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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-03-29
Fruit in tho southvest Damaged.

ST. Louis, March 20. = Freezing
weather prevailed throughout the
southwest Sunday, and great damage
was done to fruit and early vegetables.
lee formed an inch thick it this city
and as far south as San Angelo, Tex,
il was q quarter of an inch thick.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05

is it a sophistication of butter and
other substances not the product Of
pure butter or milk" The commits
Sioner of internal revenue has been ap-
pealed to in vain, he deciding that
the new compound was not a viola
ton of law. Many of the manufact-
urerS of the Fox River and other
dairy districts are said to have en-
gagged extensively in the new process.
and their product has been put upon
the Chicago market. where it completes
with oleo and the lower grades of
dairy butter. When quite fresh, ii is
not particularly Objectionable. but it
is said TO require a certain doctoring
TO give it any keeping quality. Ger
tainly dairy butter is low enough now
without being compelled to suffer the
competition of such a vile "bosh' as
this. A state law should De secured
IN the interests Of the purchasing pub
lie, CHASING the new compound with
adultera tons and forbidding IFS sale.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
JOHNSON'S FAST MILE.

JOhnson's mile on the bicycle in I
minutes and 3-5 seconds was remark
able and shows how closely the trot-
ting horse and the bicycle racer are
allied in the matter of speed. says the
New York Sun. They are moving. in
parallel lines, and the speed of each
reaches a higher notch every year.
This is not the only new record which
has recently been made in cycling, as
a rider in England short time ago
won race by an exhibition Of I'M
usual endurance. He rode his bicycle
without an hours sleep for three days
fourteen hours and fifteen minutes,
and won the race simply because he
had the ability to go without sleep for
this length of time It recalls the eX-
periences in the walking contests in
New York some years ago in which
speed gave way to the ability which
some men displayed of keeping NOV
ing around the track while their faster
competitors were overcome by drowsi-
ness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
CORBETT IN FRANCE.
There Is no One in Paris Who Cares
TO Face the Champion.

Paris Illustration: John Corbett is
the boXeur, the champion of the world.
who has appeared for several evenings
at the Folies Bergere. A handsome
fellow. young and dark complexioned,
elegant, one meter and eight cent?
meters tall. with formidable bicepS
and the neck of a bull 1t appears
that no one in the world boxes like
him. He stands upright before the
public, at once confident and derisive.
seeming to say to the public. Who
would like TO measure himself with
me-"
Terrible is the fist OF this Yankee.
One would expect that French boxers
would accept this challenge, as the
Partisan maitre d'armes did when
Prof. PM came here and boosted that
he would give them fencing lessons.
But our masters of the boXe left John
Corbett alone, and the two gloved
fists of the American boxer are dis
played, freely, invincible. on the walls
of Paris
1 discussed John Corbett with a
French professor of the boxe. who
said: No, [ will not make an as
sault with him. 1 do not wish TO COM
promise the reputa ton of the national
boXe. One would in vain demOlish the
jaw of these Americans. they would
remain erect, intrepid, and would con-
tinue the combat. They go to the
hospital, if necessary, after the fight,
but they do not leave the ring. We
will go to the forttications if you wish
and 1 will fight with highway robbers
and malefa ctors. However redoubt-
able they may be, they are not so
compared with John COrbett!''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
CURIOUS HAILSTONES.
In Central America They Sometimes
Contain Toads and Pebbles.

