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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13
A New Corn Husker.

Many attempts have been made to in
vent a machine that will husk the corn
direct from the standing stalk, none
of them particularly successful. Some
recently patented machines are men
toned by Orange Judd Farmer as
promising, and among them is one in
vented by a Nebraska man. There has
been only one specimen of it in exist
ence, but two others are to be avail
able this fall. BY means of two large
spiral coils Oh either side of an eleva-
tor projecting beyond the wagon tongue
the corn is gathered from the stalk or
from the ground if the ear happens to
be down and is run into husker in the
front end of the wagon box, which de-
posits the ears in the wagon and blows
the husks through a pipe to the rear,
where they are saved in bags If de
sired. In tests made last fall, it is
claimed, corn was readily taken out OF
a soft snow six inches deep.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13

SLED FOR CORN SHOCKS-STUBBLE CUTTER.
pin of wood holds the plank tight
against the shoulder on the crosspieces.
Three more crosspieces of, say, ~ by
4 or 2 by 3 inch stuff are used on top of
the runners. These fit in notches cut in
the runners and extend far enough to
hold on each side of the sled an inch
board about six inches wide. The run
ners may be about four feet apart, and
the crosspieces extend nine inches on
each side. This makes the sled five and
half feet wide but the width may be
adapted to the length of the corn IN
the shocks. A stake or standard three
or four feet high at each corner COM
pletes the sled. Round off the bottom
edges of the runners somewhat SO that
the sled will turn more easily and
draw with chain and spreader.
In addition to the foregoing an Ohio
Farmer correspondent describes the
other devices illustrated as follows:
When the corn is large, it is usually
cut high ON the stalks to save the
weight and bulk Of the surplus fodder.
Unless shredded the bottom part of the
stalk is not of much feeding value any
way and is best left in the field. The
large stubble, however is very trouble
some when preparing for seeding or
even when husking the corn in the
field, and the device shown in Fig. 2
is intended for use in cutting of the
stubble close to the ground. Make V
CHI 1c,,a, Of
five inches wide Nail the frame on
couple OF by inch scantlings which
serve as runners, using a, crOsSpiece OF
the same material as the runners at
the rear to hold it securely. From an
old crosscut saw or any piece OF thin
steel that may be found availa bic make
two blades which bolt on the frame as
illustrated. Have the blades ground
sharp on their outer edges and let them
project one and a half or two inches
from the boards Draw it by an iron
ball or a chain, to which attach sin
gletree for the horse. A bow shaped
handle may be put on at the rear to
lift the contrivance about with if it is
thought necessary Make the frame
wide enough to cut two rows.
For hauling the husked fodder to the
stack or she'd there are several good
homemade lacks in use for sled and
wagon, and as rule every farmer has
his own way for handling the fodder
with the least work. For ourselves we
consider the low wheeled and broad
tired wagon with simple low rack the
;ol, 10 ho,Y no cfn hI1%
many haul on sled, and where there
is but one man to do the work a sled
is always used. Fig. 3 is rough
sketch of simple method of arranging
a sled for fodder hauling. Make SIM
pie rack of rough boards and strips,
the same as is often done for hauling
small loads of straw about the stable
in winter Procure two scantlings or
poles eight or ten feet long. Cut a
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13
A BEEFMAKE
The Good Little Aberdeen Angus, the
Small farmers Favorite,

