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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
MuIchiunT Trees with Grass

In some parts of the country or
chardists are following the practice of
leaving the orchard in sod and mulch
ing with the grass that grows on the
sod That is, if the sod be blue grass
the grass is allowed to grow to a GER
tain height, say to a foot, and is then
cut and allowed to lie under the trees
and rot or dry up, as the case may be.
The idea of the orchardist is to keep
all the fertility in the soil except what
the fruit takes out
We fail to see the wisdom of follow
ing this course. If the orchard is left
in sod and the grass moved why not
take the grass off and feed it to stock
and thus get the good of the carbon
that is in it. There are certain parts
of plants that do not get back into the
soil at all. The grass is worth more to
feed than for manure. If the grass
We're made into hay and the hay sold
the price realized would bring back to
the orchard a much greater bulk than
would the rotting of the grass.
We have seen timothy growing in
orchards, and within a mile timothy
hay was selling for So a ton. Barn
yard manure could be bought within
the same distance at a dollar a load
delivered. The yield of timothy In the
orchard was at least ton to the acre.
The farmer had his help. which
worked the year round, and the max
ing and marketing of the hay would
cost no more than If it we're not mar
keted. In this case the farmer moved
his orchard, made the timothy into
hay. fed 1t to his cows and put the
manure back on his land Another
year he did the same with the clover
that was growing on the same orchard
area. We are a little doubtful about
the expediency of moving land
around the trees and letting the grass
rot
In some cases, too, we have seen
trees so Ear apart that the grass. In
stead of rotting, would dry up and 60
into the air in large part during the
hot days of summer. If there is any
good reason for following the practice
of mulching with grass, as it is called,
we would like TO hear from some Of
our readers on the matter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
wise and Foolish Dairvmeu


John Smith and Tom Jones are both
in dairying somewhat. They don't
both dairy alike, although both seem
to be doing quite we'll. Smith keeps
cows expressly for milk. He sells his
calves at 81 to So per head, pours his
separted milk to his hogs and churns
his cream into butter, which he ships
to some Eastern market.
Jones doesn't sell his calves. but
buys Smiths calves. He doesn't feed
his separted milk to the hogs; he feeds
it to his calves, including what he
bought OF Smith and others till he
averages about two calves per COW.
He supplements it with oats, oil meal,
corn meal, etc, and the fall after they
are yearlings they weigh 700 to 500
pounds, while he is churning and sell
ing his butter much after the manner
of Smith, Some may say this is a
dream, but Jones actually does 1t here
in Iowa, on land worth $50 per acre.
| still think that for most country
dairymen the dual purpose COW pays.
Even if she shouldn't much more than
pay her keep in butter, the calves at
an average of Sc or more per COW, with
about SIG of of feed, will figure the
balance on the right side. But a little
pains will get a herd of cows that will
bring both milk and calves in paying
veins. Smith says it doesn't pay to
raise cows. He can buy good, young.
grade cows with calf at side for $50
to $50. What if one happens to prove
poor mixer? He turns her dry and
converts her into another cow.-Ex-
change.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
New Boom in Zinc Fields.

The Standard Lead and Zinc Smelt-
ing and Mining Company of Milwaukee
is pushing work on its mines successfully
and on a large scale. A contract was
closed recently for rooster to be INSTALL
ed at the Sally Waters mine. The Ga
lena iron works will build the rooster
at a cost of $500 The mill at Benton
is already in operation, and ore is being
shipped daily to Pittsburg and St Louis.
The company will later put in a smrlter
at a point centrally located for all its
mines and there will ship nothing but the
refined metal. The company now has
two shafts sunk in its Bluehorn property
and is preparing to start tunnel from
the most promising shaft. This is down
thirty-six feet and is following the vein
of lead struck recently at a depth of
seven feet. The vein widens as it de-
scendS. The bottom has not been reach
ed nor is there any knowing how far the
vein runs laterally. This will be devel-
oped when the tunnel is made.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
State News in Brief.

