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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
AM ERICAN FARMERS.
= Free Trader on the Condition Of the
agricultural Glasses

agricultural Glasses
Mr. Edward Atkinson, a free trader,
writes an article for the May mum Der of
the Forum, in which he SAYS: The agri
cultural class deserves some special
mention. 1t may be asked, If farming
IS not profitable why do crops increase?
II market gardening is not profitable,
why does the product increase ii quaint
ity and IN value? If farmers do not
prosper, Why is it that there is a con
stantly increasing demand for labor on
farms at wages that ar much higher
than they were ten or twenty years ago,
to meet which demand for farm labor
there is no Sufficient supply? | antici
p tie the bugbear Of the mortgages; but
after that We are beginning to have data
sutficing for a true solution. It is not
true that farmers, taken as a body.
especially in the west, are oppressed
with heavy mortgages The reverse is
true. Let it suffice to refer to the
special census bulletin giving statistics
OF farm land and mortgages in illinois In
this return, complied by Mr.. John S
Lord (whose reputation is we'll know
to every one dealing with statistics) and
by Mr.. George K Holmes, separation
is made between mortgaged acres aid
mortgaged lots. Dealing with mortgag
ed acres as a representative upon the
true valuation of all farms taxed in
Illinois was only thirteen and twenty
seven hundredths Less than one half
OF the farms in Illinois are subject to any
mortgage, the percentage of the total
number Of taxed acres represented by
the number of mortgaged acres being
only thirty and seventy eight hun
dredths Dealing with the mortgaged
acres only, the average of the mortgage
to the true valuation is but forty two
and twenty seven hundredths per cent.
1t therefore appears that much less than
one-half of the farms of Illinois are sub
jected to a mortgage, and the average
mortgage upon that part en- mbered
by, debt is is less than one half J -peecifio
the judgment which I had formed from
data secured in a much less adequate
manner from other states.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
When yougat a giant down it is never
safe until you cut off his head.

When yougat "a giant down it is never
safe until you cut off his head.
Silence at The proper Season is wisdom
and better than any speech. Plutarcb.
It viii not be hard to speak kind words
if you cultivate fue feeii -
The best way TO fad he truth is 10 ne
willing that the truth shall fad you.
The virtue of the soul dos not consist
N flying high, but IN walking or6e1l -
M0ntaigne.
Blessed is be that considereth the
poor; the Lord viii deliver him in time o.
trouble"
The sacred Scriptures tell US the bes'
way OF living, the noblest way of suffer
ing, and the most comfortable way of
dyirg.-Flave!
The world is full of life. Each life is
tune; so the world is a great orchestra,
and of them all how few tunes are played
through, how many ended as they were
not beguu-Taylor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16

food essential to the feeding of the peo-
pie and raw materials necessary to our
manufactures, and we cannot exclude
one or the other without serious injury
to ourselves
Now | am not in the least prepared,
for the sake of wounding other nations,
to infiict any dangerous or serious wound
upon ourselves.
''We must confne ourselves, at least
for the present, to those subjects on
VIII CD we should not suffer very much,
whether the importation continued or
diminish d
"But what | complain about of the
rabbis Of whom | have just spoken is
that they confuse this vital point
Cheers They say that everything
must be given to the consumer Well,
if The consumer is the man who main
tains The industries of the country or IS
the people at large, | agree with the
rabbis
PRICES THAT CANNOT BE RAISED.
you cannot raise the price Of food or
of raw material, but there is az enor-
nous mass of other articles of importa
tioa from other countries besides the
United States which are mere matters Of
luxurious consumption cheers and i
it is q question o. wine. or silk, or spirits
or lace, or anything of that kind "a
voice: 'Hops?' and cheers yes there is
a good deal to be said for hoFs-but in
those cases I should not in the least
shrink from diminishing the consump
ton and interfering with the comfort OF
the excellent people who consume these
articles of luxury, for the purpose of
maintaining our rights in this CONNER
clal war, and of insisting on our rights
of access to the markets of our neigh
bors Cheers
This is very heterodox doctrine, I
know, and [ should be communicated
for maintaining it. Laughter
Il am not sure at all that you will es
cape from similar anathema, and [
therefore W.rn you Of the risks you are
mourning in listening to me. Laugh
ter
But as ones whole duty is to say what
be thinks to the people Of this country,
I am bound to say that our rabbis have
carried the thing too far.
1--WE must distinguish between con-
sumner and consumer, aud while jealous
ly preserving the rights of consumer
who is co-eXttnsive with whole indus
try, or with the whole people, or with the
whole people of the country, we may
fairly use our power over an importation
which merely ministers to luxury, in
order to maintain our own in this great
commercial battle ,"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
STORMS OF DUST AT SEA.
Not an Unusual Phenomenon, Numerous
Gases Having Been Reported


