note which is heard when bees
issue in swarm. Ash-leaved naples are
planted largely as shade tree through
out the city, and some years are source
of much honey and pollen, which inn parts
new life to the bees, and stimulates brood
rearing. We drove through the streets
to look q. these trees and admired the
pretty little tasseIs on every bough, as
they blossom just as the leaves start.
Like 5he country maid and her milk pail
We calculated how much profit we should
reap by our bees gathering honey and
pollen from them. But alasi like the
mjIk-maid of old, our pail is upset, for
last night april 49, heavy frost and
freeze occurred, which blasted our hopes
for honey from this source at least.
There will be no peach bloom, and very
kttle cherry, for the trees have all been
killed by drouth and cold, and We comfort
our hearts that we may at least have
bloom on crab apples; and dandelions are
hardy, if they are not all dug up for
greens. The catkins on the silver-leaves
and cottonwoods are growing ana yield
pollen.
In the meantime let bee-keepers, one
and all, not sit idly on their hives whist
| ing TO keep their courage up, but go to
work with will and clean up the apiary,
and let it at least look prosperous, for
| honey comes like thief in the night, and
at time when We are not looking for it
so have all things ready. Do not dis
turb the bees and kick over hives, but
remember that Moses broke the stones
upon which tbe law was written. See to
it that every hive stands true and firm,
| for if the hives lean TO one side, crisis
cross crooked honey will be built, just as
surely as water runs down hill. LOOK
ont for leaky roofs, and stop up cracks
with paint. nave never seen bad results
follow painting hives with bees in
them. You may find some dead colonies;
| if so, lift out the frames and clean out
the hives. a wide chiseI is a good tool
to use in scraping out hive. If the
| hive is fowl, scrub it out with hot suds
and rince with boiling water. Efface
every trace of diarrhea, for who knows
but it may breed disease. Scrape off the
| frames, brush off the bees with whisk
broom, and cut off all queen cells, for they
are never used again, and are unsightly.
Do not spend time picking dead bees out
of the comb with pin or pinchers, for
| the bees have better tools to do it with
tnaH you, ana can Work more cneaply.
The frames can be put back into the
hive, which will be better for a fresh coat
of paint, for a hive should last as long as a
house, if kept we'll painted. new swarm
will be very glad of this hive, we'll furnish
ed, all ready for housekeeping and not
empty.
The old Scotchman said to his son:
"JOck plant a tree: it will be growing
nights while you Sleep" If you do not
vine, and in three years you can eat the
fruit of it. Then when you are tired in
the fall taking off honey, you can sit in the
shade of the vine, obtain from the refre sh-
ing fruit renewed courage for the fray.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05
M OTHER RAILWAY In THE

has IN so short period gained the rep
utation and popularity enjoyed by the
WISCONSIN CENTRAL LINE. From
a comparatively unknown factor in the
commercial world, it has been trans
formed to an independent, influential,
grand Through Route, with magnif-
cent depots, superb equipments and I'M
surpassed terminal facilities. Through
careful catering to details, it has won
for itself a reputation for solidity, safety,
convenience and attention to its pat
rOns, second to no railroad In the
country. Pullman sleepers, models of
palatial comfort, dining cars in which
the cuisine and general appointments
are up to the highest standard, and
coaches especially built for this route,
are among the chief elements which
have contributed towards catering sue
cessfully to a discriminating public.
Located directly on its line, between
Chicago and Milwaukee, and St. Paul
and Minneapolis, and Chicago and Ash
land and Duluth, are the following thriv-
ing cities Of Wisconsin and Michigan:
Burlington, Waukesna, Fond du Lac,
Oshkosh, Neenah, Menasha, Stevens
Point. Chippewa Falls. Eau Claire,
New Richmond, Hurley, Wis. Iron
wood, Mich, and Bessemer, Mich.
For details, information, lowest cur
rent rates: berths, ETC., via this route,
to any point in the Northwest, apply to
nearest Ticket Agent, or address
WIN. S. MELLEN, JAMES BARKER,
General Manager. GenL Pass. Dc Ticket Agtr
MILWAUKEE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05
LITERATURE NEAR THE POLE.
How Sailors of Whaling Ships in the Arctic
Ocean Get Their Reading Matter.
San Francisco Examiner