Otto Olson, the 1S-year-old son of
Halver Olson. was drowned at Rio while
swimming on his way from school.
John Quell, who was taken suddenly
insane in Appleton, died at the county
Jail. He refused to eat or drink. While
a boy he suffered Il sunstrOke. He was
A years of age.
George Picknell, while working on the
Taylor dam in Barron, fell in. His broth
er, who was near by tried in vain to res
cue him. Then Roy Fuller, 16 years
old, dived into the raging stream, locat-
ing the drowning man. He had been
under water eight minutes, but was re-
suscitated
While connecting a pipe in a well at
the Miller Lumber Company's yards in
Appleton John Freeman, a plumber,
lighted a match. which caused an explo-
sion. 1t is believed the well was filled
with natural gas. The plumber was bad
ly burned about the face and arms. He
had on a celluloid collar which took fire.
Under peculiar circumstances. 9-year-
old Maria Derrick met sudden death in
Appleton. She was skipping the rope
and as she reached the hundredth mark
she said, Il have finished" Almost be-
fose she had ceased speaking the child
dropped dead.
frightened into commissions when she
accidentally stepped on a snake which
lay cooled up in the grass. Gala Huebner.
the 12-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
William Huebner, living north of Mani
towoc died. The reptile was not a
venonous one and her death ensued from
fright and not from bite.
Charles Hecker, living one mile south
of MayvilIe, committed suicide in his
home by shooting He was "a years old.
and belonged to the q. A. r. He was
wealthy. No cause is known.
\ cyclone struck Blue Mounds. A
German youth on the farm of Charles
Collins was killed and S150.0o0 damage
done. Wires are down and much live
stock has been killed in farm buildings
blown to ruihs.
During fierce electrical storm light
ming struck the Wisconsin Veneer Com
pany's factory in Rhinelander and set it
on fire The entire plant was destroyed,
causing a loss estimated at S250,000. The
plant was insured for $4,000.
rs the result OF d gudrFe4 at W inter
between Henry Casseday. Kentuckian,
and John Stacey. a quarter-breed Indian,
over the proper way TO pull out a stump.
CaSseday struck Stacey with a pickax
and killed him.
Pleasant Prairie had mad dog scare
the other night. when a dog affected
with rabies ran through the town for
six miles. biting more than a score of
dogs and one hey. The boy was the
5-year-oId son of Martin Sorensen. He
was AT once taken TO Chicago for treat
menS. Ten of the dogs bitten have
already been killed. The dog which
caused the trouble was finally killed near
Winthrop Harbor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04

D T.. WALLACE h,bitine him from
departing from the isthmus unless he
obtained the permission of the War De-
partment
While the administration claims TO
have grievance against Mr.. Wallace,
he M the other hand, is prepared, it is
said, to make out a bill of complaint
against the Washington officials, the
chief feature of which will be that the
canal viii never be built within the pres
ent century if politics and departmental
interference are allowed to hamper the
work of those on the ground.
1t is said that previous estimates of
$3.50, 100000 cost and ten years time
for the completion of the canal will have
to be more than trebled if the actual re-
suits of the past month are taken as a
criterion.
The astonishing statement is made by
one well informed on Panama affairs
that at the rate of excavation accom-
plished in the month of May the compile
ton of the canal would require more
than 100 years. The cost of the exca-
walton at the same time has increased
three or four times the unit figure used
in estimating the total cost of the water
way.
Mr.. Wallace is TO become the head of
the Metropolitan Railway Company's
new subway system IN New York,
great undertaking. destined TO yield enor-
nous profits. Paul Morton had virtu-
ally accepted the place when he was Sc
lected as the head of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society. Mr.. Wallace's sal
airy on the canal has been $4,000 year.
and report has it that he will begin in
New York City at 100000 a year.
One official graphically expressed Mr..
Wallace's decision to resign by the state
ment that he had got "cold feet" There
10 longer is any question that the yell
low fever situation on the isthmus is far
worse than generally was believed. Re-
turns which have been received in Wash
ington show that there is more sickness
during the present year than has pre-
vailed during the last twelve years, nine
of which were under French administra-
ton. The result is that employees are
leaving the zone by every steamer, and
the commission finds difficulty in getting
men to accept positions.
The President is doing everything he
can to bring about the immediate inn
provement. He has authorized Gov. Ma
COON and Major Gorgas, medical officer
in charge of sanitation, to adopt any
measures they may consider advisable to
eradicate yellow fever from the isthmus.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
Chickens in the Garden.

Under some conditions chickens may
be permitted to have the run of the
vegetable garden and will do but little
harm until they are half grown. They
will scratch more or less, but after the
plants are well started the scratching
will do little harm. The chicks will
consume vast quantities of insects and
save many plants that would other
wise be eaten by the insects. 1t is
not a good plan, however, to turn
chicks into the vegetable garden unless
they are fed regular rations, and also
have an opportunity to get green food
in other places, for they will probably
tear at the plants and destroy more or
less. If one will watch the chicks it
is entirely safe to give them an hour
or more daily in the vegetable garden.
In that time they will hunt out and eat
more insects than one could gather in
half a day Turn them in after they
have had the morning feed, and they
will do little or no harm.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
GOOD ADVANCE MADE BY CROPS
Progress Is Satisfactory, Though Re
ports Are Not Uniform.

