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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
More Feed in Cold Weather.

Common practice and experience prove
that exposure to cold calls for an increased
supply of food to enable animals to sup
port the loss of heat due to radiation from
their bodies. That this loss of heat is
large is easily shown by the fact that
twenty cows in we'll built and close sta
bic, with no more admission of air than is
necessary for good ventilation. and with
TO more space than is required for con-
venient movements of the cattle and their
attendants, will keep the air above the
freezing point il the stable " lille it may be
near zero outside. And it needs no thought
to say that this large radiation of heat is
only supplied by The food. Hence the
careful dairyman intent upon profit al
ways increases the ration of his cows in
proportion to the increase of cold. But
the exact quantity expended in the pro-
duction of heat has never been clearly
shown 80 far by any experiments. Recent
ly Mr.. Barnard of the Canadian depart
ment of agriculture has published the re-
suits of some tests III this direction and
states that an animal of 1000 pounds live
weight will consume 1874 pounds of sugar
and 114 ounces IF albuminoids per day
to maintain life at 80 degrees or the point
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
How to Improve the Soil.

The improvement Of light soils by the
addition of vegetable matter rich in car
bon has been found the most practicable
and economical method of bringing such
land into profitable cultivation. Farmers
are instructed very little in regard to the
good effects of carbonaceous matter in the
soil, but practically they know well how a
black loan produces crops more abundant
ly than yellow one. The yellow clay
below the surface is especially disliked by
farmers, who look upon it as worse than
worthless for the growth of crops. They
call it hungry soil, and very hungry it is.
But if it Is fed abundantly by vegetable
matter, green crops turned under, swamp
muck composted with lime or manure, or
even turned up to the light and the air, it
soon becomes dark in color, brown or
black, and then bears satisfactory crops.
The Michigan college has been expert
menting with the light sands known as
the Jack pine lands by blowing in
green crops grown On these lands without
manure, and has found in three years a
gratifying improvement, as the soil has
become darkened and consolidated by the
carbonacecus matter added to it. This
method of improving light, sandy land is
cheap, time being spent rather than mon
ey, but it is the most effective.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
Remedy for Cakei Udder,

Take pint of aqua ammonia pint of
soft water, or 2 teaspoonfuls spirits of
turpentine, ~ teaspoonful of fluid extract
of beldonna, l-3 .teaspoonfuI eff hyptolacca,
~ teaspoonful of saturated tincture of
camphor, Shake we'll and apply with all
the elbow grease and practice you can mus
ter. Take a teaspoonful at a time in the
hollow of the hand, rub it into the skin of
the I'D Ter until the latter gets dry and
quite hot; support yourself by putting the
other hand, with an occasional patting,
across the patients spine.
After having treated both sides in
front and rear (the latter as high up as
the udder reaches) two doses of liniment,
get down under your cow and gently COM
mence kneeding the bag, taking the whole
and afterwards part of the udder between
the open hands, rolling the former till
formed Jumps are crushed, and occasion
ally milking the bag empty. Stop the use
of Eminent as coagulation disappears, but
keep rubbing and milk often. By all
means avoid granting, feed hay only very
sparingly, give plenty of water, and keep
the animal from getting cold.-Jersey
Bulletin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
Care of Farm Horses.
Orange Judd Farmer.

An English veterinary surgeon recon-
mends that those who have charge of
horses, especially farm horses, should learn
the stomach of horse is not like the
rumen of cow, mere receptacle for food.
but that it is an essential organ of diges-
tion of a limited capacity, which does not
need TO be crammed in order to perform
its proper functions, and that it cannot be
so treated without danger to the animal :;
that the teeth Of the horse are provided
for the purpose of masticating the food
and that tue food which does not require
mastication should be sparlngly, if ever
used.
He further recommends that no horse
be put to work Immediately after full
meal, and when horse does heavy day s
work let it stand in the stable until it is cool
and comfortable before being fed. A lit
tie water may be given, and if little
good hay be put into the rack it will oc.
cupy his attention, and besides requiring
proper mastication will further have the
effect to slightly stimulate the stomach
TO secretion, and prepare it for the recep-
ton of the feed which is to follow. Should
horse require more food than usual to
supply the extra waste of tissues caused
by hard work, give it by all means, but
| let it he in excess in its albuinmoids and lei
the horse be fed oftener, and no. in in
creased quantities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
THE FOREIGN SUITOR.


