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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19

Sowed corn or oats are both goou
crops to use as a green manure, and
can be sown after the crops are all
planted in the spring, and will make
sufficient growth by fall, or the latter
part of summer, to turn under. Glover
is, of course, the very best crop that can
be used for this purpose.
With all crops grown for the purpose
of green manuring, if the best results
are secured, it viii pay to manage to
pillow under when they have made their
best growth, and before the plants have
matured. With clover and buckwhe
especially. the best time to pillow under
is when the largest numb of plants is
in full blossom; at this time they con-
tain a larger per cent of nitrogen
than at any other. If allowed to get
too ripe there is loss of this valuable
element, and it is quite an item to turn
under so as to secure all the benefit
possible.
Glover is good crop to use for green
manuring, but it is not always possible
to secure a good stand of this; and in
planning the work for the year in many
eases it will be found good plan to
seed at least one field to some green
crop to-when it has secured a good
growth-plow under. Under many con-
ditions it is one of the cheapest and
best plans of giving a good application
of fertiliZer.-Praj7'te Farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19

see him about it. He laughed at me in
a superior sort of way, and said there
was no such word as .madding.n I
tried to tell him about poetic license,
but he knew as much about poetic E-
cense as he did about Greek. Argu-
ment only made him angry, and he
loftily asked me if | wanted his situa-
ton. l beat an ignominious retreat.
and went out and bumped my head
against the wall several times to
COO #, one of my fellow-compositors
remarking with hypocritical sympathy:
~ GU ought to know better than to talk
Choctaw to Chinaman"
An amusing blunder-for which the
compositor received the entire blame
happened on the Press" several years
ago, in an editorial by Colonel Forney.
Like shaking red rag at a bull'' is a
quotation which any school-boy ought
to recognize at a glance; yet because
tramp typo, unacquainted with the
Coloners flowing chirography, made
bed bug out of red rag it escaped
the eagle eye of the proof-reader and
appeared so in the paper. What the
Colonel said when he read his article
chronicled, but ne discharged his entire
force of printers-but saved his proof
reader.
You write an article about Magis-
trate South, and you see the proof
There it is-South, plain as day. You
pick up the paper in the morning and
find it Smith-and damn the compost
tor. Or you chronicle the death of
Bucks county statesman and wake
up in the morning and find that he
was from Berks. Whose fault was
that? The compositor's? BY no means.
These are just a few instances which
recur to memory at the moment. In
each of them the compositor. while not
blameleSS, was much less at fault than
the proof-reader. This is very often
the case. The proof-reader is rarely
revised. In the hurry of preparing for
the press time is everything. Conse-
quently, while the writer of an article
gets first proof" he seldom gets
revise And right here is where the
proof-reader gets in his most deadly
work.
To err is human. Compositors are
very human and err more or less. But
;
| ways. If they were the casus belli
would, to great extent. be removed
but machine" proof-reader-angels
| and ministers of grace defend ust-is
| answerable for many an egregious
| blunder for which the compositor is
! blamed
| There are a great many machine
compositors, of course, but the ma
chine proof-reader is the dandy. |
! have run across him so often that |
have come to the conclusion that his
| species will never become extinct, and,
realizing this, [ now act on the ''similia
similibus curantur" principle. In other
words, | meet machine proof-reading
with machine composition, and while
the result in the days paper may not
always be gratifying to the editor and
publisher, it causes me less trouble.
In writing this my object is not to
attack the proof-reader, but to defend
the compositor, who has never yet, at
least to my knowledge, had an open
+ defender. and also to remove the prey
alent impression that he is an TN
mItigated scoundrel, who will do moth
ING right that he can possibly do wrong.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
WASTEFUL ECONOMY.
1t Doesn't Pay to Stint the Furnishing
of the Kitchen.

