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The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-12-10
Cashier IerciXal SfnI,. Thousands

At Lewiston, Me. specifications wcr. filed
by the Shoe and Leather Bank of Auburn
in its suit against the boudsmcn of eN-
Cashier FcrcivaI. showing that Pcrcivals
StralingS amounted to SiA., 40
Harrio.t Makes Confession.
Louis HHrrutt, the slayer of Mrs. Charles
T. Reynolds. at Atlantic Highlands. y. J. .
has confessed that lie murdered the woman
Isrife sued for Taxes.
The Treasurer of Alien County. Ohio.
filed suit against United states Senator Cal
vim :. Brcc for S11.3lo delinquent taxes.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-12-10

SIXTYTwo convicts are awaiting death
in various United states prisons
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
Summer Feeding.

In some parts where drouth has prevail
ed, meadows and pastures are short. It is
not too late to SOW Millit Hungarian tc
provide substitute for hay, which will
be short next winter. The grass being
deficient, it is better policy just now to let
the stock remain on the regular pasture
ground and feed daily some of the new hay
for the next six weeks until the grass is
grown out well on the meadow. Only in
extreme cases should the stock be permit
ted to Craze the meadows, however, and
then it should be limited to few weeks
only, removing in ample time to allow a
good growth of aftermath for protection
against frost. The millet and fodder-corn
can take the place Of hay In winter. There
is no good business policy in the idea that
given space of grazing ground should
keep the stock till snow falls. To make
profitable growth the animals must be fed
enough to more than support life. Neg
lect of feed breaks up all the improved
qualities in the live stock and islikeIy to
break the owner. There is only one right
way. Economy is the right use of feed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

instinct is not deceived, and chemical an
lysis shows her to be right every time. The
chat of wheat contains about l per cent.
of nitrogen, and it is worth for feeding
nearly twice as much as straw. Towards
the time of maturing the seed the plant
contracts all it has to perfecting the grain.
The chat inclosing it falls heir to more OF
less of the food that the seed cannot use.
In different seasons undoubtedly the value
of the chat differs greatly. If fine plant
dries up suddenly as the seed natures,
more of the value is left in the chaff.
When cows milk becomes thin and
blue, her eyes become unusually bright
and CLASSY but sunken, and the muzzle
dry, it is time to suspect the presence of
tuburcuiosis, a disease which is to b
feared is more prevalent than is suspect
ed.
To pay 800 for good dairy bull is a
very cheap investment. If any man doubts
it let HIM go out and try to buy some good
half-bred heifers or COWS. He will find
them held at twice the size of the native
stock. Twenty dollars each for FIVE half
bred cows would pay for the bull.
An OK or cow with soft, pliable skin and
with fine, silky hair will feed much better
than one having harsh skin and coarse,
stiff hair. The shrewd breeder or feeder
pays much attention to the skin and hair
of cattle This is the point that the Col
inns Bros, who developed the Shorthorn,
thought highly important, and their sue
cess demonstrated that their opinions were
entitled to much consideration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
IMPORTED WOOL
Plain Talk on the Necessity of Their
Use,

A Chicago paper quotes from Cincinnati
Gazette, (rep.) as follows:
Eastern manufacturers (nearly all re-
publicans) were bitterly opposed to the
changes which were made in the wool
schedule and hence they have been strong
Iy inclined to give the preference to foreign
over domestic grades whenever it was
possible so to do, without involving loss
to themselves. The finest Australian woods
have been selected for the American mar
ket. The first cost has been greater, but
the per cent. of shrinkagn has been COM
p&ratively smaller, and the margin of
profit has been greater, etc.
The last four lines of this quotation is
my text, and this contains the meat of the
whole matter. If American manufact
urers can buy American woods on the basis
of the text, do we suppose for moment
they would 60 abroad for their wool? Not
by long shot. But the fact is the Ameri-
can wool-grower has been attempting the
growth of American wool and other things
by Legislation instead of by the use of brains
and good common sense. The Australian
carefully skirts his fleece, and the average
shrinkage Of the Australian wool is about
so per cent. While the American does
not skirt, but puts in sweat locks, dung
bells, and sometimes other things having
no relation whatever to sheep, and the
consequence is a heavier shrinkage and 4
lower price for his entire clip, making the
washed Ohio fleece shrink so to SO pei. cent.
1t is said we can not grow wool free
enough in this country. In answer | say
We did, and we can. But this belongs to
the breeder. We did until the demand
for bucks became so great that neither
care in the selection for proper breeding
or care in using for an improvement in
WOOL but all the energy of the grower was
conferred In getting the greatest weight of
so called wool And the consequence is
lower grade of wool, lower price per
pound, and smaller returns, with cOnse-
quent dissatisfaction to the user or manu-
facturer as we'll as the grower, also con-
slant humiliation to every true American.
We can grow DIS good wool as all the states
south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, and
east Of the Missouri river line, and in
central Texas; as can be grown anywhere
in the world; also in the coast counties of
| California and Oregon. But we must
have conscientious, honest breeders and
common sense growers at the helm on the
farm and ranch to do it. When this con-
dition is brought about the necessity of
importing woods because they can't be
grown in the United States
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
Root Grating.

