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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
Soaking Corn for Horses.

One who has tried it advises soaking
corn for horses. Have clean pail or
jar, and after each feed put in as much
corn as is intended for the next feed
and cover with cold water At feed
ing add little salt to this and give 1t,
then prepare the next. He says he does
this and has no trouble with sore
mouth or teeth from the use Of hard,
f1inty corn. But we prefer to have the
corn cracked when we mix it with oats,
or ground fine and the meal put on hay
that has been cut and mOistened. We
think it more thoroughly digested by
the latter method. If one is where he
cannot get his corn to mill, the above
hint may be of some value to him,
though we would prefer more than six
hours soaking if we trusted to that en-
tirely-Exchange
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
Crashing at a Sunbeam.

It's a common enough thing for child
rem to try to pick up sunbeams, but the
earnestness with which this attempt was
made by small boy in an elevated car
attracted the attention of the older pas
sengerS.
He was very small boy, not more
than two and one-half years old, and
still in dresses. The seats i'll the car
were all taken, and the small boy stood
up with his mother.
There came into the car over one OF
the blinds a slender sunbeam which tell
diagonally downward across the little
fellows dress, and when his eye fell up
on this he reached down and carefully
closed his hand over it and then raised
his hand to his face and opened his
fingers. But there wasn't any sunbeam
there.
The passengers who saw this were as
much interested in it all, in their way,
as the small boy was in his, and present
w they saw him try it again. Looking
down he saw the sunbeam still there,
lust where it had been before when he
had tried to grasp it, and he made the
effort again.
Reaching down he closed his fingers
around it once more, and once more he
raised his hand and opened 1t and looked
inside for the sunbeam, once more to
find-nothing there.
Then taller buildings cut off the ray,
and the small boys mind was diverted
into some other channel.-Ne70 YORK.
Sun
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
Farm Raised the Mortgage.

According to Sidney Ianler, here Is
more in the man than there is IN the
land" but sometimes the land seems to
take a notion to do things unalded. For
instance, the Lincoln (Nebraska) Jour
nal tells this story;
A farmer who came to Buffalo Coun-
tv from Missouri grew discouraged be-
cause he didn't get rich the first year,
and as there was a mortgage OF seven
hundred dollars on his farm, was about
ready to throw up the whole business.
But he determined to make one more
effort and sowed eighty acres of wheat.
1t happened to be poor year tor
wheat, and the stand was not very good
Concluding that it wasn't worth har-
vesting, he pulled UP stakes and went
back to Missouri, leaving the farm TO
fight the mortgage all by itself. The
farm was equal to the task.
The wheat ripened, fell down, and
deposited the seed in the soil again. Next
spring the wheat began to grow Justify
Some of the neighbors were honest
enough to write about 1t down TO the
fugitive in Missouri.
He got interested enough to come
back and take look. Then he stopped
and harvested his voluntary crop. he
sold 1t tor enough to pay off the mort,
gage and the rest of his debts, and had
a tidy little surplus over, with which
he moved his family back Now he de-
clareS there is no State like Nebraska.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06

If corn is planted while the ground is
wet and cold, the germ does not start,
or starts only to decay. In this it differs
from the smaller grains, most Of which
seem not to require the heat or the air
to promote growth, which are needed
by the corn. These causes operate to
oblige many farmers to replant much
Of their cornfields, If they attempt to
hasten their work by putting the seed
in the ground too early. A depth Of
two inches is deep enough for putting
seed corn, unless it is planted very late
in a warm and dry soil. For level cul-
ture we would prefer to wait longer,
and then possibly go little deeper, but
while level culture seems to have found
favor in the so-called corn-growfng sec
tons, and is almost a necessity where
the weeder or light harrow is run over
it after the corn is up, it is difficult to
convince the farmer in New England
that he should not hill or ridge it up a
little as he cultivates it.-New England
Homestead.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
Ground Bone as Fertilizer.