Cases Having Been Reported.
The British ship B9rear, which recent
ly made the voyage from Tasmania,
around Cape Horn to England, encounter
ed q remarkable but not an unusual phe-
nomenon at sea, viz, storm of du t.
After crossing the equator she fell into
the northeast trade winds and when
ABOUT 900 miles west of the Cape de Verde
Islands, the nearest land, the Berean's
sail and rigging were thinly coated with
a very fine powdery dustiof dark yell
low or saffron color, scarcely discernibie
On or near the deck, but lprofuse on the
highest parts Of the rigging, SO that the
sails appeared tanned" Fine dust fall
ing on vessels in the Atlantic near the
Cape de We're archipelago has often been
reported, but School and Home says it has
so often been of reddish hue that it is
known among sailors as "red fog" and
has been generally supposed to come from
South Africa. The observation aboard
the B9rean appears to ov rthrow this
conclusion and to determine the African
origin both of the Atlantic dust and the
so-called "b.ood Iains'' of southern
Europe
Admiral Smyth many years ago reported
during his stay in Sicily on the 14th Of
March, 1914, "blood rain" which fell
in large, muddy drops and deposited a
very minute sand of yellowred color
quite similar to that now reported by the
Berean. He then regarded it as ''sirocco
DUST" from the African desert, browning
the beautiful theory of atmospheric cir
cuiation." Both On the Atlantic ocean
and in Europe these rains of dust have
almost invariably fallen between January
ana ApriI-a period Of the year in which
the Sahara is most arid.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
FORGET ME NOT.


Forget me not when far away,
You wander at the close of day.
Mid other roses not more fair
Than those whose beauty was not less
Because they sawy our loneliness.
And blushed to see a sight so tair
Forget me not when others deem
All happiness an idle dream,
Save when they watch the sunbaams pISy
In golden tints of silken hair,
As though they loved TO linger there.
Whe perish with the dyin day.
Forget me not, when other eyes
Are careless if the sun arise
So only they may rest on you;
When Others hold the song of birds
Less sweet than those soft-whispered words
That l so loved TO listen TO.
And oh, II sorrows yours should be
For even our dearest are not free
From pain we'd gladly bear instead
If you should find a friend untrue,
One heart will still be true to you
Till all its lovelorn Gays are sped.
&C. r. Crane, in Chambers journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Electricity and Plant Growth.

1t would be rather curious if electricity
should become an important factor in the
work of the horticulturist, but there seems
to be at least possibility that this will
happen. The Cornell experiment station
has been conducting aseries of experiments
which have beeI shown very striking eff
fects on plant growth from the use Of the
electric light in green houses. and some of
these results have been confirmed by indie
pendent experiments made elsewhere I'M
der private auspices. At the Massachu-
sets experiment station also an electric
current transmitted on wires laid in the
soil near the roots of plants promoted
heir vigorous growth. We may soon see
electricity competing with the hot house
and the southern growers in supplying us
with early fruits and vegetables.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Spring Pigs.