Progress Is Satisfactory, Though Re
ports Are Not Uniform.
The weather bureaus weekly summary
of crop conditions is as follows:
The region from the upper lakes west
ward to the north Pacific coast received
| insufficient heat, lack of sunshine being
especially unfavorable in Washington
and Oregon. but elsewhere the tempera-
ture conditions were favorable. Excess
sively heavy rains occurred in the central
and west gulf districts and in portions
| of the central Missouri and Ohio valleys,
lower lake region and New England,
while portions of the south Atlantic
States and central and eastern Missouri
continue to suffer from drought. Sun
shine is generally needed in the central
gulf States, Tennessee, Ohio Valley and
lower lake region.
Except in the upper Missouri and Red
River of the North valleys, where, as a
result of low temperatures, the growth
of corn has been slow, this crop has
made good progress although suffering
somewhat from lack of cultivation in por-
tons Of the Ohio valley and middle At
lantic States and in central and western
Nebraska. In Iowa corn has made Wig
OrOus growth and is we'll cultivated, with
better stands than previous reports indi-
Gated, and the outlook in Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Kansas, where early corn has
reached the silk and tasseIs, is very fav-
orable. Recent rains have greatly i'm
proved the condition of corn in Texas.
Heavy rains have interrupted the har-
vesting of winter wheat in the Ohio
valley, Tennessee and portions of the
middle Atlantic States, but elsewhere
this work has progressed favorably and
is near completion in Missouri and south
ern Kansas. Harvest is now in progress
in the northern portion of the winter
wheat region. Some complaints of rust
and weevil in central and western Ohio
and of smut in New York are received,
and some grain in shock has been dam
aged by rains in Kentucky and Tennes-
see.
Except in low lands, in southern Iowa
and portions of the DakOtas and Mime
sofa, the oat crop has advanced favora-
bly, and continues in promising condition.
In Texas rains interfered with harvest
ing and in Tennessee caused some injury
to oats in shock.
Spring wheat on low lands in the Da-
kotas and Minnesota is suffering some
what from rust, but as a whole this crop
has made vigorous growth and continues
il promising condition throughout the
spring wheat region and also on the
north Pacific coast
In Illinois corn is promising and fur
ther advanced than at the same period
last year; is clean, and considerable is
laid by. Oats are ripening in the CEN
trail and heading in the northern part
some are short, but generally the out
look is favorable. Wheat harvest ex-
tends to the northern portion; yield is
good in the central and below the aver
age in the South. The yield of clover
is heavy; timothy is short. Grapes and
berries are promising. Apples are fall
ing, and a light crop is indicated. Po-
tatoes are cut short in the southern por-
ton.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
THE BADGER STATE.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISElY
CONDENSED.
Teachers Institutes to BE Held This
Summertime Fields Experience
Boom-New Rural Routes-Increase

State Superintendent Cary has issued
list of teachers institutes for the sum
mer: Friendship, July II, 10 days: Ash
land, Aug. IA, ); Barron, Aug. Z, 10;
Washburn, Aug. IA, ;; West Depere,
July 10, 10; Mondovi, Aug. IA, 10;
Grantsburg, July II, 10; Chiffon, July
II, ); Chippewa Falls, July "a, 10;
Neillsville, July "a, 10; Portage. July 10,
10; Prairie du Chen. July "A, >; Mount
Horeb, July n. 10; Stoughton. July "A,
); Sun Prairie, July 81, ,; Horizon, July
10, 10; Sturgeon Bay, July II, ); Supe-
'ior, Aug. y, >; Menomonie, Aug. 21,
10; Eau Claire, July "A, 10; Florence,
Oct. 20, 3; Fond du Lac, July 10, 3;
Jrandon, Oct. Is, 3; Ladysmith, July 81,
TO-; Lancaster, July 10, 10; Monroe, July
10, 20; Markesan, Aug. Z, ); Dodgeville,
July 81, 10: Hurley, Oct ;, 3; Black
River Falls, July 10. 10; Jefferson, July
IL, 10; Mansion. July "A, 8; Kenosha,
July 10, 10; Algorna, Aug. II, 5; West
Salem, Aug. Z, 10; Darlington, July 10,
10; Amigo, Aug. p, 3; Merrill Aug, IA,
5; Manitowoc, Aug. u, ); Wausau, Aug.
Z, 10; Wausaukee, July "a, 5; Monticello,
July 81, 10; Milwaukee, July 81, 5; To-
NAH, July "a, 10; Oconto, Aug. IA, 10;
Rhinelander, Aug. IA, 3; Appleton, July
81, 10; Port Washington, Aug, IA, 5;
Durand, Aug Z, 10; Ellsworth. July II.
10; Amery, July II, 10; Ployer, July "a
10; Phillips, Aug. 81, >; Burlington,
July 10, 10: Richland Center, Aug. Z, 8;
GAINESVILLE, July II. 10; Hudson, July 10,
10; Baraboo, July 10, 10; Shawano, July
1C, 8; Wittenberg, July II, 3; Plymouth,
July II, 10; Medford. July 81, 10; Gales
vile, July 81, 10; Viroqua, July 81, 10;
Eagle River, Aug. %, 3; EIkhorn, Aug
IA. 10; Shell Lake, July "a, 10; West
Bend, Aug. H. 10; Waukesha, July 10,
10; Manawa. July 10, 10; Wautoma, July
10. 10; Oshkosh, July 81, 10; Grand
Rapids, Oct. 6, ..
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04