AFmefS EaVOr1fe.
Examining an Angus bull for the
first time, we shall notice first his
black color. He is all black, the only
white allowed being a little on the un-
derline behind the naval Occasionally
red calves are dropped. We note an
entire absence of horns. Not even scurs
are allowed.
The form is very typical Of the breed.
While the requirements of first class
beef animal demand a rounded form
here we find this carried to an eX-
IRENE, and the barrel shape" is a
characteristic that the Angus claims
peculiar to itself. Viewed from any di-
rection, this marked rotundity is
prominent, and one notices, too how
low set the animal is, his great style,
quality, compactness and symmetry.
In the feeder we find all the indica-
lions of a good beefmaking machine
and in the finished animal every re-
quirement of a market topper. We
see short legs and neat, fine bone and
most particularly the wonderful
smoothness which even the most eX-
IRENE forcing is hardly able to mar.
The head is very characteristic =
short, wide, clean cut, with a muzzle
whose capacious mouth and large nos
trils denote excellent feeding qualities
and strong powers of constitution, sur
mounted with a tufted poll that is
sharp and higher in the female than
in the male and ornamented with eyes
of rare beauty and large, hairy ears,
elegantly carried, the whole set to the
body with a neck almost as short as
that Of Hereford. The Angus head is
an index of the excellence that we are
to find behind it.
Note the tremendous width of chest,
with legs set we'll outside the body,
the spring of rib and deep, heavy
flesh. Observe the cOmpactness, how
closely the ribs are joined to the hind
quarters. In the hind quarters we fail
to find the hooks bones, though they
are there.
Mature bulls rarely weigh over 1900
pounds, and COWS average perhaps
1000 pounds in show condition. But
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13
THE COW AND THE MILK.
When Milk Is Thin, Feed Right Away
From the Si2O.


Milk may be too rich in fat often for
delicate stomachs, just as skimmilk
may be too rich in protein to please the
taste that has been grossened by using
whole milk. This trouble is to be rem
edied not by Swimming the milk and
thus destroying the equilibrium OF
solids, but by simply adding water to
the whole milk This operation is full
ly understood by those dairymen who
furnish milk to the cities where the
average stomach cannot stand the pure
milk.
There are cows that will do the part
of dilution to almost any desired eX-
tent-even to the unGesired extent OF
making their milk so poor that the
long suffering city consumer rejects 1t.
Against this kind of COWS there are
many of us who claim that producing
water through the COW is too eXpen-
sive for dairy economy, and moreover
their milk never knew anything but
poverty, while the watered rich milk
preserves it's distinctive character OF
having seen better days. | saw one or
these accommodating cows sold at
public sale last week. She was per-
feet animal a picture. She was in the
hands Of a dealer and to be sold for
the high dollar. The dealer explained
that she was from pedigreed stock, but
that the Babcoclx test had recently been
adopted at the creamery patronlzed
by her former owner and this COW had
to go. She is now operating for
creamery where the milk is not bought
by test.
Begin feeding right away from the
silo, unless the pasture is very rich and
abundant and the COWS are in heavy
flesh. If there is any later corn being
saved for soiling, cut it and put III
silo. 1t is worth more as silage than
it is as corn, and if you don't believe
me ask the COWS. 1t is poor business
feeding to allow the cows to go under
fed or get poor this fall to save the 81
lage for next winter. Play for what's
on the board The needs of the cows
are present needs = better meet them
now than try to recover the loss later.
The world may come to an end toward
spring and silage will be no use then,
but not till then-W. F. McSparran in
National Stockman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13

champion steer of International Live
Stock exposition of 1901
early maturity enables them to attain
marketable weights in an extremely
short time.
The milking qualities of Angus cows
have been much neglected. All the
powers of the breed have been directed
to the production of prime beef. How
well this has been accomplished the
markets and fat stock shows of both
England and America will witness.
There are at present about 10000 reg
istered animals of this breed in North
America, one-ffth on the range, the
other four-fifths in the hands of the
small farmer and feeder. Their foot
ing on the range has always been Sc
cure, but the popularity of the breed
for the production of baby beef keeps
most of them east of the Missouri. The
outlook is bright for Angus cattle in
merica.-Bulletin of Bureau of Ami
NAL Industry.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13
oANKERED LIMB, WITH DISEASED APPLES