Why He is Attractive to the American
Girl
One reason why American girls wish to
marry abroad is that foreigners have, as a
rule, d certain enamel of manner which is
very attractive to women. The hand
kissing, the tlattery, the deferential man
ner, all these are the most agreeable be-
ginningS of an acquaintance. 1t is, to an
Idle girl, a great pleasure to find a man
who has ali the day to devote to her. The
European man has made study of how to
amuse himself all day long, and no doubt
he has picked up education and much that
is very agreeable along with this effort to
get rid of time.
The American man has had no such
difficulty in dispoSing of the golden hours;
he has worked hard to make his living; he
has had d terrific struggle for it, and his
love making has been a thing apart, an
interlude in the busy life He has had no
time to enamel himself with foreign man.
ners, and to an idle and selfish girl he is
far less agreeable than man who can take
her to picture galleries, to races, to the
Bols, to dine, who knows all about dress
makers, their prices, their degree of style.
and their costumes. A European man is
gazette, Il newspaper amongst other
things, and he is full of delightful anec-
dote. He knows all about the prince of
Wales, about Lady Agatha, and the
duchess of Nowhere: he is selfish in every
thing else, but he is not selfish in this.
He does try to make himself amusing and
agreeable, and to do him justice he gen
orally succeeds. If he goes to the theatre
or opera with party of ladies, he knows
the history-and is apt to be piquant
one-of every prima donna, every tenor,
every basso. He remembers what hap
pened at Nice two winters ago, and has
an amusing story about the grand duchess
of Pimpernickel. We all know that there
is no more fascinating reading for the
idle and cultivated than stories in which
titles abound. And perhaps, when treat
ed with the genius of ''Oudia, they are
very good reading for anybody who has
nothing else to do.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN.
SUNSHINE LAND.
ST. LOUIS GLoBE-DENoCRAr.

they came in sight of lovely shore
Yellow as gold in the morning light;
The suns own color at noon ii wore,
And had faded not at the fall of night:
Clear weather or clondy-'twaS all At one.
The happy hills seemed bathed with sun,
Its 81 rel the sailor could not understand,
But they called the country Sunshine Land.
What was the secret? "a simple thing
lit Will make you smile when once you know
Touched by the tender finger of spring,
A million bios -oms were all aglow:
So many, so many, small and bright,
They covered the hills with mantle Vi light;
And the wild bee hummed and the glad breeze
famed
Through the honeyed field of Sunshine Land.
If over the sea we two were bound, 3
What port dear child would you choose fol
ours?
We woud sail and sail till at last we found
This fairy gold CT Il million flowers;
Yet, darling, we'd fiud. If at home we stayed,
Of many small JOYS our pleasures are made,
More near than think-very close at hand,
Lie the golden fields of Sunshine Land.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
Percentage Percentage
Years supplied by supplied by the
Russia. United States.
Years

So far as it is possible to prove any
thing by facts and figures, this table de-
monstrates that orr foreign market is
steadily Diminishing, and that Russia is
taking our place. 1t is remarkable how
uniformly Russia share has increased as
our shipments have decreased. In 1880
we supplied Is. AZ per cent. of the English
imports, and Russia only 433. The next
year our share dropped to 64.O5; Russia
rose to SIS. The following year we drop
ped to 55.72; Russia went up to 1901.
At the end of another year we
bad fallen to 4757; Russia had
risen to 1891. In 1884 we rose again and
reached So IA, and, behold! Russia went
down to s. "a In 1885, however, we went
down again to 1870, and, as might be ex
pected, Russia rose accordingly to IA So.
The next year we reached 5917; Russia
went down to 500. The following year
is the only apparent exception to the law,
our share slightly rising, accompanying a
slight rise in Russia share also. But the
next two years show its operation most
plainly, our share falling from 62.65 to
98.7G the following year and to 3S,45 the
year after, while the Russians share rose
from 7.09 to 27.72 the next year, and to
$50 the next-that is in 1889.
The ruinous prices at which our wheat
was offered during these years, while
our share in British imports of wheat and
-four was steadily falling from 6542 to
88.45 per cent, and Russia's share rising
from 80 to $500 per cent, should i'm
press upon our farmers the hopelesspess of
looking for relief from their difficulties in
continuation of such grinding COMPETE
ton. Nor should anyone neglect to read
another lesson conveyed in the figures,
which teaches the utter absurdity of the
theory that our shipments of wheat to
England have been curtailed because we
have not purchased more literally from
England. The fact is that nation which
strictly enforces much higher, an almost
prohibitory tariff and purchases of England
only a sixth as much as she sells to England,
has been steadily forcing our wheat out of
She Liverpool market
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
L. S. ST. P. &U.P P.
New Line through Wyoming and
Idaho to the Pacific Northwest