The spring pigs must be turned into
pork within nine or ten months at most if
you expect any profit from them. To this
end they must be we'll looked after from
the start. Milk, bran, shorts and oats,
with plenty of good water, should be the
principal diet for the SOW. Within two
weeks from birth the pigs will begin to
eat, and within four weeks can use consid-
cradle milk. As soon as they can eat grass
turn them out on pasture, and for months
feed them for lean meat and muscle. Not
much corn should be given during this
period. Save that until you are ready to
tatten.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16

If one wishes to go extensively into
sLeep raising he must have cheap land
and wide range, but small flock can be
kept to advantage On any farm, and the
richer and more valuable the land is in
such case the better it is. This indicates
the two branches of sheep husbandry, and
with either Of the two methods sheep may
be kept proGtably almost anywhere in our
whole country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
THE MACHIN L ATTACK.
Democratic Manipulators have Disguised
President ChambertHn.


President Chamberun.
Translated from The Germania: 4
piece of surprising news cones from
Madison 1t is said there that DR..
Chamberlin, the president OF the uni
verify, intended to resign his office and
except position which was offered him
by the Chicago university. Added to
this is a statement that number of
professors, said to be six, had conclud-
to leave the university together with the
president.
If this be true, it would be deplorable
not only for the University, but for the
whole state of Wisconsin For, Presi-
dent Chamberlin is not alone an excel
ent scholar, whose researches in the
geological field have secured to him a
worldwide reputation, but he has also
known how-and under difficult condi-
tions-to render our state university one
of the foremost educational institutions
of the vest By securing excellent
teachers he has elevated to their present
degree ot excellence the new, and for a
western institution so very important,
machinery, engineering, agricultural
pharmaceutical and other departments
without in any way neglecting classical
| studies He has, if we are permitted to
use the expression, caused the univer-
sity to become popular; he has brought
! it closer to the people, and under his
management the number of students has
| about doubled.
A dispatch from Madison regarding
the impeding departure of President
Chamberlin and sever4l professors, gives
as the reason therefore the present state
of uncertainty about the affairs of the
university By that hardly anything
else can be meant than the unfortunate
fight since the beginning of the present
administration, which abs been charac
terzed-we hope unjustly-as an at
tempt to bring the university under
political influences. One is Thereby
reminded of the disputes and attack
which " ere called into life by the
present state school superintendent i'm
mediately after he had taken charge o
his office; of the resignation of tn
president of the university regents o
the changes in the board of regents
etc. We do hope, as We have said bt
fore, that those fears are taken far to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
RpAns.

AS rule, any good soil will produce a
good crop of beans, provided it is not yet
wet, and in climate where you can be
certain of 80 days of WARM weather,
Beans should be planted in the spring,
about the time corn is put III, but may be
delayed week or so if more convenient.
The most popular varieties for winter use,
when ripe and dry, are the small or me-
dium-sizad white beans, such as the White
Kidney, White Marrow and White Won
der. The latter is comparatively new
variety, and said to he Of excellent quality
and very productive
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Reaching Upward.

A wise choice between two shares of
service, or methods of work, is shown in
choosing the higher rather than the lower;
not necessarily in choosing the more try
ing, rather than the easier. The higher
is always better than the lower; but the
more trying is not always better than that
which is easy. There is merit in pain Or
privation OR hardship; but there is sure
gain in reaching upward, instead of be
ing contented with lower level
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
How to Feed H0ps

Feedlng hogs on the ground is one of
the old time practices that should now be
followed only by such farmers as are still
using crooked stick for pillow, and are
planting by the moon. Feed them on the
floor, and the grain will be eaten up clean
and the hogs will not be compelled TO take
SO much dirt with it. Give hog half a
chance, and he is quite gentleman at his
feeding.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Man an OmuibuS

There is no one of US that does not have
twinge of consciousness along the line
OF Oliver Wendell Holmes wise observa-
ton: "a man is an omnibus in which
all Of his ancestors are riding" Aud yet
to tell the truth. you hold the reins, and
you have the right of eviction. We are
not SO irreverent as to say in common
parlance, Turn the rascals out, but
surely one ought not to be Obliged to
carry more than his own reasonable bar
den.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Salt for Sheen.

