Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-22
The Crows Arithmetic.


This weakness, says the New York Sun
was taken advantage of by prudent
farmer. Connecticut farmers this year
have been driven to their Wits end tC
circumvent the crows. A farmer, Amos
Brown, had particularly fine piece OF
corn land and was harrassed by crows
which dug up the kernels as fast as he
could plant them.
He built pen Of rails in the middle Of
the lot, and concealed himself with an
old-fashioned, double barreled shot gun
determined to kill all he could, and
brighten the rest. AS long as he remain
ed in the pen, however, not crow would
show itself, and after waiting several
hours, he grew meditative and left the
pen. No sooner was he outside the loi
| than dowa came big flock of the black
| robbers.
Mr.. Brown took another trip to the pen
this time accompanied by hired man
Afser remaining a short time, the latter
returned TO the house. As soon as he was
| fairly out Of sight, down came the crows
and bang went Mr.. Browns gun and kill
ed ten CT the birds.
This gave Mr.. Brown unalloyed pleas
ure, and as he started out of his pen to
pick up the dead crows, and hang them
up as warning TO the others, he shouted
after the rest of the flock:
"Ah, We are cunnin' critters, but ye cans
count worth cent"
Sugar-Retining by Electricity.
We wish something, even if it be light
ming, would strike every trust, and othe,
monopollstic combine" in America. Ru
NOR has it that the sugar trust is not 6
little anxious, at the present time, over
the alleged competition with which it il
being threatened by electricity. A New
York dispatch says that there is big
building in Brooklyn, formerly used as
-four mill, In which sugar is now being re
| fined by an electric process. 1t is rumor
ed that the concern is owned by an Eng
lish firm, and that the new process turns
out refined sugar in three hours. Only
employees in the building are allowed tc
enter, and the method of refining is KEEP,
a profound secret. The process is now
it is said, in an experimental shape. bu
final success is anticipated. Members OF
the sugar trust are endeavoring to fathon
the mystery of the process, but with nc
success, as yet.
| The mystery of this electrical process
for refining sugar, so unfathomable to
the sugar trust, has evidently beer
some extent comprehended by others
An English paper, named the CONNECTION
ers' Union, thus gives away a portion o.
| tho secret: "We have on exhibition sam
Piles of electrically-refned sugars-th,
first which have reached London. They
were refined in New York during the las
few weeks, by the secret electric process
discovered by the late Professor Friend
The innovation threatens to completed,
revolutionizs the sugar industry of tn,
| world, and the $40 shares in the comran,
have risen to e104 in ten days. 1t il
istated that the process is carried on in
building five stories high in New Yorl
city. On the top floor the raw sugar j
fed into the first machine, and it pssse
thence downward to the lowest floor
where, without having been seen or han
died, it is delivered ir a refined state
The time occupied in the passage OF til
sugar. from entry to exit, is four hours.