AS a fertilizer for certain purposes
ground raw bone deserves high place,
if it Is the genuine article, and Is very
finely ground. Much Of that which is
sold for that purpose is not fine enough,
and not only requires too long to be-
come available, but in some cases never
becomes so, as it seems to become coat
ed OF glazed over so that the acids Of
the soil cannot act upon it. The bone
is not adapted for fertilizer for field
crops, or for general use upon light
soils, but in a strong soil we'll filled
with vegetable matter it is good for
seeding down to grass, as It's decay In
the soil may require years during all
Of which time it is feeding the grass
crop. Yet we think we have found
better results from using it around
crane vines and the bush fruits than In
any other way. There is nitrogen
enough so that when used in the early
spring it will promote a good growth
of wood and foliage, just enough for a
thrifty bush or vine, but not enough
to continue that growth during the fall,
while the phosphoric acid Will help TO
make growth Of fruit and Jucier and
better favored fruit than would grow
without it. 1t certainly lacks potash,
and unless upon new soil It's effects
would be improved by using about half
the same amount Of muriate OF potash
with it, which will make the wood stiff
er and more hardy. The amount to use
per acre must depend upon the num-
Der and size of plants, but liberality is
generally the best economy.-American
CuItiyatOr
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
Concerning Reciprocity.

Habitual egard-suppreSSiOn, it
might be called-of central principles
and facts seems to be a uniform charac-
teristic of the votaries Of tariff tinker
ing by means Of special trade treaties
secretly negotiated and secretly con-
firmed. They argue along general lines
that. If we are to sell more to foreign
ers, we must buy more from foreigners,
unmindful Of the complete negatton of
this theory by the enormous increase
in the export Of our agricultural and
manufactured products In the past four
years of adequate protection. They
urge that our trade balances are too
large and must be cut down by an in
creased acceptance of foreign commodi-
ties to take the place of articles which
are now produced at home; but when
they are asked to specify the extent to
which this industrial hari-kari shall be
carried into effect, where 1T is to stop
and what lines of domestic production
shall be driven out of business in order
that we may buy as much as we sell,
or Whereabouts, they make no answer;
they dodge the point.
A conspicuous instance of this tend
ency to ignore leading questions and
disregard inconvenient facts is exhib
tied by the Philadelphia Ledger Of re-
cent date in commenting upon the at
titude of the American Economist in it's
controversy with Hon. George E. Rob
erts, Director of the Mint. Mr.. Rob
erts, says the Ledger, was asked by
the Economist ito what extent fair
trade and reciprocity would introduce
foreign merchandise and supplant pro-
duction in the United States" A fair
question, was it not? Yet the Ledger
in defending the position of Mr.. Rob
erts utterly fails to make note of the
fact that that gentleman did not answer
the question, but applauds him for
evading it by a quotation from the Re-
publican platform of 1896, while sup
pressing the more recent, and therefore
! more binding, declaration Of the Ma
tional Republican platform of 1900
| which limits reciprocity TO what we
do not ourselves produce" 1t is con-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06


Not long since we said that we would
not give up trying to grow peas, al
though the louise worked a great deal
about us last season, but we hoped
that they might die out or be greatly re-
duced after one or two years preva-
lence. Now we have the report of the
experiment station at Amherst for 1900,
which says of this pest: LESS has
been heard about this insect than in
1899, though it has caused consider
able loss in several places in the South.
Whether it will increase in Importance
during 1901 is at least doubtful" AS
it appears upon clover and some other
plants, as well as upon the pea, to stop
planting peas would not starve them
out. The season probably was not IA
vorable last year to many species of
insects, as a warm spell started eggs
to Matching early, and it was followed
by a cold period that was too severe
for the very young, and probably many
persisted. But it is not best to trust
the work entirely to nature when we
can find a way to assist in the good
work of defending our orchards and
plants by spraying or by other MEANS
Massachusetts Ploughman.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
Grain Rust.

The red rust which often appears on
rro ond wheat is the same that appears
earlier in the season upon the leaves OF
the barberry bush. We have heard II
both asserted and denied that the same
rust attacks the oat, but never We're
ahle TO trace the rust on oats TO the
direct vicinity of the barberry' Us we
have that which appeared on rye. bu'
where these grains are grown we au-
wise cutting and burning OF al Tue nai
berry bushes near the helo' ~ SUI ''at
norts Of England they have very strict
iows oblieing this to be done. There
GRO probably some other plants upon
wbich this rust can be found, as Il
g sometimes found on grain when
there is not barberry bush Tor miles,
hut where they are it always starts
on them before it does on the gram.
About the time the grain begins %
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
horticultural Notes.


