The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-11

station at Cranmoor, Wood county. At
this station more than leo varieties are
being tested and propogated.
Pressing into Canada.
The land thirst is taking people not
only into northwestern Dakota and be-
yond, but is taking Americans to Can
ada. The Canadian Pacific road has
millions of acres there and the roads
officials and the government officials
| cooperate in attracting settlers. 1t is
by capitalists for restless farmers from
Nebraska alone. Individual sales of
! thousands of acres are reported and
! think of this: "a syndicate of Mime
apolis, Duluth and western Canadian
capitalists, with $3,5O0,000 behind
them, have bought 100000 acres Of
farm lands in Assiniboia and Saskatch-
evan from the Regina and Long Lake
railway for mammoth colonization
scheme
There is no doubt about the fairness
of this soil, much Of it. But one must
buy the best patches. There are
reaches in northern Wisconsin that
will never be gOod-toO sandy. Pota-
toes and Strawberries, perhaps, may
be raised. SO, too, in parts of the
! Dakotas, although parties are buying
it freely and tales of its richness are
fascinating, yet you will find farm
ers in places there hitching up their
teams and driving away in despair
after many years struggle.
Land is all right, but buy wisely.
Two Madison men, Oftelie and Ston-
; tahl, have made some 100000 in a very
short time selling land They take
parties out and locate them. That is
more effective than buying titles and
putting them away in a tinboX.
The Seventeen Year Locust.
| Among state events is the likelihood
of the seventeen-year locust looking
in on us this year-though as matter
of fact, he is not so destructive of late
years as fancy imagines. They re-
main in the ground for seventeen years
and then become full-fedged insects
! for short season. While the period is
! rightly fixed at seventeen years, they
do not always appear at the same time
at all places. Colonies appear above
ground nearly every year in different
localities and in some localities two
colonies may overlap. and the insects
! may appear twice or Oftener during
the seventeen-year period.
Our Wisconsin Bee Guardian. )
In the spring of 1901 State Inspec-
tor of Apiaries n. e. France was called
| to examine an apiary of 1OS colonies
! of bees. He found few colonies dis
eased with foul brood. He gave in
Structions and left the owner to treat
! the bees, and when the honey season
opened there were sixty colonies left
| These sixty colonies gathered $500
pounds of honey. so the owner con-
! Guided that it wasn't worth while to
treat foul brood and that it was not
so serious rs it was supposed to be.
After the honey season closed the dis
ease spread rapidly, so that when Mr..
France called there last week there
were no bees left-only $500 diseased
combs, which he melted to save the
wax, 321 pounds, worth $96.30 It is
safe to say that the foul brood will re-
ceiye attention i'll that neighborhood
from this time on. Mr. France has re-
! Gently purchased a German wax press,
which he takes with him and saves all
| the wax of diseased combs. which
would otherwise be lost. This he does
free Of charge
Beer Not All in Milwaukee.
Every one knows that Prince Henry
Of Prussia was much impressed by
! Milwaukee, as we'll he might be. And
beautiful women are motifs only prod
uct. The figures of it's industries are
reprinted from time to time-every
! Badger should know them. The beer
] industry OF Milwaukee. which brings
to the city about $1S,00000O annual
ly, is next in Importance, though way
behind the iron and steel industry.
which brings in over E$5O,00O,0oO an
nually. Packed meats come next with
about $16000,000; then four and feed,
about SS.O0O.000; then about thirty
three other industries producing from
i S1,OOO,000 to &5,0O0,00O About So .OOO:-
900 worth of clothing is made there ev-
cry year. The city is one. of the chief
photographic centers of the country In
milling Milwaukee has been losing
ground to other cities. but this loss has
been more than made good by great
gains IN the leather industry.
Jerre ID. Witter of Grand Rapids.
One OF the notable men of Wisconsin
passed away in Grand Rapids not long
ago in Jerre ID. Witter. though SO big
is fhp stare that pvnp CD coDSidora HI :,