How Sailors of Whaling Ships in the Arctic
Ocean Get Their Reading Matter.
San Francisco Examiner.
"What DO we do with so many old pa
pers? Send them up to the Arctic
ocean"
It was the proprietor of an Quitting
store on Pacific street and he was answer
ing the inquiry of the reporter as to
what he wanted of 5000 old pictorial
and story papers for which he mad adver-
tised in the Examiner.
"To the Arctic ocean! And what do
you do with them there?"
''We send them up to the sailors on
whaling vessels. About three hundred
sailors, engaged through US, are up there
ouar holt tho year, and to each one OF
these we send at least fifteen papers ev-
cry season. They are glad to get almost
anything in the shape of a paper, but
most of the men like magazines better
than anything else"
"Do you depend entirely on the an
swers to your advertisements for your
stock of papers?"
''No; we go to each one OF the newpa-
per Offices in this city, both weekly and
daily, and get back numbers, And then
we send to each OF the sailors few of
the current issues of the city papers.
These papers came hero in answer to our
advertisement" and he put his hand on
a stack three feet high. Some of the
numbers dated back eight or nine years.
"Here is another stack of papers," and
he pointed to heap of papers two feet
tall, that is ready to be assorted and done
up in bundles, one for each ship"
"Those letters, do they also go?" A
long box full of yellow envelopes, each
with superscriptIon to somebody on
some whaleship, "Arctic Ocean," lay be-
side the papers.
eyes, we send each year one letter to
each man. Of course they like to know
what is going on here, and we write a
general account of matters of interest and
personal gossip, and whatever we think
the men would like to know"
"YOu don't wriGe a different Individual
letter to each man, do your"
sOh NO. We bunch them as much as
possible, and make the same letter in du-
plicate do for several men. These letters
are all ready to be sent up next week on
the Bear, but it will be about month be-
fore the papers and letters are all fixed
up and started off. The men exchange
their papers and letters, so that what We
send keeps the entire fleet in reading
matter through the season."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05
The Horse Endemic.
schoharie On. " Republican.

Schoharie On. J Republican.
I want to call the attention of persons
interested in horses to a disease that has
prevailed in this vicinity for the past
three years to a greater or less extent;
and I find, from actual practice, the
people are entirely ignorant in regard to
the same, invariably chasing it as some
lesion of the kidneys, which is entirely
wrong, and they will begin to fire up these
organs by the use of diuretic medicines,
and many valuable animal has been
ruined by this treatment. There is no
trouble with these organs whatever, they
performing their functions to the fullest
extent, which has been clearly demon
strated by post norton examinations.
/. The name of the disease is azturia, and
refers to a complex morbid condition of
the system, dependent on disturbed as
similation, producing tonic and clonic
spasms of the posterior parts of the
trunk and limbs. The best of authors all
agree that this condition is brought about
from an over supply of heterogeneous
material or azotised ingredients in the
system. Symptoms are very plain and
the seizure very sudden. The horse on
leaving the stable, seeming to be in the
very best of health and spirits, may pro-
coed few hundred yards-perhaps a
mile OF tEo-when lie will be seized with
an uncomfortable lameness in one or
poth hind llnbs, break over on the fet-
lQgks; muscles of the loin and gluteal
Regions contracted to the utmost, and
very hard to the touch: whole body
covered with perspiratiop, and great
nervous excitement, and II the most
attacks the animal is unable to stand,
making unsuccessful attempts to do so,
until nearly exhausted; great restlessness
is a very bad symptom. The animal
should be stopped AZ once, when the
first sign is manifest, and taken to the
nearest stable in a very careful manner,
as motion aggravates the disease, loins
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN
4 SAD STORY.
BY EMMA LYNDON