Hardy hydrangea stands drought
we'll.
Thefe is no abatement in the demand
for decorative nursery stock.
The Otaheite dwarf orange as pot
plant is attractive, whether in fruit or
flower.
English ivy is well recommended for
shady places, such as bare spots under
trees.
Plant your peaches on high ground,
for it is coolest in summer and warm
est in winter.
The extraordinary demand for gera-
NUNS this year runs very largely to
semi-double kinds.
The light pink Lorraine is another
of the variations from the beautiful
and popular Gloire de Lorraine.
Leading fruit-growers have claimed
that where lime and sulphur are used
&c wash for trees there will be no
pear blight.
Dahlia growers all over the world
are striving to produce a better flower.
The color is better, the stems longer,
and the flower more vigorous.
Fashion rules in flowers as well as
dress. 1t is said that English leaders
in floral matters have decreed the
downfall Of incurred chrysanthemums.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
Sign Board Advertising.

If the farmer when he visited the
city saw nothing on the store fronts to
indicate what was for sale within, he
would think the merchants were very
much lacking in business ability. But
if he rides out through the country he
seldom sees anything to tell him who
has a COW or pig, eggs or seed corn to
sell, and he must inquire and hunt
about it if he wants to buy, unless he
has CHANGED to hear before he left
home. 1t would be well for each farmer
to have near the entrance to his
grounds a blackboard on which he
could each week put an announcement
of what be may have to sell, or wishes
to buy. 1t would be likely not only to
help him dispose of his products, but
by bringing more customers, and some
farther away, enable him to obtain bet
ter prices. 1t is a cheap and very effec-
tive mode of advertising.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
To Test Crimson Clover Seed.

The termination of crimson clover
seed even when the seed is compare
lively pure often leaves much to be
desired. The seed deteriorates rapidly
with age. There is, however, a SIM
pie quality test within the reach of any
buyer, as shown in a homemade ger
minator illustrated in circular of the
Department of Agriculture. A piece Of
moist flannel is laid upon plate, and
a certain number Of seeds are counted
out and laid upon the flannel a second
fold Of which is placed over them.
Then another plate is inverted over
the whole. The seeds are removed and
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
Up.to.Date Illustrating.

III" says floating paragraph. there
is a battle in Europe, Asia or Africa a
hundred years hence kodak pictures OF
it will appear in American papers the
same day, the outline being sent by
ocean cable" But what is there re-
markable in that? We already have
papers which give us pictures Of battles
on the other side of the world the same
day they are fought, and sometimes
when they are not fought at all.-LoaiS-
9ilie Courier-JoRrHdl.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06

Stuck fast in the foremost ward.
Then the bos'n piped out an awful howl
were all dead dogs, says he,
For the man who can watch that lieht
an live
Don't sail on the ragin' sea-
" Good Lord says Tom, our times
come sure. This is a doomed ship
Hold on, says /, that there voice
I've heard before, There it goes again.
In the meanwhile every man on deck
was listenin' with all his ears and once
more the voice struck up:
"Bunkin' on an iceberg,
Sailin' with the tide,
Ice enough for Christmas,
Plenty more beside;
1clcles for breakfast,
Melted ice for tea,
Sailing down from Iceland,
Icy as can be.
well sirs, in just a minute more the
watch UP forward lets out a yell: Ice
berg on the port bow
"The captain tumbled up on deck an
just as we got the ship clear, we see
great cleaning mass slide by ahead.
The Silver Spray, ahoy,' yelled a
deep voice outer the darkness, don't yer
s'pose | know that there rig Going t.
leave me again are you? Heave to an
send boat. It's cold sittin' here
It's Sam Coils ghost bowls the
crew, most of them half scared t death.
1t amt said the voice from the
iceberg, and I'll rawhide some of you
fellers when | get aboard for being dis
respectful
We'll, sirs, we run out boat, the men
tumbled in and after short row pulled
up to the berg. Sam, for it was him all
safe enough, slid off into the water and
We picked him up.
Is it you, Sam, for fact? says
Tom, edging away from him.
OF course it's me, says Sam. Been
On that berg for twelve hours
Didn't the whale get you after all,
Sam?' I says.
Just then Sans face got in the glare
of the lantern and he looked kind of
queer when he says t me:
That's what he did. You remember
about Jonah, matey, don't yer? Well
same thing in my case. Iceberg close by
and I climbed up. Amt got ships bis
cult about yer, have yer?'
"Well, sirs, for three days the whole
crew was that afraid of Sam that they
wouldn't go near him. But did. had
to. I was bos'n's mate. One day was
1ookin' at the whistle which bos'ns
always carry and which Sam had around
his neck when he went overheard.
Amt you using this new whistle no
more, Sam?' I asks.
No. says he, I got it full er whale
oil a few days back an it don't taste good
t my lips
Eyes, sirs, there was time when I
didn't believe that Jonah story in the
Bible, cause I thought sailorman ought
to know something along that line him
self but I was convinced then and I
joined the Seamen's Chapel at Marble
head soon as the Silver Spray touched
port.
"Seven bells? Aye, aye, sir
A. H. F. in The Brooklyn Eagle.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06