The Sheep Breeder says to keep the
sheep in a healthy condition it is neces-
sary that they be supplied with sufficient
amount of saline matter. When this is
wanting In the pasture, as it very frequent,
Iy is except near the seacoast, it must be
supplied artifcially. S 1t is more or less
poisonous to worms and fukes, hence it is
necessary to give sheep plentiful supply.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
The Farmer a Man ufacturer.

Every farmer who keeps stock is man
ufacturer. His crops are the raw, material
and his animals the machines for manu-
featuring, and his beef, pork, wool, butter
etc., are the finished products. In order
to determine if there is any profit in the
manufacture he must know the cost of raw
material and the expense of transforming
it into the manufactured product. A ma
ker of plows who did not5 know this
would soon go to the wall. How many of
our readers keep their accounts so accu.
rately us to determine it?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Fertile IT for Hon Vines

There is no better fertilizer for a hop
vine than pure, strong, unleached wood
ashes. Toey contain both potash and sui
phurlc acid, which are available, pro-
Vlded there is moisture enough in the
sill to dissolve them. Shallow cultivation
induces moisture by pumping it from be-
low.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Love.

Love is never lost. He who loves truly
and purely is gamer through his love.
even though that love be unrequitted; and
unrequited love is really blessing to the
one toward whom it goes out unselfshly
Love is Of God; and it betters him who
gives it, and him ON whom it is lavished.
Love needs no bargain or return to make
it two-fold blessing Christian In
quirer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16

Too much hlIIlng up around the plants
IS not an advantage, Nearly all the ex-
perlments made to determine the effects of
killing and of level culture ale favorable
to level cultivation of nearly all kinds of
plants, not even excepting squashes, Gu
cumbers and melons especially on sandy
sells.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
That Troublesome Bug

For protecting cucumbers, squashes and
melons from the common and troublesome
striped bug, the Ohio experiment station
last year had good success by the use Of
tobacco powder, the refuse of the cigar
factories Aside from It's value as an in
secticide, the tobacco acts as a mulch and
fertilizer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
FARM NOTES.
COtt0uSapG Meal

The value of food does not depend on
It's bulk. Chemists claim that pound of
cottonseea meal is equal, in nutrition. 70
three pounds Of corn, OF seven and half
pounds Of bran. According to cost, there
fore, ii Is much cheaper than aay Kind of
grain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
SHATTERED THE STEEPLE.
lightning strikes the White water Con-
gregational Church.

WHITEWATER, Wis, June - An
electrical storm of The sev5rr2t kind passed
yer this city. Lightning sounded
IL rife sbo,s, and tor half an
aur il was almost CONTINUOUS. Dur
ing the storm the steeele OF the Congre-
,a,iopal church was struck, tearing the
Tsp to pieces and injuring the ciock. Dam
4ge 10 the amount OF 81, go wes dore to
he electric lights through bpe city.
A newly discovered yeln OF asbestos In
Ny South Wales vie. d. reddish hbers
Is il ches long, silky and hsx,bie.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Cocoanut Cakes.

Take four tablespoonful of grated
cocoanut, the white Of one beaten egg, and
two tablespoonfuls OF powdered sugar.
Beat the egg until it is stiff, then add
sugar and cocoanut, drop on buttered
paper and bake in a slow oven fifteen
minutes, or until the cakes take a pale
own color.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16

Thomas Shaughnessey, of Milwaukee,
was found unconscious from breathing IL
Eliminating gas In this condition he
lived six days. The case is said to have
no parallel on record, and will be reported,
the National medical association.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
Testing Cows.