Many young wife" said mother
ly woman the other day to n. Y.
Tribune writer, .would find the wheels
of her household moving much more
smoothly if she would spend little
drawing-room and devote it, instead,
to supplying her kitchen with labor
saving appliances and plenty of uten-
sis. Economy in kitchen utensils may
easily be pushed too far, and if there
is one place where a woman may be
more readily excused than another for
extravaganza it is just there.
TO have to stop in the middle of
making a dessert in order to clean
saucepan or kettle in which the soup
had been prepared, because you have
not another, is folly when soup-kettles
can be had for 25 cents each. TO have
your kitchen-knives of such poor meta!
that they will not stay sharp or to let
good knife remain dull because YOU
think you can not afford to spend 10
cents to have it sharpened is real
waste Of strength out of all proportion
to the saving. To have nothing by
which you can measure your in
gradients accurately because it costs
more to buy a set of weights or
graduated glass measure than to trust
to guess work and an old teacup has
spoiled many a good dish that cost
just as much and has brought humilia-
ton on many a good cook. To scrape
your porridge-pot with a spoon because
you will not buy patent pot-scraper
for II cents wears out ten spoons TO
one pot-scraper, and the hired girl in
variably selects your best spoon for
that purpose. Sitting the coal ashes is
such dirty business as it is usually
performed and the servant kicks
against it so vigorously that the most
economical housekeeper soon abandons
it in despair. A patent ashsifter
that allows no dust to escape and pre-
serves all the half-burned coal will
paw for itself in one winter and last
five. A cheap refrigerator can be had
for one-third the cost of good one of
the same size, but if you buy it your
ice bill will be twice as large.
There is hardly anything in the
kitchen of which there are not two
varieties, the cheap and the dear and
the result of the use of either is gen
orally its exact opposite in actual cash.
But in comfort to ones self and to
ones husband and children a saving of
time, temper, brain-worry, and back
ache, they repay their own cost many
times over every week"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
IT'S THE PROOF.READER
A Defense of tine Much-Blamed ''Intelli'
gent Composition

The Intelligent compositor" is the
man who Is supposed to make all the
mistakes which occur in the printing of
a newspaper, writes Dominick O'Con-
nor in the Union. Every newspaper
has one. He is the scapegoat of the
establishment. He is damned alike by
the publisher editor, contributor and
reader. He does not appear to have
any friends, therefore, it is safe to
blame him for any blunder that may be
made. and they all do it with wonder
full unanimity.
With all Of these gentlemen, says
one, the compositor has no relations.
They are at liberty to abuse him all
they like. He does not care; he knows
them not. The one exception is the
proof-reader. With him the compost
tor is at war-a never-ending, ire
pressible conflict, which began with the
first proof-reader and will continue
until the last newspaper has gone to
press.
But the conflict is one-sided. The
proof-reader has it all his own way.
He has somehow won the confidence of
the public, and he abuses the compost
Iol W Ills Hcdil COHteHl anu the pun
lie seems to believe him. There are
two sides to every question, however,
and because the compositor meekly ac-
cepts all this blame it does not follow
that it is always his due.
| well remember the night l set up
review in which occurred the quotation
from Gray's '.Elegy:' Far from the
madding crowd" The proof-reader
marked it ...maddening." I went in to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
The Vegetable Garden.

If the farmer was obliged to buy
the vegetables used in his family
through the year he would begin to
understand how much money there is
in good garden. If he could not af-
ford to buy them he would begin to APP
preciate them, as he does not when he
has even a limited supply, and that of
inferior quality. Take that away en-
tirely and he would see what great
benefit is derived from poor garden.
Let him keep an account of the money
paid out if he purchases, and at the end
of the year he understands, as never
before. the amount of good living which
the garden supplies, and he would con-
clude that there is more money in the
garden than he had thought.
would urge every farmer to have a
garden, and good one, for, while
poor one is Better than none at all, a
good one is so much better that one
ought never to be satisfied with any,
thing else. Let him make up his mind
to work it at least as well as he does
other portions of his farm, and he will
find, if he carries out his resolution, and
keeps an account of the results, that
there is no other portion of the farm
which furnishes SO much of the family's
living, therefore none that pays" so
we'll. That this is the fact, every one
who has good garden will tell you.
1t is also a fact that those who have the
best gardens appreciate them most.
Poor gardens are only to be tolerated
on the priciple that half a loaf is bet
ter than no loaf at ALL Not only does
a good garden represent greater guam
tity, but superior quality. for fine
vegetables cannot be grown in a garden
not properly cared for Tick's -uaga-
zine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
Character In Old Shoes.