venient memory which can forget 1900
and remembers 1896, but it is mental
eccentricity absolutely peculiar to the
strenuous advocates of fair trade and
reciprocity
The st. Paul Pioneer Press exhibits
the same idiosyncrasy when it says:
TO designate the failure of the trea-
ties as shameful is hardly too severe.
The reciprocity clauses of the Dingley
law were Included in response to very
general demand for reciprocity. and aS
the first step in the redemption of q
pledge in the Republican platform"
Again the platform of five years ago,
but not the platform of eleven months
ago! The official proceedings of the
twelfth Republican National Conven-
ton, held at Philadelphia in June, 1900,
are incorporated in a neatly bound vol
ume, which is, or should be, in the
library of every newspaper Office The
little book is undoubtedly on the shelves
Of the Ledger and the PioneerPress.
Presumably its existence has been for
gotten. So we venture to refresh the
editorial memory by directing atten-
ton to the paragraph which begins at
the bottom of page 105 and ends at the
top of page 100. 1t should be read
for 1t possesses peculiar pertinency to
the question of flair trade and reciproc-
ity''-American Economist.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
AGE OF THE EARTH.
Scientists Place Habitable Time a
10000. 900 Years.

2O,OOO,OOO Years.
Figures, it must appear to many
thinkers, lose their substantial mean
ing after they pass the million stage;
the fact that we can say seven or ten
or a hundred million does not mean
that we can grasp what these millions
have power to effect or that we can fol-
low them out into the beginningless
tract Of time and space. However, to
such people as may think they are able
to follow battalions of figures it may
be of interest to give the latest opin-
ions on the work of the geological ages.
Lord Kelvin estimates the age of the
earth, since it was sufficiently cooled
to become the abode Of plants and ami
mails, to be about 100000 years, with
in limits Of error perhaps ranging be-
tween 100000 and 100000 years.
This estimate, nearly agreeing with
another by Clarence King from similar
physical data, has generally been re-
garded by biologists, says Warren Up
ham in the American Geologist, as too
short for the processes of sedimenta-
ton and erosion, and for the evolution
Of foras and faunas, of which the
earth's strata bear record. More prob
ably, as ratios and computations by
Dana, Walcott and other biologists
somewhat tremendously indicate, the
duration of time since the beginning Of
life on earth has been three to five
times longer than Kelvin's estimate, or
from 100000 to 1OO,000,000 years.
The larger figures imply from the
dawn of life to the development of the
Cambrian and Silurian faunas probably
$4,000, 600 years; thence to the end Of
PaleoZoic time perhaps 100000
wears; onward through Mesozoic time
about Il, 900, 900 years, and through the
Tertiary era about 100000 years. The
comparatively very short Quaternary
era. having in it's organic revolution, as
shown by the marine mollusca, no high
er ratio to tertiary time than LOO, may
therefore have occupied only about
100000 years-American Catholic
Quarterly Review.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06

necessary; with a short-bodied wagon
constant climbing becomes tiresome'
The plan herewith shows board pat
form extended beyond the body OF the
wagon and on it barrels, boxes bags
etc. can be placed and held securely
nv a rope.-Farm and Home.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
c AcCOMPLTSHMEN 7.