CANKERED LIMB, WITH DISEASED APPLES.
brown specks anywhere upon the I'M
broken skin of the apple, and each
point of infection enlarges SO as to be-
come a very distinct dark cOlored circu-
lar and somewhat sunken spot, beneath
which the tissues are dry never soft
and watery) and tough. Great num-
bers of pustules SO small as to be
scarcely visible to the unaided eye ar
ranged in close concentric circles cover
all but the outel border of the discol
ored spot and give to the surface a
roughened appearance.
When the air is sufficiently moist,
each conically shaped point opens by
breaking through the skin of the fruit
and discharges a little pinkish mass
of mucilaginous or WaXy substance
well seen under a lens. Each spot may
remain distinct, or several on an apple
may run together so as to form an ir-
regularly shaped, depressed patch.
The whole fruit at length becomes
shriveled into an angular, hard body
called mummy"
The pinkish or reddish material from
the spots in the fruit is composed OF
myriads of spores. These cannot be
distributed by the wind because they
are held to- ether and to the fruit by
an adhesive substance which, however,
is very soluble in water. The spores
are carried in splashes of rainWater or
may be distributed by insects. The
fungus lives over winter in the old,
dried fruits (mummies) and in wound
like infected spots called bitter rot
cankers on the limbs Of the tree. The
first infection of the season apparently
comes from the cankers and can be
traced on the young apples spreading
below these in cone shaped figures in
the trees, where the spores have been
carried by rain. The disease goes slow
ly from tree to tree in an orchard
probably through the agency of insects
In July and later where the disease
has not become widely spread sea- h
should be systematically made in the
orchard for infected trees as deter
mined by the spots on the apples. This
can best be done from an elevated posi-
ton like the platform of a spraying
outfit If diseased apples are found
the injecting canker or mummy should
be looked for just above the uppermost
of the spotted fruit The canker and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13
A BITTER ROT CANKER.

infected fruit should be removed, tax
ing care not to distribute the infection
in the process. This is of the utmost
Importance if the contagion is to be
stopped.
In the winter time the mummies and
cankers can be removed OF the fungus
destroyed by spraying the trees with
copper sulphate. The disease can be
kept in check during the summer by
repeated applications of bordeaux mix
ture.-Illinois University Agricultural
Bulletin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13
Sugar Beets, Samples and Tare.


Whenever a wagon load of beets is
delivered to the factory basketful,
promiscuously selected, is taken out
as a sample. The sample is tagged,
and on the tag is noted the weight of
the load of beets. The question of tare
is a source of friction between farm
ars and factory managers. Some kinds
Of soil adhere more than others; there
fore some farmers have more tare than
others. The same soil sometimes adj
heres more than at other times, and
the farmer gets different rates Of tare.
The samples used in determining the
tare are also used by the chemist in
determining the quality of the beets.
This Information is to complete the
records Of the factory in order to COM
pute the extraction of available sugar.
Often factories buy beets on sliding
scale, paying so much per ton for beets
of certain quality and more for beets
higher in sugar content and purity.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13
News and NOtes.

Twenty-Five acres are said to COM
prise the commercial ginseng growing
area of the United States, most of it
being in Cortland and Onondaga coun-
ties, n. Y.
The 1902 cranberry crop of the Unit
ed States is estimated by the American
Cranberry Growers association at 49,
900 bushels against 100000 bushels i'll
1901.
A decrease in the number of stock
hogs now being fattened as compared
with the NUMBER a year ago in every
important hog raising state except
Pennsylvania is reported by Statisti-
clan Hyde.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13
BITTER ROT OF APPLES.
It's Effects ON Tree and Fruit-Winter
and Summer Remedies.

Its Effects ON Tree and Fruit-WinteT
and Summer Remedies.
Bitter rot is a disastrously destruc-
tive disease upon the apple fruit. 1t
has prevailed at times over very
large area Of the territory Of the Unit
ed States, but is especially liable to oc-
cur south of the thirty-ninth parallel
of north latitude. In Illinois in 1900
the loss in four counties was estimat-
ed to be $1,50OO0O and as great pro-
portionally to the acre in orchards else
where.
The disease in the fruit can be easily
identified. 1t begins in one to many
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13

The best form Of farm wagon is one
with axles Of equal length, broad tires
and wheels thirty to thirty-six inches
high in front and forty to forty-four
inches behind, according to the Mis-
souri, agricultural station.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13
American Grown Sugar Beet Seed.