Atlanta Constitution: A gentleman
connected with the MuSeo National
National Museum), at San Jose, Costa
Rica, in a private letter tells graphic
story of the wonderful hail storm
which recently visited the southwest
coast of that Central American re-
public His letter, in part, is as fol-
lows:
THE cloud came almost directly
from the west, and was blacker than
the prOverbial Egyptian darkness
We are now we'll used to tropical
storms, with their Accomplishments Of
real thunder and lightning, something
grander than the folks in old Mis-
souri, have ever seen or heard, but
in this case it seemed a thousand
squalls, hurricanes and cyclones COM
bined in one. All of a sudden there
was a terrible roaring and splashing
in the bay near the camp. [ have
since thought that the only thing it
could be compared with would be
shower of bricks and cobblestones
falling into the ocean. We had hard
ly time to take shelter in an immense
hollow guave when that portion of
the cloud which was dumping its i'm
mense load of ice into the salty water
veered to the northeast and crossed
to the treelesS tract of mountains ~
ing over toward Hanfeta. 1t was not
a hail storm in the grand, true sense
Of the word-it was simply an awful
precipitation Of thousands Of tons of
ice from the clouds. Some Of these
Jumps were not larger than ones fists,
but the majority of them were larger
than full-sized building bricks, and
one which buried itself in the sand
near our camp kettle OH the beach was
a jagged, three-cornered mass OF Ice
weighing tWenty-three pounds an hour
and a half after the storm cloud had
passed As one of the boys afterWafd
remarked. TT seemed as II the cloud
had been frozen solid to a depth OF
about six or eight inches and then
suddenly knocked to pieces ana
thrown to the earth But few Of the
ice chunks bore the least resemblance
to ordinary hailstones; all were OF
Jagged and irregular form the MAJOR
ity of the pieces containing some for
eign substance, such as ball of earth,
wads of rotten leaves, sand, fish and
frog spawn, etc. The head Of dead
sunfish was found in one piece, and
a half dozen or a dozen OF the ice
slabs gathered up and put into our
water jar yielded two live and one
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
BROOM CORN

Forty years ago broom corn was
grown to quite an extent in the Con-
necticut valley, and the Hadley broom
was we'll known article of commerce
in the New England states With the
opening of rich land in the more re-
Gently settled portion of the country,
the center of production Of this plant
moved rapidly to the west. 1t has al
most disappeared from the seabOard,
but is a profitable crop in some of the
central western states.
If it receives suitable attention at
the right time, broom corn is not a
difficult crop to produce. While late
planting is to be avoided, it is not we'll
to go to the other extreme and do this
work while the ground is cold, A we'll
prepared seed bed is of great import
ance, and 1t is a good plan to pillow
the ground some time before the plant
ing is to be done. This will cause the
seeds of weeds and grass which may
be in the land to terminate before the
preparation of the surface soil is
made. A thorough pulverization of the
stroy these intruding plants, and will
thereby greatly aid in keeping the crop
clean. AS the plants of broom corn
are rather weak and make only a
slow growth during the first few
weeks after they appear, the providing
of a clean and mellow seed bed is
matter of considerable consequence.
Planting in hills, which was at one
time almost universal, has largely been
superseded by drill culture. The old
custom was to make the hills from
two to two and one half feet apart, In
rows from three to four feet from
each other A liberal quantity of seed
was used. This made it necessary 70
thin the plants at the second hOeing
and involved a great deal of very hard
work. If good machines are used and
are properly gagged, just the right
quantity of seed can be planted. When
care is used in selecting seed, this Is
by far the best way as thinning the
plants is both expensive and tireSOme.
On ordinary soil the stalks may stand
three inches apart in the drill. or two
stalks together every six or seven
inches. Either very thick or very thin
planting will seriously injure the quail
ty Of the brush. In case a dwarf va
riety is grown, the planting can be
much closer than the distances above
named.
Cultivation should be commenced as
soon as the plants are we'll above
ground. It should be shallow and be
repeated frequently. If weeds appear
between the plants in the drills they
must be removed. If allowed to re-
main they will retard the growth Of
the crop and greatly increase the la
Dor of harvesting, as we'll as provide
for succession Of their kind in future
years.-John e. Read, in American
Farmer and Farm News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
RELATIVE BRAIN WEIGHT.
WOmen's as Heavy as Mems Relative
to Their Body Weight.

