The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-04-01

doing away with this patrol limit. Only
the brewers are not satisfied with it.
Be Gentle with Your Cow.
Everybody knows that if enc is
rough with cOws-frightens Them.
etc-it will affect the milk supply. 1t
occurred to a man not long ago TO
test this, by means Of Mr.. Rabcock's
mechanism. He had the cows driven
into the yard as usual He then went
down with dog to which the cows
were not accustomed and drove the
herd into the barn with considerable
yelling and hourishing Of sticks,
mingled with the barking Of the dog.
The COWS were then MIXED, The
milk was weighed as on the previous
night and test made Of the butter fat
it contained. 1t was found that there
was a marked falling off in the amount
Of milk obtained, but this was not the
most serious loss The percentage Of
butter fat dropped perceptibly.
Marsh Lands in Wisconsin.
Now that the high farm lands Of the
state are pretty well taken there is
q turning to the marsh lands. and the
university people are deyoting study
to such soils AS example may be
mentioned the little yellow drainage
district, covering $4,000 acres in Jun
eau county. the Remington drama ge
district. of $4,000 acres in Wood cOtn-
ty, the Portage county drainage dis
trict of 10000 acres. These, together
with q number of others. probably ag-
gregate an area of 100000 acres ill.,
Guided in districts already organized
and ON which work has already be-
gun. There are in Wisconsin, accord
ing to the geological survey made
twenty years ago by Professor Cham
berlain, about 2,1O0,O0OO acres Of
marsh lands While these hn0s have
been of some value on account Of the
wild hay cut from them, they have
been practically unsettled and useless
for general farming purposes.
The Chicken Fever.
This is the time to put the setting
hen on a l.alf barrel and let her alone,
or rather to send away your good
money for an incubator. In recent
paper by G. E. Matteson he says:
Modern poultry farming to-day can
not be carried on to any great extert
without the aid of the incubator ard
brooder," though he adds. fully IS
per cent of the chicks Matched by ma
chinery are weaker and have less VI
tality than those Matched by hens"
This, however. is the fault Of the
man who runs the machine. When
you have nice batch, do not be in O.
hurry to get them out Of the incu-
bator An incubator that will not
safely axe care of chicks at hatch
ing time for at least thirty-siX or for
ty-eight hours after ,-.e hatch is all
done is not worth the room it stands
in. A good incubator Is the very best
possible place for little chicks to
harden off in, feeding nothing during
that time-nature has provided for
that The last act that chick per
forms before emerging from the she'll
is to absorb the yolk into it's little
abdomen. That absorption continues
for at least week and anything you
may do to retard absorption is sure
to result in blood poison and the death
Of the chick"
Danes Are Good Immigrants.
Some 5000 Danes came to the
United States last year-nOt many of
them. Our Madison man is consul at
Copenhagen. and this is what he says
of them: Ninety per cent of the
Danish people are adherents of the
Lutheran church. The laboring classes,
especially in Copenhagen, are social
istic, Out not anarchistic. The ordi-
nary day laborer in Copenhagen re-
ceives about 7.5 cents per hour or Is
cents for a day Of ten hours. The
farm laborer receives $54 per year,
with board, lodging and washing; by
the day, in harvest time, 50 to IS
cents. Despite low wages. the
Danish laboring man lives we'll. Beer
is , cents per pint bottle and the COM
mon laborer drink to excess. Few
of the emigrants from this country
return except to visit. Of course,
many of them send money back, but
the practice is not general enough to
prove drain upon our resources.
Not many emigrants sail as cabin pas
sengers. Twenty-Five per cent of the
emigrants from here to the United
States receive their tickets direct
from friends and relatives in the
United States. the tickets being pur-
chased on that side, sent here, and
exchanged for regular contracts:
Rates for steerage passengers from
Copenhagen to New York are as fol-
lows: Fast steamers. $3537; slow
steamers S31.62
Exit the Sawmilis.
Captain George Winans, a former
Chippewa lumberman. now a resident
of Waukesha and engaged in the raft
ing of logs on the Mississippi, is of
the opinion that the days of rafting
logs on the Mississippi are about at an
end, and another two years will not