ado you know that an old shoe is a good
index to the character of the person
who wore it?n said salesman in a
shoe store. II have been in the bust
ness close on to twenty years, and have
observed the matter closely. A per-
son who wears a sole and heel on the
outside toward the rear is of passionate
temperament, one who is generally en-
thusiastic and one who does whatever
he undertakes in rapid manner. Such
persons | have found are not success
full in accommodating money. An even
ly worn shoe indicates an easy going
person. But if the toe end is badly
worn, look out for the wearer. Shady
people and mostly all criminals wear
out the toes of their shoes first. Why?
Because as rule, crooks glide along
on their toes. A person of little am
bition wears a shoe on the inside. He
lives contentedly, and is little concerned
as to the morrow. If the whole heel is
badly worn, the person is full of reso-
luton and determination, is buoyan.
to the point of brusqueness, and is pos
sessed of ability to both make and save
money! Y. Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
Drilling Oats.

Experience is against the use of the
drill in seeding oats. As the drill was
developed earlier than the broadcast
seeder, there were better reasons for
drilling oats than there are now
Broadcast seeders do the work so well,
and can be had at such moderate prices,
that it is unnecessary to drill the grain
to have it evenly distributed, even in
windy weather. Harrows have been
so much improved that broadcasted
grain may be nicely covered on any
ground properly prepared. The drills
are very useful for fall wheat, as the
snow is better held over the plants, and
the ridges crumble down on the roots
heaved out by frost. But, manifestly,
these benefits cannot accrue to oats.
Oats require all the moisture they can
get, and all the root-shading the plant
will give during the latter two-thirds
of their period Of growth; and moisture
is better retained in the soil, and the
roots are better shaded, when the plants
stand at comparatively uniform dist
ances and the surface is made level,
than when the plants are placed in
drills and the surface is thrown up in
to ridges. To use the drill satisfactori
ly, the ground must be put in good
condition; and this probably explains
why there is frequently a better yield
from drilling. We do not know of a
case where broadcasting and drilling
oats were tested side by side for
several years that the broadcasting
did not give the better aggregate re-
turn. The farmer is not advised never
to drill oats: but it would certainly be
best to make the trial on a limited
scale for three or four years, at least,
until the superiority Of drilling is
proven.-American Ag11cuttatriSt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
Care and Management Of Colts.

Breaking colts is an easy matter, if
not deferred too long. Colts, to make
good, safe horses, must be handled
young. AS a matter Of course, they
vary in disposition. But there is one
thing, you must make the colt under
stand you are its master. Halter it at
four weeks old; tie it beside its dam;
give it oats; if it struggles at the halter,
would boy. Never leave it until it
has done as you wish it; do not tease it;
resent its inclination to bite, strike or
kick rub the fork handle and shovel
against its heels and legs; make it used
to noise, bells, blankets and robes; if
frightened, pat it, talk to it, give it to
understand you are its friend, and it
will have confidence in you. Teach it
to come at your whistle, and give it
something when it does. No matter
how dark it is, or where my colts are,
if they can hear my whistle they come
on the run, and always greet them
kindly. | think a colt safer, and a
truer, better horse if broken young to
harness; but nothing but light driving
should be expected until rising 4 years
old.
Break your colt with a quick, active
horse. 1t makes a better walker and
driver. When you want it to draw, COM
mence light, increase gradually, and
the colt will think it can draw any,
thing Teach the colt to stop at
whoa and use the word "steady'' if
you want him to go slower. Shove the
gearing onto him, rattle the whiffie-tree
against his heels, teach him it is moth
ing that will hurt him, and should any
thing give way, it will hold the load
coming down hill-at least, such is my
experience. Feed the colt anything it
will eat. never had a case of collie
by changing feed; but [ always used
salt when | changed. Never feed
heavy; water freely while on the road.
There is more danger in watering a
horse after letting it 60 too long with
out it. If you have driven hard all day
and cannot feed or water, put him up,
giving hay first, water in about an
hour, and then feed oats. See that he
is we'll taken care of, and he will be all
right in the morning. l have had
twenty-five years experience handling
horses, and never lost one yet nor had
a runaway, but in break-downs, tip
overs and accidents have had plenty,
and came out O. K.-PracticGL Farmer
i'm Harm and EIrpsi6p
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
Nail These Apilorisrns to the Door