This line is composed of the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha and Union Pacific Rail-
ways, and reaches more Far
Western Cities than any other line
as follows:
Haley, Boise City, Lewiston,
Moscow and principal 1dahe
points.
Walla Walla, Colfax, Farming
ton, Rockford, Spokane Falls and
numerous Washington points.
Baker City, Pendleton, Portland
and principal Oregon points.
Ogden and Salt Lake City, the
largest points in Utah.
San Francisco, Los Angeles and
all California points from Mt.
Shasta to San Diego.
And this line also reaches Butte,
Anaconda and many other points
in Montana.
Also note that by this line
accommodations are furnished in
Pullman Family Sleeping Cars at
very low rates to holders Of
econd-class tickets going to
Washington, Oregon and Califor-
MIA.
When you get ready to go
West, before deciding upon your
route, call on agents of c., St P.
M. & o. Ry., who will cheerfully
furnish rates and information
about through car service over
the Lake Superior, ST. Pail 6
Union Pacific Line" and connec-
tons, or for pamphlets and map
address
T. w. TEASDALE.
Gen'l PasengerAgent, St Paul
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
Do Your Best on the Farm

Look over your farming operations and
see if you are working right on the main
chance. In other words see if your head
is level enough So that you are doing that
best suited to your farm, personal tastes,
and markets. A mistake on the main
chance is more disastrous than many lit
tie cases of neglect or failure IN carrying
out details would be if main business was
rightly mapped out. Many farmers are
trying to do too much business, or, spread
ing themselves out too thin"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
MY HERO.
RNY SEVILLE VIOLET.

Not laurel, weathered by Fame's uncertain
hand,
Nor great when measured by the worlds false
scales;
But on the greater battle field, where stand
The marshaled hosts of right and wrong ne'er
fails
The one praise!
Not he whose voice among the busy throng
In blatant yainly-glorious pecan floats;
Bnt in the music of life's golden song
He strikes Tor me contents soft tender notes,
The one | ldud.
Not he who on the gacish day affair
Bursts like a sudden sun with blazing light;
But he whose life light is polar star
OF sympathy in stormy sea and night,
The one trust.
Not he whose rootess faith the tickle hours
OF lime cOnSign to duSt-a wayside doom:
But one whose, truth until death PITT bears
flowers,
Which is enterity shall ever bloom
The one | love-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
FLA\ AND LINEN.
Some Interesting Facts in Regard to These
Products.

Certain mugwump papers have made it
their hobby to continually keep before
their readers elaborate demonstrations of
the impossibllity of DEMONSTRATING the flax
and linen industries in this country. They
have insisted all along that the duties adj
iusted to this end would only succeed in
unjustly burdenlng consumers OF linen
goods. We submit the following extract
from the Minneapolis Tribune of De-
cember "a for their thoughtful considera
ton:
Charles r. Chute has returned from
his trip to Scotland and Ireland, and
J. Carmichael Allen will be here in a few
days. Both return chock full of enthusi-
asm over Minneapolis bright prospects
as a linen manufacturing point. Mr..
Chute announces that the machinery has
b n purchased, expert operatives en-
gagged and everything arranged SC that
the mill can begin work in March. At
the start the mills will employ 100 persons
besides the experts. The enterprise is one
of vast moment both to Minneapolis and
to the farmers of the northwest. To Min
neapolis 1t means the establishment of an
industry that will in time furnish employ
ment to hundreds and perhaps thousands
of hands. To the farmer it means a
market lOT Il new anu Ndludhe crop. Inc
culture of fax for fibre will be profitable
addition to his resources. Diversified
farming is one of the great needs of this
region, and an enterprise that makes a
market for new product is blessing to
the whole commonwealth.
Mr.. Chute also reported that the pros
poets for the establishment In this country
uofte manufacturing are bright. Two
thirds of the jute manufactured in Scot
land comes to America to be used for -four
bags, carpets. curtains and variety of
goods. the fibre is on the free list and
can be brought from India to the United
States as cheaply as to Great Britain. Mr..
Chute said:
with our protective tariff the Scotch
men can't compete with us in this country
they can't afford to pay the heavy duty on
finished goods. Without the tariff we
couldn't compete with them, with their
cheap labor. We don't want to lower the
American laboring man to the level of
those over there. OF the 10000 hands in
the iute mills of Dundee, 1900 belonged
to families whose homes are single
rooms"
Before the next election rolls around the
people will have thoroughly learned how
they have been fooled by the reform
press, and when that time comes some
thing is going to bend.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
Care of sheep.

Those who keep flock can hardly feed
them without some waste offodder. When
sheep step back to try better feed place
they usually pull out some feed to be trod-
den underfoot. This causes heating
towards spring. and not only damages the
manure but it is injurious to the sheep.
This may be prevented largely if the pens
are raked daily and used for bedding for
cattle and horses, and the mixture tends
to prevent loss in working the sheep
manure, which it is hard to handle with
out damage by overheating.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
TIN OIsE AT LLANO.
Sneers of tho Opponents of Protection
Made Ridiculous.