lead as remedy for the coddling
moth instead of paris green, which is
particularly unsuited for use on the
Pacific coast, because Of the climate.
Prof. Volck has estimated that con-
scientious work with lead arsenate
may be expected to yield a control in
the neighborhood of 90 TO 9S per cent.
The chemical will cost nearly twice as
much as paris green for the same or
chards. but even with this added ex-
pense, he declares that the spraying
will prove a profitable investment.
There have been figured out nine nee
essary sprayings during the season,
including combinations of overshot,
undershot and inside sprayings. The
cost of material and labor per tree
has been estimated at 35 cents as the
outside figure, and Prof. Volck says
that, even at this high price, it will
amount to not more than half the net
returns on a box of sound apples.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04

uulluS pIdCllCdlly MRS. W. Il. CRAMER.
all of the time her husband was en-
gagged in the formation of his career,
Mrs. Cramer was his eyes and ears
and his trusted and necessary assist
ant. She accompanied him on tours
of Europe and of this country and rem
dered him invaluable assistance in the
securing and preparation OF the manu-
script that made the blind and deaf
editor a national character Her de-
votion to her husband was beautiful,
and at the last tinged freely With the
pathetic. She remained at his bedside
and ministered to his needs until his
death. Among the remarkable expert
ences she had while travelling with
Mr.. Cramer was during the Franco
Prussian war, when the Cramers were
locked up in Paris for several months
during the siege
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
State Banks Show Increase,

According TO a report issued by State
Commissioner NJ. G. Bergh, the total re-
sources and liabilities of the 3S3 State
and savings banks of Wisconsin OH May
% last were 1904, O3O.43, an increase
of little over S1,OOO,OO0 since the pre-
ceding report made on March IA last. The
increase in deposits was over 100000
and in loans and discounts 81 800, SOB. %
The banks have on hand about $j,500,00
in coin and currency, of which 81, 800
900 is in gold. The number of banks
has Increased three.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
Uhe end.)
SOME OTHER INAuGURATIoNs
When Washington Took the Oath
"Tppecanoe's" Big Day,