In conversation with some farmers about
wedding out their poor cows, it was sug-
gested that record of their yield should
be kept for guidance and information.
All admitted the value of it, but nooe of
them had done 1t, TIE excuse being chat it
was too much trouble. That seems to be
the bugbear with all dairymen, ''two much
work" They say we nave enough to do
now, getting up at O CLOCK and working
until Z or every day. without undertake
ing anything more. There is some reas on
in this, but is the LABOR intelligentiy done?
The ordinary dairyman at all seasons can
easily fnd time to test at least a portion
of his cows to determine their ability to
pay for their food. It is easy to have a
spring scale and slate hanging in a con-
venient place in the stable, whera it is but
a moment g work to record each milking.
Once started the interest will soon develop,
and milking without weighing milk will
not be thought of. Try 1t dairy farmers
and see if it don't pay" II surely will E,
D W. Wilson, in Orange Judd Farmer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
HOW TO WRITE DATES.
Various Styles Given. The Full Name
tina Month Prefarred

Various styles Given. The Full Name OF
the Month Preferred
''The Listener" writes in the Boston
Transcript January 3, 1891, is date
which looks pic uresque, distinguished
and fn-de- steele On paper. 1t reminds
one that the world is getting particularly
cid II will be very interesting to write
1900 at the top Of ones letters, when
the year comes around; it would be still
more interesting to write 10000" there.
Few of US will ever do it, though if science
does its duty and finds way to prolong
civilized persons life to the term of a
California mission Indians, some of us
may hope ia do il. The writing of that
date ABOVE reminds the Listener that there
is a great diversity of usage nowadays in
the writing of a date. Looking over
number Of private letters, the Listener has
ways:
% December a, 1890
81 December 24th, 1890
81 oath December, 1890.
al "a Dec, 1890.
Isl Dec. "a, 1890.
(6) oath Dec, 1890.
(7) 1890, oath December.
Isl u "a 80.
kJJ ALI, IT, 1CoO.
1t would be hard to say which is the
most approved of these methods. 1t is
very much according to the taste and
fancy Of the writer, like the spelling of
the honored patronimic Weller. Perhaps
the commopest method is No. 5, while the
most vulgar is No. 5. l. smacks of the
retail store and laziness, too. Personally
the Listener does not like an Authorization
in a date, and consequently does not like
No 5. We ought at least to have the
appearance with om friends and the
general public of having enough time at
our disposal to write out the full name OF
month at the top of letter. None but
a slave should be under the necessity of
abbreviating it. No. is old-fashioned
and rather English; No. l and No. are
sensible and approved methods. The
letter dated XII, "a, $780," was written
by scheolmaster and is to be classed as
an evidence of eccentricity rathet than OF
haste or laziness. 1t has sort of antique
Romanesque appearance, toe, though to
be consistently classical it should nc
| doubt have been written XII. XIV,
| MDCTCEC
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16
FARM AND HOME.
THE cjovER-
JAMES wH1lonB RILEY.

some sing of the lily, Il daisy and rose,
And the pansies ana -Phhs That summer time
throws
In the green. grassy lap OF the medder that Law,
Bin kin ND at the SIZES through the sDn<hIny
days;
But what is the lily and All Of the rest
Of the flowers to a man with heart in his breast
That has dipped brinning full of the honey and
dew
Of the sweet clover blossoms that in boyhood we
knew?
/ never set hevey on clover field now.
Or fool round a stable, or climb in the NOV
But my childhood comes back just as clear and as
plain
As ths smell of the clover I'm snif4in, suain.
And wander away in barefooted dream.
Where I Jangle my toes in the blossoms that
With the dew Of the dawn of the morning of
Ere it wept Ger the graves that am weepino
above.
And so [ love clover-it seems like a mart
Of the sacrament sorrows and joys OF NV baar+
And wherever it blossoms, there let me how
And thank the good God as l am thankfn; Him
now:
And pray TO Him still for the strength when 7
die,
To go out in the clover and tell it good-bye
and lovingly nestle my face in its bloom
While my soul slips away on breath of perfume
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16

The locomotive engine vas known, it is
said, in China at the beginning of The
eighteenth century.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-16

To destroy flies boil the parings of po-
tatoes in little water for an hour Skim
them out and boil the water down to few
tablespoonfuls. Sweeten with molasses-
and turn into plates. 1t is deadly poi
son. Another method is to steep quassia
chips to strong decoction, sweeten and
proceed as above.