Baltimore Sun.-In Man and Woman,
Havelock Ellis, editor of the Contem-
porary Science Series, deals directly
and thoroughly with all secondary
physical differences between the sexes.
When we come to the chapter on the
brain we find it frankly stated that
1.-The history of opinion regarding
cerebral sexual differences forms
painful page in scientific annals. 1t Is
full of prejudices, assumptions, falla-
cies and hasty geGeralizatio TONS
Absolutely we are told men have
larger brains than women. Relatively
the differences are a mere nothing, for
average men are larger framed than
women. That comparison, the usual
one, Mr.. Ellis discards as unfair. If
the brains of all our larger men were
averag ed with the brains of all our
small men, the latter would naturally
object when the result was not in their
favor.
Height furnishes test often en-
ployed, but this is only approximately
fair. By it mems brains are still found
d utIlc larger IlldI tHOSc VI "Olllcu
con consideration, however, it be-
comes clear that while it is very con-
venent to estimate sexual differences
in brain mass relatively to sexual diff
ferences in body height, it is quite jus
ferences in body height, it is quite just
to women" Mr.. Ellis goes on to give
his reasons and his proofs, for which
we have not space. The conclusion is
that the best way of estimating sexual
differences in brain weight is in their
ratio to body weight This is OBJ
viOusly a more logical method. '"The
almost constant result" says Mr.. Ell
lis, 'is that proportionately to body
weight women are found to possess
brain somewhat larger than men or
else brains of about the same size. It
may be taken as proved that relatively
to body weight women's brains are as
large as mems and are usually larger"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05

the platform is full Of trucking to
free-trade folly" 1t emphaticaIly
speaks of republican protection as
robbery
Now it is republican protection
that the business men, democrats.
most of them, demanded al the san
Angelo meeting:
The interests of our district de-
mand that they (the senators and
representatives from Texas cast their
votes for the Sherman amendment of
10 per cent ad valorem duty on wool"
1t is a republican protectionist
amendment to democratic free-trade
measure that these democrats Of Tex
as instruct their congressman to sup
port. 1t begins to look as ii The ''po-
hticaI pantalettes' of the democracy
in Texas are fiuttering ''at half mast
for the ridicule of the populists.''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
Tho Ruthless Market

1t is the market that takes the wind
our of a conceited butter maker. 1t
is the market that cuts the sand from
under the feet of the ignorant dairy
nan. What is queer about human nat
ure is that no man full of blind con-
cett or ignorance ever for moment
believes himself cOnceited or ignorant.
No matter how much he fails to
make a profit On his labor, somebody
else is always to blame. If his cows
are poor and ill-conditioned, it is sure
to be hollow horn or something else.
Tell him that it is hollow belly, for
wErh he is alone to blame, and he
will not believe you. Let one Of his
neighbors strive to make an intelligent
dairyman of himself, the ignorant man
will sneer at and ridicule him for
sre1 ding so much money on books and
PAPERS. If the intelligent mans butter
hrir gs thirty cents and his only TWEEN
ty, he will tell you with all the sin
cerity in the world that sit is all
luck" Advise him to read and post up
as the other man did, and see If it
will not help the price Of his butter
and he will tell you that he doesn't
believe in that kind of farming"
Dairymen who refuse to become IN
teIligent make the most costly butter
in the world. The butter that is sold
the cheapest in the market has almost
invariably cost the mOst-Hoard's
Dairyman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
killing the Germ

Extensive experiments have been
made by Dr.. ]. Foster at Amsterdam
TO determine the temperature neces-
Sary TO kill the tuberculosis bacillus
when it is present in milk. Although
heating milk to boiling will kill those
germs. consumers object to the taste
of boiled milk.
The results of his work show that it
IS not necessary to boil milk to kill
this germ. but they can be destroyed
by heating milk at any one of the fol-
lowing temperatures for the time
given: 131 deg. Fair. for four hours.
no for one hour. 149 for fifteen min
utes. los for ten minutes, 176 for five
minutes, 194 for two minutes, 2O3 for
one minute.-E. II. Harrington. in
Breeders Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
Docking Cows Tails.

