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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
Keeping Milk Records.

With feeding grains very high in
price one is TEMPTED to feed more
roughage and less grain and unless
there is a decided falling off in the
quantity Of milk received is apt to
deceive himself with the idea that he
is saving money. 1t is a good plan to
try different combinations of rarions
and note results. To try them, with
out keeping a record of the milk, at
least by weight is of little use. Take
ration of, say, gluten feed, wheat
bran and oil meal. Try these in vary
ing proportions of each, keeping the
record carefully and thus determine
which is the most profitable. The
same plan may be readily Ca ried out
with any other combinations Of grains.
Then, too, experiment with the
roughage as with the grains and see
what difference, if any, is in the re-
suits when the corn slower is cut or
crushed before feeding. Also note the
difference which may result from Civ
ing rather warm water There is
more in obtaining a balanced ration
than simply feeding a combination
which some one says is good. 1t may
be good for his herd, but. by expert
menting, you may be able to hit on
combination which will be better for
your cows, and, perhaps, at less cost.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
A Germans Poultry Farm.

The writer recently saw a success
full poultry farm on which there was
not a single regulation poultry house.
The buildings for the poultry were
constructed entirely from dry goods
boxes bought at a nelghboring town
for small sums. The larger boxes
were Joined together in sufficient
numbers to make the main hoses and
the smaller boxes were taken apart
to obtain the short pieces needed, or
else made up into coops for the chicks
or in smaller houses for the range, on
the colony plan. Each of the larger
houses designed for winter occupancy
was lined inside with newspapers and
outside with one of the waterproof
papers on the market This is a farm
where never less than 400 fowls are
kept and where the poultry is raised
both for the carcass market and for
eggs. This shows not only what may
be done without elaborate buildings,
but the advantages the average farmer
has over other people in his ability
to grow the feed needed and with
more or less in the way of buildings
which may be utilized at no expense.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

Under present conditions to make
breeding and feeding a success only
t1ie strong and fully developed should
be allowed to breed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02
WISCONSIN SOLONS.

Gov. Ia Toilette Sent TO the i.egisla-
ture Thursday a message setting forth
the need of law providing for greater
safeguards against railroad accidents.
He urged a law placing the responsible
ties for all accidents where they belong.
juries 10 determine as between companies
and employees. All accidents. the Gov
ernor said. Shonld be reported to the
State. During the years 1908 and 1901
the number of deaths and accidents from
railroads in Wisconsin was 2,624 The
Governor favored thorough investiga-
ton of all accidents. and recommended
the enactment of a co-emplove law sim
liar to the one repealed in 1880. Rail
road employees, in particular. he said,
should be more fully protected. Follow
ing the Governors recommendation such
a bill was introduced in the Assembly
and ordered engrossed. Doubt as to the
passage of the railroad rate commission
bill was largely removed by the an
nouncement that the Senate committee
on railroads had agreed on bin TO be
reported favOrably. The last element Of
a split among the members of the com
mittee regarding what should constitute
stay of proceedings from the decisions
of the commission was settled by the
agreement on the provision that the de-
cisions of the committee should not be-
come effective until sixty days after the
decisions were rendered. and that if n
further delay were desired the DIRECTORS
should go into court and secure an in
junction. This provision was agreed to
by the stalwart and administration mem
harS of tha pnn1u,ifraa
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After a sensational trial, lasting all
day, the Senate Tuesday night found
Senator Barney \. Eaton of Milwaukee
guilty of conduct unbecoming a member
and suspended him until Jan. /, 1906
The action against Eaton grew out of
bribery charges After taking four roll
calls and killing the bill once, then recon
sidering its vote, the Assembly passed
the Thayer bill to prevent by remon-
STRANGE the establishment of saloons in
residence districts. The final vote was
30 for and 81 against. The bill is a
replica of the Indiana law and has been
bitterly contested by brewers. The Tur-
ner bill extending the right of suffrage
to women in city, village and town mat
without recommendation, was refused en-
grossment by vote of "a to AZ. The
bill to require employers of labor to keep
register of all accidents and make re-
port thereof to the commissioners of la
Dor was passed.
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Open limitations that bribery had been
employed to secure recall of the Thay-
er local option bill, which was passed
the previous day, created considerable
excitement at Wednesdays session of
the Assembly. After lively discussion,
during which Rev. Mr.. Thayer, author of
the bill, made the indirect charges of
bribery, the bill was ordered recalled by
a majority of one vote. The Warner bill,
applying civil service laws for all de-
partments of the State, was also passed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