d. near me a little kid
1'.;o mi how to talk.
s1to.'ai b he IS to O' walk.
" .5o No. that he'd receive
' "a Give him some,
! III he to make believe
!. ' yas deaf and dumb
.o 10 quit practicing
,s s'p never do a thing
!. .' a II like a flower.
2s " him how often men
\ ~ = dow down Iuck's hill
o s1 .,r;n' something when
A .s it to have KEEP STILL
..9 hard, when you have tried
]. u, y,right your bark
1 :,r a fragile hopes collide
@ a. h; MI I'd change this bent.
.r -. to rise above
~. .,.,. state, but be content
,o,s an laugh an love,
JIG o" Washington Star.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
$S49.

Why not look into this, free traders?
Think of the freight we could save, and
think of the additional labor that
would be employed and the amount
of wages that would be paid. Why go
to Europe, Asia and Africa looking for
a chance to sell a few million dollars
worth of stuff when there is a market
for over $4OO,OOO,O0O to be gained at
our very doors? AS A. Lincoln said of
the rat hole, this will bear looking into.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
Market WAGON Improvement.

1t is a convenience, when peddling
vegetables, fruit, ETC., to have a long
bodied wagon, rather than to pile bar
rels and boxes high. With a long
bodied wagon very little climbing Is
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06

harden this turns to black rust, which
is only an advanced form of the same
disease. 1t does not hurt the kernel
of the grain, unless to cause it to shrink
II 1t comes very early.-Exchange
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06

Thirty-six per cent. of the area OF
the State of Washington is covered with
s7arehantable timbsf.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06

IUIuI dUUNVs 'FtS0~13'SO5DNo
Most of which could be produced in
the United States. In fact, we are i'm
porting annually over $400,O00,0O0
worth of merchandise which could be
produced at home.
Our total imports for 1900 were, in
value:
Free ................... 1857, 236, 1865
Dutiable .............4 S2, 7O4 1913
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06

Punctuality, honesty and brevity are
the watchwords of life.-C. W. Field.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
HOMEMADE SEED GERM1NATeR.

counted as fast as they terminate. Good
crimson clover will sprout 80 to 80 per
cent of the seed within three days.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
A New Market.

While the free traders are looking all
over the earth for new markets, they
are overlooking very important one
that ought to be gained, and gained
easily. This information is of great
value, but the American Economist
gives it freely to our poor, blind, deaf
Cbut not dumb American Cobdenites.
During the fiscal year 1900 there
were imported into the United States
$S49, 941, 1874 worth Of merchandise,
part Of which can be grouped as fol-
lows:
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-08

Molasses quiet; New Orleans, open kettle.
Peanuts steady; fancy hand picked 404x; do.
Cabbages steady; Long Island per 100 lbs., g. 90
03O0
Cotton seed oil firm, quiet Prime crude barrels
361; prime SUNNI er yellow 381S off summer yell
low 81 n@3sM; prime white 40@li; prime winter
yellow t0014l: prime meal $1,000.
BALTIMORE PROVISIONS.
BAIT1moRE, Dec. Flour firm: western
super ~ 4OGa2 50; family S330Gla45; winter
wheat patents So. 1908 co. spring patents 3d. 75C1
100: do straights. S3. 6o03.75; extra 81 5512 90
Wheat strong; spot s0a Sols the month soc
500 January S0aGg801s May s4a@s4ss. steamer
No 2 red =: Southern wheat by SAINT le 70aS0az
Corn strong; mixed, spot, rev 6Tsz167X the
Year 67X@67X: January 6sA@6sS; May 20;
steamer mixed -; Southern white corn, biA0
90.
Oats strong; No 2, white, 81; do mixed
1880.
Rye firm; No nearby, 81; No. West
butter firm: fancy imitation IS0l9; fancy
creamery 25Q25 fancy ladle 1901; store pack
ed l30l5
Cheese firm large l0Dl0A; medium l0s@ll;
small 109s@l1
Sugar firm; granuiateo o.ou