The sugar beet seed grown by pri-
vate enterprise in Colorado and Cali
fornia is all used at or near the place
of production. That the seed produced
gives satisfaction is abundantly attest
ed by the fact that the growers are in
creasing their acreage as rapidly as
possible. So far wherever home grown
seed has been used in comparison with
imported the sugar content of the re-
sulting beets has been higher than that
from imported seed. In Washington
state, where the production of sugar
beet seed has recently been begun, the
results have been especially striking.
The results of tests show that the do
nestle seed has much more vitality
than the imported seed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13

ten leading varieties in point of yield,
ranking close with Sir Walter Raleigh.
1t yielded 225.5 bushels per acre in 1901
and averaged 245.4 bushels per acre
for the five years preceding.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13
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HANDLING CORN FODDER.
Handy Devices For Hauling, and a
Good StubbIe Cutter.

Good Stubble Cutter.
The simple homemade sled illustrat-
ed in Fig. ] will be found very useful
in moving corn shocks. BY the use of
the sled one man can load and unload
the shocks and do the hauling with lit
tie loss of time. To make it get two
hemlock or oak planks about 2 by u
inches and Ii to Is feet in length
Round off one end Of each in sled run
ner fashion and connect the runners by
three by inch crosspieces which are
tenoned to fit mortises in the planks
Where the tenon projects through, a
small hole is made in the former, and a
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13
A Lending Potato.

Sir William is q handsome looking
potato At the Ohio agricultural ex-
pertinent station it has kept it's place
during the past five years among the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13
Professional Cards.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WATKINS & MOSES
Practice in all state and United States
courts. Office over State Bank of Grant
County,
Lancaster, Wisconsin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13

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piece out of one end Of each so as to
make a shoulder on the scantling where
it rests against the underside of the
middle knee of the sled and a notch
where it rests on top of the rear knee.
Nail one or two boards on to the scant-
lings to hold them apart. A pin through
each just in front of the rear sled knee
holds attachment in place, and it may
be tied with wire or small rope to
hold it more securely. The scantlings
should not extend too far in the rear.
The back standards of the sled may be
three or four feet in height. The
amount of extra fodder that the sled
will hold is considerable. The tail rack
may be quickly removed when you
have finished using it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13
Alfalfa, Kaffir Corn and Prosperity.

Alfalfa, Kaffir Corn and Prosperity.
1t is a significant and noteworthy
fact that the prosperity of the past dec
ade is contemporaneous with the rec
IGNITION of alfalfa and Kaffir corn in
the agricultural economy of Kansas,
and no one can successfully deny that
these two crops have been big factors
in its realization. By the fact that KAT
fr corn can be successfully grown in all
localities, of its being a strong resist
ant to protracted heat and dryness, and
it's proved feeding qualities, close or
practically equal to corn. it promises to
become principal resource in region
where live stock is the predominating
interest and the production of corn
is something of an uncertainty.-Secre-
tary F. D. Coburn, Kansas.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13

ATTCRNEY-W. j. BRENNAN
Practices in all courts. Once in Wright
House Block,
Lancaster, Wisconsin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13

Or. JOHN H. REED-DENTIST.
Office corner Jefferson and Maple Streets,
Lancaster Wisconsin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13

PHYSICIAN wills ON CUM NGHAM M. D.
Late resident Physician and Surgeon
Mercy Hospital Chicago. Office and Hospi-
tai in Bayley Block,
Platteviile, Wisconsin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-13

PHYSICIANS. e. HASsEL, nj. D.
ONCE over the Meyer-Showalte bank,
Lancaster, wisconsin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
GOLD DUST IN THE SKIN.
kiondike Miner Who Found a Turkish
Bath Profitable.

