Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-15
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Saving Coal Ashes.

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| very little fertilizing value. they are
well worth saving for use in the hen
| house as a dust bath for fowls. They
are much better than sand or loan, /
which is often recommended for that
purpose, for these last, and particular
/ ly the sand, only act mechanically TO
rub vermin from the hens, while sifted
coal aches are so fine that their dust
fills the breathing apparatus of hen
lice, and thus destroys them. So for
putting into henhouses the bits of coal
that are mostly present should be sift- |
ed out. Wood ashes may be used for |
a dust bath where coal is not burned. !
as it is not in many farmers homes. |
The fowls will eat bits of charcoal |
from wood ashes, and they will not
injure them, though likely 70 make !
the colored spots that are often seen
in egg shells where fowls get at coal |
and eat it.-American Cultivator
Turkey History.
Turkey is from a Hindoo word |
meaning peacock, and at the time of |
the discovery of America the turkeys /
imported from the new continent were |
called American peacocks. The Jew |
poultry merchants who adopted the |
Hindoo name, called them "tuki,' .
which became the modern turkey. The |
word was formerly spelled ''turky''-
Ploughman.
Chrysanthemum Hints.
In reporting your plants be sure to |
use dishes large enough to prevent the |
roots from being crowded.
Bring the plants indoors in good sea-
son; if they get chilled by frost or
wind it will cause the blooms to be i'm
perfect in some way.
Water with liquid fertilizer once or |
twice a week. Chicken manure is one !
of the best fertilizers Put the manure |
in coarse bag of muslin and pour on |
boiling water, reducing it with clear |
water if the liquor is darker than |
very weak tea. Be careful, for should |
the water be too strong it will injure
the roots of the plant.
Tobacco smoke is good to keep the
aphis down after the flowers have |
opened, Before they bud spray with |
kerosene emulsion.
To produce fine blossoms it is best |
to go carefully over the plants, pinch
ing off the smaller, inefrior buds from
each branch.
Facts About Honey.
Honey is the only sweet that may be
eaten in any quantities and for long
time without interfering with the ac-
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food value is twice that of pork, pound
for pound, and it has been noticed that
persistent honey eaters are not nearly
so liable to disease of the respiratory
organs as those who do not use il
at all
1t is calculated that the entire honey
product of sixty bees during their en-
tire working life will not amount TO |
more than one pound of honey, an |
amount that a man with a good appe-
tite would eat in day without think
ing much about it.
BeeswaX is almost entirely indigesti
Bile, and, while it does no harm when
swallowed, never enters into the food
value of the honey it contains.
Extracted honey that has candied
should be liquefied by su6iecting it to
very low heat, otherwise the volatile
oils which give it flavor will evaporate
and the honey be made simply sweet
without its delightful perfume-like
taste, which nothing can be found to
initiate.
Honey should never be exposed to
the air 1t will not ferment or sour
but it loses flavor and sometimes be-
comes the least rank in taste, when air
is admitted freely.-Farmers' Voice.
Simple Way to Cook Pork
Cut mess or clean pork into quarter
inch slices, soak in milk (sour or
sweet over night. In the morning
wash, drain and wipe dry, put neatly
in a bake pan, set in a hot oven, bake
until done, not Drowned or dried up.
In the meantime make a batter of one
beaten egg, milk and flour in proper
ton to quantity of pork. Dip the pork
in the batter, fry quickly lin the
grease poured frob bake dish into a
spider) a golden brown.
Sugar Maple.
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young man ! would certainly set out an
acre or more of sugar maple. There
is no more beautiful tree, and a grove
of them would be ornamental, and in
Is or 20 years it could be tapped and
would give the luxury of maple syrup.
l am not sure how the seed of the hard
maple should be managed, but | think
it should be gathered when ripe and
kept in damp sand until fall, and then
sown in shallow drills, on we'll drained
ground and lightly covered with sand
or woods mould, or the seed could be
sown thickly in cold frames and trans
planted as soon as it shows in the
spring. In localities where there are
old maple trees the young trees come
by myriads in the spring and can be
taken up in the seed leaf, or small
trees can be found in the woods and
transplanted when one or two feet
high Three hundred or more trees
can be grown on an acre, and in my
judgment it would be worth $500 at 20
years old Why not start such grove?
w. B., in National Stockman.
How to Clean Sheepskin Rugs.
Tack the rug, pelt side in, around i
barrel and scrub with a stin, scruboing
brush and hot suds in which some
washing powder has been dissolved