An Old Farmer asks why humane
societies do not object to-the practice
of cutting off the tails of horses and
sheep. Some of them do, notably that
Of Massachusetts, whose organ, Our
Dumb Animals, has a standing pro-
test against the docking of horses
tails. But what would the writer say
to the docking of cows tails? [ am
credibly informed that for some years
past a farmer in this state annoyed
by the Tapping fly brushes of his
COWS at milking time, has made it a
practice to cut them off, including a
good part of the tail itself, and the
poor animals have been seen at past
ure in hot weather vainly Ticking the
stumps against the tormenting flies. I
have not heard that any society has
taken up the matter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
HOW LIBRARIANS ARE MADE.
School Where Women Are Taught
to Be Librarians.

1t is estimated that nowadays over
one half of the library work done in
the United States is performed by
women, and every year there are
more and more recruits to what Is a
very pleasant field Of work. But the
time has passed when a girl with
high school diploma can be reasonably
sure of getting a library appointment,
and it is now recognized that capable
librarians must be persons of wide
culture and knowledge, and that it
is best that they should be graduates
of library schools, which are some
thing Of a new feature in this country
Perhaps the best known OF these
schools is the library school at AL
bany in connection with the state Ii
brarv of New York. 1t is conducted
by Mr.. Melvil Dewey, who is director
of the library, and includes a two
years course for graduation. The
average attendance is about twenty,
the majority of whom are women.
College graduates are admitted to the
library school without taking eXaml-
nations, but all others must pass rigid
ones before they can enter, on three
languages, literature, history and gen
eral information. A number, VINO
wish to become librarians as soon as
DOssible, take a special college course,
where literature, history and the Ian
g11ages are the chief features, and do
not devote four years to the prepara-
ton. taking the esponsibility-of pass
inc the examinations satisfactorily.
The other library schools are in con-
nection with various institutions; one
is now carried on at Pratt institute
Of Brooklyn, another at the DreXel
institute in Philadelphia, another at
the public library of Los Angeles, and
the Amherst college summer school
has a small one connected with it.
The graduates Of these schools are
coon established as librarians or as
sistants, and are justly given the pref
erence over all other applicants.
The studies in the library schools
consist in giving still more thorough
underestimate Of literature, history
and photography, and a general read
ing knowledge of several Of the mod
ern and ancient languages, to the pu-
pills. The scientific methods of cata-
loguing. indexing. shelf-listing and the
charging systems are taught. During
the last year the students spend part
Of their time in libraries as assistants,
so that they may become acquainted
with the practical side of their chosen
occupation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
A PUERILE PROCEEDING.

1t looks almost puerile to see a
farmer arguing against a rigid milk
inspection in cities or the suppression
of all deceitful sale of butter substi-
tutes. He ought to know that every
pound of water the dealer puts in robS
him of the production of an honest
pound Of milk. Every pound Of fraud
butter that is sold robs him of the
production of a pound of honest but
ter. Every pound of white clay put
into -four to give weight, robs him of
the production Of pound Of honest
wheat. Is he fool enough to stand by
and see this great wrong done to hon
est production and consumption, and
justify it either openly or by refusing
to give the movement against it dis
active support?-Hoard's Dairyman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
WHY NOT THE WHOLE COUNTRY?

The Rev. Cave of Missouri having
been understood to say that the south
must not forget, and the Rev Crosse
of Indiana having said that the north
must not forget, both sections may as
we'll proceed to forget what both
these reverend gentlemen have said,
or are said to have said, and go on
with the task of building up the whole
country, purifying our politics and au-
preaching as near to perfectly just
legislation as it is possible for falli-
BILE mortals to get.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
REMOVE OBSTACLES.

Farmers who have no time to re-
move troublesome and unsightly OBJ
jects from their fields lose the salts
faction to be derived in filling where
hindrances once stood, and will be
obliged each succeeding year to take
considerable time and money in keep
ing their farming tools in order. Own
ers and renters alike will discover by
careful calculations that to endure
these impediments for either long or
short periods will occasion losses
which they can i'll afford to bear.-B.
F. Simons, in New York Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
Too Many Varieties.