sneers of tho Opponents of Protection
Made Ridiculous.
The tin lodes of the Harvey Peak region
in South Dakota, will be furnishing pig
tin in large quantities before midsummer
Works of the capacsty of 500 tons day
will be finished by May l, and more than
100000 tons of ore are now On the dumps
ready for the smeter. The Chicago, Bur
lmgton and Quincy Railroad has built an
extension to Custer City, which passes
through the richest groups of lodes, and is
extending switch tracks to outside groups.
A large group of tin lodes has been dis
covered in Llano county, Texas, by Profess
sor Comstock. assistant geo.ogist of that
state. Samples of these ores have been
exhibited at San Antonio and elsewhere:
Some sixty deposits have been found and
new discoveries are announced daily.
These tin lodes are found on the Colorado
river Just south of the famous Ballingel
iron hill. Bessemer ores, limestone, coal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
A DODGE OF HIS OWN.
How n Young Man Worked His Way in a
Crowd.

no" IL 1ouuS han "OTKeu way III a
Crowd.
During crowd the other day on Four
teenth street. near Fifth avenue, a very
solid man was pushing his way through
the mass of humanity, when he encounter
ed a pale, thin young man with the look of
consumptive. The big man did not
swerve a hair. and the thin young man S
elbow, which was held out at an angle,
took him in the left side. The big man
gave grasp. followed by curse, and
nearly lost his balance, while the other
passed on as cool as ice. He had turned
aside to gaz@ into window when the big
man came up and said:
Friend: want to feel of your right ell
bow, the one you gave me dig with back
there"
oh. certainly" was the reply, as the
elbow was extended.
"Why-why-it 5 hard as ifon?'
Yes, it is iron. That is. | have an
iron cap made for it. Just a fit, as yon
see, and padded with flannel. It's an in
vention of my own. Haven't long to live
and don't want to surrender any of ny
rights and privileges You are number
% to-day-all big men. American hog
VS.. the iron elbow. you see. Elbow al
ways comes out ahead. Good day"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
Run Your Screenings.

TIE problem what to do with screenings
that consists almost wholly of weed seeds
grows more difficult until the best use,
that of burning them, is suggested. Years
ago such screenings were largely fed to
hens, but intelligent farmers soon found
that fowls thus fed stopped laying. Be-
sides, if liberally fed many seeds got into
the manure either undigested in what is
eaten or left on the floor or ground.
Modern farming mills take out of screen
ing every atom of grain. The remainder
may be ground, but it is poor feed even
then. Why not make sure thing of get
ting rid of the unwholesome stuff by burn
ing it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
HIGH PRICED HUMBUG.
The False Ante-Election Cry Quickly Dies

The False Ante-Election Cry Quickly Dies
Out.
The mckinley prices" humbug quick
" died as soon as the election was over.
Here and there free trade paper IN gen.
eraI terms feebly reiterates its ante-elec-
ton falsehoods, and few, very few, con-
tinue to specify articles on which the
duty has raised the price. No doubt they
spend much time in searching through
lists Of articles to find something that will
bear out their absurd assertions, and in
their desperation are driven to the absurd
device of quoting imported articles, such
at cigars, foreign wines, imported laces,
and pointing to them as proof of the truth
of the Mckinley prices ISLANDERS. They eff
feet to believe that their absurd charges
have been made good when they have
shown that the prices of Havana cigars
has advanced, when the fact is that there
never was any controversy over the I'M
mediate effect that the tariff would have
on imported goods. If an American in
sists upon consuming foreign manufac-
lures, protectionists insist upon his pay
ing something for the privilege. No in
telligent friend of the tariff denies that
the Mckinley bill temp orarily raises the
price of imported goods. The object, of
course, is to induce Americans to use
American goods instead.
What the Mckinley prices humbug
meant was that prices of domestic pro-
ducts, from which the wants of the great
majority of our people are exclusively
supplied, have greatly advanced. 70
show that the price of Havana cigars has
advanced is merely a clever attempt to
deceive the minimizing and t. dodge the
real issue. &
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29

I'll in economic contiguity, have made it
certain that Llano would be the seat of
.reat steel and iron industries. The dis
. overy of these tin lodes. will make that
rich district of Texas famous for pig tin
md tinplate production. The sneers of
he opponents of protection TO tin, and to
industries based upon it, are being made
ridiculous by discoveries of ores and by
the establishments of plants for their
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-01-29
RUSSIAN WHEAT vs.. OUR OWN
hs Forno- IS Rapidly Supplying
the Markets of the Entire
World,
And Of Course Crowding Out the
Cereal Product Of American
Farms.
Forceful Reason Why We Should
Not Depend on Foreign Mar
kets for Our Prosperity.

The folly of our farmers depending up
on foreign markets ought to become
clear to any one who will give few min
utes thought to the following forceful de-
monstration of how Russian wheat has
irresistiby crowded American wheat and
flour out of the ''markets of the world, >
notwithstanding the low price at which
they have oeen offered:
Share of Russia and the United States in sup
plying Wheat and Flour to the United King
dom Since 1880.