Air the poultry .ouse once a day.
no matter how cold it is. Don't neglect
to clean out the house every morning
because lit is so cold"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

While growing chicks can hardly he
oyerIed so long as they eat up clean
what is given them, hens are easilv
made too fat.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

II there is any mode of determining
Tie sex OF eggs the fact has never
Deen demonstrated to the Satisfaction
Of good breeders. - ''OA
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

Inc best condition remedy" for
poultry is good care. cleanliness in
the houses, variety of sound food grit,
pure water, ETC., and making the stock
exercise in a scratching shed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

| One of the favorite methods of passing
the time during recesSes of the LegisIa-
ture is to take a ride out to the Madi-
son State fish hatchery, about five miles
from the city. The fish commission fur
nish rigs for the members of the Legis-
lature and invite them to visit the insti-
tuition, which is the oldest hatchery in the
State. 1t was built in 1910 and com
prises tract of pretty land from which
bubbles up a number of springs of clean.
pure water This water flows through
series of tanks or ponds in which the
hSh are kept, from diminutive little min
nows which can hardly be distinguished
TO big three or four Founders who splash
and jump about when anyone appears on
the walks beside the tanks, expecting to
be fed. If anyone dips his hand into the
water they will nibble at his finger tips
Valentine Mag, the foreman of the
hatchery, who has been in the employ of
| the State in that capacity for twenty
one years, escorts parties around the
/ grounds explaining all the tricks of the
trade of breeding members of the inny
tribe to be distributed to all parts of the
State. The captive fish are fed once
day with chopped liver. the little min
nows requiring the food to be cut up
very hne and scattered over the water
with feather. The big ones jump for
1t as soon as it is thrown to them. Mr..
Mag says that on account of the small
| appropriation allowed the fish commits
sion, the fish cannot be fed as often as
| they should be--a sad commentary on
the generosity of the commonwealth
The capacity of the springs at the Madi-
son hatchery has been diminished for the
past ten or twelve years and unless it
resumes its former power the institution
may eventually have to be abandoned.
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| 1t is likely that there will be an inter
esting discussion throughout the State of
| Just what a cigarette smoker can do.
now that the Evans bill has become law.
| by the interstate commerce law he can
| receive original packages of cigarettes
from outside the State. The friends Of
the bill claim that an original package
means the carton containing fifty or 100
smaller boxes so that only those hopeless
ly addicted to the use of the coffin nails
would purchase one. But Henry Fink.
collector of internal revenue, claims tha.
the original package is the package
which bears the revenue stamp, that is
| the small package which is commonly
sold in cigar stores for > and 10 cents
containing ten cigarettes. In that case
any person who smokes the pestiferous
little things can send to Chicago or St
faul Tor as many packages as he wants
and smoke all he pleases. 1t wouldn't
take the small boy long to discover that
he can do so and the purpose of the
law will be evaded. Further than that
the sale of original packages cannot be
| prohibited, so that the dealers themselves
can supply the demand as Mt present.
Whatever may he the true Interpretation
of the law, it is very likely that the to-
baccO trust will test it TO the utmost be-
fore surrendering their trade in this
State.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

houp undoubtedly is diphtheretic Or
dlphtheria, not unlike that which af
fects human beings, and although
caused by different bacteria, is believed
to have at times been communicated
from fowls to children.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

Usually all good thrifty pig wants
to develop into a good healthy porker
is a fair chance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02