Modern Science is teaching new
things every day. One Of the oldest
is that gold. which is so heavy and
solid that it seems about the least &C,
tive substance conceivable, should in
the form of dust behave almost exact
ly like gases and fluids. Ever now
and then in the sub-Treasury in this
city, the Mint in Philadelphia and the
Treasury in Washington they rip out
all the woodwork, burn it, and in the
ashes find enough pure gold to pay all
the expense and yield the government
handsome profit of several thousand
dollars
Wherever men work for a long time
in goldsmith works. gold mines or
placers their clothing gets saturated
with gold dust. If their working
clothes be burned and the ashes treat
ed. they will yield anywhere from $40
to 5000 of the yellow metal. Tne
latest addition to this curious series
of facts is that the gold dust, or gold
flour, as the medical experts call it,
enters the pores and even penetrates
the deeper recesses OF the body. Sew
eral men during the last few weeks
have come to New York from the
kiondile and other mining camps to
be treated for what they call gold
disease" their systems having been so
saturated with invisible bullion that
they suffered from symptoms OF me
tallic poisoning similar TO those oc-
casioned by lead. zinc and mercury
In each case the treatment was the
same. They were put through a course
OF Turkish baths and given doses of
mercury, which seems to have dis
solved the gold in the body the same
as it does in the ores. The most
notable instance is youched tor by a
physician uptown, who preserved the
washing from the body of Klondike
patient and the drippings from a
course of Turkish baths. The sed-
iment amounted to $50 worth OF The
precious metal.-New York Telegraph.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
CHINA.

Great Britain and Germany are op
posing each others plans in China.
The foreign ministers at Pekin de
cided that Shanghai bankers must &C
cept the February installment of the
Chinese indemnity.
Chinese merchants coming to Shang
hal from Port Arthur declare that they
have been ordered to remove their
families from Port Arthur because
preparations We're being made there for
war with Japan.
The Russian general, Gribski, who
was responsible for the massacre at
Blagovestchensk, has been dismissed
from the army. According to reports
of the Blagovestchensk massacre, 5000
Chinese were driven into the Amur
river, Russian troops on the banks
dubbed or shot any who attempted to
land.
A prominent Manchu censor has
memorialized the throne for the re-
moval of WI Ting-fang, Chinese min
lister to the United States. The cen
sor asserts that WI Ting-fang cor
rupt1y retained. ostensibly for repairs
to the Chinese legation in Washing
ton. $4,000 of the Tientsin silver re-
funded by the American government.
The minister, at Washington, denies
the charge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
INSULAR.

A compromise in the Cuban tariff
concession probably will be reached
by which duties will be lowered 20
per cent.
Commander Schroeder sent a com
munication to the navy department
asking the establishment of per-
manent government at Guam.
Ambassador Tower reports that
Russia, like Germany, accuses Lord
Pauncefote Of attempting to induce
the powers to express their disap-
proyal of the war with Spain.
General Funston was given recep-
ton and banquet in Chicago. In his
speech he scored American abettors
of the insurgents, blaming them for
much of the trouble in the islands.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, with several
friends, and accompanied by a maid
left here last night for a visit to
Gen. and Mrs. Leonard Wood ut
Havana, going by rail to Florida
Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beale and Capt
Philip were also of the party. Miss
Roosevelt expects to return to Wash
ington the latter part of the month.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
MORTUARY.

Bishop Spalding of the Protestant
Episcopal church of Denver, Col,
died of pneumonia, aged IS years.
He will be succeeded by the cadjutOr.
Rev. Charles S. Olmstead of Bala.
Pa. who will be conscreated May l.
William A Hobbs, republican mem
Der of the board of election commits
sioners Of st. Louis and a prominent
business man. died of gastritis. He
was born in Kentucky in 1854 and has
lived in St Louis during most Of his
life, in the course of which he held
many positions of trust
Rev. Joseph Wilson of Neoga, Ill
retired Presbyterian clergyman. SIS
years old, was found dead in bed. He
was president of the Cumberland
County bank of Neoga. He leaves ar
estate of $15O,000. He was born in
England and was one Of the best
known pioneer clergymen in the mid
die west.
Caleb Jewell Hamlin, aged 81 years
a wide1y-known hotel man, died al
Amsterdam. n. Y. He had been con
nected with the st. James hotel il
New York. the Tiff house in Buffalo
the Palmer house in Chicago, the In
ternational at Niagara Falls, the Clar
endon in fSaratoga and the Delavan il
Albany. For the past three seasons
he was proprietor of the Adirondack
Inn at Sacandaga Park.