A queer old creature? Well, yes; that's so;
She is a curious sort of bird;
used TO see her long years ago
Before her hair was so white. you know
When she was girl. Perhaps you've heard
Her story-no? That's little queer
But then your strange around these parts,
Shes always lived just over here,
Behind that hill where the sun sets clear
These fine June nights there. now she starts.
She is going home, as she's sure to do
When night comes, though she is out all day,
just mark how sharp she will look at you;
She eyes stranger through and through,
While never glance will she throw my way.
As pretty girl as you ever see,
was that old crone forty years ago,
And the way she ever came to be,
ms half-crazed creature seems odd TO me;
But IL tell you stranger. the best know.
1t was just this same time of the year.
In June when everything looks so gay,
That big ship sailed away from here;
The wind was fair and the sky was clear,
When old Kate lover sailed away.
And they were young, and their life. spose,
Looked like q great, long, sweet. June day;
So they said goodbye, as the bright sun rose,
And the days went on, as all time goes.
When one that we love Is far away.
The letter she waited for never came,
But instead the news that the brave old ship
Was lost at sea-and never name
OF those who sailed came back to claim
The welcome that waited from heart and lip.
All that was forty odd years ago,
But now as every June rolls round
This poor old creature walks to and fro,
With her broken heart and her head of snow,
That will soon find peace beneath the ground
You have the story, stranger. To me
It's wonderful sad. It's hard to say
Why God permits such things to be;
But the time is coming when we shall see
His reasons stranger, as clear as day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05
Honey Producers-Hive Care.
Prairie Fa uer.

This spring is very dry and rather cold
and backward. Our bees were carried
from the cellar April 10, IL and II in good
condition. There have been a few mild,
warm days, when bees carried in pollen
quite plentifully. In some localities it
may pay TO feed rye meal or unbolted
wheat -four or ground oats; bat here,
along the Illinois River. there is generally
natural pollen TO be gathered as soon as
it is warm enough for bees to fly. The
overflow from the river draws out the
frost and causes earlier bloom.
Ash-leaved maple [Negundo accroides)
which is commonly known as box elder,
is great favorite with bees, yielding both
honey and pollen. One year neighbor
came in, saying. "Your bees are swarm
ing in my trees" On going to them I
saw at once Why they were there; the
trees were alive with bees, and the happy
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05
Sugar in Mexico.

Very great possibilities and very small
probabilities, it is remarked, characterize
the sugar producing industry of Mexico.
So far as soil and climate are concerned,
that country is able to supply the world:
in point of fact, it does not supply its
own consumption. The backwardness of
the Mexican sugar industry is to be at
tributed, first to lack of transportation
facilities, and, secondly, to lack of CAPT
tai, The business has met with the great
est development in the states of Moraos.
Vera Cruz, and Michoacan, which to-
gether yield about half of the annual out
put. Little surplus above the require
ments for local consumption is manu-
featured, except at points distant from
the larger cities and the mode in rail
road lines. The transportation of sugar
on mule-back across the country is IN
profitable and, on account of the crude
ness of the usual processes, so much of
the staple as is exported meets with little
favor in the European markets. The
sugar planters of Tabasco and Campeche
undertook some months ago to unite in
finding regular foreign markets, but
they have so far accomplished next to
nothing. Efficient labor is sometimes
hard to find, and there are other obstacles
to successful production. Brown lump
sugar, the staple article of consumption,
sells at retail all over the republic at 10
cents to Is cents per pound, and refined
sugar from the United States commands
about the same price. Very little i'm
proved machinery is employed in the
manufacture of sugar. AS a rule the
cane is ground between rollers, turned
by horse power, and not more than go
per cent. of saccharine matter is extract
ed. The juice also, is not refined, being
simply strained and then boiled into a
solid mass. Brown sugar is exclusively
consumed by the Indian population, and
travellers rarely meet with anything
else.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05
Charlock or Wild Mustard.
Couu-rx- Ca1+l,,,ar