The "plunder boxes have been made
and are stacked mp in the anteroom adj
joining the Assembly chamber, each with
the name of its owner printed on il.
They are strong. well-built wooden
chests about as large as a carpenters
toolbox, and are furnished the members
for the purpose of carrying home their
blue books and statutes and reports and
whatever else comes to them during the
session. Scores of jokes are told about
members who We're too enterprisng in
hlling their chests. One Senator. as the
story goes, tried to wrest a goose-neck
desk lamp from the chief clerks desk to
stuff away in his plumber box but was
caught at it by the night Waterman and
compelled to return it to its place. An
other took the spittoon from under has
desk and packed it in his box. Some of
his colleagues caught him at it and later
emptied out all his books and papers
and filled the chest with spittoons His
surprise at opening his box at his home
was left to the ing gination of the jok-
ers. Many stories are told of members
who believed that they were entitled to
their desks and chairs and started TO
crate them for shipping at the close Of
the session.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

No one who has not tried raising and
feeding turnlps to sheep can have a
full appreciation of the benefits deriv-
ed from this cheap food and in the
increased thrift of their stock. There
can be no doubt of the advantage of
the English method of feeding COM
pared with ours, if we compare their
immense fat muttons with ours, and
In all the feeding districts of the Eng
hsh provinces turnips are fed in i'm
mense quantities.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

If hen is healthy and has a good
appetite, nostrums cannot improve her.
Eggs are not produced from powders.
pills or solutions, but from the food.
A healthy hen is no subject for medi-
cines or tonics. If she is sick or droop-
Ing it is not out of place to endeavor
to assist her to recover her health with
a tonic, but while her comb is bright
red and she scratches and works Wig
orously, enjoying her food and laying
eggs as fast as nature permits. the
use of stimuiants or tonics will not
benefit her or enable her to lay another
egg more than she would without their
use, even if they do not injure her
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

eve wiz give you time for fool dis
cussion Of g6ur measure was what one
of the lobbyists thought a chairman said
70 him and was very much exercised in
consequence. but the chairman maintains
that he told tie man that he would be
given opportunity for fall discussion Of
his bill
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

Much labor and expense may be saw
ed by planning ahead.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

The home of the daffodil is in the
grass; in fact, some of the prettiest
species refuse TO live more than a
year or two in cultivated ground, yet
i'll the same garden planted in the
grass continue from year to year with
proportionate increase. All that you
require is grassy spot that need not
est nook can be prettily adorned, and
If you have an acre or two to devote
70 the purpose, the possibilities are
tmmense. Planting Is a simple mat
teT of lifting the sod and underlying
soil, dropping in the bulbs and replac-
Ing the sod, taking care to plant the
groups in natural or irregular way.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

The Senate committee on agriculture
Is considering Tie Introduction Of a bill
requiring that al cattle imported into
the State shall have certificate signed
hy some reputable veterinary surgeon %
the effect that they are free from tu
SEeculosls.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

Barring all the differences that may
be In individual birds and strains, it
may be said that WyanG ties are now
considered to be among the very best
of all-purpose fowls. They are hardy
active, good layers, good mothers and
OF good size and good table quality
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

Some fires have occurred from care
lessness in handling incubators and
Breeders. Possibly we might incase
the Incubator if in cellar, in light
framework covered with asbestos pa
per. The latter is cheap and a sure
protection from overheating
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

The fish and game committee which
conferred with ike committees Of Legs
latures from neighboring States report
that thLy we're all agreed that 5priRc
shooting should be abolished and those
States which Dow allow spring shooting
will taxa steps az once 10 discontinue
It SO that there viii be- no Discrimination
against taose in which il is not now al
lowed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

There are scores of pure food laws be-
fore the Legislature. Many Of them
change the existing laws only by making
violations punishable by forfeiture in
stead of by fine or Imprisonment. Any
person who believes that man is selling
impure milk, canned goods. honey or
vinegar or other foodstuffs, may upon
complaint to the District Attorney sue
the dealer and if he proves his case Sc
cure a judgment against him which will
be enforced 10y the sheriff If the man
has no property his person can be seized
and kept in Jail until such time as he
can take the poor mans oath 1t is
claimed that this mode of procedure will
he much more practicable in enforcing
the pure food laws as few juries will
convict a man for conducting his bust
ness as he may sac AT unless some other
person than those in official life takes the
initiative in prosecuting him.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-02