The preference of nurserymen for root
grated apple trees comes from the fact
that by taking very small pieces of roots
they can multiply stock Of new varieties
much more rapidly than by top grating
where young tree, however, when large
makes only single stock. Root grating
is also largely done in winter or at other
times when outdoor work is impossible
The young natural feeding makes at first
unusually a large growth the the first year
or two. Here the advantages of top graft
ing end The root grafted tree, from tbs
fact. th.t its roots are mere compact
bears transplanting better and in few
years the variety is on roots of its own, SC
as to insure a growthof the tree
above ground. Old top-grafted trees us
ually show where the union was made
with larger growth either above or below
it. and if the top is less vigorous, the
trunk below is filled with suckers produc-
ed by sap for which there is no other out
LET
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
Prices of Wool in the United Safes
Kept up Far Above
Foreign Rates
Twenty-Five Per Cent. Fall in the
Eastern Market Has Comparat-
lively Little Effect Here.
Sympathetic Action Prevented Sol
ly by the Operation of the
Mckinley Law.

Enemys of the Mckinley tariff now
triumphantly point to present prices for
domestic woods as proof that protection
does not help the wool growers. The fact is
that no other schedule N the wool law has
resulted in such positive good to Amer
lean industry as has the wool schedule to
wool growing. The congress which franz
ed and passed the Mckinley bill and the
president who signed it were elected prac-
tically on the platform Of protection to
wool growers, as opposed to the free wool
policy of Mr.. Cleveland and the Mills bill.
1t is important, therefore, that the people
in general and the farmers in particular
should understand Just what effect he Nc
Kinley law has had upon theIwooI growing
industry.
The trainers of the Mckinley bill found
that the difficulty with wool growing was
not so much that the wool tariff was not
high enough, as that defects existed in the
old law whereby the tariff on wool and
woolens was In large part evaded They
depended upon the stoppage of these leaks
more than upon a positive increase IN the
duty on wool to work the desired improve
ment in the wool situation.
The reports on imports show that during
the seven months of the enforcement of the
new tariff our Imports of manufactured
wool were reduced to 800, 089, 143 from
s28, 712, POI, for the corresponding period
of the year before. This means that the
demand for domestic wool was increased
by the amount necessary to manufacture
$6,634, 058 more wooden goods than were
manufactured in the corresponding seven
months of last year.
Although the demand for wool in do
meStic manufacturing and the consump
tion of domestic woods have been largely
increased, yet wool prices have this year
fallen so low in the worlds market as tc
allow the profitable importation of Aus
tralian wool over our tariff wall for use in
American wooden mills. Consul Griffin
in a report from New South Wales gives
the following table showing the drop in
Australian wool:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30

American agents in London were buying
the latest improvements in tin plate ma
chimes, as well as offering double wages to
tin plate workers, said: ''Should the
delegates report favorable upon the pros
poets for tin plate workers IN the United
States, it is not unlikely that there will be
so large an exodus to America as to lead
to a great portion of the trade hitherto
monopolized by Wales being transferred
to America. Hitherto the idea has been
that it was impossible to manufacture. tin
plates in America owing to atmospheric
conditions; but tin plate makers who ac-
companied the Iron and Steel Institute
delegates to America reported that there
was nothing except the want of skilled
labor to prevent the successful manufacture
of TIN plate in America.
How are the democratic ogans going to
get around this testimony? They can not
say that the London Times is in favor of
the Mckinley bill or that it is in the en-
ploy of the manufacturers of this country.
Certainly the tin-plate makers who &C
companied the iron and steel institute
delegates to America ought to know more
about the production of tin-plate than tie
penny-a-linero employed by the organs to
write down the tin-plate industry in
i merica.
OF course it will make the organs sad to
note The prophecy of the Times as to what
will take place if the tin-plate delegates
report favorahly. We repeat the words,
1t is not unlikely that there will be so large
an exodus to America as to lead to a great
portion of the trade hitherto monopolized
by Wales being transferred to America. .
Not only that, but it is trade of which
Wales has long had monopoly. This is
double stroke on the organs. American
industries are to be built up and at the ex-
pense of the manufacturers of Wales. 1t
is sad, very sad-to the organs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
Moisture in Cheese.