Country Gentleman.
Having seen some articles recently
about wild mustard, allow the writer to say
that he feels qualified, after over fifty
years of experience on q farm full Of
above weed, 10 talk about it. Seeding
down to grass will not kill the mustard
oat-nor will anything else. It is an oily
seed that only terminates when brought
near the surface and exposed to the inhu-
ence OF sun and rains. I can to-day turn
sod IL a fence corner that has not been
disturbed in fifty years, and will show you
e full crop of mustard. Only last summer
q neighbor said TO me, Glow have you
killed out shat wild mustard that used to
be SO thick in your field2" The reply
was. 81 haven't killed it out; it is there
yet, but manage so that 1t doesn't show"
[ turn over sod ground and plant to
corn or potatoes; next crop barley, sown
about 18th to % of May, By which time
the soil is warm; the crop starts at once,
also millions of mustard plants. Barley
outgrows the weed, rarely stalk of mus
tard seeds. NGxt crop, wheat; Lnus ard
comes on again, bat frost kills e Sow
same fields to oats and there would be
more mustard than oats; indeed have
mown oats for hay rather than let the
weed ripen. I succeed fairly with late
sown barley, say thirty-five to forty bash
els per acre; have sown barley as late as
May % and got thirty eight bushels to
acre. In town adjoining, barley raisers
SOW early and often pay threshers for
threshing mustard seed.
My fields are also full of narrow-leaf
plantain, brought in seventy-fve or eigh-
ty years ago with clover seed, and it
seems to run out ali grass but orchard
grass, which, by the way, seems TO be a
very desirable sort, rather coarse for hay,
but making the best of pasture, growing
early and late, and the least affected by
drouth Of any sort, although we are hard
~ qualified to speak of drouths, for in
fifty years [ have not seen crop short
ened by lack of rain, pastures of timothy
excepted, which are now and then in need
of more rain than they get. Curiousiy,
many and many a year have our hay and
wheat been injured by excess of rain
when towns adjoining were suffering for
lack of rain. I have not, in fifty years,
got in two crops of hay without rain, and
as rarely crop of wheat or barley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05

geoiogist looks backward TO the time
when they were not, and forward TO the
time when they will no longer be: talks
OF their birth, growth, decliae and death,
and comparing their span of life with
the earthss declares them evanescent.
Inc physical geogra Dher, analyzing the
motions of the water, refers them to the
attractions of celestial bodies. the press
ures OF cir, the friction OF winds. the
varying oryness of the atmos phere, and
the varying rain, and assigning each
nuctuatlon TO its appropriate cause, lays
pare funGamental constancy to which
the navigator aud the statesman NAV
safely pin their faith.-The Forum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05
Private Dairying.
Kansas Farmer.

Dairyihg and stock raising being my
principal business, have been greatly in
terested in the movement in the direction
of organizing the dairy interest commene-
ing ten years ago with scrub stock and
grading up with thoroughbred Durhams,
there is considerable improvement in the
butter producing capacity of my COWS,
but I am far from being satisfied, and as
soon as possible shall try either Holsteins
or Ayrshires. I want butter first, after
wards beef.
strongly favor farm butter making,
not as opposed to creameries, but as nee
essary in many localities where creamer-
les could not be operated successfully,
and as serving to check the natural ten
dency of the creamery system in the di-
rection of monopoly. The common mis-
take, and the fruitful source of only par
tial success in farm dairying, is in turn
ing the labor and responsibility over to
the women and regarding it too small
business to engage mans time and at
tention. Ny experience satisfies Tue that
no other labor on the farm pays so well,
and the more thoroughly and skillfulIy
the work is done, the greater and more
satisfactory will be the returns.
The greatest disadvantage the private
dairyman suffers from is experienced
when he seeks a market for his product.
This disadvantage may be ninimized by
cooperation in small and simple way.
In every neighborhood thereswili always
be one more skillful in making and more
successful in marketing than any one
else; let those neighbors get together and
agree upon method to be practiced by
all, covering all the steps IN the process
of making butter up to the point of re-
moving the unsalted butter (entirely freed
from butte1milk) from the churn. In
that condition it may be kept (if neces-
srry) some days. But at convenient
time it is delivered to the one chosen,
who bulks the product of the entire
neighborhood, making it uniform in quail
ity, and sufficient in quantity, to attract
a better class of customers and better
prices than the village store affords. 1
have done something in this way, and
have been able TO pay from two cents to
ten cents (cash) above the local market
price, with satisfactory compensation
for my labor and trouble.
word about sailing butter. The in
telligent, thoughtful dairyman will I'M
derstand that salt is used for two pur-
poses, only two: ~ By its affinity for
water to enable the maker to free the
butter from the excess not necessary to
hold the salt in solution; (2.) to flavor the
butter to the tase of the consumer. Pure
butter does not need salt preserve it, and
salt will not preserue butter that contains
buttermiIk. Sailing butter with brine de-
priyes the maker of the aid of the salt in
Kidding the butter of surplus water, and
forces him to work it out, TO the serious
injury of the butter, or leave it in to
cheat the buyer, and ultimately to the in
jury of his reputation as an honest
dairyman.
The feeling of hostility between Russia
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05
WILL HE COME"
CASsEL s MAGAZINE.