4 man who IS Interested IN a Dit to
create a board of Ophthalmic physicians
was told By che committee on public
health and sanitation that further con
sideration of his measure had been post
poned for four weeks. This is a polite
way Of telling him that il will never
come out Of the committee. This is a
poor session for bills creating new
boards. Senator Kreutzer's speech
against the practice Of government by
commission early in the session meet
ing with general approval The proposed
architects board and the stationary en-
gineess' board and perhaps the b. rbers'
board viii all likely 20 by the beard
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-23
Author and Editor in One.

DIR. Guy Carleton Lee, who lee
lures in the M. E. church Dec. 7,
as the third entertainment in the
Peoples Lecture Course, for many
years prominent in the work of the
Johns Hopkins and Columbian Uni
versities, now lecturer on "The
Man of Sorrows" and THE True
Jefferson Davis" enjoys an inter
national reputation as an author.
Of his works in literature and his
tory they number forty-fve, by the
way-thirty-two have been publish.
ed in England as well as in Ameri-
ca, and many of them have been
translated into foreign languages.
His greatest work is the History
of North America of which the
10Th volume has just gone to press.
This is the most extensive, and the
most elaborate history of the CONT
nent that has been produced.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-23
Pierce County Board.

In the organization of the county
board John P. Olson was elected
chairman. Mr.. Olson received IL
votes and E. ]. Fitzgerald 10, for
this office. Chairman Olson select
ed his committees as follows:
Finance - Sups. Moody, Sever
ance and Shanks.
Auditing Sups. Johnson, Muir
ply and TAFT.
To settle with County Clerk
Sups. Fitzgerald, Chinook and
Manion.
Equalization Sups. Gilmore,
Martin, Scott, Baily and Guiser.
To settle with Poor Agents
Sups. Mcdonald, Prichard and
Swanson.
Roads and Bridges-Sups Brown,
Corcoran and Spriggle.
OnI Buildings Sups. Fox, Foley
and Decker.
On Assessment and Collection of
Illegal Taxes-Sups. Bleisner, Nc
Nassau and Finn.
On Education-Sups. Fitzgerald.
Mcdonald and Prichard.
On Bonds-Sups. Bleisner, Sew
erance and the Chairman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-23
The Consolidated Lumber Co,

]. D. Bronson, President of the
Consolidated Lumber Co., which
has purchased the lumber business
of Jas. z. Anderson & Co., was
in the city yesterday looking over
the new property and making ar
rangements for extensive improve
.ments in the yards. Work has al
ready been commenced on a new
big lumber shed facing Main street
providing for the housing of 10000
feet of lumber. This shed will be
entirely enclosed and, as Mr.. Bron-
son explained, is an absolute ne
cessity nowadays, as half the stock
used in building is southern and
western 1umber-such as yellow
pine and fir flooring, ceiling, finish
ing, castings, base boards, mould
ings, etc., cedar and redwood sid
ing, maple, birch and other hard
wood flooring, spruce, larch, etc.
This lumber is all kiln-dried and
must be we'll protected from the
weather, and as they have large
stock of this coming in at once ev-
cry effort is being made to get
things ready to take care of the
stock in proper shape. Mr.. Bron-
son says they will ship in 20 cars of
stock in the next sixty days and
will have as complete stock as is
found anywhere and be able to fur
nish everything for building of
any kind from cellar to garnet.
This company has yards also at
Ellsworth, Roberts and Saltwater
and River Falls is fortunate in Sc
curing such a concern among its
business activities. And we are
pleased to know that ]. z. Ander-
son will remain as manager of the
business of the new company.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-23
DIED.