Any discovery which would enable US to
determine the exact amount of moisture
would be boon for cheese makers, says
the Rural World. As shown with the hot
iron, the curd should contain forty-eignt
per cent. Of moisture when there are fine
threads on the iron. When taken from
the press the cheese should have thirty
eight per cent of moisture and when well
cured thirty three per cent. An excess of
moisture tends to carry on fermention; a
reduction to lesson it. A low temperature
leaves soft, pasty cheese, according to
the degree of heat. Putrefactive fermen-
tation must be avoided. 1t is the greatest
dread of the cheese maker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
l. s. ST. P. &U.P
These Letters are the initials of the
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 Faf
Western Cities than any other line
as follows:
Haley, Boise City, Lewiston,
Moscow and principal Idaho
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 &
Union Pacific Linz and connec-
tons, or for pamphlets and map
T. w. TEASDALE.
Gen'lPasengerAgent, St Paul.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
FARM NOTES.
Chicago New ;.

Keep the stables clean and let the nor ses
and cows have a good bed.
Provide regular supply of salt for the
cows. Let them help themselves.
Don't forget the hen houses this month
The lice and all sorts of vermin will take
possession if you are not on the lookout
for them.
The more thought and care farmer
gives to live stock-cattle particularly
the better his general farming is sure to
be. Horses are sometimes petted and
given extra care by poor and shiftless
farmers, but rarely take much pains with
cows.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
Timely Suggestions,

Prof Cook recommends the following as
an effective wash for fruit treess. pre-
vents egg laying and kills the new hatch
ed caterpillers as they begin to tunnel the
trees. Take 100 pounds of caustic potash,
one barrel Of lime, one gallon of crude
carbolic acid, two pounds of white arsenic
or London purple, which Is perhaps bet
ter and certainly cheaper, and water
enough to mix 200 gallons of the wash.
This will be sufficient for 5000 trees.
Smaller quantities may be made in like
proportion. Apply the wash with stiff
brush during summer, preferably early in
July.
Any one who has seen how greedily cows
will eat wheav chaff from ack should
know that j. contains much more nutritive
value than the common straw. The cow S
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
SAD FOR THE ORGANS.
Americans at Last Freed from Foreig
Monopoly

The American organs of the tin plate
syndicate of Wales, Great Britain, with
commendable unammity refuse to listen to
any American testimony as to the proba-
biIity or practicability of producing tin
plate proftably in this country. They are
Iaboring day and night to impress the
public with the idea that the United
States must forever remain dependent
upon the "Welsh syndicate" for tin
plate Perhaps they will give heed to
what the London Times says on the sub
iect. That great journal is always ready
to stand up for British rights and inter
ests, but the columns can not be bought,
even by so rich syndicate as the one that
controls the tin plate industry of Wales, to
protect their American monopoly by the
publication of false statements.
On June 90 the Times, referring to the
fact that sixty delegates from the tin plate
working districts of Wales were going to
the United States in order to inquire into
the prospects of profitable employment
here, and to the statement made that
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
The Cow at Milking Time.

A dairyman writes that if the cow
switches her tail and annoys you while
milking it is sign she is annoyed. Per-
haps her teats are sore from scratches of
briars, or so full of milk as to make hand
ling painful, or perhaps your hat brim
touches her TANKS occasionally, and she
switches her tail to fick off the fly she
thinks is there. Or, again maybe there
are flies biting her. Find out what is the
matter, for no COW will do its pest when it
is nervous and annoyed during milking
time. A handful of crushed tansy rubbed
OF the ANIMAL will keep off flies, Or dip a
sponge in sopy water to which little
kerosene has been added and thoroughly
mixed and sponge the COWS legs with
Il
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
MORBID pARTISANS.
Bad Crops, Low Prices, Business Troubles
Pleasing to the Democracy.