The sun had lit the wood and set:
With heavy dews the grass is wet,
The frs stand out in silhouette,
Sharp, tall and Silly:
Sometimes rabbit fits in sight,
A scampering whisk-a CLEAN of white:
Naught else. Her scarf she gathers tight
The air is chilly.
The belfry clock strikes slowly-eight,
ttAh, waning love makes trysters late;
Slack sutton he whose queen may waltz
She stops and listens:
A deep leaf rustIed-that was all!
Well, maiden pride will come at call:
She viii not let the teardrop fall
1t stands and glistens.
She turns-but harkl the step she knows.
The branches part and, swinging close;
What penance now on him impose,
The tryst who misses?
She can't be hard, though some she tries,
For love will melt through loving eyes,
And all the childing words that rise,
Are crushed with kisses
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05
ON THE RACE COURSE.
Opening of the June Meeting in Milwau

Opening of the June Meeting in Milwaukee!
MILWAUKEE, June 26.-The June meet
ing of the Milwaukee driving club opened
to-day. The weather was cold and the
crowd small In the three minute trot,
purse $1,000, E ditor Won in three straight
heats with Argentine second, Dave Pal
mer third, Bashaw Queen fourth, best
time 2:33. $50 pacing class. purse $1,000
was taken by Harry in four heats Budd
Doble. Billie F, Kitty Redbuck followed
in the order named. Time 2:22.
O. ". Phillips, Milwaukee inventor,
has patented new machine for manu-
featuring wire nails.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05

The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
Railway has been well named the Fishing
and Hunting Line OF Wisconsin, passing,
as it does, through thousands of acres of
but partially explore woods and within
easy reaching distance of lakes and
streams that have never been fshed by
fish for which Northern Wisconsin waters
are noted, The woods ABOUND with game;
deer, bear, wolf, mink, beaver, pheasant,
and other game are quite plentiful.
THE ONLY LINE
From Milwaukee to the new Iron Mining
District in Wisconsin and Michigan that
reaches ALL of the developed Mining
towns; GOGEBIC, WAKEFIELD, BES-
SEMER, IRONWOOD AND HURLEY.
Direct line to ASHLAND and DULUTH
Sleeping cars between / INLAND and
CHICAGO.
The GUIDE Book, and other descripSIv,
matter, containing full information, maps
and engravings of the country trayersed
by the line, will be sent TO any address on
application to the General Passenger
Agent.
CHAs. L. RYDER, Gen. Agent, 105 Wash
ington St., Chicago.
City ticket Office, 60 Clark St., Chicago.
Chicago Depot, Cor. Wells and KinzI
Sts., GO. d n. W. R'y.)
City ticket Office, 102 Wisconsin St.,
Milwaukee.
H. f. WH1TCOMB, CHAS. V. McKINLAY,
GENT Manager. GenI Pass Agent
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05

covered by warm wooden rugs dipped in
hot water, opiates administered in some
form TO quiet nervous excitement, and
medical aid summoned at once, as this
is g disease that will bear no trihing