llppeCanoe'S' Big Day.
When, on April 80, 1889, George
Washington was inaugurated as the
first President Of the United States.
the country had only eleven States flor
North Carolina and Rhode Island did
not ratify the constitution or come I'M
der the government until many months
afterward), all of which were east of
the AlleghenieS and north of Florida,
which was Spanish territory until a
third Of a century later. New York
City, then the national capital, with its
100000 inhabitants in 1905, says G.
NJ. Harvey in Leslie's Weekly, has
100000 more people and many bill
ions more wealth to-day than the en-
tire United States had at that time.
The 100000 population of the Unit
ed States at the beginning of Washing
tons presidency had increased to 5,O00,-
600 at the opening of Jefferson's. Yer
mont, Kentucky and Tennessee, adj
mitted in the interval, brought the
number of States up to sixteen, but the
country's western boundary was still
at the Mississippi, and still SPANS
territory of east and west Florida shut
out the United States from access to
the Gulf of Mexico. With Jefferson's
entrance into Office in 1901 began that
Democratic control of the government
which lasted till Lincoln's Inauguration
IN 1861, except during two short in
tervals of Wing sway.
To-day we have had the Inaugural
tion," wrote Webster on March 4, 1929,
at the induction of Jackson into office
"A monstrous crowd of people is in
the city. never saw anything like it
before. Persons have come 500 miles
to see Gen. jackson, and they really
seem to think the country is rescued
from some dreadful danger"
Said ex-President John Quincy Adj
ans, in his Memoirs" the Inaugural
ton of William Henry Harrison as
President was celebrated with demon
STATIONS of ocular feeling unexam-
pied since Washington, in 1888"
This We 1S41, and Har-
riSOns Whigl was
the fir -..vn the seemingly in
vincible Democracy had sustained since
Jefferson brought that party into pow
er forty years earlier. No previous
Inauguration brought to Washington
anything like the swarms of people.
largely office seekers, which the en-
trance of old ''Tippecanoe" into Office
attracted. The 100000 inhabitants
of the United States at Jaekson's inau-
guration had expanded into 100000
at the induction of the hero of the bat
tie of the Thames into Office. The rail-
road, too, had appeared, adding TO the
convenience and the cheapness OF
travel
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
Remedy for Sore Eve.

Recently one of my cockerels got a
very sore eye, originating, l think,
from a cold. and as it became very an
noying to the bird he would scratch it
with his toes, which, of course, made
matters worse, until at last it was en-
tirely closed, and the lids stuck to-
gether from the foamy substance that
came out of the eye. l applied a few
drops of sweet oil each morning and
evening for about ten days, and the
eye is now in perfect condition.-Cor
American Poultry Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
More Routes for Wisconsin.

Under the direction of Postmaster
General COrtelyou plans are now being
perfected for the extension of rural free
delivery in the fiscal year beginning July
l. The department in Washington has
available $2J,000,000, about 100000
in excess of the appropriations for the
current year. The following table shows
the number of routes in each of the
eleven districts in Wisconsin:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04

JAMES W. LO" tHER' in 1879, was Under
Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1891.
and the following year represented
Great Britain at the international con-
ference at Venice Mr. Lowther has
represented in Parliament the Penrith
division of Cumberland since 1886.
and is a member Of the Privy Council
and a Justice of the Peace. His age
is 30 years.
Edward Doyle the blind poet Of New
York, has just issued his third book. He
is 80 years old, and has been sightless
for thirty-seven years.
c. II. Dallas Of Leavenworth. Kan.
has a Sharp's rifle sent TO that State in
1853 by the abolition society of Boston,
marked as Bibles.
-
Boston Corbett, the man who is cred
tied with having shot j. Wilkes Booth,
the assassin Of Lincoln, is residing in
Texas.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
Line BREEDING.

Line breeding is another term for
inbreeding, not haphazard, but scien-
tific inbreeding, says D. ]. Coyne, Jr.,
IN Commercial Poultry. For example,
a breeder starts with a trio or pen
of unrelsted or Instantly related birds
The next season he must not mate
thell progeny alone, for that would be
dangerous inbreeding- ana
sisters-and the stock is all young
Experience has taught US that such a
mating produces infertlle eggs and
young stock lacking in vitality. The
proper matings are to mate the cock
bird to his pullets and the best cock
erel to the hens, and so on year after
year the birds are mated. young to
old and old to young, without the in
PRODUCTION of strange blood, the OBJ
ject being to avoid mating brothers
and sisters, birds too closely reiated
or immature birds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04
Drown in Rainbow RaDidS,

At NewboId Mrs. Ezra Craw and Mrs
Edward Craw and six children We're
drowned in the Rainbow rapids, Wiscon-
sin river. The families live on opposite
sides of the river the husbands being
homesteaders. 1t is believed the party
was in a boat which capsized in the
rapids.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04

in diplomatic rela-
tons with oriental
peoples. At the
age of 30 lie was
appointed second
secretary of the
American legation
in Pekin and the
following ar,
1855, to the full
secretaryship. In
1SS6-1SS7 he was
charge d'affaire in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04

o t w a Us Il n d
Means and as
d = p II Y Speaker
since 1893. He was
educated at Elton,
Kings College,
London. and Trim
ity College, Cam
bridge. graduating
from the la tier
school with hon
ors. He was al
mitted to the bar
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-04

to marry Il couple
until she was fur
nisEed evidence
that neither of the
contracting parties,
was n divorce
Miss Starr has
been in the gospel
ministry ten years,
and in that time
she says she has
Omciated at many
Weddings In bllt