Nail These Aphorisms to the Door.
Who enters here leaves pipe be-
hind
The horse will be all the better for
working his way through the winter.
The man that knows the right use of
horse blanket is a irst-class horse
man.
Too many horses eat up during the
winter all they have earned during the
summer.
The horse blanket saves feed and
fiesh-less substance is used to make
animal heat.
Keeping matches in any other re-
ceptacle than an iron or tin box is
tempting Providence.
Some people think farm animal is
like postage STAMPING good until
licked. They are sadly mistaken.
The farm horse, having only light
labor, and not much of that. during
the winter, should have less grain and
more roughness than during the sum-
mer.
The man that puts iron bits in his
horses mouths in very cold weather
without first warming the bits has al
together too much of the savage in his
position.-A1aericdn Agricult1rist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
CrOpS for Green Manurin%.

One of the best crops to be grow
and plowed under as a green manure is
buckwheat. 1t makes a quick growth
and spreads out in short time so as to
completely shade the ground. and dur
inc the summer, at least, this aids the
process of nitritication considerably.
Buckwheat, like clover, not only adds
considerably to the fertility, but also
makes soil friable. One advantage
with buckwheat is that it makes a very
rapid growth, and two crops can be
grown and plowed under in one season
by sowing the first reasonably early in
the spring. and when good growth
has been secured, blowing under and
seeding again.
Rye is another good crop to use for
this purpose. 1t can be sown in the
fall, and will make good growth early
in the spring. so that it can be plowed
under and late corn be planted. When
the land has been cropped down, so
that fine crops cannot steadily be
grown, very good plan is to pillow up
and seed to rye early in the fall. 1t
can be pastured during the winter to
more or less extent, depending upon
the growth, Let it grow until the
middle of spring. or even until the LIST
of May, then turn under and sow buck
wheat. Let this make a good growth,
blowing under when in full bloom, and
seeding again. By the latter part OF
summer, or early fall, this will do to
pillow under again. giving three crops in
year to add to the fertility of the soil.
= Wheat can be sown in the fall and YTa SIS
or clover with it, or in the spring, rs
may be preferred.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
Pulp Manufacture in Maine.

A Maine pulp manufacturer expresses
the opinion that Maine will soon be
doing the pulp business of the country,
owing to her extraordinary water pow
ers and the proximity of the woods
used in pulp manufacture. Of the 1000
pulp-mills which have been in opera
ton in the country. 400 in other states
have been obliged to suspend because
they could not compete with Maine
pulp-makers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19

Willis Barnes of Charleston, Ind,
has invented little machine which is
operated by clockwork, and marks
automatically on glass 80, 900 lines on
a space Of an inch
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
A Paris Skating Rink.

In Paris there is a skating rink
formed of real ice OF a circular basin
of water artifcially cooled by pipes
containing ammonia gas
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
The Latest London Idea.

An American bar and a winter gar
den on the roof of the new premises of
the Pelican club in Soho are the latest
London idea.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
FOR THE FARMER.
Can Sugar be Made Successfully and Pro-
fitably in our Western States?-Crops
for Green Manuring.

