Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-02-10

are placed on the bargain counter and
will be sold at bargain counter prices.
To be able to do anything is like
eating a doughnut. TO be able to half
do it is like eating the hole in the
doughnut: one can watch the hole
grow.
The man who has a clay or gray
ely soil need give but little care to
his pillow in winter to keep it bright,
but the man with an alluvial soil will
need to keep close tab on the bright
ness of the mold-board
The early laying pullet should be
marked and kept for the breeding pen
next season. provided she is other
wise good bird. In nearly all cases
the pullet that begins to lay early in
life is the one that will lay the larg-
est number of eggs in a year.
The horse that has served his mas
ter faithfully for many years is en-
titled to consideration in his old age.
It Is a practice too common to sell
the old horse to some peddler or other
person that will have no interest in
him beyond the work that can be OBJ
tanned from him.
We've had the horeslesS carriage,
cowless milk, BUTTERFLIES butter and
the seedless apple and now Kansas
man threatens us with featherless
chicken to complicate the task of the
boarder who insists on knowing If 1T
was picked before it was ripe. No,
we don't want the featherless chicken,
for that would necessitate clothing in
q cold climate.
To the man who takes great pains
with his seed corn all seed corn school
ing seems silly, but the man
who is careless about it is very much
In need of the best way to increase
the stand. Many farmers have farm
ed for years and yet the yield Of corn
they get is about one-half what it
ought to be- This is largely on ac-
count of poor stands.
The Canadian government is en-
ploying special measures to induce
former Canadians who have settled
In the United States to return to Can
ada and occupy land in the northwest
ern provinces, which are now very
attractive to many farmers inclined
to migrate. An agent has been in
structed to open offices in Boston and
to reach the farmers Of New England,
those of former Canadian experience
preferred.
A Pennsylvania farmer says he
cured a balky horse Of that pernicious
habit by the use of electricity. He
purchased a small storage battery,
connected the wires to the bit and the
crupper, and placed it in his vehicle.
When it was anticipated that the
horse was about to balk, he pressed
the button, the horse would feel
shock and would snort and try to get
out of the way of the unusual feeling,
which, of course, would cease when
he GOT started. He was thoroughly
| broken of the habit, so the writer
says.
Referring to the disease little
peaches" Secretary Wilson in his an
| nual report says: 1.-The efforts made
by the department in the matter of
| demonstrating the feasibility Of eradi-
eating the little-peach disease from
| the orchards of Michigan and other
States have been continued on a large
scale. A section 3 miles square in
Michigan was selected for this work
| and the orchards were thoroughly gone
| over three times during the months of
! July, August and September, and all
of the affected trees were destroyed.
| TIL object of this experiment is to
demonstrate what is believed to be
| fact-viz., that the disease can be en-
| tirely eradicated by the extirpation
| process"
One of the most profitable lines of
1tock breeding is raising mules, yet
there seems to be a decline in this in