Wherever the apple thrives it should
be grown for home use, and in most
such localities it can also be proitably
cultivated for the market. One of the
first things to be done in starting an
orchard. either large or small, is to
make a selection of the varieties which
shall be grown. This is also one OF
the points at which there is a great
liability of making a serious mistake.
This mistake consists in choosing too
many varieties.
For home use, varieties should be
selected which ripen at different pc
RODS. This. in dorer that here may
be a supply of apples throughout al
most the entire year. But this must
not be carried to excess. Too many
sorts will make a great deal of trouble
without yielding a corresponding de-
gree of benefit. If proper care is taken
fruit may be kept for quite a period
after it has come into season. Conse-
quently it is not necessary to secure
all the gradations in the time of ripen-
ing. One or two very early sorts and
the same number Of very late ones
should be grown, and there ought to
be a few varieties which will ripen
between the two extremes.
In growing fruit for the general
market, the number Of varieties should
be very closely limited. There may be
certain advantages in growing more
than one kind. In most localities such
a course should be advised. But in
growing large number of sorts there
are positive disadvantages. The man
who has a few barrels each Of a dozen
different sorts. will have a great deal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
A New Bogus Butter,

There is more bogus butter than
cleo, and some Of it appears to be able
to evade the bogus butter law. III
Illinois, where they have no end of
fine dairy cattle and abundance Of
pasture, they have recently been reviv-
ing an old scheme of making sort of
cheese-butter or butter-cheese, by sub
iecting the milk to a high tempera-
ture and taking from it both the
cream and the curds, so making nearly
four times the amount Of butter
than could be made by the old process.
Of course it is not butter, but neither
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
CURING HAY GREEN.

VIII you kindly give me some points
in regard to curing hay? l have just
bought a small farm with about so
acres of hay land. The grass is most
ly ''crow foot" rank heavy grass
that grows two or three feet high with
coarse, large stem, which. if properly
cured, will bring SIS per ton here.
The great trouble seems to be to cure
it with green color; it almost always
cures brown. VIII cut II to . tons
per acre. Will appreciate any infor-
mausn in regard to curing hay a
green color. G. III. H., Fayetteville,
n. C. CThe lack of green color in
hay is generally due to too late cutting
of the grass, too long exposure to the
sun or damage from rain after the
grass has wilted. When cut in its best
condition. just before the seeds ripen,
quickly wilted under a hot, bright sun
with frequent stirring or turning, and
put in cock the same day there, to
complete its curing, the hay will retain
much of the greenneSs of grass, with
the peculiar fragrance belonging only
to the best hay. AS to the "crow-
foot grass you speak of, we cannot
say whether the handling we have
described will produce the same result
with the southern grass, but a few
experiments will decide the point.
Some hay, like clover, is best cured
almost entirely in cock, and as your
grass has coarse, large STEMS" it
may be found to handle better in this
manner.)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
THE MILLION CINCHED.

Chicago, July 3.-The gift by Mr..
Rockefeller of S65O,OO0 to Chicago uni
versity on condition that S350,00O more
be raised by July ?, was made eff
fective Saturday, when Silas W. Cobb
sent dispatch agreeing to give s15,-
600. But So, 800 was needed. Money
has been exceedingly close ever since
Mr.. Rockefeller's offer was made and
the trustees have had hard work rails
ing the money.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05

more trouble in getting them ready
for market. and much more difficulty
in disposing of them than he would if,
with an equal quantity, only two or
three varieties were represented. Even
If all the sorts are of an equal degree
Of merit. there will be more work and
less profit than there would be with a
smaller number Of kindS.-American
Farmer and Farm News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05
is IT DUE TO SEWAGE?

Milwaukee, July 3.-There has been
another death in the Rosche family, of
1861 First street, in which eight chill
dren were stricken with diphtheria.
The latest victim was Rose, aged s,
who died Sunday. This makes the fifth
death in the family within ten days.