Care and Management of Colts-Dri1ling
Oats-The Vegetable Garden-Low
Prices of Cattle, sc.
New-York tribune., 1890-06-07

,ro,r what they mean. Lord Salisbury, hlmseh
a master Of condensed and domatic English may
envv Mr. Stanley his diction. OF course IL Is
no, diction only. mainly. He has in HIM 'ne
substance and essence of his subject; he knows,
and the Others do not know. hut what awe"
on as novel is the surcncss with whlch he Wv
clarcs his knowledge. and the means ny WIN"
he now gains access to the minds of his reau'rs'
Referring to Mr.. IIurlbcrt's incredible state
mcrt that General Grant had said TO Sir lheouo'e
Martin that Englishrcn live under institutions
which Americans would give their ears IN POSSESS
Mr. Russell Young writes me:
Il have not seen Mr. Hurlhcrts book, ana per
haps never shall hut the statement aoou' "'"'''
is absurd lie might well have said 'ha' "'"i''
was sorry the Southern tonicdoracy ho" h", '"'
occdcd General Grant liked ENGLAND parity ne
cause there was much in the sincerity VI Uo
English character which pleased hiin' P'''S w
cause il is Protestant country cii'","''"'''
which had more weight with hlm th'h ne ever
could publicly avow. Bat the royal ai'S'''i"''c'
cbprch elo,,en,s were rs ne time and again sali'
mere elements of weakness ! remember MS say
ing that when rova persons came 10 Au''''' .''N
should he received according 70 'hc" cIlH VI
military rank. and not as princcs-tha' 'he irinrr
of Wales should have been received as ro"
Marshal his royal appurteh"ii''S "'i"7 "'''''
matter. - ,,u.-
ina, disposes once for all of Mr.. Hurlher's
s,orv which all American readers would readily
dishelievc. English readers might hc msled 10y
a.. no. knowing General Grant. nor understand
inc nc most Americans would the precise degree
Of weight and credit attaching 20 any statement
bv Mr. Hurbert unsupported by evidence Mt
Russell Young knew General Grant as intimately
a. snvbodv knew him. and knew what he thought
on most subjects lie adds Grant was The most
American Of Americans. and ! never heard him
say word that gives the least color 10 MI
tlnrlhert's statement
Mr. Gladstone who always keeps novelty IN
reserve has now propoundcd n new theory OF
journalism HIS amazing version ot the Nl''h's
town incident has been contradictcd by Mr ltIiour
and hy n London paper. Mr Baliours contradl' Pc
lion was authoritative hut Mr.. Gladstone pr'leIS
70 answer the newspaper, for the odd reason
that. although both Of them tell what Is un-
,ruc vet | do not consider the responsibility "i
The Daily Telegraph 10 be as high as That "i
,he Irtsb Minister So he takes 'hc least re-
sponshc adversary He adds that every news
nancr ought 20 speak thc truth hu'. n they lapse
,bc offence. after oil. is not 50 -rcat one can
de,I with IL more easily \ more curious stale
,,ert of the ethics Of journalism was never made
NV anv human hciug. Bui when Mr. Gladstone
.ets ON his Nifchestown hobby. there is mo- ieIune
where he will ride, or down what steep hank h'
sigl rush ' W =
New-York tribune., 1890-06-07
WHAT To DO WITH LoAfENH'

y
sir: SrciIig your article In this days tribune Oh
b,tcr pay for the soldiers, and how can desirable ie
cruit, be- kent m the military and navy service !
wish 81 say that dc-crion ought 10 be pnhlShe" III
the mos, severe manner The idea Of raising 'he pay
for tho solder, any higher than the present amount
is all nonsense The idea Of having nothing out Il
select class of men for soldiers Il all nonsense c'
there be some way adopted Ia take those corner loa'
on the streets, Take them by the neck and pat them
,n the Army AZ the present pay. This viii make gooi
men of the rowdc, who fancy thoy are slugger' lae
the trash of the country put them In the Army ana
make men Of them Thousands Of palent' wonn DC
clad to see their son, put IN the Army or navy ;"
A. to keep them from drunkafd, graves or rom & m
hitting atrOcOus crimes Inc oihOcrH ~ w.
Navy ought 10 receive about double their present pG
but at the same time, make them take tr -, w"H
elcmcntnnd make men Of them, for the country iVou'
Jersey city, June s. 179O. mum "i