McKINNoN. AT her home, the Park
er House, in this city Sunday,
Nov. 10, 1905, Mrs. c. D. McKin-
non.
This was sudden death. While
Mrs. McKinnon had not been in
good health for sometime no alarm
ing symptoms had forewarned her
friends that her life would end so
soon.
The deceased was a daughter of
the late Charles Schneider, man
long prominent in business in Hud-
son. She was married TO C. D. Nc
Kinnon Jan. 9, 1888. For ten years
after their marriage Mr.. and Mrs.
McKinnon lived in Hudson. Then
they moved to New Richmond where
they conducted the Nicollet Hotel
which was destroyed in the cyclone
of 1899. After this catastrophe the
family came to River Falls and con-
Quoted Hotel Gladstone for three
years, going from here to Spring
Valley and returning this year to
take charge of the new Parker Hotel.
Mrs. McKinnon was an excellent
he1pmeet to her husband in the
hosiery and woman highly es-
teemed by all. She leaves discon-
ISOLATE husband and three children
Bertha, Alice and Dona1d-to
mourn her untimely departure.
The funeral was held Wednesd ay
forenoon at 900 O'Clock from ST.
Bridget's church and the remains
were buried at Hudson.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-23
The St. Croix Supervisors.

There were several incidents in
the proceedings of the ST. Croix
county board in session at Hudson
last week that will be OF interest to
the readers of the JOURNAL: Mr..
Chinook, supervisor for the first
ward of this city, is on the COM
mittee on Clerks Books and the
Asylum and Poor House auditing.
C. D. Lamport. who had been ap-
pointed county surveyor by acting
Gov. Davidson without authority of
law (the statute requiring that when
a vacancy occurs in the office the
county board shall elect a success
orr was elected surveyor to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Mr..
Mcclure who was elected to the Of
flee last fall. Rev. 0. P. Christian,
representing the Wisconsin Home
Finding Society, appeared before
the board and asked for the appro-
priation of the sum of $210, which
the society had expended in the care
of IA dependent children of the
county. The board concluded it
had no authority to make such an
appropriation but a subscription
was started to secure the amount.
Ed. H. MILFORD the supervisor of
assessments for the county, pre-
sented a bill for his services,
amounting to $384.6o, he having
worked 70 days on assessments dur
ing the year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-23
USING THE BEST

Known methods for correcting de-
fects of the eye, relieving head
ache, insomnia, nervousness, cross
eyes and nervous prostration due to
eye strain.s My examination often
enables me to fit the eyes before us
ing the test type, My methods are
far in advance of ordinary opticians.
fit artificial eyes that can not be
distinguished from the natural one.
DR.. E. c. Roberts at River Falls
Nov. 20 and 80, Office al Gladstone
Hotel.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-11-23

ters, miserable, cold, hungry let
ters. For, was it not Damoclean
sword hanging over many head,
in many poor little hut? Huts
where the only increase was each
year one more hungry little mouth
to feed.
Sometimes even their potatoes
failed them. We have heard Of DO.
tato blight in Ireland. We have
heard of famines in Ireland, caused
not SO much by the failure of crop
as by high rents and cruel laws.
Can we imagine such a thing as
food being sent out of Ireland dur
ing the awful famine of lS47, while
foreign countries sent thousands of
dollars to buy food for Ireland's
starving people?
We read of other such famines in
ireland. Famines where it took
foreign money to buy food of the
landlords for their own starving
tenants. 1t seems almost past be-
lief that country which has sent
men like Sir Richard Steele, Thomas
Moore, Oliver Goldsmith, Swift,
Burke, Grattan, and many others
into the world could have become
GO 70
lands, her manufactures, her
schools, her self-res ect, all
swallowed up in this governing pro-
cess. The condition to which ex-
cessive rents. and the possibility of
eviction, has reduced the Irish ten
ant" (says one writer) is unparal-
leled in any other country in any
other age"
The landlord rented the tenant
the land, simply the land. If there
was no cabin, the tenant must build
one. He could build his fences,
roll away the stones and drain the
boys. Then the bailiff could pay
the place visit and say: "This is
improved. II is, not the place
rented you for twenty pounds. l
shall now charge you forty pounds
year. If the tenant could not pay
he was promptly evicted. 1t became
the interest of the tenant therefore
not to be thrifty. In fact it became
his interest to be as miserable as
possible, and to make no effort to
better his condition.
ITO be continued