Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-29
BADGER FARM NOTES.

EX-Sheriff Weiner of Chippewa
county bought sixteen draft horses at
a sale in Chicago.
The D. w. Dean company has Sc
cured a five years lease of the new
creamery at Kaukauna.
A Shetland colt foaled at the Charles
Best stock farm at Mukwonago
weighed but eighteen pounds.
New York tobacco buyers are busy at
GAINESVILLE. One firm there sold several
cases of 81 low grade at cents.
The Mondovi Driving Park associa-
ton has decided to hold a race meet
ing July and (. Purses aggregating
S625 will be offered.
Frank Malone of Milwaukee, has
been engaged to take charge of the
driving park at Boscobel He is also
Guiding Gypsy H, the speedy little
mare and pride of Boscobel. Other
strings are soon to be there from Mil
waulkee and Madison.
S. NJ. Stephenson of Monominee,
Mich, has placed his mare. Hattie 81
in care of an experienced trainer at
Racine. He expects her to cover a mile
in PIP or less the coming season. Her
race record last season was 2:15, and
she will probably fulfill expectations
this summer.
Thomas Allan, a cheese manufact-
urer, of Adell, Sheboygan county,
marked one Of his cheeses last June
by placing a small vial containing his
name and address, in the inside. The
cheese was sold to Wheeler & Rowe
of Plymouth, at s cents per pound
and a few days ago Mr.. Allan received
word from Kirkton, Scotland, that his
cheese was bought at pence per pound
at that place.
A large willow tree at hartford
whose branches, for nearly forty years,
have been swayed by Green Lake
breezes, or tossed wildly in storms,
has been cut down. This tree when
left untrimmed for a season or two
extended it's withe-like branches from
east to west for fully sixty feet, ard
the trunk of it measured nine feet in
circumference.
John Schroeder, Jr., shipped from
Hartford twenty-five head of cattle
that weighed $3.50 pounds or an
average of 1,160 pounds. The average
gain for four months feeding was 255
pounds. At the same time DR.. f. VI
Rogers shipped from that place nine
teen head that weighed 23.00O pounds
an average of 1921 pounds. The aver
age gain for four months feeding was
PSI pounds.
Many of the tobacco growers of
Porter, Rock county, will engage in
the creamery business as more profit
able. The Edgerton Creamery COM
pany will equip a plant at Eagle and
charge farmers cents a pound for
making and selling the butter. The
officers of the new company at Eagle
are: President, John P Nichols; vice
president, N. A. Pound; secretary, G.
w. Nichols; treasurer, A. B. Fessen-
den
Sebastian Heller of Calumetville
MIXED five 2-year-old heifers, eight g.
year-old heifers and seven mature cows
from Oct 1, 1892, to Sept 80, 1898,
and delivered 49, 1899 pounds of milk
to a neighboring creamery. This milk
tested 800 per cent. fat and yielded
6,626.41 pounds of butter, or 1.32
pounds per COW. Butter sold at p IL
cents per pound, and amounted to
81, 800. $500. "a for each COW.
Several heavy losses by barn and
granary fires were reported within the
past few weeks. The items are as fol
lows: Frank Kinney, two miles from
Elkhorn six horses, seventeen head Of
cattle, hay, etc, $4,000; insurance,
$500. William Tippler, Sturgeon Bay,
hay, grain, machinery, ETC., $1,000; in
surance, $3.50. James T. Reese, Fenni-
more, four horses, carriages, harnesses,
feed, ETC., $1,000, insurance, 5000.
T. Schuyler Mathews o. Ell Fureidis,
Campton, n. H, has written a book
on the arrangement Of a flower garden
with special regard for the picturesque.
It comes from the press of W. Atlee
Burpee & Co. of Philadelphia under the
title of THE Beautiful Flower
Garden" The work is embellished
with numerous illustrations and has
appended valuable practical notes on
Horticulture by A. Fl. Fewkes. Copies
are sent out at 50 cents each.
Robert Harper of Monroe over
hauled rascally commission merchant
at Kansas City who had refused to
pay for potatoes on trumped-up eX-
cUse that they were frosted when
they reached their destination. The
dealer was obliged to pay Mr.. Harper's
expenses down and back from Kansas
City, his attorneys fees and hotel bill,
interest on the money and the price Of
the potatoes as per invoice, in all about
S514.
Among the special premiums that
will be offered at the Rock county fair
are a gold watch to the most expert
horse-shoer, a gold hunting case watch
to the owner of a team of 1,4O0-pound
horses that will draw about One-third
of a cord of stone the quickest and
with the least urging, and a gold watch
to the most popular farmer. Beside
silver watches, silver cake baskets,
gold-headed canes, toilet cases and
numerous cash prizes are to be an
nounced.
The head of a large wholesale house
has written to prominent cheesebuyer
at Plymouth deprecating the practice
of putting up one-pound skins for full
cream. He says: when your factory
men cease to make a full cream cheese
we will go to New York for them. 1t
is the greatest mistake they could pos