Pleasing to the Democracy.
The shameful, or shameless, antics of
the hostile press, in regard to the health
of Mr.. Blaine, continues. In this respect
the Times (Chicago)i is fragrant example
As the free-traders, mugwumps and other
malignants find their special comfort in
common calamities of the country, they
enjoy every sensational report tending to
show that the secretary of state is some
thing like an invalid whose recovery is
delayed or hopeless. The calamity press,
politicians and philosophers hail with de-
light the apparent fact that the tin indus
try of this country has not spontaneously
ana at once became as extensive and as
successful as it has been in England and
Wales, where it was planted years ago. If
wool is lower in price they are happy and
charge it to the tariff. If bank fails or a
merchant makes an assignment 1t keeps
them in texts and good spirits for month.
If farm mortgage is foi ecioSed through
the misfortuues or fault of the mortgagor
they revel In the possession of the fact.
They gloat over disaster and become hilar-
ious when they see a rain.
That a great republican statesman
should be sick and his recovery slow pro-
cess is 3 little different than those Gis-
cribed, but the calamity ties ENJOY 1t just
the same. The Times seems to regard
Mr.. Blaine's illness as a temporary god
send and classes it with the political at
tacks and reverses of his life which gave
the democrats more comfort than any sue
cesses of their own. President Harrison
appears to be in robust health, so the
croakers get no comfort there. 1t Ii q
queer party and queer press that regards
the sickness of a statesman, bad crops, low
prices, merchants bankruptcy, the fail
ure of manufacturer or any other dlsaS'
ter as a comfort and glory to be used fol
political effect only and to be described as
the result of mere legislation or the acts
of the government in other respects.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
RECIPROCITY WITH SPAIN.
Tax Flour to be Largely Reduced
Great Britain's Jealous Efforts

NEW YORK, July 15.-General John w.
successful in negotiating the reciprocal
commercial agreement between the United
States and Spain, was in the city to-day
General Foster has had too much expert
ence in diplomatic circles to talk freely on
subject which has not yet been given in
detail to the public. He frankly expressed
hims elf however, about the strong Eng
fish influence he encountered at Madrid
while the various parts of the agreement
were being considered,
THE influence of Great Britain, Mr..
Foster said, lis exerted to its utmost to
| render abortive all attempts on the part of
| the United States to enter into any re-
cIproCal commercial relations with other
countries. Even now England is endeav-
| Oring to overthrow the agreement between
| Brazil and this country. However, Spain
was no. influenced by the representations
made by British officials. | learn from
| Madrid, through the press dispatches, that
the agreement will be signed Aug. l, to go
into effect Sept. l, and | think the report
| is correct. can not say with propriety
when the president will issue his
proclamation nor anything special
about the details of the agreement
An important tax Of $3.50 a barrel has
! been imposed for years upon American
-four, but that tax will be larely reduced.
The import duty on agricultural i'm
pliments has always been very high, but
will not be much smaller. 1t was en-
6navored on the part of Spain TO have to-
bacco included, but | had no authority to
negotiate. My instructions were based
upon the third section of the Mckinney
bill, and there was special section of
that bill devoted to the importation of to-
bacco foreign in its purpose to the gener-
al subject of reciprocity. Of course, to-
bacco had to be excluded. The agreement
does not require any legislative action
The latter body some years ago gave
authority to the officials of Spain to enter
into an agreement of the character of the
one arranged. The president has his au-
thority under the third section to issue a
proclamation Of course the principal
benefit to be derived by the United States
by the agreement will be the Cuban ex-
port of free sugar. For years the whole
output of the sugar crop of Cuba has come
to this country. 1t would have been ex-
Guided probably if the agreement had not
been made. Europe has received but a
small percentage of that product al
though the market of London regulated
the price"
Mr.. Foster was asked if boots and shoes
were Included in the agreement. He
evasively answered that Spain manufac,
tured all the boots and shoes manufactured
in Spain, and then TUNED the converse
ton upon the exclusion of those articles
from the Brazilian agreement. He said
that Brazil wanted to encourage few of
her own manufacturers of boots and shoes,
ard that was why the proposition of the
American representatives in the direction
was rejected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-30
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