Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-07-28

railroad. from Denver 10 SAT- Lake
City.
The 25th volume of the Hereford
Record has some 500 large octave
naees and gives 10000 pedigrees. car
rving the numbers from 145,OO1 to
165. 900. The society has considerably
more than 1000 stockholders, repre-
senting 40 states and countries. The
largest number live in Missouri,
though Illinois is not far behind; and
then comes Kansas and Iowa. c. R.
Thomas, Kansas City, Mo, is secre-
tary.
Recent experiments with the Colo
RADIO rubber plant show that it grows
from the seed and can be transplant
ed; that it is greatly improved by cul-
tivation. and that it can be grown sue
cessfully. in low as well as high alti-
tudes. The plant requires two years
growth before rubber of good quality
can be obtained, and its average life,
growing wild, is four years.
The IL 900 sheep fed on beet pulp
and alfalfa at the Greeley and Wind
sor (Col) factories have been mar
keted at top prices, netting their feed
ers 20 cents each. Application has
been made for next years pulp to feed
50 600 sheep. Over 600 cattle have
also been fed On pulp and straw, on
which they have done well, one lot
gaining 25 pounds a head week.
There were 6,5S7 potato distiIleries
in operation in Germany in 1901-02;
the output of pure alcohol was 1885,,
$40 gallons. The production of the po-
tato distilleries amounted to rs per
cent of the total production of alcohol
in the empire. The quantity of pota-
toes used amounted to 113,F5,S48
bushels.
Alonzo Murphy, Newston, N. j., is
responsible for the statement That a
woodchuck sat upon nest full Of
eggs and Matched out four chickens,
in a hole in the ground. The rodent,
he declares, shows great affection tor
the chicks, which have gray hairs in
stead of feathers upon their breasts.
Harry H. Carr of st. Johnsbury, VT,
has already packed $4,000 dozen eggs
for the fall and winter trade and ex-
poets to put in about $4,000 dozen
more before the season closes. There
are about 1000 dozen eggs to the ton,
and in a few weeks he will have So
tons of eggs in his cold storage plant.
The failure of the frlrit crop in Great
Britain caused a great demand upon
the United States and Canada for APP
pies. Prices rule high, the importers
quotations to the trade ranging from
S4.S5 to $7.25 barrel for the best
grades, and from SO to $3.50 for ordin-
airy grades.
Frozen meats and live cattle are sub
jected to a sanitary inspection BY the
I government before admission into Bel
giUm. The communes are authorized
to cause a second examination of
meats introduced into their territory
without cost. to the persons interested.
Strawberries are reported rotting on
the vines in parts of Florida, owing to
the scarcity of crates and pickers The
scarcity of crates also troubles ship
pers of cucumbers, tomatoes, etc.
Peach trees in Florida are reported
loaded with fruit.
The valuation of the fruit crop for
1903 in Colorado was S5,250,000, and
the number of acres planted to or
chards, $4,000. The land available for
orchards and small fruits amounted to
100000 acres, and the varieties Of
fruits grown numbered 973.
Sixty thousand tons of sugar beets
were harvested in Colorado last year,
and 100000 was paid for the crop,
of which $1,200,000 was net profit TO
the farmer Strip is now being manu-
featured from Colorado beet sugar.
Chicago calf buyers say all former
records in slaughtering veal stock have
/ been exceeded this spring, and that
/ prices are high considering the vol
ume of arrivals. One packer slaughter
ed $500 in one week, and 400 the
next.
A horse Al years old died recently
on the farm of Philip Putnam. Frank
+ lin, o.. where, since foal. it had been
used continually as a driver up to
four years ago. He was sound in wind
and limb, and died from old age.
Gilman Marshal of Mohawk. N. H,
has a Plymouth Rock hen that in IL
days laid u eggs, the smallest oi
which is said to have measured G1k
by ~ inches and the largest 7k by
lSA inches.
John Heron of Leyden has some
early potatoes which he has hoed
twice They were started in a hotbed
and thus secured a good growth before
his neighbors had planted any.
Arrivals of Egyptian onions have
been very large the last week and
prices have declined. Southern toma
toes are in very full supply. with
prices unsatisfactory to growers.
L. Pason Walbridge of Cabot. VT.
has made $500 pounds of sugar this
season. The largest part OF it was
made in seven days He sold the en-
tire crop at 12 cents a pound.
Shipments of wheat from Argentina
from January l to Nay s have been